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by stefan_ 3y ago
To be fair, 2x2 is already a high standard as smartphones go..
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Where is the US or EU competitor to DJI? They are running away with it. Oh right, we instead pioneered regulation and legislation , all those deaths from drones falling down and drones hitting planes.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
It's a nice theoretical implementation but few practical examples would be found using floating-point math, running as they are on systems that don't support it.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
This does not appear to be IPFS, it's just some crude method of rewriting ipfs:// URLs into HTTP requests to gateways that then do the actual IPFS. Which much like bitcoin, nobody seems to want to run locally despite that mos
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Of course it's ridiculous to have 300kW car engines racing from light to light averaging 10mph in the city when someone on a bike can do that faster with 100W.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
This is my favorite lately. Sure, some insane people use these packages for backend services, but we are just building a big JS blob that's statically shipped to the browser; none of the "vulnerabilities" in them apply. But t
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Seriously, what on earth are you doing looking at your phone for a fucking stop sign .
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by stefan_ 3y ago
This is what people keep repeating about ISPs - "look, they don't make any money!" Yes, yes, you can offer a terrible service, stifle competition, ripoff customers and not make any money - all at the same time! Such is life i
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Someone drives onto your private lot and leaves. What should be the recourse available to you as a property owner?
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Parking enforcement in just about any city costs nothing, it's profit making. Surely a private company can only be cheaper if it's literally paying the city?
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Yes, it has been a massive boon to scammers, fraudsters and extortionists worldwide. It's paramount we keep it up!
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Odd and unfair?! Companies are just an abstraction we invented purely to facilitate capitalism, a simple organizational unit in the market. If they try to monopolize and manipulate the market to defeat competition, there is no reason to kee
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by stefan_ 3y ago
One thing that people overlook is just stuff like screen sizes. Back then your laptop was 640x480. Now it's 3840x2160, 26 times as many pixels to push. Just a single 4k framebuffer will take up 32 MiB, you are gonna need at least two (
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by stefan_ 3y ago
He staged a coup to get rid of the CEO and reinstate himself so I'm afraid "he was just collecting a bag" can't accurately describe his role on the board. The overall point here being that of course he was aware they wou
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by stefan_ 3y ago
By left you mean he was executive chairman of the board of course.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
They don't just make a gun, sell it and then it's up to whoever uses it. It is well established they run the C&C servers and tailor operations - they are combatants .
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Apple has a long history of investing in all kinds of mitigations and security devices that make the App Store model secure and an equally long history of procrastinating on what is again and again and again causing their customers to be ex
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Who said the "computer programmers [..] let people down"? "A computer failure" is the rallying cry of middling bureaucrats all over the world because to them it translates into "no one is to blame", used most p
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by stefan_ 3y ago
And chances are Amazon is even printing it! They took their marketplace approach to publishing: allow anyone and anything to upload any crap (or other peoples copyrighted material) and sell it immediately, with no oversight or quality contr
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by stefan_ 3y ago
The majority of ebikes that people bring to their local shops are unsafe, often not street legal contraptions from Amazon/WalMart that have no maintainable standardized parts and are a massive fire hazard.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
If only that was true, but it's been regressing for 15 years: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=plot+United+States+rail...
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by stefan_ 3y ago
But most spending on road maintenance goes to roads that make no sense other than as a massive subsidy to rural communities and the people in them.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
But then we would actually transfer goods via rail instead of tiny amounts via trucks, and then what would happen to the cultural icon of the american trucker and his incredibly loud, unsafe at all conditions vehicle.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
The point is that whatever function you think HFT serves can be done just as well at fixed tick rates. This whole latency optimization mini game is just a pure waste.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
That's a nice idea, as if these nutrition facts are super specialized to your precise McDonalds location, and don't actually ya know come down to how much the kid in the back of the kitchen is using the salt shaker. People don&#x2
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by stefan_ 3y ago
Nobody is confused about how to make a single use circuit breaker. But things like train stations have a need for repeated DC circuit breaking at high voltages.
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by stefan_ 3y ago
This isn't a precedent at all. As expected, prosecutors were not impressed by the blockchain smokescreen. People were joking about this programmer habit of thinking they can just inject "reasonable doubt" into everything and
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by stefan_ 3y ago
It's a very interesting phenomenon. There are lots of claims along the lines of "a single CPU is so fast it will exercise all kinds of multi-threading patterns very quickly" but in my experience it indeed takes multiple proce
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by stefan_ 3y ago
> attackers could still get into Mozilla, Apple (as I run macOS), or cause a backdoored update to be pushed via Homebrew [..] but unsandboxed browser extensions were clearly the lowest hanging fruit This is a total non-sequitur. The sour
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by stefan_ 3y ago
So what? There is no conspiracy here. There are lots of other sensors not in Ukraine and they didn't report zilch. This entire article is just crazy talk.

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