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by smilekzs 7y ago
Curious: How effective would it be to separate only the app store from Google/Apple, when it comes to this rating problem? Perhaps not even the infrastructure --- I'd imagine even just having an independent group of reviewers &#x2
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by smilekzs 7y ago
While I have no specific knowledge on even jet engines, from general engineering principles, who says you cannot have 2 groups of people, one working on your own design, the other working on reverse-engineering / replicating others&#x2
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Well it is also burning oxygen from air which you don't carry on the helicopter. Let me see how much high school chemistry I still remember... CO2 = C (12) * 1 + O (16) * 2 So 1 lb of C from fuel => 3.67 lb of CO2 out Suppo
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Fair enough. > the framework should not assume there is one best/default way Best, probably not. Default, I'd argue that Rust's approach of defining Display and Debug traits (interfaces) in the stdlib is reasonable. It is
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Context: I write C++ at work. I also worked on compile-to-js language in the past. > An arbitrary object should have absolutely no business knowing how to render itself What should, in your opinion? I find it straightforward to implement
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Most probably because the shop invested heavily in specialized machinery and tooling and processes and know-how to optimize production of some niche products with relatively stable demand, until now?
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by smilekzs 7y ago
> temper (1) to soften; mollify (2) to strengthen (e.g. a metal) Not contradictory because hardness and toughness are 2 distinct (though correlated) properties. Tempering [1] is basically a process that trades some hardness (i.e. soften
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by smilekzs 7y ago
My inner cynist asks: So when a company beats whatever targets set by analysts, the stock goes up. What happens if analysts deliberately set targets that they believe the company would have slim chance of achieving? What if only some (argua
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by smilekzs 7y ago
That, however, does NOT favor the rich, mod cheating/forgery, which surprisingly does get caught, due to the widespread expectation of the system to be fair. And there used to be bonus points for STEM Olympiads, which had totally wor
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by smilekzs 7y ago
As a reference: The Chinese equivalent, Gaokao [0], is notorious for its brutal difficulty, but also widely regarded [citation needed] as a great equalizer. To that end, high school students spend obscene amount of their class time doing te
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Storage is cheap but GC is not. Source: I worked for Microsoft on C# projects where GC was constantly the bottleneck. Reducing number of exceptions (especially those used for control flow) helped.
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by smilekzs 7y ago
I agree with the feeling, but I also see this being a debate between an opt-in approach (choose to use an error value with gradually more information enclosed) vs opt-out (throw an Exception, a la C#/Java, that by default stores everyt
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Did you mean VPS (like Linode), or VPN specifically?
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Another anecdata: I work on autonomous driving tech and I now drive stick. Getting into a company full of gearhead geeks contributed to that a lot I guess ;) When I learned how to drive it was auto only, and In the US, trying to switch from
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by smilekzs 8y ago
> for correctly using a legally purchased vehicle The eyes of the driver in this case were on the phone, not the road. That's hardly "correctly using".
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Genuinely curious: From a purely economical / engineering PoV (i.e. conveniently ignoring politics for now), I wonder how much would it cost had it been built by Chinese instead? While China has a tried-and-true HSR formula, would the
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Can confirm the sturdiness of Idasen. I used to be convinced that IKEA particle/paper-filled boards can never be as good as solid wood, but apparently the new leg/underframe combo worked wonders to prop up the whole thing, and it
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by smilekzs 8y ago
On a tangent: Will it be better for safety if motor whine in a EV is amplified (of course at an user-adjustable level) in similar ways? They've always sounded so quiet to me I find myself more prone to driving too fast than I wanted...
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Hop time is not constant. There will be longer and shorter optical links, and if you want the system to be synchronous, everyone would have to wait on the longer links.
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by smilekzs 8y ago
I would only start considering if the salary was 2/3 instead of 1/3.
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by smilekzs 8y ago
These people don't tend to cause problems, much unlike the homeless population in say Pioneer Square.
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by smilekzs 8y ago
> Even acquisitions that included consumer-facing products like Beats, Beddit, and Shazam (pending approval) were ultimately about the technology behind the products. I doubt the Beats acquisition is about the technology behind their hea
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Video excerpt: 1. When overriding methods, use `void Method() override;` instead of `virtual void Method()`. (original video says use both `virtual` and `override` but this is redundant as `override` implies `virtual`) 2. Explicit type for
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by smilekzs 8y ago
--- at a rate orders of magnitude faster than trees currently do
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by smilekzs 8y ago
plugs --- male
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by smilekzs 8y ago
If the projector is mounted overhead then you are left with a bundle of plugs, likely none of which USB-C. The situation with display connectors is particularly sad even without USB-C, as we went quickly from still largely VGA and maybe DVI
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by smilekzs 8y ago
> an additional USB-C to female HDMI which is called an adapter (edit to fit terminology in this thread)
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Raised in China here --- still largely prefer driving + walking on US roads.
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by smilekzs 8y ago
When does the recursion stop?
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Did you mean: air to air missiles EDIT: active or semi-active guided

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