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by w0mbat 7y ago
Right. For example I have useful dual citizenship, which I can't pass on to my daughter because I'm not married to her mother. The rules on this vary according to the countries involved.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
So one person got the joke at least.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
I've been hearing good things about the super-asymmetry research from CalTech that was confirmed by Fermilab.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Facebook wasted loads of my time before I even got onsite, with several shared-screen coding phone interviews spread over a month. Each time I would solve all the problems and get to working code but a week later they would ask me to do ano
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by w0mbat 7y ago
I've been looking for a source, but I remember a previous air show incident where a stealth aircraft was detected and the excuse was that the active stealth system was not turned on, i.e. the aircraft would have used electronic active
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Right. In one case somebody worked out that Tay would repeat anything you wanted if you said “Repeat after me” first. Tay was just functioning as an echo, not taking on beliefs.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
I agree. This is the reason the Google C++ style guide bans use of "unsigned" wherever it can be avoided. The extra bit of headroom is not worth it, and it's clearer to explicitly check for arguments that are out of range.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
> With a focal length equivalent to 1000mm Otherwise known as a meter.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
> There's no need for LIQUID CONTACT, or WATER DAMAGE > to trigger the 'sensor' but just humidity, caused > for example, by taking the laptop from a well-heated > room outside, in the winter. This
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by w0mbat 7y ago
It would also be prudent to drill some air inlet holes in the case as far from the fan as possible to facilitate airflow. Otherwise you Have the fan sucking on a mostly closed box, which strains the fan and makes it hard to move much air th
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by w0mbat 7y ago
I can tell you that this line does not work at Apple. If I ever questioned Apple's weirdly bureaucratic ways of doing things my manager would yell at me "I don't give a fuck what you did at Google!".
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Ex-Googler here. This proposal makes no sense to me. Anybody can write a web-crawler and get a searchable indexed snapshot of the web. What Google is good at, is ranking your search results based on relevance and quality so the best results
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Some small vestige of this remained. There is a sharp edge on the original iPhone 1 in the area of the headphone socket and you can cut your finger on it if you are not careful.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Nuclear is never actually cheap though. In practise it costs a fortune to build, a fortune to run, a fortune to dismantle, and then you have to pay to store the waste forever. Even that assessment is charitably assuming that there are no ma
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Or just use that money for solar panels and batteries and not build a combination power plant / doomsday weapon.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
I think the Pi team unintentionally became dependant on the time window they normally spent using test boards based on pre-release versions of the Broadcom sytem-on-a-chip. When the Broadcom chip went final really early they ended up shippi
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by w0mbat 7y ago
There's a project management lesson here. Raspberry Pi 4 was planned for 2020, but the Broadcom SOC went final much sooner than expected, so they shipped the Pi 4 this year. This sounds like a great thing, but the earlier release meant
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Magsafe 2 seems better than either version of Magsafe 1 (there was straight and then right-angled). I broke a ton of those Magsafe 1 chargers over the years, have yet to break a Magsafe 2 charger.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
This is the model of aircraft he used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotorSport_UK_MT-03
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by w0mbat 7y ago
The article also describes the 14 years since Intel Mac was announced as “nearly two decades”.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
The team's design goal was 1 watt, but the chip ended up needing only a tenth of a watt. In fact on the original testbed they forgot to wire up the power lines to the chip, but the processor still worked, appearing to be running on no
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by w0mbat 7y ago
The original purpose of the original ARM chip was to drive the Acorn Archimedes desktop computer. While they were aiming to design a power efficient device, the power consumption accidentally turned out to be far lower than intended, which
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by w0mbat 7y ago
I read the article by searching for it on Google News and then clicking through from there. They must have a deal and the WSJ checks the referrer.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Yes, tcsh was the default in 10.0 then in 10.3 they changed it to bash.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
He left the airport in 2006, lives in Paris now.
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Vitamin B1 deficiency causes beriberi, and white rice lacks B1. The article says that Japanese ships actually made a variety of food available but only white rice was free. It was the economic incentive that killed them. Similarly, corn lac
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by w0mbat 7y ago
I find “write-what-where” a little clumsy as a term. How about just calling it “POKE”, like when we were kids writing BASIC?
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by w0mbat 7y ago
Very confusing headline should be: Google Is Turning Off the "Works with Nest" API
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by w0mbat 7y ago
ƒ/64 may give the maximum depth of field (if that's your smallest stop), but due to diffraction you generally get higher image quality at ƒ/8 or ƒ/11.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
Rivian is valued at $7 billion, and has not shipped a product ever? Crazy.

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