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by wrs 2y ago
Note that Nexus includes Global Entry and TSA Precheck. If you live near the border, it's the cheapest way to get all of them. Also, your Nexus card is a REAL ID, so no need to pay extra for an enhanced drivers license.
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by wrs 2y ago
It was a venerable on-prem application done in classic three-tier architecture (VB.NET client, app server, and database). It was deployed on a regular basis to thousands of locations (one deploy per location) and was critical to a business
963.
by wrs 2y ago
I worked at a Fortune 1 company that used one repo per release for a certain major software component.
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by wrs 2y ago
One of the effects of a successful grift is that contrary facts don’t matter — in fact contrary facts just reinforce the grift by strengthening the us against them dynamic.
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by wrs 2y ago
Sting’s solo album The Soul Cages was another early QSound adopter. I can remember popping it in the CD player and having a “What the…” moment.
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by wrs 2y ago
Isn’t this the same fundamental technique as Spatial Audio and binaural Atmos rendering? AirPods can even measure your personal ear transfer functions.
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by wrs 2y ago
The RPP isn’t a governance structure. It’s a statement that the vast majority of activities and interactions shouldn’t require escalating to a governance structure, because people should first be reasonable. CMU of course has a governance
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by wrs 2y ago
No problem. Don’t branch in the middle of the algorithm, choose the appropriate optimized algorithm based on the task. That’s why we haven’t had a separate fgrep binary for decades.
969.
by wrs 2y ago
Many years ago, at college, I stayed in town for a summer rather than going back home or elsewhere. I had a coding job with no fixed hours (and working in a windowless basement), and no friends in town. So I tried the “sleep when I want” ex
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by wrs 2y ago
Odd to be promoting a SaaS thing with examples that are not SaaS. Surely one can think of billion-dollar SaaS companies?
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by wrs 2y ago
These are perceptual hashes designed on purpose to be a little vague and broad so they catch transformed images. Not cryptographic hashes.
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by wrs 2y ago
I switched to a VESA arm so I can put the bottom of the monitor flush with the desk and leaned back at a bit of an angle. It’s fantastic.
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by wrs 2y ago
The accelerometer will read 9.8m/s^2 along the axis of the centrifuge, because that is the acceleration that is keeping the phone moving in a circle instead of flying into space. The difference between that and resting the phone on the
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by wrs 2y ago
There are definitely 10X teams in that sense. Two problems: (1) Very few corporate compensation programs are team-oriented; managers are structurally forced to reward/punish individuals, not teams. In many cases there is even some sort
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by wrs 2y ago
I assure you, because I’ve I’d done it, if you talk directly to the accelerometer, it will give you an XYZ acceleration vector with magnitude 9.8m/s^2 in the direction of the Earth (whichever way you turn it). Not because there is a ma
976.
by wrs 2y ago
Yes! The thing with SQL is that the DB “recompiles” the query plan from source every time you do the query. That results in changes at runtime, which are often good and healthy changes, but are sometimes a very bad surprise. I like the metr
977.
by wrs 2y ago
I don’t know what else to tell you, the accelerometer in your phone is reading -9.8m/s^2 right now. Go get an app that reads your accelerometer and check it.
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by wrs 2y ago
Another angle that might help: Newton was correct when he said a particle with no forces on it would keep going in a straight line. He was just missing a dimension in his coordinate system. The geodesic is the straight line in spacetime. An
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by wrs 2y ago
If you let go of something, it will stop accelerating because there is no longer a force on it, and start following its geodesic. You have to apply a force to make it not do that (like, by standing on the Earth so the ground can push
980.
by wrs 2y ago
Both engines are exerting force in opposite directions, which cancels out, as you said. There’s no acceleration happening either from gravity or this rocket arrangement, so the accelerometer reads zero. Why is this a problem? Who is saying
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by wrs 2y ago
The accelerometer glued to the mountain will show -9.8m/s^2, not zero. The one glued to the rocket will show the same. The force of the rocket thrust is the opposite of the force of the glue holding it to the mountain, so the sum resul
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by wrs 2y ago
Not sure who “us” is meant to be, but the first Internet boom (1995-2000) used a whole lot of Solaris, Windows, and Cisco. Of course there was plenty of OSS too, but Linux servers, or Intel servers, weren’t the standard. I remember visiting
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by wrs 2y ago
Based on my several decades of life experience, I would say the point is there’s hardly anything useful that you can learn without doing . And there are many things that you can’t do without leaving the traditional classroom environment. T
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by wrs 2y ago
I say “might have been” because the lecture was suppressed before we could hear its contents. But what I said is consistent with what its contents were announced to be: Historical perspective on what has happened in countries where dictator
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by wrs 2y ago
We are agreeing! Just trying to bring out the price differential that will result from a liability regime. We had this explosion of cheap software partially because nobody was paying for security (either with money or with inconvenience). N
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by wrs 2y ago
My imminent concern is that it seems like increasing numbers of people can’t read anything more complicated than a tweet. Do we end up with a tiny group of people who can seriously read and write, just communicating with each other? I thi
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by wrs 2y ago
That’s why the lock analogy is good, though — not everything protected by software is like a bank vault. Door locks cost a lot less than vault locks, and as the customer I get to choose the appropriate level of security and pay accordingly.
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by wrs 2y ago
#2 isn’t, practically speaking, true. Ordinary hardware store door locks can be opened in a few seconds (using techniques like “bump keys”). Is that a “design defect” if every professional knows it to be true? Locks get security ratings bas
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by wrs 2y ago
One of the topics of the lecture might well have been how to retain that institution's integrity after the election of a President who absolutely wants to undermine it. Seems pretty relevant to me.
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by wrs 2y ago
The Republicans’ shtick is that any criticism of Republicans is entirely partisan and should be ignored or suppressed.

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