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by toast0 6mo ago
There are some 50 story buildings. But cost increases pretty dramatically. Especially when you build on fill and mess up the foundation work [1]. There's a fairly consistent stream of tall buildings built over the years, not all of the
842.
by toast0 6mo ago
Afaik, e2e messengers don't include ciphertext with push notifications. It's an empty push to wake the client. Then the client contacts the origin to fetch the ciphertext.
843.
by toast0 6mo ago
Sibling posted a good example. But I know of (without details) things where you have to insert nops to keep peak power down, so the system doesn't brown out (in my experience, the 68hc11 won't take conditional branches if the pow
844.
by toast0 6mo ago
Maybe they mean gate delays?
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by toast0 6mo ago
What Slate is hyping that they'll do with small trucks. We'll see what, if anything, actually becomes available.
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by toast0 6mo ago
I think you'd need a contract where you buy (or lease) the car without a battery and lease/rent the battery separately. With some guaranteed offer for a battery with minimum spec X at maximum price Y when you exit the battery prog
847.
by toast0 6mo ago
Efficiency in finding isn't really the metric to consider. I'm sure a good security person could look at these and find the bugs, but nobody did. IMHO, if you were to do a manual audit of the Linux kernel, the first thing to do is
848.
by toast0 6mo ago
My understanding is double the max dose of paracetamol is the LD50. Seems crazy for your GP to advocate for that. Published recommended dose is assuming average weight, so maybe if you're a very large person, the advice makes some sens
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by toast0 6mo ago
The problem is Word 2.0 for Dos was released in 1985, and Word for Windows 2.0 was released in 1991. Calling it Word 2.0 for Windows wouldn't make sense, because it wasn't the 1985 release with a new coat of paint, Word for Window
850.
by toast0 6mo ago
> Java specifically had a bad name, and back then not even a coherent UI toolkit. Java was ahead of its time, now nothing has a coherent UI toolkit.
851.
by toast0 6mo ago
> People thought lawyers and doctors couldn't be automated away, then came chatgpt. Form contracts and will generators and what not was automation for lawyers. Plenty of enter symptoms to get a diagnosis stuff out there for doctors;
852.
by toast0 7mo ago
You could increase per teacher productivity by running 12 months of school per year, but you would increase costs; and in some parts of California, you would need to rebuild schools with air conditioning to hold classes effectively in the s
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by toast0 7mo ago
Many self-checkout stations are setup to be slower than a skilled cashier. So it can save time to have them do it.
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by toast0 7mo ago
There's a balance though. Some people want to end up with a perfect PR that gets applied, some just want the change upstream. Most of my PRs are things where I'm not really interested in learning the ins and outs of the project I&
855.
by toast0 7mo ago
I thought I had read that some cables have systems at each end to detect and correct when there's a splice with swapped cores, however, I can't find a reference; you could imagine such a system would mitigate partial breaks by ass
856.
by toast0 7mo ago
I only use mature optimizations, so I'm good. Thinking about the overall design, how its likely to be used, and what the performane and other requirements are before aggregating the frameworks of the day is mature optimization. Then yo
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by toast0 7mo ago
The $5B isn't a gift. Amazon is buying shares for $5B, and they're getting a spending commitment. I don't have any insight into the agreement, but on a ten year $100B spending commitment, I would expect $5B to be spent in no
858.
by toast0 7mo ago
Why not? It's only an adapter away if you have something thst needs to connect to a usb-c female host port. And if you need more ports, which seems likely, you can get a usb hub which has ports of your preference.
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by toast0 7mo ago
> but given that the only output is a paper teletype, displaying it would be a problem You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. A cacodaemon floats by, hissing.
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by toast0 7mo ago
> I say this as an early adopter and continued user.. it just never broke into mainstream and it's been 15+ years. I'm not an Apple fan beyond the Apple II era. But Apple has a way of taking early adopter markets and breaking i
861.
by toast0 7mo ago
I've opened several bank accounts for my child. All they needed was the social security number and my photo id (and maybe my social security number too).
862.
by toast0 7mo ago
> The PrintBone doesn’t have a slide lock or water key Is water key a euphamism for a spit valve? Did the euphonium players come up with this?
863.
by toast0 7mo ago
My spouse was a minor elected official in california, so we had to fill out form 700. I was already pretty much ready to go on broad based mutual funds, but needing to fill that out for anything that isn't a broad based mutual fund put
864.
by toast0 7mo ago
I dunno. I live in washington state, in a county, a city, a fire district, a public utility district, a library district, a park district, a school district, a transportation district, and probably one or two other things. Some of them shar
865.
by toast0 7mo ago
That's just what they want you to think.
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by toast0 7mo ago
Amsterdam hosts a major internet exchange. It's not a bad place to build a datacenter and there are many. Northern latitude brings free air cooling, but also additional distance to clients. Lots of peers in AMS-IX, but not a lot of oce
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by toast0 7mo ago
> I do not see how what you are saying is in any way the correct approach for making decisions or managing risk. What decisions or risk management can I reasonably take to mitigate the Bromine chokepoint? Or most of these deep pipeline l
868.
by toast0 7mo ago
> The way it shakes out is that there's no widely accessible way of escaping actual, ongoing work, which is what unmotivated people actually hear behind the words "passive income." 25x expenses in s&p 500 works ok. (Ad
869.
by toast0 7mo ago
> PHP's performance can be significantly lower than JS, because it doesn't have application state (in a standard runtime/setup) and needs to re-run the entire application for every request. Sure, in PHP, the reality is tha
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by toast0 7mo ago
> IPv4 allows fragmentation by the middleboxes, which in practice papers around a lot of PMTU issues. In theory yes; but actual packets are 99%+ flagged DF. Reassembly is costly, so many servers drop fragmented packets, or have tiny reas

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