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by sloppycee 9y ago
A public 'bed car' sounds gross.
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by sloppycee 9y ago
I'm not involved in autonomous vehicles at all but as an engineer, I'm pretty confident we are a long way away from level 4/5. Without significantly reworking current infrastructure the challenges presented by city driving ar
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Just consider: - China issues a bad cert for npm - Slurps up all passwords from Chinese maintainers en masse Now we can't trust any package published from China. This is a bigger deal than a targeted evil maid. Distributed trust is b
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by sloppycee 9y ago
The issue is of who to trust, the package maintainer or the package repository? It is comparatively trivial to steal a strong password when it is transmitted over the internet vs local key material. Nation states with bad certs (china has d
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Or compressed air: https://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/gridinvest... Not sure why they use those balloons though, seems like a maintenance nightmare. A diving bell would work just as well and be muc
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Beauty is subjective; Usability is not. Good design must be usable; otherwise we'd call it art. That Facebook redesign for example, while very aesthetically pleasing it looks horrible or confusing to use: * Search box doesn'
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Honest question, why is it cool that they're re-writing? To me this signals that the company has stagnated, or has grown beyond technology; it's an engineering team with no new ideas, no innovation, that's desperately trying
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by sloppycee 9y ago
You can use geography, I assume this is meant to measure ROAS. I've worked on a similar problem, and some very large retailers we worked with wanted to measure ROAS. They turned off all adspend in a certain large metropolitan area, whi
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by sloppycee 9y ago
> But that's about as unlikely as the code containing trade secrets. Unpublished code, is itself a trade secret. Even just the processes, procedures, organisation, tooling, library use, etc in the code provides a competitive advanta
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by sloppycee 9y ago
I take it you have never experienced a true urgent health crisis? Once you have you'll quickly realise that the 'long wait times' narrative is complete propaganda FUD. Anecdote time: My sister is anaphylactic, when she goes t
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by sloppycee 9y ago
No, but if that copyright material contained trade secrets then it is criminal.
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by sloppycee 9y ago
RNG stands for Random Number Generator. It is used colloquially, in gaming, to refer to the probability of certain random events or the underlying implementation of them.
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by sloppycee 9y ago
> not just because we don’t have cubicles This seems like some kind of self-selection proxy. When I was younger I thought cubicles were the worst: the pinnacle of boring-grey office culture. Now that I'm older, I yearn for a quiet p
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by sloppycee 9y ago
The cynic in me thinks they did that on purpose, the further they put the manual from the task the greater the efficiency gain of their software.
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Is that surprising though? I doubt mech engs graduate with enough (any?) experience with manufacturability [1]. Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike software, physical goods require an experienced up-front design that can't be
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Wow, it's mind-boggling that the engineers didn't try something simpler. My first hunch would be to use rollers, like getting that last bit of toothpaste out; I can't believe that it operated as an actual press . It really i
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by sloppycee 9y ago
That sounds horrible. Although, I do wonder what effects there would be if a cancer cure-all were discovered. Since nearly everyone would need the treatment at some point, it wouldn't really be insurance anymore; more like a mortgage.
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Service workers are not needed, and manually managing the cache seems overly complex. https://css-tricks.com/prefetching-preloading-prebrowsing/
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by sloppycee 9y ago
> unconstitutional How? Google is a private individual/company; they can deny anyone service, so long as the reason is not discriminating against a protected class.
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by sloppycee 9y ago
How about Google's Closure Library: https://github.com/google/closure-library The code, imo, is some of the highest quality js I've seen. It is also incredibly comprehensive and easily as complex. High qualit
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by sloppycee 9y ago
You raise a good point, i.e. "do you steal a loaf of bread to feed your family?" > Do I value integrity? Do I value my family? If I value both, which do I value more? To make that choice you need to quantify exactly how 'b
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by sloppycee 9y ago
> It would be great if there was a means for people to sell technology like this to their employers. There is, you can quit and offer to build/sell/license the solution to your previous employer. Of course this would mean incur
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by sloppycee 9y ago
How can you be sure the models are getting better (more accurate) over time?
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by sloppycee 9y ago
I have no political leanings, I'm neither American or Russian. Your biases are showing, w.r.t your hatred of Trump and your unfounded claim/assumption that Russia would benefit from a Trump presidency. The irony is that if a Chels
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Depending on how the intelligence services determined it was Russia behind the attacks, it might not be very hard for a single country to masquerade as Russia to achieve their own political goals. It doesn't need to be a multi-nati
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Is that a reference to the hilariously broken PS3 RNG? For those unaware, the PS3 was jailbroken because their RNG always returned 4.
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Everyone used to have a public IP back before the days of NAT. Your modem would dial in, and your computer would be assigned a publicly accessible IP address. In the unix world, iirc, many systems were configured to expose a folder on the u
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by sloppycee 9y ago
The issue isn't that a user can run their own code that can stack smash, rather that a user can exploit the smash to run their code in a privileged context (set-guid, i.e. sudo, su, etc.).
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by sloppycee 9y ago
Unfortunate that you're being down-voted for being skeptical, this study does have some issues confounding the results: "The elevated BLL intervention package includes treatments previously demonstrated to impact later-life outco
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by sloppycee 9y ago
That does seem like an issue with the study, from the pdf: "Two primary channels emerge through which intervention affects antisocial behavior and cognitive outcomes. First, intervention may dramatically reduce the amount of continued

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