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by w-m 7y ago
Wow, thanks for the detailed reply. You mentioned a couple of implementations that I hadn't thought about. But I guess the short version would be, as so often: testing systems is hard, and there's no one-fits-all solution.
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Tesla’s Winding Road to Berlin(nytimes.com)
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Point 2 is very important and very hard to get right. For unit tests, there is a clear dependency on the code and you can easily just run a subset of the tests. But wouldn't you have to run any system and integration tests of the affec
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There has also been terrible legislation in Germany though, that had to be revoked in lengthy process by the courts, take the Vorratsdatenspeicherung( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#Germany ): "The law
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Intel Unveils Next-Gen Movidius VPU, Codenamed Keem Bay(zdnet.com)
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When people cite the great feat of putting in a 100Wh battery into this laptop they seem to keep forgetting that the 2012-2014 models had a 95Wh battery and the 2015 model had a 99.5Wh battery. Only when flattening the design for the 2016 y
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The headphone jack was removed from iPad Pros.
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I found this part very interesting: "In fact, the quality of brand-new Model X vehicles today is 3.5 times better than the quality of brand new Model X cars from 2015.". (I have no idea what "quality" means here, and how
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One of the figure captions says they are storing 75.6 GB on one of these sheets. But I couldn't find any data on how long it takes to read and write, other than it's slow. Does it take minutes, hours, days, weeks? And I guess at l
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And then there's this compile-time C compiler implemented as C++14 constant expressions of course: https://github.com/keiichiw/constexpr-8cc Can be only months now, until somebody combines a constexpr compile-time
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I totally agree, updating compilers is painful, and can be hard even for smaller projects. But for projects that went through that and actually got the newer compiler working with the C++11 code, I haven't yet seen anything that breaks
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On the other hand, there aren't really any changes in 14 and 17 that break compatibility with code written in 11, at least that I'm aware of. In the examples I've seen it seems to mostly come down to compiler, toolchain and 3
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I really liked their take on the countermeasures: "It is possible to reduce the amount of light reaching the microphone’s diaphragm using a barrier that physically blocks straight light beams [...] However, we note that such physical b
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AnandTech makes the worst list, with 469 to 71 requests and 4.5 MB to 0.45 MB page size: https://webtest.app/?url=https://anandtech.com
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Browsing through this thread, the main argument seems to be that they are most comfortable with the Mac APIs and think it would be harder to rewrite their stack using different technology. They would have to re-apply the new stack onto mill
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How did you decide on using Mac Pros for batch GPU processing in a data center? After a little deliberation I could come up only with downsides of using these machines, which are quite expensive and have GPUs from 2013.
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There's a whole generation of programming language creators born in the early to mid 1950s. In no particular order: Guido van Rossum (Python), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), James Gosling (Java), Rob Pike (Go), Larry Wall (Perl), Walter Brig
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Web Based Qt Design Viewer(qt.io)
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But the ventilation doesn't go to the void, it will just be blown into the same neighborhood. So unless it's filtered in the tunnel ventilation system, you still get the same fumes there.
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> The list constructor does not overallocate the internal item buffer if the input iterable has a known length (the input implements __len__). This makes the created list 12% smaller on average. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Pabl
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There was a HN discussion of the Langewiesche article that this letter makes a reply to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21004683 It made some similar arguments, but also quite a bit of Boeing PR bashing. It got flagge
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I think the Dyson hand dryers work really well, the ones where you stick in your hands vertically. No other design of blowing hot air around your hands actually does the job it's supposed to do. And even the knockoffs of the Dyson desi
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Recent discussion on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20894044 From 2017: "Dr John Goodenough’s story suggests some people become more creative with age" https://www.nytimes.com/2
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While living in France I mucked around with the voice of Siri on the iPhone a bit, to find a setting that would allow the phone to understand both me (speaking English) and the names of streets and places in Paris. After switching between F
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One of the moderators resigned by citing a persistent pattern of corporate missteps and a monumentally deplorable moderator dismissal. Jeff Atwood commented under the resignation: "It is definitely hard to see long time deep contributo
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How did they fix that, in the rm binary? In the example above, the command would be `rm -rf / ` without the variable present, and the shell would expand / to all the folders in /. So it's not a direct call to `rm -rf &#
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The roof strength test is performed "by pushing an angled metal plate down on one side of the roof" ( https://www.iihs.org/ratings/about-our-tests#roof-strength-t... ). So it is the metal body structure that is
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The introductory "earth air fire water" example even shows the issue with using 1-to-1 pairs, as the two-letter group `th` becomes a single `w` in the ambigram.
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It's hard competing with Google, the Crokerage answers to the example they use ("how to remove an element from an array" in Java) gives me ArrayList<char> charList = new ArrayList<char>(0); for (int i= 0;
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It really shouldn't be that hard. The behavior could work by question: it's fine to show the accepted answer while the original asker is maintaining the question. But if a question gets a lot of new answers without the original an

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