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by name_censored_ 12y ago
Bait bikes of a make/model make sense in a sufficiently bureaucratic organisation because it makes purchasing, tooling and technician training a hell of lot easier. Police cars (Crown Victorias) are obvious for the benefit of a few c
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by name_censored_ 12y ago
Only three problems with that: Firstly, bait bikes are inevitably going to be cheap bikes. Thieves are more interested in expensive bikes - and if the expensive bikes are not only more profitable, but also safer to steal, then they're
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by name_censored_ 12y ago
I'd be astonished if they use FPGAs in production kit. Once they get the circuit design right, even a modest quantity of (static) ASICs would be cheaper than FPGAs, and probably faster. That said, if this really takes off, I'm sur
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by name_censored_ 12y ago
It reduces energy usage, but also the useful lifespan of servers. Commodity servers can be pushed into different (lesser) roles when they get older, but specialty kit cannot. More specialty kit means more e-waste, and more e-waste means mor
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by name_censored_ 12y ago
> I think this is something that should be understood far more - I've seen far too many developers basically give up when the execution of the code they're debugging goes into something they didn't write or an exception ha
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by name_censored_ 12y ago
> Python: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ya0Ux.png (I don't think all the entries are correct Python checks out; >>> b=[True,False,1,0,-1,"","True","False","1","
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by name_censored_ 15y ago
>Now I understood the reason _why_ you can't use regular expressions to parse HTML is that HTML is usually not regular. Is this true? I believe the reason is that HTML is a Type 2 grammar by Chomsky hierarchy (that is, a push-down autom
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by name_censored_ 15y ago
>Lastly, IANAL, but I doubt promoting one of your products on one of your products is in any way illegal. Wasn't that the whole issue with the Microsoft anti-trust suit - that Microsoft bundled ("promoted") IE with its other product (Wi