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by dschleef 2y ago
This article goes to great contortions to avoid talking about electroweak theory or spontaneous symmetry breaking, both of which have decent Wikipedia articles, and are crucial to understanding what's going on here. Spontaneous symmet
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by dschleef 7y ago
> There's often a lifetime of work behind the development of that skill. This is literally true of every senior job role. It seems like it's mostly software engineers that don't get this.
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by dschleef 13y ago
Or, people are realizing that there might not be enough actual BTC to back all those MtGoxBTC.
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by dschleef 13y ago
It's hilarious that people believe there was an actual, unstaged market transaction selling a fish for $3k/pound.
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by dschleef 13y ago
Compliance rules for Microsoft Playready: http://www.microsoft.com/playready/licensing/compliance/ The encryption part of DRM systems is effectively the same as client-side SSL certificates with a secret SSL
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by dschleef 13y ago
This kind of functionality is standard on OMAP4 devices.
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by dschleef 13y ago
This link is an artificial construct designed to provide the superficial result of a real article.
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by dschleef 13y ago
86400s is one day, not one year.
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by dschleef 13y ago
Fat shaming in the first sentence.
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by dschleef 13y ago
Is a 10x developer the same as a "10 star" developer?
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by dschleef 14y ago
Not directly. Davinci is a different business unit than OMAP.
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by dschleef 14y ago
nimius illectus - "the excessive amount that is unread"
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by dschleef 14y ago
I will care about companies complaining about too few H1B visas when they start paying equivalent H1B visa holders and citizens the same.
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by dschleef 14y ago
The tip atom would be oxygen, as CO adsorbs to metal surfaces via carbon-metal bonding.
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by dschleef 14y ago
The author appears to either not know how old Gen-Xer's are, or is smoking crack. We entered the job market during the 90's boom, so we were much better employed in our early careers compared to today's grads. We've never had jobs that ha
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by dschleef 14y ago
Meh. I generally assume people have good motives, unless proven otherwise. Lustig is screaming "the sky is falling!" Feinman is responding in a perfectly natural fashion, "If they sky were falling, we would have noticed by now."
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by dschleef 14y ago
Lustig's premise (from this and other sources) is essentially: (translated for a techie audience) 1. There is a clean pathway and dirty pathway for converting fructose to glycogen in the liver. The clean pathway is easily overloaded by con
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by dschleef 14y ago
They are technically both correct, but in different situations. If you drink a glass of orange juice, you get Feinman's case and no problems. If you drink a 72 oz soda, you get Lustig's case. Lustig goes into details about the difference
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by dschleef 14y ago
5 seconds of Googling indicates that you're making shit up: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx The second half is, of course, completely correct. (Edit: please read "making shit up" as "your source is inaccurate")
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by dschleef 14y ago
A simpler explanation would be that baseline JPEG is decoded in hardware that has a maximum width of 2048 or 4096, and progressive JPEG triggers a software fallback. Easy for Apple to fix, just add a check for widths larger than the hardwa