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by wrigby 6y ago
I can't help but raise the fact that you've probably conflated mean and median here, although I admit that I've never looked into the shape of the distribution of human intelligence.
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by wrigby 6y ago
Haha it definitely looks a little silly, but it's almost definitely a hand-launched UAS (maybe an Aerovironment Puma[1], as the caption suggests). 1: https://www.avinc.com/tuas/puma-ae
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by wrigby 6y ago
There are actually two copyrights and sets of rights in play here: one (the © copyright[1] and the "publishing rights") is on the song itself, in the abstract - the melody and lyrics. This is owned by the songwriter, and usually a
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by wrigby 6y ago
It looks like the actual library to read/write an encrypted SQLite DB is licensed separately from the open source SQLite[1], so even if you have the encryption key, you can't access the encrypted format: 1: https://www.
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by wrigby 6y ago
I find it really helpful to actively take handwritten notes, for two big reasons: Firstly, hand-writing notes without falling behind the content forces me to choose the most relevant information presented and reword that information into a
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by wrigby 6y ago
Love this! I had read another paper from Wescott about sampling[1] years ago and loved it, but I didn't realize there's a handful of other great articles[2] that they've published. 1: https://www.wescottdesign.com&
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by wrigby 6y ago
Yeah, most geostationary communications birds use analog transponders, even to this day. There's a lot of fancy command and control, but the actual payload is just analog RF circuitry, even using tube-based power amplifiers. I have no
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by wrigby 6y ago
I feel like "lost" is a bit of a misnomer here - this spacecraft was of course being tracked still, and it only took a couple seconds of googling to pull up the detailed info on the orbit from Celestrak[1]. There's even a nic
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by wrigby 7y ago
The discoverability aspect of this reminds me quite a bit of working on a Cisco IOS command line. At any point while typing a command, you can mash the ? key, and the shell will print out a list of acceptable inputs given what you've a
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by wrigby 7y ago
Oh, that's a really good point! My approach is mostly shaped by my company's culture (which is definitely not one-size-fits-all): if it's a quick thing to code up, I prefer submitting it as a PR with an [RFC] prefix (I'v
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by wrigby 7y ago
I usually agree, but two of the three open issues should really just be PR's :\ ... After typing that, I realized that this comment should actually just be a PR[1]. 1: https://github.com/anvaka/atree/pull&#x2F
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by wrigby 7y ago
Yeah, I could have been more clear - the BigCo I'm at is still pretty light on process, and teams are free to use whatever project management approach they want. As seattle_spring conjectured, I was thinking more about technical best p
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by wrigby 7y ago
To be fair, he actually did join Palantir a couple years later.
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by wrigby 7y ago
There's a LOT of survivorship bias in this article. I personally worked in small companies (30 - 200 employees total) and startups (4 employees, including myself) before ending up at a big tech company, and I would have preferred to do
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by wrigby 7y ago
I'm not 100% sure, but I'm assuming because of Double Data Rate transfers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_data_rate
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by wrigby 7y ago
I'm not sure about the rust package, but in the hardware world SerDes ("serializer / deserializer") is pronounced "sir-deez."
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by wrigby 7y ago
From what I can tell, OpenIndiana is to Illumos as Fedora is to Linux (GNU/Linux to be pedantic), and Illumos is based on OpenSolaris. So what we have here is essentially a Solaris distribution?
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by wrigby 7y ago
Looks like it's a fork of OpenSolaris[1], which is pretty cool - I didn't realize there was a Solaris variant still under active development. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos
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by wrigby 7y ago
NORAD tracks everything in space, and works directly with satellite operators to reduce collision risks on the rare occasion that it could happen.
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by wrigby 7y ago
On my first read-through I thought 'F5 Storm' referred to F5 load balancers, not hitting the F5 key to refresh the page.
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by wrigby 7y ago
ETA is owned by Swatch group, which owns a ton of watch brands[1], including Hamilton, which I would say competes head-to-head with the most Timex pieces (at least in the $500 price range). There are other Swiss automatic movement makers th
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by wrigby 8y ago
Kolaches have to be one of Texas' best kept secrets. I discovered them after I moved to NYC (from DC) because a friend from Texas is opening a kolache bakery in Brooklyn, and man... what a treat. I highly recommend everyone travel to T
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by wrigby 8y ago
I think the data locality benefits would hold for one to many relationships too (that is, one parent with many children).
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by wrigby 8y ago
I may have some insight here. As a smoker that's trying to quit (14 days clean so far), a Juul just doesn't appeal to me - I'd rather quit than switch. Apart from the nicotine addiction, smoking involves a lot of rituals - fo
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by wrigby 8y ago
Yeah, I take issue with that 150GB number. For one, it doesn't take into account browser caching, and if you're trying to save origin bandwidth, you're better off making sure you're using your CDN as well as you can than
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by wrigby 8y ago
I only have a cursory knowledge of DSP, but it sounds like this was implemented by using the 5 second clip to build a matched filter kernel. This would require convolving the samples of the 5 second clip with the entire song to find out whe
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by wrigby 8y ago
Microsoft's UI toolkit in Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT4/XP did a fine job of letting me know that I clicked on a button, and it added no latency to the interaction. On mobile, this is more difficult - the user&#x27
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by wrigby 8y ago
Well... maybe. You would just register the domain once (maybe `mycoolawesomehome.net`), and then you have the authority to arbitrarily decide that your printer's hostname should be `thebestprinterever.mycoolawesomehome.net`. But now yo
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by wrigby 8y ago
I think it's the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" [1], which seems to be the official name of the Iran nuclear deal. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...
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by wrigby 8y ago
We used to use RFC1918 (172.16/12 IIRC) addresses for the communication between internal nodes in a cluster-in-box system that I worked on, which worked great until we had a subnet collision on a customer's network. Leaves me wond

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