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by ssalazar 11y ago
> You are skipping the fact that most meat and produce products for sale ARE man made was well. Did a man (or machine) literally put it together with two hands? This is the distinction being made.
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> There's simply little advantage to living right in the heart of a major city. This is a very personal opinion, and can vary depending on one's interests and stage of life. Young single people benefit from being "where th
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> Perhaps part of the reason is the massive wealth gap between the tech migrants (tech workers) and the local population. It causes a lot of friction between locals and the new migrants. The lower earners are being forced out of the city
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by ssalazar 11y ago
> paying customers The data readily show that young people are not paying customers [of cable services]. In the long term, professional sports organizations have to go online to maintain relevance to home/casual viewers.
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by ssalazar 11y ago
> [The] EgyptAir flight was taking too long to get from Alexandria to Cairo Not to interrupt some good-old lazy cynicism, but something tells me there is a substantial difference between domestic Egyptian airport security and the TSA.
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by ssalazar 11y ago
Thats not an accurate analogy at all. These researchers presumably utilized MIT resources extensively while being paid by MIT specifically to conduct research in addition to other duties. Without MIT or a similar host institution their abil
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Whose goal?
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by ssalazar 11y ago
My point is that these companies have no evident interest in establishing a monopoly in whatever market they've followed. That they maintain a closed system doesn't contradict that.
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by ssalazar 11y ago
Uh, any company that sells niche or upmarket offerings of commodity products, for one. I.e. Apple, Tesla, a bunch of watch manufacturers. > Plus, Windows is still the leader in the desktop and laptop market until today. They are facing s
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by ssalazar 11y ago
Im not really sure how this is an argument against DCE. If theres no way to tell at compile time if these functions will be used, then you have to include them in the final delivered code, whether or not you are using monolithic or micro pa
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PS the software shes using is Wekinator[1], in conjunction with ChucK[2]. [1] http://www.wekinator.org/ [2] http://chuck.stanford.edu/
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Micro Bit makes strange-sounding music(bbc.com)
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University research encompasses more than just engineering.
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> (And what advantage does WebAssembly have over Java applets? We've been down this road.) The same advantage as Javascript, I'd assume: easy access to the DOM and the concomitant natural integration into a webpage. Java applet
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Customarily its left only when you are about to check out, and sometimes with a quick note (e.g. "Thank you").
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Mighty fine view from that high horse of yours.
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Yeah the OP specifically called out open-ness as being a dealbreaker for the Javelin Stamp. I never used Basic Stamp, but from what I can figure, it didn't have ADCs by default, which is a huge deal. Even now people who are slapping an
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by ssalazar 11y ago
Embedded systems engineers are very intentionally not the audience for Arduino. With Arduino you can go from zero EE/FW experience to blinky LEDs in an evening. This is a powerful tool for opening up hardware hacking to young people, a
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Not really. A melody is any sequence of tones that one could perceive as being musically significant or interesting. You could generate a random melody by randomly playing notes from a pentatonic scale. Random noise is musically tone-less a
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Indeed, taking enormous legal risks is another advantage that isnt available to large corporations.
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> I didn't see anything wrong with 'Should Apple be forced to give the Terrorist's phone data to the FBI' Thats really not even remotely a legitimate question in this instance. If Apple "had" the data Im sur
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EDIT: I see- a different reading of the post than my original take would suggest that the author is saying, you as a C/C++ programmer are "not allowed" to compile code that would cause under/overflow. The compiler assume
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I guess it's edgy to dismiss celebrity outright, but Mark Zuckerberg is the steward of one of the largest social phenomena of our time, so I should think it matters a great deal what he believes--not necessarily because we should agree
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Not really that surprising. Irrespective of gender, a terminal degree rarely leads to increase job earnings except for MD, JD, MBA, and similar.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession I really wish to hear from people who support rightist causes what they think of this and if there's anything, any hypothetical event, that they would accept, if
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University education has become such a bloated juggernaut, I don't feel its sustainable or sensible to continue to feed it growing amounts of free government money. Im hopeful that free/inexpensive/subsidized online education
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> You still get paid. In the case of the game industry, you still got paid, but markedly less than a comparable software engineering job outside the game industry and with poor working conditions in general. This is tolerated because you
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> All password managers store plain text passwords. That's literally a requirement for them to work at all. > Chrome encrypts the password in the SQLite database[0] using Windows' CryptProtectData() API If its encrypted, the
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- in-browser chat - Google Docs - infinite scrolling (of course someone is going to say infinite scroll is a bad thing but it's clearly desirable to some) - input validation (before I click submit I can know that eg my desired username
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This is useful for gaming or any other application where text is integrated into a GPU rendered 3D environment and may be subject to affine transformations.

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