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by w0mbat 4y ago
Article says at one point, "We have reduced the time for the computation by ~119%!", which is impossible. If you reduce it by 100% it is taking zero time already.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
If you like this, I have a great episode of Ripping Yarns for you, starring Michael Palin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpsz2eAKOs
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by w0mbat 4y ago
I don't use Docker so I have had no problems whatsoever. Getting all the Mac apps I code on building for Arm was easy.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Absolutely. If something is oddly slow, I run the profiler to see what's going on. If the profiler shows me something boneheaded like this that is a big win to fix, I fix it. Obviously I make sure the tests still pass, but then I check
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by w0mbat 4y ago
If you think the construction costs are high, think about the demolition cost when the facility reaches end of life, and is now radioactive.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The biggest controversy I remember from the old days of Google was the goji berry war. A pastry chef at a café on the Google Mountain View campus put out some nice little cakes with Tibetan goji berries. The sign said "Free Tibet Goji
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by w0mbat 4y ago
There seems to be an assumption that "master" is always paired with "slave", but not only is "master/servant" a more common pairing, "master" is obviously a very common word/prefix/suff
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The Prophet 5 was also a huge step forward. The combination of polyphony and many memories in a great-sounding synthesizer of practical size was a giant achievement at the time. It was a really hot item for ages. I worked in a music store i
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by w0mbat 4y ago
This professor seems very pleased with himself but I think he handled this in the worst way possible. He should have said on the WhatsApp group, right at the beginning, "I am your professor,and I monitor this gc. You can use the gc to
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by w0mbat 4y ago
No it doesn't. You can install the Google Play Store without jail breaking. I've installed the Play Store on 3 Fire tablets, and I've never done a jail break. Instructions are on the android Police website. https:/&#x2
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Tall women are easy to get dates with, well unless they are the fashion model types who are hot enough to get the in-demand tall guys. There are lots of cute tall women who are unfairly neglected. I'm average height and was married to
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Agreed. Also OP posted a rant but doesn't seem to know what is going on or whether he actually needs to do anything. For all I know the demand from the CA FTB is mistaken and can safely be ignored. For the record, I do have to deal wit
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Allude not elude.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The best book about sport is Fever Pitch, not a novel but stories of Nick Hornby's own football fandom as he grew up. I don't even like sport and I loved it. He then peaked when he wrote Hi Fidelity, a fantastic novel about relati
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by w0mbat 4y ago
No app is feature complete on a changing platform. The OS changes and the new hardware is different. Assumptions made years ago no longer hold. One of my apps has been in the store for 10 years (Mac & iOS) and I have had to make many up
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by w0mbat 4y ago
>> Updates should be required only when specific apis or >> features are deprecated and the app in question uses those. >> But there probably isn't an easy way to test whether an app >> uses
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by w0mbat 4y ago
It’s not hard to do a recompile with a slightly newer SDK, check things still work, update the version and copyright and re-upload. That’s how I keep all my apps in the store. Often you find a cheap update you ought to make, like add dark
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by w0mbat 5y ago
We were just fact-checking our fairly mundane page about MIG the company and the planes they had made, which was written from publicly available info at the time. No secret plane details were asked for or given. It's really good to go
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by w0mbat 5y ago
We were making an educational CD-ROM at the BBC in London back in the mid 90s and it had a section about planes. It included some facts about MIG and their jets, which we needed to verify. We had a russian programmer on staff and he said &q
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is just a recipe for hiring extroverts and rejecting introverts which is a terrible idea unless you are hiring for sales.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I've got it. You could make a mini display like this to clip over the notch on a new MacBook Pro.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Why does Dropbox software ship an amateurish Electron app then?
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is what the company pivoted to in the 90s when their VideoLogic video overlay card business went out of fashion. They have been adept at changing course multiple times.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Apple internal iOS devices used by engineers are "dev-fused". This hardware configuration opens up the device to some extent, allowing Apple engineers more latitude when developing software. There have been articles saying that Ap
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is a misleading headline which implies that improvements in the environment of London has allowed beavers to return naturally. These beavers are on a farm, and were deliberately brought there. They might as well be in a zoo.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
In 1984, when Neuromancer was published, TV was analog and inbetween channels you got static snow. Gibson had to mean that. A grey/white overcast sky. Everything else is over-thinking. I love Neuromancer but the irony is how badly cyb
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by w0mbat 5y ago
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Unfortunately, television is digital now and dead channels are just black.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Thanks! That story was part of my inspiration. I gave my Calculator DA a lot of visual toggles in the View menu so you can find your way to the look that makes you happy, like Steve did.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This seems like a bad idea, since by the time you come to unarchive an app, it's probably not the current version anymore. It would be better to just retain a bookmark to the app on the Play store, save even more space.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I think the unadjustable monitor stand is actually illegal to deploy in a workplace in many countries. Health and safety standards require monitors to be height and tilt adjustable in order to be ergonomic and not cause neck strain and othe

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