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by tobinfricke 3y ago
I was curious what architectures were supported by the original GCC, if not x86. It seems the answer is vax and 68020: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
> In late 1983, in an effort to bootstrap the GNU operating system, Richard Stallman asked Andrew S. Tanenbaum, the author of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (also known as the Free University Compiler Kit) I see what you did there edit: Oh b
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
"It differs from a nickel–metal hydride (NiMH) battery by the use of hydrogen in gaseous form, stored in a pressurized cell at up to 1200 psi (82.7 bar) pressure." whoah
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Yes, Waymo often has a much longer wait time (fewer cars). But then the Uber drivers often cancel. So maybe it comes out in the wash.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Hmm, in my (limited) experience, I've seen Waymo being within +/- $1-2 of Uber.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
You don't have to attend an _accredited_ law school, but it looks like there is no escaping studying in a formal capacity for 3-4 years: https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Admissions/Requirements/Education
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
That's exactly how digital cellphones (GSM) originally worked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
CERN has evolved over the decades, building generation after generation of more powerful accelerators. The predecessor to LHC was called LEP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Electron%E2%80%93Positro... Yes, the LHC
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
The Superconducting Supercollider was to have a circumference of 87.1 km. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is similar at a planned 91 km circumference. We could have had this in Texas.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Similarly, there are large sections of Pompeii, which remain unexcavated -- left for the future.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Yeah the subtitle kinda contradicts the title: "Flavour variations are mainly the result of changes at the chromosome level, sequencing effort finds."
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Of "good design with shoddy implementation" and "bad design with good implementation" - I'm not sure which is worse
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
"downgraded to Level 2+ autonomy" "The car will use what is known as a Level 2+ system, the people said. That’s a downgrade from previously planned Level 4 technology — and, before that, even more ambitious aims for a Level 5
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
It doesn't say "available for purchase." It says "will be commercially available for passenger use in major cities." Waymo is already there, in at least 2 cities but not all weather conditions. Expanding to 10 citie
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Really? There have been plenty of high-profile crashes due to weird Airbus design decisions. I'm thinking of this one primarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 >>Confused, Bonin exclaime
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
> But you don’t need to go all the way to zero-indexing (which is definitely not a thing in the fields I know) or positional arguments. This is putting abstract notation purity above practical concerns. Yes, it's definitely a perspe
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
I worked at an organization whose IT system was based around Lotus Notes, 2010-2014. It was clunky and awful at that time.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
The discussion in Sussman and Wisdom's "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics", about how the Euler-Lagrange equations don't literally make sense as traditionally written, has long resonated with me: https
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Is there some kind of x86 emulator that will do the trick?
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Is it possible to run Haiku somehow on a Mac Mini M1, or does it require underlying Intel architecture?
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hutt_River
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Google is a stellar example of a company where there are strong technical safeguards against employees accessing customer data without a business purpose.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
This lukewarm "mea culpa" does not sound very convincing. It seems like somebody got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and is suddenly "shocked and appalled." A one-time, accidental "internal breach of protoc
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
The effect is particularly impressive/pronounced if you walk around with a headlamp (like literally a light on your head, as you might use when camping).
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Subject of a mini-series dramatization by Errol Morris https://youtu.be/b01DL8DTUGM?si=3-vGNv4xjGFtuNIo
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Very Pascal-esque
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Zinc is literally the only pharmaceutical intervention that has been shown to possibly have efficacy in reducing the length of the common cold. But it's not homeopathic -- the defining property of "homeopathic" remedies is th
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Yikes! I did not know this.
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
Great answer!
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by tobinfricke 3y ago
You must not live in San Francisco!

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