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by wfunction 9y ago
Fantastic explanation, and the question on my mind the entire time is "but why??"! Surely the copilot can look at a map (when I say map I don't mean a piece of paper -- I mean a digital one with GPS and everything) and see
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by wfunction 9y ago
Thank you! That raises the question, (a) why is there no kind of warning system for when you're about to land on the wrong runway (there's a GPS system in the aircraft that knows where you're going, right?) and (b) why is t
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by wfunction 9y ago
Thanks! But why do you even have to map your diagram to what you're seeing? Isn't there a GPS system that shows you exactly where you are on the map and where you are going to go in the next few minutes? It doesn't seem like
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by wfunction 9y ago
Why in the world is this even a problem? Shouldn't what's a taxiway and what's not be indicated on maps or diagrams or something that pilots can see?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Yeah, they do. Turns out the product actually works, who knew!
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by wfunction 9y ago
Thanks! Someone pointed it out in a sibling comment afterwards too. Kind of sucks, I wish they had a "do final check and merge" button that would merge PRs sequentially into master after re-testing when there's a collision li
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by wfunction 9y ago
I thought shipping and handling have been different since the dawn of e-commerce. Not that I like it, but I don't ever read "2-day shipping" and ever assume it means the seller will mail the item on the same day. There's
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by wfunction 9y ago
Oh I see, so the problem is that the merge commit is not the same as the one that the test runs for if there are any intervening commits between them. Interesting, I didn't quite realize that! (Though it seems obvious in hindsight, sin
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by wfunction 9y ago
> Properties like `will-change` or `transform3d` substantially increase the client device's energy usage They also made the font blurry on Chrome on Windows prior to DirectWrite (it's moot now, though personally I'll say t
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by wfunction 9y ago
I'm not sure I'm understanding things correctly. What I meant was that the test chronologically occurs before the merge takes place. But the test includes the merge itself; it's testing what the result would be after th
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by wfunction 9y ago
> The thing we do differently from most is that we run the full test suite against every patch, as if it were merged to master, before committing it into the master branch, whereas most CI setups test after committing, or if they do
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by wfunction 9y ago
> Alternatively, it would fill California's 424,000 thousand square kilometers to 100 meters That sounds like a hell of a lot more than 37 million times the volume of the Empire State Building.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Windows has NtLockVirtualMemory, but (a) it requires special permissions (meaning random apps can't do it without admin privileges), and (b) something about it feels like it's the wrong way to do it, but I can't pin down what
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by wfunction 9y ago
> One of the nice things about using mmap'd data structures is that you don't have to slurp the entire thing into memory to work on it. Right, but one of the not-so-nice-things is that you can't do the I/O asynchronou
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by wfunction 9y ago
Whoops! I did, thanks! Fixing now...
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by wfunction 9y ago
1. Gmail won't be scanning emails anymore, although I'm not sure what difference it makes whether they index it when they already have your data at their fingertips. 2. I guess that's nice, whether worth $30/year though
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by wfunction 9y ago
Ooh, that's a good idea, thanks!
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by wfunction 9y ago
> I find it distasteful. I get it - people died, you don't have to show me their bodies to get your point across. For many people seeing photos sends across very different emotions than reading words.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Apologies for the confusion, this isn't by me -- I was merely sharing the page and wasn't sure what else to title it than what it had originally. I just posted a note to that effect.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Apologies for the confusion, this isn't by me -- I was merely sharing the page and wasn't sure what else to title it than what it had originally. I just posted a note to that effect.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Note: Just to clarify in case anyone misinterprets, these are not my photos! I merely copied the title from the page. If there's a better way to title pages like these, please let me know, since I was confused as to what title I shou
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Photos of Mosul 2017(petapixel.com)
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by wfunction 9y ago
Why is there so much written on Monte Carlo theory and (comparatively) hardly anything on Las Vegas theory?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Sorry, I don't follow. The working poor have a lot to lose through abusing PTO -- losing a job is devastating for them. So I would expect them to be less likely to abuse it. Contrast it with the non-poor who work low-paying jobs... l
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by wfunction 9y ago
It's hard for me to tell what the most likely interpretation is, but yes, a comma could certainly disambiguate it. As it was written, I was expecting it to go "But since 2000 heavy trucks have accounted for 40% of the TOTAL grow
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by wfunction 9y ago
> But since 2000 heavy trucks have accounted for 40% of the TOTAL growth in oil demand I kept trying to parse this (and then got shocked and was like "no, that can't be true...") before going on and realizing I was reading
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by wfunction 9y ago
You know, I think that might have been what it was -- it was using e.g. 5%-accurate resistors to get a 2%-accurate circuit. Funny enough, that is the difference between accuracy vs. precision, which I thought was irrelevant here. Thanks f
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by wfunction 9y ago
I seem to recall there were clever but well-known techniques in analog to get higher accuracy than that of your actual components, through negative feedback IIRC. So why is it correct to say that the precision of the components is what limi
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by wfunction 9y ago
I feel like you're speaking past each other. I think you're describing what they happen to be empirically , whereas the parent is describing what they are fundamentally (isolation mechanisms). I'm pretty sure the parent real
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by wfunction 9y ago
> Whatever the ultimate "isolation unit" ends up being, it needs to be recursive. Thank you. I've always thought about this and figured I must be crazy since nobody else seems to care about it.

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