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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
> every conversation that goes on long enough always ends up as some sort of brexit complaint To be fair, we definitely have a problem with normal/non-political conversations suddenly turning political as well. It's even a prob
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
They also have had signs on beaches for a year or two - or, at least, beaches near coral reefs.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
He also totally ignores the i740 - not a major part of the story of Intel and perhaps a misstep, sure, but to act as if they hadn't tried to take a discrete graphics chip to market well before AMD bought ATi is crazy. Also, he seems to
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Fixed costs are a component of operating costs. I'm an engineer (at least by education) so I might have these terms slightly wrong, but I think the correct way to say this is that EVs have higher fixed costs and lower variable costs -
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
A lot of the operating cost advantage will disappear when attempting to use an EV as an Uber vehicle, though. Most EVs cost more than an ICE-powered vehicle and take longer to "fill up" when at the end of their range - so, for lar
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Well, there was a really bad period in between then and now. They finished last in their group in Euro 2000, and did quite badly in 2004 (though I don't remember specifics), and those were the results that motivated several changes (or
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Totally agree. Just to pick a specific example and add on a bit: Germany reorganized their nationwide soccer development system in the mid-2000s to be much more centralized, and that's widely considered to be one of the reasons they ha
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
IIRC from the book, Gluebot was actually the prototype that eventually became the Theranos Edison.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
This may be true, but it was removed from Apple hardware as part of the macOS Sierra update.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I'd worry a bit about the 128GB SSD if you are getting this for iOS development. My Mac is at home (so I can't check) but the current version of xCode + iOS simulators/dev tools is in the tens of GBs (40 or so GB, IIRC). I ho
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I'm not sure about "good quality for the price ", but the 2013-2015 rMBPs are quite good. The 15" models have quad-core processors that will still stack up well vs the dual-core processors in many laptops today, and the
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
We're going to need a new president before such a bill could be signed, but it's good news that political will seems to be moving (ever so slightly) toward net neutrality.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
It's based off measuring torque on the steering column, not some sort of (say) heat or pressure sensors on the wheel itself. So, having your hands on the wheel and not moving them can be sensed by the Tesla as "not having your han
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
> Why didn't the journalist at least cite the source of the informatoin? In the article, they cite enough statements made by specific people at specific organizations to support the headline - it's not peer-reviewed academic re
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Does Atlassian have better rapport with the businessy set that often makes purchasing decisions? Yes. Better rapport with developers? Probably not. (and, FWIW, we use Bitbucket/Jira and honestly I'm fine with them - their updates
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I feel like Thinkpad Ts started taking major steps backwards around 2013. Is that just me? I kept a 2011-era one alive for a long time, but it finally died late last year - and nothing that Lenovo was selling at the time seemed very temptin
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I actually agree with you broadly, but the funny part is that stacks (or, basically, some form of 'smart folders') actually hit me as a genuinely interesting addition to the very old and tired UI paradigms for desktop software.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
That's one of the strange problems here. It'll probabally get farmed out to a less technically proficient team which, ironically, could lead to an increase in the loss of innocent life.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Right. Most advances Canon has made in SLRs (say, the AF upgrades the comment you are replying to above mentions) could be easily 'backported' to a film camera: in a real SLR, the sensor isn't exposed to light until the pictu
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
If an email is all they require, that seems almost like an intentionally low bar.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I'm not entirely sure that this would be a bad thing. It would set the expectation in customers' minds that the device is always listening, which is at least somewhat true.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
It's honestly less a tragedy than lots of problems that have hit first-movers. They are facing issues due to the fact that they are unable to make quality cars that people want at a price people will pay. They aren't losing out du
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I could see that as a bad description of New Journalism (a term coined by Wolfe), which is usually pretty subjective. The problem here is that New Journalism was never really meant to replace more traditional journalism, is generally consid
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Doesn't the fact that the hackathon is already happening, but we (even in this community) are only now learning about it pretty much answer this question?
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
This goes against the most interesting part of the demo, though - that the 'umms' and 'uh-huhs' (and other small things) are enough to make this system pass the Turing test, at least over a narrow communication channel.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
There's probabally other limitations, but as I understand it one of the limiting factors is takeoff and landing speed. Even on a good day and in a still harbor, water is pretty bumpy, which means you need to be out of it at a pretty lo
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
And even though PW1000G has been in "production" for two years, it's had constant problems. Someone else here probabally knows for sure, but I think they finally fixed all their issues and hope to start producing in volume s
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I'd suspect that this is a widespread(-ish) problem. When you check your bag, it leaves your control and is handed off between TSA and your airline just enough that they both have plausible deniability when something goes missing. If
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I've made this argument before (and it does make some sense), but I also doubt that enough people will understand this nuance for it to really matter.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Just a data point, but I got one about a minute ago - as I was reading this thread. So, I suppose you still might get one - it seems clear that they didn't all go out on May 1st.

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