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by the-rc 2y ago
Little endianness considered harmful
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by the-rc 2y ago
Google has scans from Google Books, as well as all the ebooks it sells on the Play Store.
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by the-rc 2y ago
The BASIC interpreter parses numerical values from text each time a token gets executed. It converts that into a float and, in the case of POKE, then into an integer. Using the dot without the implicit leading zero, there's no need to
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by the-rc 2y ago
Once a Gmail account is deleted, it can't be recreated by anyone, including the original owner.
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by the-rc 2y ago
20 SREs, assuming two different time zones, means ten weeks per year. You need two people in the same continent for the same 12h shift, so that one can drive, take the train home, shower, etc. Within five weeks, you have gone through the en
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by the-rc 2y ago
Not a ML researcher, too? He was working on neural networks in 1990. Last year he was under Research and now reports directly to Sundar. What do you know that we don't?
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by the-rc 2y ago
12-13 years ago, I ran the system that inlined Scholar and other results on the main search result pages. Anurag was still involved, but AFAIR Alex, the other author of the post who also had been there from the start, worked on most code ch
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by the-rc 2y ago
Even before that, there was a Google Maps experiment using the compass (magnetometer) to infer train movement, but IIRC the accuracy of that depended on the network's current (DC vs AC) and even the vintage of the cars.
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by the-rc 2y ago
Where are these figures coming from?
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by the-rc 2y ago
More like NeuralRAM? We have precedents. Back in the 90s, Sun and Mitsubishi came up with 3DRAM, which replaced the RMW cycle in Z-buffering and alpha blending with a single (conditional) write, moving the arithmetic into the memory chips.
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by the-rc 2y ago
Zappa even took his Synclavier on the road in 1988. You can hear it all over the albums from that tour. It was almost certainly the most expanded (and expensive) unit on the planet. By 1991 it had an astounding 768MB of RAM. Speaking of Syn
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by the-rc 2y ago
Well, Jean Michel Jarre had 11 (eleven) Ataris on stage in 1990... but he'd always been ahead of the curve, e.g. having his own custom sequencer HW.
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by the-rc 2y ago
Cheaper camera hardware, more advanced software with computational photography?
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by the-rc 2y ago
Burrows is also responsible for the Burrows Wheeler Transform, Bigtable, Dapper and Chubby, among others.
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by the-rc 2y ago
I was trying to figure if by "contraction events" you meant the actual motion or the signal to initiate that. Maybe it was the former, but it looks like you meant the latter. The wristband's EMG sensors can't detect the
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by the-rc 2y ago
What do you mean by "monitoring muscle contraction events only"? Not trying to argue with you, just understanding how the technology is being perceived. If I hold your fist/fingers and you try to make gestures, how do you exp
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by the-rc 2y ago
Hard links are to deduplicate identical tiles, right? How much does that save and how close is the tile with most links (empty one(s)?) to the filesystem limits? Inquiring minds want to know...
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by the-rc 2y ago
That's not been true for well over twenty years. http://suntelecom.com/images/st900_large.jpg
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by the-rc 2y ago
The first true ARM MMU design was Bob Welland's, who had joined Apple after his stint at Commodore (C900, Amiga 500). It doesn't look like traditional MMUs, because it needed to support the Newton OS and shared address spaces.
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by the-rc 2y ago
Back when it was introduced as a replacement for Transfer Service 15 years ago or so, the mention of the Latin etymology was always accompanied by a wink...
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by the-rc 2y ago
There's not one Zappa, either. There's the one that gave us Hot Rats, which is quite different from The grand wazoo & Waka/Jawaka, which are different from Yellow Shark and Everything is healing nicely. Then there are all
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by the-rc 2y ago
The purple lagoon! That amazing lineup had a lot of the usual suspects, PLUS the Brecker brothers, yes, but... by the 80s, his bands had to rehearse even more: eight hours a day, for months, until they had mastered over 120 songs. On stage,
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by the-rc 2y ago
That might have been 1968. It's not like he worshipped his audience later, but he did get to a point where the fan base was large enough and more "in tune" with his thinking, organically. He made the comment that nobody could
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by the-rc 2y ago
I haven't been an employee since 2015, but by then Google had already been doing the route trimming and splicing for live traffic data. (If you had location history enabled, some of that same data at lower granularity was stored in an
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by the-rc 2y ago
You didn't mention what machine this was on. Since you mention a breadboard, are you sure it wasn't an addon to an existing CPU card? Perhaps the X-Calibur, that plugged into the Commodore A3640? That's a bit later, though.
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by the-rc 2y ago
I didn't check her badge name, but I'm 99% sure I was in the same conference room in the NYC office (Tavern on the Green?) as this woman in late 2007. She had a red contractor badge, which meant she was totally not allowed to be i
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by the-rc 2y ago
I agree that there might be too many cars for hire now, but on the other hand there's a bit of selection bias at work. Of course they are going to be the most visible cars at a corner, especially outside of rush hour: by definition the
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by the-rc 2y ago
After a quick peek at the bike layer in Google maps, you'll find it demonstrably false that there are more bike lanes than roads. I live in NYC, too. Congestion pricing will help the vast majority of New Yorkers (and NJ/CT commute
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by the-rc 2y ago
I don't know that. You asked for numbers on how many supervisors per car are needed (I bet it's around 1:100, probably less) and how often they intervene (a few times a day at most? Otherwise you'd read articles about cars be
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by the-rc 2y ago
I agree with you, I was just highlighting for the other poster how difficult/crazy/riskier remote driving would be.

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