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Comment · 5 years ago
Absolutely absurd take from Google here. What could they be thinking? It's like they want app store legislation.
Comment · 5 years ago
Use of ORMs is often a performance choke point. Raw DB queries are often much, much faster. Almost always, the more you abstract, the worse you perform. It's great as a developer but not so great as a user.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is relevant in my field (Waste Management) as there's the long ton, the short ton, and long and short hundredweight (CWT). All different and confusing!
Comment · 5 years ago
It makes clear in the memo, this is FRL (Oculus), not Facebook as a whole.
Comment · 6 years ago
Generally the rule is that if it's hard, you can cut it off, because the mold will have only spread on the surface (think moldy cheddar cheese rind), but if it's soft, throw it out (think blue cheese).
Comment · 6 years ago
I love this idea as a rework of github sponsors.
Comment · 6 years ago
...in a lab. I wish battery articles would include in the title whether they are commercialized or just achieved in ideal conditions.
Comment · 6 years ago
knockd is pretty easy to setup and use. I used it in a security lab class in college in the late 2000s and nobody could figure out why we didn't have any open ports!
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm impressed with what they've been able to do, and happy to see that they're developing in-house. When I was an intern there in the mid-2000's they were still working on fly-by-wire and most (all?) of their programming was done by a separate company.
Comment · 8 years ago
"An experimenter blew bubbles to distract them." Wasn't expecting my daily does of cute in this Autism study's abstract, but got it anyway.
Comment · 9 years ago
At what point do we no longer trust public key cryptography (RSA)? Where's the break point?

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