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by spease 7y ago
Perhaps what’s needed for “too big to fail” businesses is to require them to either have a certain amount of cash reserves on hand, or split up in such a way that the risk is mitigated. This would help prevent an aggressively spending compa
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by spease 7y ago
Yeah, I tried to get xsecurelock working with LXQt and systemd. What a mess. Eventually I had to just give up on it and switch back to xscreensaver-lock. I posted a thread asking for advice and did get responses, but I haven't worked u
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by spease 7y ago
No, the problem is that people keep reinventing the wheel over and over again, instead of picking one app and improving it so that their efforts are cumulative.
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by spease 7y ago
> But a fundamentally cooperative kernel would really worry me. You'd be looking at freezing the whole kernel, and likely the whole machine, if anything, anywhere, goes wrong with the cooperation. It won't take a lot of scale b
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by spease 7y ago
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
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by spease 7y ago
Turning a hospital into a hospital room? That’s going to require some serious Time Lord engineering.
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by spease 7y ago
Those seem like reasonable expectations. The first one seems a bit iffy depending on what exactly is meant by “paying to move”. But if he didn’t list them paying for use of the rooms themselves as a condition, that actually seems like a pre
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by spease 7y ago
The only problem with that was Apple denying it iirc. Otherwise throttling CPU to extend battery life is done on virtually every modern mobile device.
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by spease 7y ago
Can this test detect repeated sequences, eg as in Huntington’s disease?
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by spease 7y ago
I’d be worried about the long term health implications of missing that much sleep. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/health-news/deep-sleep-clean...
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by spease 7y ago
> He had some controversial views as some have reported, but I don't really think that would have been very relevant, especially if so many people disagree. As far as I know, he never expressed what his “views” were. People just fou
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by spease 7y ago
Laptops also frequently have significant performance variations, even with the same chip, due to differing cooling solutions.
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by spease 7y ago
Is there actually any kind of believable “pilot error” that can cause a passenger 737-800 to catch fire in the air and crash?
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by spease 7y ago
> How are buildings doing in Chernobyl? Not great, but not terrible?
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by spease 7y ago
“Quality of what” is an important question as well. Oftentimes business incentivizes maximizing easily measured (and therefore also short-term) metrics. As well as metrics that are easy to gain wider buy-in, and therefore don’t rely on expe
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by spease 7y ago
Is it reasonable to think they may have done this because they expect to declare bankruptcy and go through restructuring?
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by spease 7y ago
Would this be considered fraud eligible for a reversal if they had swiped the same card? (Eg the store chip reader was broken)
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by spease 7y ago
Best answer I found is this: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/3023/why-... There was apparently an HN thread as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17808191
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by spease 7y ago
I find this often boils down to people being unwilling to read/write very much. If people insist on reading and writing no more than a single sentence at a time, async communication will be very difficult. If they’re willing to provide
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by spease 7y ago
If people are regularly interrupting their development work to answer questions, then it suggests that documentation isn’t a priority and/or the team isn’t being very productive. Async communication often works fine as long as people
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by spease 7y ago
Well, or the code base had no organization to begin with and he’s moving in that direction. Sometimes individual people can be very focused on their particular assignment and greatly resent somebody forcing them to make even small changes.
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by spease 7y ago
I’ve worked on code that’s both ways. That is, either: (1) spaghetti code that relies on the author having a great deal of it memorized. It uses opaque types that get passed through multiple modules. There is no hard separation of modules.
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by spease 7y ago
I can’t say I agree with this thread. Oftentimes I’ll say “It seems like <bad thing>, I would probably <different approach>.” After years of doing software development I’m well accustomed to side effects, business constraints, l
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by spease 7y ago
Who knows, maybe the next set of victims will be people jaywalking to get to an Uber, that then get mowed down by another Uber driving at 39mph which classified them as bicycle / other.
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by spease 7y ago
These kind of metrics should be mandatory for self-driving cars. Just because, say, you can produce a painstakingly detailed timeline should not free you from consequences if that timeline indicates you acted with wanton disregard that any
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by spease 7y ago
Is there a way to write a kernel directly to a boot sector and boot directly from it?
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by spease 7y ago
No, oftentimes they will intentionality constrain the scan to a specific area that they’re interested in. This limits the time and cost. However there are pretty consistent scan procedures, eg they might order a “sacral MRI” for lower back
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by spease 7y ago
Re: that first paragraph, there’s a CT scan procedure that costs a modest amount that checks for plaque buildup principally in your heart. I think it’s “coronary calcium scan”. I was surprised it isn’t more well-known and widely used for s
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by spease 7y ago
What’s the group that does this?

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