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Comment #20638176
>Downtown has the best transport access in the entire city The only problem is that most people don't have a reason to go there. The streets are usually empty aside from the homele…
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Comment #20638150
I think this is just low cost/effort to reduce a particular problem. DTLA is the most walkable and accessible to public transit place in the city, the only issue is there's nothing…
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Comment #20630278
iirc the title translates to something like "the Study|Art|Practice of balancing and restoring." I recall "al jabr" means "of/relating to balancing" This source[1] states it as >th…
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Comment #20627747
So was hangouts.
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Comment #20627544
I don't think the connector is the problem but the devices you connect to. RPis are notorious for having a poor lifespan due to reading/writing from the SD cards, but I think that'…
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Comment #20617264
Am I missing something? The CPU dispatching in this library is done at runtime too... I thought FMV only has a penalty on the first call?
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Comment #20616843
I think the point is more that there's nuance in preventing speech (like censorship) and punishing the actions as a result of speech. I get that some would call those the same thin…
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Comment #20616100
> ∙ CPU dispatching to utilize higher instruction sets when available What's the advantage of hand rolled CPU dispatching over compiler intrinsincs like function multiversioning in…
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Comment #20615919
If you don't actually need higher level math functions or it's prohibitive to implement something at the higher level. For example if you have an operation where you know the spars…
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Comment #20615734
Everyone should record a video of themselves reading text aloud, while playing the audio back at a 5-20ms delay into their headphones. It's hilarious! Same thing happens when you p…
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Comment #20595947
When you talk about "electricity" you need to distinguish between "current" and "charge carrier." Current is the amount of charge that flows through a point per second. The charge …
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Comment #20595472
I've always preferred to think of it as pumping water from the bottom of a (practically infinite) reservoir and dumping it at the top of a mountain then doing some work as it flows…
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Comment #20595398
Worth mentioning that ballot stuffing is a problem with the people counting the votes/running the polls, not the voters. So it would be more accurate to say that the problem is pre…
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Comment #20595328
This page has a good overview: http://www.tsusinvasives.org/home/database/paulownia-tomento... >...its ability to sprout prolifically from adventitious buds on stems and roots allo…
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Comment #20588657
If I pay $100 for a product to listen to my vocal queries and respond, and you listen to improve the product's ability to respond, fine. If you use it to track subsonic audio water…
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Comment #20585819
This actually seems like a really interesting problem to me. I don't think there's one pretty solution here. You'd have to break it down a bit. - Do the patients go to the machine,…
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Comment #20576306
It's called dead code elimination/optimization and compilers can do it without LTO, with LTO you can can get more savings but ymmv.
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Comment #20569891
The fourth amendment covers search and seizure by the government, not the willful disclosure of information to a company by a user. But I get what you mean. Even without getting in…
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Comment #20569610
As a user, there's absolutely no way I'm going to give you a real name and email address if you roll your own authentication. I probably won't use your service at all.