ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
€4.50/GB is the maximum what EU operators are allowed to charge each other for roaming data transit right now, and what an external operator like Twilio would probably have to pay them. Of course in each country you will find operators
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
> plausible deniability. Why would that be necessary? Jackhammers are tools to destroy pavement. But nobody sells jackhammers as "ground strength testing tools". These are tools to destroy computers. Both are completely legal a
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
Current drone batteries are a much higher fire risk than a hydrogen blimp.
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
I wouldn't call it "new installs" - most of the PyPI downloads in any category are going to be from deployment scripts. It shows that 30% of projects being re-deployed are still on Python 2.7.
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
They still can, but app1 must use the Intents system to pass an access token to app2 to read its file(s).
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Most of the world population spends more on American-made movies, music and video games than they spend on American-made food.
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
We figured out the first principles of fusion power in 1930s, but are still nowhere close to practical fusion power generation. The engineering difficulties are just too great, and simpler alternatives exist which get much more attention, f
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> I wonder if they get a good return on the investment. On just sales income it seems doubtful. But in the end the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a non-profit whose goal is to get kids interested in programming, and give them the hardware th
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
I don't think there is a mechanism for invalidating general election results. The parliament can vote to hold new general elections. For the Brexit referendum, there is no need to invalidate it, as it was an advisory opinion poll rathe
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
I think PostgreSQL does benefit from Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL indirectly. Unlike MongoDB, it is a real volunteer-led open-source projects, and the goal is to provide an excellent database to users rather than make money. Having easy-
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> They have a lever in front of them with two positions, one of which is "large cloud companies might use your software for free", and the other is "large cloud companies will not use your software at all". Was that e
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
I don't think it will make a difference - everyone is used to most internet businesses being from and registered in the US. In my experience of trying to sell a SaaS to small businesses, their only location-based concern is about where
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
All Linux distributions and MacOS ship with Python, and many users of Python stick to the OS-provided version without installing the latest and greatest on their own. For example, they might only upgrade major Python versions (3.x) once the
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
The article describes a major problem with AI/ML-based systems, but the examples they picked are poor. With recommendations, users don't really care about controlling the results. If you know which movies should be recommended,
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
In more detail it's not about the shape, but mass. Planets are massive enough for gravity to overcome the internal bonds in rocks and metals, making even these materials flow into a round shape. An asteroid could be perfectly round, bu
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> which means all Bird has to do is provide the police with the address of the hoarder and that's the end of it. Literally. Bird can provide the address to the police and they will do nothing, and that's the end of it. If you a
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
The fundamental problem with Python dependencies is that they are calculated while executing setup.py, not declared statically. For example, the popular scikit-learn package has the following in its setup.py: if platform.python_implem
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Virtualenv tip: you can skip the Bash magic of calling "activate" by providing the path to the python executable. /hello/venvs/myproject/bin/python myscript.py will run myscript.py exactly as if t
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> Loon balloons are helium, and helium gas is famously hard to contain It's not like there are any better options? The only two practical lifting gases are hydrogen and helium. Hydrogen leaks even more than helium and is flammable,
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Bursting is not a goal in itself - it is just a side-effect of using cheap and simple latex or rubber balloons. You fill the balloon so it has slightly positive buoyancy. As it rises, it encounters lower outside air pressure, and expands to
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
It depends on how often "need to be mobile" and what you want to do while mobile happens. For me it is at least a few times per week that I want to take my laptop to a meeting, client demo, finish up some work from home, on flight
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
You could instead have a lottery like for Olympic Games tickets, so that only the luckiest are able to visit such places. But I don't see why the locals living there would want to. They get to set the rules, and for them the money from
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
The two conditions * OS treats filenames as bytes and allows arbitrary byte strings, * Users want to edit filenames as text are in conflict and you can't solve it without forcing some encoding or giving them a byte editor. The solution
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> Bring back contrast. Bring back visual dividers. The "random content boxes and buttons floating in a sea of pure white" seems to be the latest awful trend in web design. I get that borders and shadows are out of style, but th
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> modest 2 hours of instruction per day Isn't this close to what students could/should be spending doing homework, reading or doing some projects together with their parents - effectively one-on-one tutoring for every single on
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> adding road capacity (e.g. more lanes) can result in zero change in congestion because more people choose to take more trips This is not the paradox nor even an argument against adding road capacity though. Even if congestion or travel
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Yes. This reminds me of an anecdote from a talk on timezones. Shortly after Stephen Hawking died, the the Google search snippet for "When did Stephen Hawking die" said "Tomorrow" for people in the US. It was pulling the
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> The problem is that most in government simply are not systems thinkers. I don't think the main problem is that "people in the government are stupid". Real life and societies are much more complex than a jet engine. There
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
> The problem that needs to be solved is vision. "Solving vision" is a 10x more harder problem than building a practical self-driving car with LIDAR. We might get it working with LIDAR in 2-5 years, but without LIDAR in 20-50 y
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by ProblemFactory 8y ago
Generally variations on RAID 10. Disks are large and cheap enough to afford losing 50% of your capacity, and it's much faster while in use and when rebuilding.

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