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by wbl 1y ago
Whyy means test when you can use income tax to claw it back? Instead we have politicians giving away benefits to people who opted out.
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by wbl 1y ago
IBM Stretch had branch prediction. Pentium in the early 1990s had it. It's a huge win with any pipelining.
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by wbl 1y ago
That actually doesn't work. The evaluation of the branch condition may be at some point far away from where the privilege update is recognized and executed. There is no current state to update, it's only recognized in retrospect w
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by wbl 1y ago
Bob Metcalfe made a lot of money by making Ethernet ubiquitous. He didn't capture a lot of the value because it cannot be captured.
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by wbl 1y ago
There's a stop, it's just in the middle of nowhere. 20 minute charge would be annoying but survivable assuming they had them in say Lone Pine. And yeah, 20 something mpg and 16 gallon tank multiplies out to a large range.
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by wbl 1y ago
"The only secret worth keeping is out: the damn things work". What products could Shanon have made only knowing information theory? Or CSRO knowing only ODFM solved multipath? Did Bob Metcalf make more money when everyone had Ethe
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by wbl 1y ago
For commuter with charging access at office or home EV makes sense. For me making 300+ mile round trips with no charging infra (pull in at the gas station in the foothills) and low overall mileage EV is trickier.
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by wbl 1y ago
Furfural is produced on a massive scale from dehydration of plant matter, and lots of feedstocks exist. I'm not sure why furfural dispropriation to furfurol and furfuric acid is preferred over the oxidization in current industrial prac
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by wbl 1y ago
Overriding is fine. The issue comes with polymorphism and would even without inheritance per se, as can be seen in Go where interfaces provide polymorphism without inheritance.
340.
by wbl 1y ago
Dynamic invocation, not strict inheritance is the issue here. Simply getting functions and fields from a superclass costs nothing if at each callsite the compiler knows enough to say where it is from.
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by wbl 1y ago
The beauty of destroying invading armies is you don't need to ask a lot of questions about why there are there.
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by wbl 1y ago
To clarify: the tickets can close but they don't push the product forward at all.
343.
by wbl 1y ago
If a distribute system relies on clients gracefully exiting to work the system will eventually break badly.
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by wbl 1y ago
Slime Cricket, as someone who lives in the US and knows nothing about it, was very amusing.
345.
by wbl 1y ago
Like the Honda Civic?
346.
by wbl 1y ago
Why do you think Google "gets" data in Google Wallet?
347.
by wbl 1y ago
Google is offering a superior service than relying on third parties to do redaction because it uses cryptography.
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by wbl 1y ago
Chicago used to be that way in the long ago times.
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by wbl 1y ago
The American worker has gotten continuously richer over that time. Is it so bad to be a nurse rather than feeding widgets into the widget machine?
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by wbl 1y ago
Recombinant insulin is exactly the kind of high value IP the US excels in producing.
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by wbl 1y ago
Waymo already has an app.
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by wbl 1y ago
In early FP machines the floating point processor could not take a trap at a faulting instruction precisely: it could only go bad things. Furthermore for programmers and hardware it can be very expensive. Rather than go through a loop and f
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by wbl 1y ago
That's a neat trick. Only way I can think of to do it involves two op amp buffers, one inverting one not and take the signal from the wiper.
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by wbl 1y ago
You use an International Reply Coupon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon
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by wbl 1y ago
Nah your desk closed out as the model was starting to choke.
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by wbl 1y ago
Metal whale vocalizations especially. One might say it's the primary application.
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by wbl 1y ago
Taylor is for points. For functions on interval you want Chebyshev interpolation and probably want to throw in some poles to do better if L1 not L2 matters.
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by wbl 1y ago
Metal is extremely hard to analyze because intermodulation products do so much.
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by wbl 1y ago
This is not that case. This case is about how Google only serves certain ad inventory to people who use their products.
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by wbl 1y ago
Why would the cert renewal be manual?

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