sjm-lbm

8 ms·

31.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Wireless inductive charging also allows for a (more) sealed case design, which is helpful for a device that will almost certainly encounter moisture in normal use cases. I can keep my phone somewhere dry when it's raining, I've ne
32.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
This is the first time they are going to attempt to catch the booster using their launchpad. Either you'll see one of the most impressive technical achievements in human history, or a very cool explosion.
33.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
I'd argue that PHP7 is the closest thing PHP has had to a quality revolution. It fixed a zillion things, got rid of some footguns like legacy mysql, and in general behaved a lot more rationally. If you were doing things right, by that
34.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
I do think we need to make the US a place where builders can build, but I disagree with this justification pretty strongly. This isn't a public organization working for the public good, it's a private company doing R&D to cr
35.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
When talking about Disney, I also think it's worth tossing Michael Eisner into the mix as a comparison point for a non-founder who operated in something really close to the "Founder Mode" that the article describes. He got in
36.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Just to add on, if you don't mind: the SLS uses four RS-25 engines, the exact same engines that were used on the Space Shuttle (admittedly, there is a plan to improve them later), as well as solid rocket engines that are derived from t
37.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Wait, serious question: was it not a bench seat? I've always assumed it was, and a quick Google finds several places claiming they were bench seats, though none of them terribly authoritative.
38.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Yeah, agreed. Obviously I have no doubt that the rule book is currently bigger than it has been in the past, but I also know that the Cuyahoga River used to catch on fire and the ozone layer was disappearing. There's a good case to b
39.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Well, the whole thing is less about general categories of law and more about specific examples - and one of those specific examples is the Aaron Swartz case, with a link to The Atlantic article about that and everything. I would say that he
40.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Fair, if this violates an SLA then Microsoft should pay up. If Microsoft's SLAs are worded so that you're allowed to shove bits of third party code into the kernel without violating the SLA, though, they should fix that.
41.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
I really dislike this line of thinking because it assumes that Microsoft is responsible for anything you run on your Windows machine. I should be able to do whatever I want with a computer I buy, but that doesn't mean Microsoft shoul
42.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Also, to be fair, about 12-18 months ago an update of some sort caused a lot of our Mac laptops to need their FileVault keys manually put in on boot for some reason. It's not like this is a Microsoft-only problem.
43.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
To be fair, there were specific temperature ranges in which the shuttle was supposed to be capable of launching, and the temperature range did not go as low as you might expect because the Shuttle was going to launch in Florida (and, maybe
44.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
I hadn't heard of McDonald either, but there's a recent book ( https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Spa... ) that covers his contribution well. (TBH I'm reading this book right now - probabl
45.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Yeah, that seems reasonable to me as well. I'm honestly not sure if this is a "lie" in the most basic sense, or more information omission done in a way that feels intentionally dishonest. At the very least, I do think that ha
46.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
The lie is in their documentation - they claim to use the PerplexityBot string in their user-agent: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/perplexitybot .
47.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
They seem to have totally recreated the hull using a different manufacturing method in late 2020/early 2021: https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-insid... They seem to have run fewer tests on the
48.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
> 1985 the dedliest single aircraft accident was due to dutch roll. Japan Airlines Boeing 747SR. This kind of buries the lede, right? A bad repair caused an explosion that blew off most of the vertical stabilizer (ie, the tail). The dutc
49.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
There's the rather famous AARD Code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code ), though that is from an era a little before Win32. And, well, it's not a documentation issue for app developers, as much a way to
50.
by sjm-lbm 2y ago
It's not covered in the article, but I wonder if inflation has much to do with this. Nigerian inflation in March was 33.2%, and is still trending upward[1]. Pricing in Naira moves some inflationary risk to Zoho, right? At the same time
51.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
To be fair, the 717 is a DC-9 subtype if we're being honest with ourselves. If the 717 counts as type without a hull loss, the 747-8 should count as well.
52.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
> If the engine is able to always operate at peak efficiency, there is little reason to bother with batteries beyond a bit for handling transient peaks. My thinking here is that most of these theoretical cars would spend a good part of t
53.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
For sure. And, at the risk of being pedantic, a plug-in hybrid can still be a parallel hybrid - series vs. parallel is about how the ICE power gets to the ground, whereas plug-in vs not is about the existence of a way to charge the hybrid b
54.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
Totally fair. My thinking is that means you could lug around a lot less battery weight (ie, make the all-electric range 60 miles or so), basically just enough to complete the average amount of driving a car does in a day and operate on the
55.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
I think they are actually talking about a series hybrid ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain#Seri... ), which is different than a plug-in hybrid (though it would be somewhat crazy to make a series hy
56.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
I doubt he was on board for that flight. Generally , flights like that one exist because the airplane is somewhere other than the most convenient place for the owner to take off from, so the crew repositions the plane in a better location
57.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
I feel like it is the opposite - Objective-C existed for more than a decade in realtive obscurity, and quite suddenly became very widely used when a new and popular computing platform forced developers to start using it. IMHO, the massive g
58.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
At a business roughly the size of the one OP is talking about, we shared the password with a small group of people and kept a hardware two factor authentication device locked behind a door accessible only to a different small group of peopl
59.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
Wynn is still independent (I think). That's the only one I can think of, though.
60.
by sjm-lbm 3y ago
They don't really hide that anymore. Starting in 2019 or so, they dropped any ability to manage cloud resources using the Softlayer-branded portal and forced everyone into using the IBM Cloud API/Console.

More ›