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by smackfu 11y ago
> At this time, they wouldn't know what the best instruments to send would be. There's an interesting BBC documentary series on the planets, called The Planets, that has an episode covering the Voyager probes. They had to do s
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by smackfu 11y ago
New subway lines have to connect into existing running subway lines. Digging the tunnels is usually the easy part, it's the points where they connect to things that is hard.
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's often easier to start from zero.
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by smackfu 11y ago
The problem is when people zoom in and "see" things in the JPEG compression artifacts. Also when they release the pic on Twitter in crappy form before they release it in uncompressed form.
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by smackfu 11y ago
I bet the scientists just hate that this stuff is shared on Twitter. They made a big deal that this was transmitted from New Horizons as a compressed image (to transmit it quickly) and then it gets mauled by Twitter's recompression to
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by smackfu 11y ago
You could go up to 4K video for $1500 or so. But that will only get you 4 1080p screens stitched together, so you can really only focus in on a quadrant.
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by smackfu 11y ago
True, if there was a vulnerability where reading a byte stream could trigger a JVM exploit, that is exploitable. But that would be a really weird bug, since the JVM isn't going to be the one parsing a byte stream.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yeah, it's an odd stat. For instance, if someone new enters the phone market, and spends a ton of money and loses a LOT of money, the total profits for the industry go down, and if Apple makes the same dollar profit as the year before
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by smackfu 11y ago
>A significant portion of the web using community (including myself) stopped using flash 6-12 months ago That seems unlikely. Maybe HN users, but that's not really representative of web users overall
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by smackfu 11y ago
Except that Android phones sell great, they just don't make much money for their makers.
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by smackfu 11y ago
All the money is in the flagship phones. If Apple has a good year for flagships (like finally releasing larger phones), and the others have a bad year (like the underwhelming Galaxy S5), Apple is going to make most of the money.
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by smackfu 11y ago
What would a security exploit in Java outside the browser look like?
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by smackfu 11y ago
Kind of depends on why it failed.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Here's the current status page for the Deep Space Network: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html NHPC is New Horizons. At the moment they are on one very large dish in Canberra Australia, with a data rate of 2.11 kb
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by smackfu 11y ago
They can reuse this headline every day for the next week!
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Generally the value proposition of these kind of services is that you can try to reproduce an issue that only shows up on a particular piece of hardware and OS. For instance, someone with iOS 7 on an iPhone 5, which you can't even buy
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yeah, we bought a 635 for my fiance's mom's first smart phone. The home screen has big obvious buttons that are a pretty ideal fit for her level of computer familiarity. Plus, when she lost it after a couple of months, it was onl
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by smackfu 11y ago
Not doing regular improvements is how you end up being years behind your competitors, without even noticing it, and having to do a huge rewrite just to achieve parity.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Ha, you have been lucky then.
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by smackfu 11y ago
If you are an OS company, then it makes a lot of sense to be in the hardware business.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Was there a storm or something? Usually there is some motivating reason why flights are screwed up.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yeah, this was part of WebAPI back in 2012, and that has a lot more hardware APIs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI
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by smackfu 11y ago
He should go post on www.nasaspaceflight.com. Lots of old shuttle folks hang out there.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Apple is really just taking the low-hanging fruit of search results (like Wikipedia results and such) and "stealing" them from Google. I'm sure it is hurting Google a bit, but that's about it.
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by smackfu 11y ago
The 15% min wage increase caused an 88% increase in hotel prices. Of course.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Wow, $46 for a bed in a hostel.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Ah I see. I'd still argue that the cost of supporting online purchasing more than makes up for the cost of printing paper tickets.
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by smackfu 11y ago
SF jumped 88% in one year according to these stats. That seems odd to me. Maybe since they only look at two weeks, and fairly far out, something messed up the stats.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Word 2013 actually opens up docs in something more like the free Word viewer, unless you explicitly choose to open it in full mode.
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by smackfu 11y ago
>These days, they don't have those costs as the customers are the ones supplying the hardware, internet connection, and doing the printing. So there's no reason for the high fees. Unless you buy tickets online, as the vast majo

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