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That's terrifying. What agency was this?

I imagine it’s a lot easier to integrate your storage service with devices when you have the freedom to change the storage APIs on said devices as you see fit

Whoops, I totally ignored the trajectory aspect and was just thinking both would be affected by the rate of rotation of the earth

Is that not also true of the plane's projection onto the Earth's surface?

+1. I've fallen in love with NYC over the past few years in no small part due to the transit system working well enough for me to explore all around it comfortably.

Interestingly enough, as you'll learn in that episode, the push for automobile safety was inspired by innovations in airplane safety!

I’ve never really heard a claim like this. What regulations lead to higher prescription drug costs and higher healthcare costs generally?

Sure, but how do you find a project like that to enter at a useful stage? I feel like with the Panama Papers, any semi-public plea for help sorting through that data would have thwarted the journalists

I’ve used Flywheel (https://flywaydb.org/) for this exact problem on personal projects before and been fairly happy with it. It’s intended for use in JVM-based projects, but ships with a CLI that gets you a long way.

Are most of the images failing to load for anyone else? It's a delightful post, but so much of it refers to the images that I feel like I'm missing a lot

> The infiltration of the ivy league by the CIA

What does this even mean? I can't imagine many more wasteful uses of government revenue than approaching dull undergraduates and coercing them into starting clandestine programs that prey on their peers.

I'm pretty out of the loop here. Are there existing, widely used workloads that are critical for storage for which FPGAs are competitive with CPUs?

When it works, it's great, and in spite of so-called "statistics" to the contrary, it works pretty reliably for me during rush hour.

psst, your personal website is returning a 502

This might vary from OS to OS, but at least for many Unix-based systems, everything running in a kernel context shares the same address space, so shared libraries aren't that relevant. Shared libraries for user processes are still desirable for a variety of reasons (memory usage, not needing to reload shared libs into the cache after a context switch).

I feel like that'd be a lot more than just interesting

Does your username reference the incident somehow?

I don’t think the article made a value judgement about price protections

Right, and that's why zoning boards should stop your neighbors from building poultry farms in their backyards.

That's kind of the point of zoning. If you didn't know what people are allowed to build when you bought your condo, I don't know what to tell you.

That's such a weird arrangement from a people perspective, but if that works out, it bodes pretty well for the longevity of Java

> Build OpenJDK yourself. [...] I suspect this not a very realistic choice for most companies.

Are they saying that most firms don't have the ability to build software themselves, or is this a situation particular to Java where they don't backport security patches and most firms aren't on the latest major?

They do enforce it. My office is on one of the major feeders to the Holland Tunnel (Broome/Watts Street), so it gets extremely congested everyday from 4 to 6. Every light cycle, several cars block the box, and a small team of traffic cops sprints out from their hiding spot around the corner, ready to write tickets. I think it's just a matter of scaling that tactic out to other intersections where traffic comes to a complete stop for twenty seconds at a time, allowing cops to give and explain tickets in the intersection without disrupting the flow of traffic.

That construction is so weird that I'm going to assume it was a typo and that they meant "tens or hundreds"

I guess the question is: do we trust any operator to know the specificities and limitations? I for one wouldn't trust Joe Cop to use something like this with the degree of discretion or understanding of statistical nuance called for here.

Ouch, that other benefit of narrowcasting (the relative secrecy of it) didn't really click with me until now.

Huge public tech companies with strong revenue: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google

My understanding was that WoW would do essentially what's described here for the player's character and entities in the immediate area (simulate them for the next few frames), but the server also maintained a view of the world. The client would occasionally sync with the server, and that's when you would see the blinks.

If you're curious, this[0] is an actively maintained implementation of a WoW server.

[0] https://github.com/mangoszero/server

Ah yep, that makes sense. I wasn't thinking in terms of what had to happen for actual gameplay, just simulation state.

> Part of the difficulty was conceptual -- programmers were not used to having to write code that used the same number of calls to random within the simulation

Can anyone grok this? I can't see why this (each player's simulation making the same number of calls to random) would ever not be the case if all players are running the same patch of the game and are executing the same commands.