abhibeckert

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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I agree - the authors of this paper don't seem to know anything about how rope is made. Having said that... the tool does look like it could be used for processing and weaving fibres together. As for "making a rope in 10 minutes&q
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
On iPhone, bluetooth is presented to the user as a location check. Big data companies will if you're near your toothbrush then you're at home. And they can figure out where "home" is by other tracking methods.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
"Bad" and "un-performant" are relative terms and as your company gets bigger, you're increasingly more and more likely to have colleagues who write even worse queries than an ORM would. For example I've encount
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Agreed. I would offer a PDF version of the project's readme file as a demo. OP: this is important. There are a million tools to generate PDF files, most of them don't produce nice looking PDFs.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> Every proton would have the energy of a baseball I wonder if you could capture that energy and use it to generate thrust. Most of the energy is coming from your thrust so it'd be a lossy process however if you're able to ca
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The title of this post is wrong. This isn't about the 737-MAX, it's about a new sub-model which currently only exists as a prototype and is undergoing a lengthy test and certification process. AFAIK it's scheduled to start pa
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Fujitsu's didn't prosecute anyone or send anybody to jail. All they did was write software that had bugs in it. If you look at the version history of any software, you'll find it's full of bug fixes. Writing software wit
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
They're not that hard to extinguish, you can just wait for them to stop burning on their own. Which is generally how car fires are also extinguished. The good news is EV fires take a long time to burn through the fuel, allowing anyone
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I actually kinda like the fact that whatever data you write to the table will actually be written. I semi-regularly fix a serious data loss bug that has been fixed with an alter table query. Maybe converting VARCHAR to TEXT or INT to BIGINT
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
If you used the top row more often, you wouldn't need to look down...
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I'm doing it, though I haven't written anything up. Happy to share my opinion though, with a bit more experience than you have. The databases I'm working with are pretty small - ballpark 4MB of data per "tenant". So
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I feel like there must be better options than resistive heating to melt the snow. For example instead of a separate visor for each light, use a single visor that covers all three lights. And maybe angle the whole thing forwards slightly so
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it's "we will figure that out later".
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Or... drop an anchor, pull the floating barge against the tide towards the anchor when the sun/wind are optimal. Let the tide pull the barge away from the anchor (with a generator on the winch cable) when you want power while the sun&#
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Or, you could just put them on the roofs of existing buildings. I mean, that's where you need the power right? All you need then is a grid so you can off load excess power (you're going to have a lot of excess power, if you cover
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
You could probably just cover the existing buildings on your cattle farm with solar panels and get more electricity than you can use.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
20% of the Sahara would be 331 terawatts of solar panels. To put it in perspective that's an order of magnitude more than the entire global power consumption right now. I mean sure, I guess one day we'll probably consume that mu
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> the program is in control of the main event loop, user input is handled as part of program flow Is that supposed to be a good thing? I don't want to write an event loop - I'll probably screw it up and introduce bugs. > the
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
If Meta does that, they will be creating their own walled garden next to the Apple one. Meta won't allow pirated software and malware to run rampant on their own store.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
If you hate Zuck so much, why are you using his products?
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Ma Bell, at it's peak, was arguably biggest company in the entire world. The new comglomerate of "baby bells" isn't even the biggest Telco provider in the USA, let alone the biggest company in the USA... let alone the bi
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Who says I'm using their tools? I might build my app using Electron or GTK. I don't think Apple can have a requirement to use their proprietary tools. That would be anti-competitive. If they want to make money off the tools... the
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> I think Apple has a good claim that this is a factual statement that is used as a security warning I would hope that the technical protections protecting user data apply to all apps and not just apps that come from Apple's store
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I don't know anything about GridFTP - but there's a huge difference between verifying if files were "transferred correctly" and verifying that files were transferred without being tampered with by a malicious party. MD
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Sorry my mistake. I guess the wrong name stuck in my head. Using real guns is totally normal, because they fire real explosives (so you get a muzzle flash) which can and occasionally do kill people - the only difference between a proper gun
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The compression penalty is actually massive. The bytes you're trying to read might require reading other bytes elsewhere on the disk in order to decompress them. It's not just compute power, I was generalising with that statement.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Because compression is robbing Peter to pay Paul. It saves money on storage, but costs money in compute. And a lot of data is already compressed (images, etc) so might increase your compute cost without any storage savings. Filesystems ar
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
As a primary last resort there should be a printed paper backup of the database, but it's a snapshot of ticket sales that at this point would be an hour old, and there's always a rush of last minute writes to the database. The bet
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> However, would you really change your approach if PostgreSQL could be upgraded by a minor version without any downtime? Dunno. I wasn't so much answering the "who wouldn't use Postgres" question, I was more answerin
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Because when it doesn't work, they'll get an error message, and then they will try to figure out how to fix the error message. These aren't tech savvy people. You don't hire an IT person to stand at a door scanning a tho

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