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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Ehhhh that's not quite true either. Above a certain rpm the engine cuts fuel completely and engine braking is strong. In cars with electronic throttle control the computer might also open the throttle to maximize energy consumed compre
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I think the author is reading too much into this. Even in ancient times it was known that hybrids were frequently larger than the parents. Take Ligers for example (lion tiger hybrid). People were probably more familiar with animal husbandry
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Uhhh, manual cars have worked like this forever. In first gear especially the braking when you let off the gas is enough to be jarring if you're not gentle
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
True. The JVM is big. I've been meaning to try Golang one of these days, I see it as Java's spiritual successor
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Progaurd is default on Android and some other environments, it's not anything exotic.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
You can get under 200KB in Java easily by using proguard or similar to strip unused code from your dependencies.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Java will use as much memory as you give it. Higher heap size is better for performance up to around 32GB. For most Java apps you can limit heap to 256M or less with little consequence. AFAIK Java uses less ram than Python and JavaScript, o
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
This is great
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I thought microwaves weren't high enough in the spectrum to disrupt DNA which is the main cause of cancer risk for gamma/x-ray? Individual waves don't have the energy to break bonds even for relatively high power transmitters
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
This sounds unreal, but I found a place that was $210 a month about 6 years ago. The area was sketchy and the place was crap. Best thing about it was that it didn't have roaches. Since college funding is usually on state level you have
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I fail to see how moving to a place with better benefits is either one of those things. Isn't that the reason that pretty much everyone moves? Better jobs, better schools, less crime, etc... I guess it can be seen as egotistical and se
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Nothing in there about money? Here's one I figured out a couple years too late... You got average grades and nothing unusual about you that would lead to scholarships? If you go to school the "normal" way you're likely t
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I have seen this happen firsthand. It took a few years but the "rail line to nowhere" built near me around 5 years ago has giant housing complexes surrounding every station. It runs over capacity during rush hour now. I assume thi
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
This is insane. They're using ML to predict wind speeds at different altitudes and how to move the balloons with their various speed and power restrictions to optimize on-the-ground connectivity while maintaining close enough clusters
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
This is excellent news and I'm incredibly grateful the code used to convict people will be publicly scrutinized. That said, me and other C# devs have already found numerous signs that at least parts of the codebase were done by someone
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Nice! I can see more too. Using out parameters, these are highly discouraged. C# let's you do terrible things (including goto) but the community is pretty aligned that it's bad practice. In my years of doing C# I've never use
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I love this type of thing in C# because it's such a terse and well designed language. It's easy to make something stand out. A cult favorite of devs at my previous employer was to (ab)use the power of LINQ to try to create the lon
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I can overlook a lot of coding issues, but seeing so many in a few lines is a sign somebody doesn't know what they're doing. Just using a linter would probably find some of these automatically, so the fact that they're there
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
This guy that wrote this is a c# noob. He should just use a null conditional for the if, Epsilon for tiny but non-zero floats, and should very likely be using doubles instead of float since they're basically the same speed for double t
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
For something contracted this is the norm. We used to send out estimates for writing tests and clients never wanted to pay for them. I've found projects just as buggy with tests and now I only write them for code that's getting he
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I have seen this happen to a lot of people that worked the same job for many years in the tech field. I'm sure ageism exists, but a lot of it is about how fast your skills become outdated. I've always rode the bleeding edge of web
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
The opposite. Government entities suck up all the world's crypto experts leaving very few working in the publics interest.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Stop working for startups. Crazy hours and low pay with a tiny chance of a big payoff. Go work for a big established company where the pay and benefits are good. Where you show up at 9 and leave at the stroke of 5. Life is short, waste as l
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Don your shiny crinkly hats, but after https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG I started believing that NSA involvement is not subtle in their exploits. They only need to fool laymen, and backdoored primes are an
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Haha same difference. Mathoverflow is just a lot more hardcore :)
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Not sure if this is case in Sweden, but here in the US the reforestation is actually a return to the natural state. Much of the country was logged repeatedly in the last few centuries. Modern sustainable logging and the transition to other
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
What are the odds that this was intentional? TPM and Bitlocker have been two of the biggest conjectured targets of compromise. To the point that most security people/libraries use neither. Maybe they were right? If this is true one of
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Bottleneck at the DB/network is BS. Cheap AWS boxes have 200Mbps of throughout and you'll basically never get that out of any of the slower languages on a box with something like 1VCPU 1GB ram. Slightly more expensive boxes have 1
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Twitter has moved key parts of the system to Java. The search functionality was redone on top of Netty which they had some articles about.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
>It's important to remember that Java has been around for 20-30 years and it certainly has not stood still. Many of the complaints people have are from Java of 10+ years ago. Exactly. I spent about 5 years away from Java after J2EE

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