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> If PB broke backwards-compat once then to me that's a very serious problem -- details? Proto2 and Proto3 differ in how they handle default and required elements. Regarding these …

> When has ASN.1 ever broken backwards compatibility? I've never heard of an ASN.1 backwards incompatibility. Maybe, if you stretch an interpretation of ASN.1 in 1984 to allow new …

> Does one pay for an SLA for every piece of hardware, firmware, and software? The codecs are the least likely cause of downtime. I don't recall saying that—just that I have had cl…

> Why would you need a support SLA for ASN.1 and not for PB/FB? That makes no sense. And there's plenty of open source ASN.1 tooling now -- just look around this thread! If your bu…

> Meh. After all, if you're not using ASN.1 you're using something like ProtocolBuffers or FlatBuffers or whatever and all open source tooling. Oh sure--there are plenty of alterna…

> In the ASN.1 space everyone hopes that someone can dethrone OSS Nokalva's proprietary solutions You're buying more than a compiler and runtime, though: you're also getting an SLA…

I second this: don't go down the wrong entrance, but definitely do visit. It's a fun time with knowledgeable employees that will take you on a tour. You can also see some of the ma…

> I think this plays a huge part as well. My wife and I were watching an episode of the US cop show “The Rookie” and they casually discussed paying a ticket for driving SEVENTY MIL…

> Notice how even if you are an early bird and in the office by 9, you are a lazy slacker when you leave at 5? Then someone rolls in at 11 and leaves at 7 - same number of hours. H…

> Also related to the ending, I‘ve come to realise more and more that most people reason out of belief first and arguments second on a lot of things (maybe most things?) This is th…

I was under the impression that this is why hydrogen tanks have special liners and are made of composites?

I heard Shoemaker or Levy once talk about the modem on Voyager...running at a blistering 10 bps. I keep our old 2400 bps modem around as a curio. The memories are interesting and f…

> Is it an in-built preference? I think a robust monism is still a fairly radical position, especially among religious views. For example even the branches of Christianity which ta…

TIL! Thanks a bunch, I'll definitely check this out.

One of the (maybe few) niceties of MS Office these days is that you can search through a list of most available commands through a simple Alt+Q and typing. This greatly improved my…

Perhaps every modern campaign. James Garfield is a counterexample from history...but of course he was shot and subsequently killed by the doctors.

> I have done pretty well with a combo of Nokia dumbphone for calls and texts, and a separate smartphone with no SIM as needed. I leave my smartphone at work or in the car when I w…

I've bought several of these phones. My texting habits are relatively minimal, but I'm apparently pretty hard on T9-capable keyboards. I bought a Sonim XP3 recently that is chunky,…

If you are a long term investor, dividend growth rate is an important metric when evaluating the aristocrats. At a 7.2% growth rate, your absolute payout will double in ten years r…

Dividends are taxed twice: once as profit to the company issuing the dividend and once when the recipient receives it.

Not sure precisely why you're being downvoted for bringing some additional light to the conversation. Been busy here but appreciate the insights; this isn't my field. Are there goo…

> Can anyone explain this? Slave names were sometimes numbers. Naming conventions in Roman culture were apparently also fairly formal.[0] I would guess there's sufficient evidence …

In image processing an edge detector like Sobel works (IIRC) by forward differencing. This is not quite differentiation but may help connect the dots a little bit. My guess is that…

> But from a working-with-other people perspective, imagine opening some code and finding random invented constructs you have to reverse engineer and step through This feels just l…

I read _Stella Maris_ just after reading a bio of Gödel and history of the Vienna Circle. Serendipitous to come across it, and would recommend it. _The Road_...I was warned, but no…