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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Look into zee aero, Google's super duper secret flying car concept. From what I could gather they're building a hybrid, using wankel engines to provide power and maybe some batteries or supercaps for the massive power boost needed
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
You could hire a firm that specializes in this sort of thing, but it's going to be expensive. Look for the guys that build security tools, like a company that worked on metasploit or has submitted multiple bug bounties. I know some of
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
I just got my masters a few years back, also close to 30, and had a similar experience. as in, I went through a period of applying for jobs for months. Hundreds. I got phone screens from maybe 15. Got second stage phone interviews from 10 o
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Hahahahaha that's a pretty creative way to monetize an attack. Hopefully you're taking regular VM snapshots so you've got some logs they can't delete. Otherwise good luck, someone Bitcoin mining is probably clever enough
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
I've always seen cloudflare as a panacea for horribly written websites that need to handle high traffic. A good framework can crank out like 200k requests per second on normal hardware. If you're using something like PHP for a hig
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
CockroachDB needs a place on a list like this :) . Seriously, who would honestly tell their VP or their clients "oh yeah, were gonna migrate this to a great new database technology called cockroach". It's rock solid enterpris
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Wouldn't a better solution be to just make sure dangerous batteries don't get sold? Just regulate them for safety like tons of other dangerous goods already are
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Probably not. It's just the marketing that gets me. Google should say "use AMP, a Google alternative to fb instant articles!" Not "use amp it will make your site faster!" Which isn't true. Worse is that users w
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Cool! It makes me sad that history like this will be lost when the first generation of coders turns to dust. Before an hour ago you were one of the only people in the world to know this little bit of history, and the fact would have probabl
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
The problem is that for amp pages to work with Google search, which everyone uses, it needs to use Google's flavor. Google should just stop pretending that AMP is any different than fb instant articles. Yeah it gives you more syntactic
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
It is already gone for many cars. Some higher end cars will detect your location on various racing tracks and void your warranty. Cars equipped with OnStar cam be shutdown and located remotely. Famously, the Nissan skyline also voids your w
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Aka MIT values political correctness over free speech. Great. Reminds me of my university, they had a "free speech zone" to sidestep the reality that saying the wrong thing on other parts of campus could get you expelled. Many hav
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Holla for ASCII85. Used it many times when some of the base64 chars are unusable. A nice thing to know about when working with old systems
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
I appreciate the author building a more efficient alternative to base64, but I had to laugh for a moment at the suggested use case. Using an alternative to base64 encoded data for web pages and node is a horrible idea. If I came across a co
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
TLDR: each CPU instruction takes the exact amount of time it does on the real cpu. You generally only care about cycles in real-time stuff. In simpler CPUs like those used for microwaves and such, each CPU instruction takes constant time. Y
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
This is rediculous. I would take a vacuum any day over an atmosphere that's -300°!!! And it's thicker than earth so the thermal problem will be even worse. It's probably harder to insulate these crazy temps than protect from
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Not just the typical image recognition stuff, but things like process control. A lot of big industrial processes have a ton of different control loops that try to optimize parameters. The systems are usually complicated enough that the idea
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Isn't google drawing it's own line around the open web with AMP? I mean with AMP I'm literally browsing a site hosted at Google with a Google top bar on my page. If a user hits the 'x' on my page it takes them back
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
I think everyone is missing the point of AMP. Google could have just as easily SEO punished slow sites and had the same effect as amp. If a site was slow you wouldn't see it in search results anyway. Nothing inherent in AMP makes the w
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Amazon has long had a reputation for high engineer turnover and brutal office climate. I wonder if a constant talent bleed is finally manifesting in the quality of their product. It's pretty bad that some third party startups are offer
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Fiddler, chrome devtools, Wireshark, postman and other chrome extensions. Many languages have hooks for viewing raw http requests and responses
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
A wild guess, but a lot of the advances in neural networks can be directly applied to control problems normally be handled by PID controllers. It will be interesting to see where this leads
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
China has a well known problem with not honoring other country's intellectual property. I don't see how it's racist at all to comment about the negative effects of a countries IP policies. Were not talking about Chinese here,
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
50% at least. I've worked at a few startups and all you need at the beginning is engineers. To be honest I probably wouldn't take the position at all unless you already had funding. Would you start a restaurant without ever workin
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Not sure if there's a theoretical basis behind this, but I've noticed that the true game changing technologies tend to sprout up along the fringes of popular fads. The social network hype didn't bring us more social networks,
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
I've consistently wondered why cURL is so popular in languages with a solid web client(almost everything these days) . I've used it for quick hacks but definitely nothing in production.
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Node is for hipsters and JavaScript is a terrible language even now. Exception handling, threading, build tooling, modularity, debugging, profiling, standard library support.... Almost every metric I can think of is awful in js compared to
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Jersey is semi fun to use as well and can run on grizzly and netty, two of the fastest http servers in existence
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by throwbsidbdk 10y ago
Cool I guess but why is this on the front page of an English site if nobody can figure out what it does and has no English docs? Seems like 90%+ of readers will be unable to use this There's a myriad of different solutions for inspect