sitharus

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by sitharus 11y ago
No, it doesn't mean that there is no magical hidden property that actually distinguishes them, but that as far as we can tell they're indistinguishable. Given that nothing about the photons is different they must be the same right
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by sitharus 11y ago
The patent doesn't, but the license does. Patent licenses can contain pretty much any legal conditions the licensor likes, much like software licenses. In this case the condition of the HVEC license is that you pay them a fee for every
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by sitharus 11y ago
I wouldn't say it's an alternative any more than Haskell is an alternative to Java. It's a different language and ecosystem. That said, F# is pretty nice. It's opt-in laziness for .NET compatibility but laziness is perva
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by sitharus 11y ago
It's not dependent on Visual Studio at all. It has its own build chain (FAKE), runs under Mono and ships independently from .NET. It's the most open-source of the MS projects.
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by sitharus 11y ago
The article suggests on average real-world emissions are 2-5x more than in the lab except for a 20x outlier. VW was 40 times more than in the lab. I don't think most of these cars are hiding anything, it's just an example of how e
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by sitharus 11y ago
back in 2006ish I used bluetooth proximity of my Mac running 10.4 and a Sony Ericsson cellphone to auto-lock my machine. It'd kick in around 10 metres away, which was about the size of my team's area. Quite handy, but the feature
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by sitharus 11y ago
One of the first things Amazon tell you about AWS is the API is king - the console is hosted in us-east-1 but the API is hosted in each region independently. You don't need automatic failover, but you do need your own scripts to talk t
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by sitharus 11y ago
Not very common on a farm, nails and wire are always steel. Non-ferrous metals wouldn't be strong enough.
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by sitharus 11y ago
Korean Air is the commonly cited case, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Cargo_Flight_8509 is the crash the recommendations came out of.
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by sitharus 11y ago
You should publish the hash of the script, then the user should download it to disk, verify the script and then execute it. The same as would apply to any binary download - if a binary can be compromised so can a shell script. Alternatively
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by sitharus 11y ago
They do, and almost all countries have a minimum driving age. Some (including where I live) now have compulsory re-testing at intervals after a certain age, and there's the requirement to pass the a practical test to weed out the stupi
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by sitharus 11y ago
While I agree that all laws should be questioned your example here misses the point. When intoxicated with alcohol your reaction times and concentration level are slowed. You may obey all road rules perfectly on your normal drive home when
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by sitharus 11y ago
oh it's much better than Word, but still a paged document format on an infinite canvas.
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by sitharus 11y ago
I feel like sharing google docs links is the new emailing a Word document. I'm sure loading a static HTML page faster for the features needed.
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by sitharus 11y ago
No - it is standard CUPS with some extensions to interact with the MacOS GUI. It runs the same drivers as Linux which is great for old printers or those without MacOS support. The main change when Apple purchased the project was a license c
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by sitharus 11y ago
Not hugely likely, the lake is higher than the sea so the salt won't migrate up. The water level in the lake will likely be affected though. The danger is ballast water held by ships, but like Panama they'll likely forbid all wate
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by sitharus 11y ago
No, but it's commonly downvoted. Posting about the technology alone would attract a better response here. It's best not to react to the first hour of voting, let the masses even it out.
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by sitharus 11y ago
That all depends on how you manually manage memory. Older versions of malloc performed poorly with frequent allocations. Bohem GC allocates in large(ish) slabs, so it can manage many small objects more efficiently than OS malloc. Modern mal
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by sitharus 11y ago
Why shouldn't you? One of the best parts of software development is the diversity of ideas. Learning a new way of doing things adds to your potential techniques. My main job is in a garbage collected language but I'm learning rust
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by sitharus 11y ago
As seen in the recent update to the article, he is not paid upfront. Payment only occurs if and when that single contracted use is made. Given there's no guarantee of publication and no up-front payment this is quite a different dynami
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by sitharus 11y ago
It probably did, but the scale was vastly different. Most metrics give iOS a 30-40% market share depending on how they count it, but there's no measure that give MacOS more than 15% at the most with around 5% being the most common 10 y
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by sitharus 11y ago
It is, so is QUIC. My employer hosts in the US but serves to NZ so I've been experimenting with new protocols to improve performance, it's always interesting. Still won't shake the pain that is a single connection to the rest
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by sitharus 11y ago
Yep, that's why they're only 150ms a lot of the time. CloudFront has a few AU pops, no NZ ones though. The Singapore and Japan zones help, but most still goes to the US.
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by sitharus 11y ago
250ms to Facebook and that 'sucks', glad to see New Zealand's opinion on our internet connectivity is validated! I routinely see 270-300ms pings to facebook. Anything on Amazon's CDN is at 150ms that as is CloudFlare. Ak
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by sitharus 11y ago
It means that unencrypted data is never written to disk. In the case of S3 it means that if someone gains access to your S3 buckets the data is encrypted. Of course if you have root-level access to Apple's servers that read S3 you coul
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by sitharus 11y ago
They can, but in my experience they don't. If you release every two weeks and something isn't fully signed off at the end you don't release it - it's only two weeks until the next one. If you release every three months y
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by sitharus 11y ago
Yes, I simplified something for the sake of a simple response. No, that doesn't mean you can extrapolate ridiculous conclusions from the statement where the definition is well known.
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by sitharus 11y ago
Yes, agreed. Reactions to rape are as varied as the methods used to commit it. It can be vastly more invasive and trust-breaking than a punch to the face - at least you usually know that's coming.
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by sitharus 11y ago
because it's not just assault on your body, it's assault _in_ your body. Imagine your reactions to being beaten vs having something inserted in to you, which is going to give you more nightmares? Which one is going to have a more
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by sitharus 11y ago
It depends on what those columns are. For this case multiple columns are probably better, but if you're trying to search over multiple document types a JSON column could be more flexible.

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