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You say worse, but these discrepancies are by design, both in the US and EU. They’re there to stop much larger interests from steamrollering smaller but different interests that th…

Not really, before you could firewall it off from the rest of your network - though now you can just masquerade 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to your DNS server of choice

One of the advantages, though, is per-user config for the same program, e.g. the .bash files. It's pretty common to have separate /home and / partitions too, and less common but do…

> If you use websocket for short lived connections, you are doing something wrong. Pretty-much true, but I remember a funny story from Dropbox where their websocket service couldn'…

> for example, have been found by MIT and Microsoft researchers to misidentify dark-skinned people at vastly higher rates than light-skinned people. That’s a near-perfect analogue …

One assumes that "3D Glasses" was meant to mean a VR headset

You ain't seen nothing yet - /r/Libertarian

Depends how you define toxicity - a toxic idea or toxic wording. The Hitler comment is obviously toxic in meaning but is 'eloquently' worded (or, at least as much as it could be gi…

It's a well known C pattern that you should never trust a user supplied format string, E.g. printf(arg) vs printf("%s", arg). The same applies here

can't speak for all CS students but we certainly have an ethics course. Unfortunately a lot of people see it as an insult to their intelligence yet need reminding of many of their …

as mentioned in a comment above, the choice to take 2.7 behaviour when 3 behaves differently means this wannabe-python '2.8' is neither backward nor forward compatible

> I mean, let's be honest: if we really cared about security we wouldn't be writing in C. How so? C is low level, so to be secure you must be fully aware of the behaviours and side…

they're being 'forced' insofar as they're usually locked in to continuing to occupying their current office.

Write it out 100 times before morning

Not really, earth is waaaay closer to the sun, so goes faster in its orbit but has a lot less energy (when normalised for mass) than any of the voyagers. They are going way faster …

I can get behind some of that, I do hate the argument "it doesn't matter if it's inefficient, modern computers are fast" because everyone taking that stance results in things stayi…

Jekyll also has the (perhaps unfair) advantage of being baked into GitHub pages, making it's workflow super easy

Even with this rapid decay, I'd still be concerned about the probability of a collision with something - depends how congested that part of LEO is

If it is as they claim well academically supported, you'd assume they'd be easily able to get a subhuman on someone's .edu or.ac.uk or whatever

Hey, just to follow up, we've added a graphic to our indiegogo page with a render of the control board that's currently in development, if you want an idea of what it'll probably l…

Well I like the sound of getting another one... By side-side motion I'm guessing you mean a tipping force - and the the answer would be that he's pretty hard to shove over, at the …

It's fine with a reasonable amount of weight - I'd have to ask Sandy how much weight Marty can take before he physically can't move, but a touchscreen should be fine, and won't dis…

I wrote a bit more detail here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903939 but Still very alpha, specs currently are STM32F446RE (ARM M4), ESP8266 (WiFi, for control from a compu…

Hey, another Robotical engineer here, thanks for your support! We're planning (read: really want to but might not have time to do everything initially) to target a wide range of pr…