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I wish that this is how it worked. The sidewalk was in 'significant disrepair' and any repairs/replacements have to be ADA compliant: https://www.sfpublicworks.org/services/permits/sidewalk-repa...

Unfortunately $100K is not that much in the Bay Area. I had to spend $50K total 10 years ago to make my side walk ADA compliant (as it is front of a bus stop) when I bought my place in SF. They would not issue any further building permits otherwise. And that was a fairly simple job without any stairs.

I used to work for Be in Menlo Park in a previous life and I can confirm that the code base quality would have made for a very bad outcome for Apple. Security was the least of the numerous serious issues. That said BeOS somewhat still exists in spirit as a lot of folks from Be went to build/contribute to Android.

I believe a lot of it can be attributed to shopping behavior. For instance I personally never "Sort by: Price: Low to High"; you are almost guaranteed to end up with a fake product at the top. What's more subtle is that when I watch other people (as part of a group project) order stuff on Amazon they seem to not pick up clues about the quality of the product. They purely focus on title, picture and of course price.

Desktop performance my behind. What's the point of all that CPU power when IO performance remains in mid 2000s territory? It takes forever to boot, any time disk access occurs everything crawls to a halt. M.2 has been around for 5+ years now and would have easily fit on this design in its short length form factor.

No datasheet for the SoC either. Again.

There are vastly better SBCs out there.

Most aluminum packaging has plastic liner. Which has to be burned away in most cases.

Glass works if you bottle and reuse locally. Unfortunately infrastructure for this is long gone in the US.

Why would Apple care about how DirectX is doing? They support 'Standards' and 'Open Source' to the extent that it benefits them and that's it.

Vulkan is not designed to be used by game developers directly but rather as a basis for games engines like Unreal or Unity. So I don't see how game developers would benefit from its widespread support as the majority of game developers will never have to deal with it directly.

That said Vulkan is an unmitigated disaster, though less so than classic OpenGL. Any API which fiddles with void* in 2019 should be put right back in a box. Security is mentioned exactly twice in the entire spec. Type-safety is mentioned twice also. And that is in a spec which is 900 pages long and incredibly complex.

Great and now I have to also track security updates and ship those for all my dependencies. libcurl is a great example with a release cycle of 2(!) months and tons of vulnerabilities being fixed each time.

Guinness is usually 25/75 (CO2/N2).

"Solar panels create mountains of waste, much of it being disassembled by kids in Africa who then get sick because of it."

Source? Electronics associated with solar panels might be an issue but modern inverters use less and less toxic elements (and are definitely RoHS compliant).

As for solar panels themselves, 99% by weight consists of glass (75%), plastics (10%), aluminum (9%) and silicon (5%) which can all be recycled.

I could see an IT department using these (misguidedly) for purely internal purposes: .cam .camera .coop .drive .equipment .institute .media .network .systems .wiki. These are now registered TLDs. You are begging for someone to misconfigure something if you use trivial TLD names internally.

Recently build a (close to) NUC size box for an arcade cabinet:

- Morex 557 Universal Mini-ITX Case

- Mini Box PicoPSU-150-XT 12V

- ASRock Mini-ITX Motherboard - AB350 GAMING-ITX/AC

- AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

- Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 low-profile

- 12V/10A power supply with a 5mmx2.5mm plug

- your choice of DDR4 and M.2 SSD

Amazing performance to say the least, the GPU makes a huge difference.

HPV could be considered transmittable cancer. Some types of cancer only occur because of an HPV infection.

I hear this argument a lot in the EE community. Yet, the cheapest 8051 part in single quantities on DigiKey: $0.43. Cheapest ARM Cortex-M0 part on DigiKey: $0.47. I'll take the ease of development and features on ARM for $0.05. You can develop without proprietary development environments. I do my development with a basic gcc+make setup.

Of course you can pick up old parts which fell off a truck for cheaper but I'd rather not do that when I depend on these parts for many years to come.

Failure to handle NTSC frame rates is exactly why no one uses a time definition like this. ISO/MP4 gets it right: Using a time scale with sample durations. If you work with tracks or files with different time scales you just use the smallest common multiple of those to become your working time scale. Works every time, even for NTSC frame rates.

For instance for a file with 48Khz sound and 30000/1001 (29.97...) frame rate you would convert to a time scale of 48048000. Worst case would be mixing 48Khz, 44.1Khz and NTSC video: 1009008000.

It's being reverse engineered as we speak. Great CCC talk from a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5kucyhKFc

It's the other way around. A deflationary economy forces the feds to lower interest rates to encourage lending. We've had record breaking low inflation rates for a decade now. A 'healthy' inflation rate would be in the 3.5-4.0% range. Yes, money is supposed to lose value. If it did not no one would spend.

That's what the keyword volatile is for. If something is not marked volatile the compiler is allowed to change the order and collapse any memory accesses it deems unnecessary.

The author has clearly never worked on a non-trivial mobile project. Today, more so than ever, the two mobile platforms differ so drastically in APIs, user experience and design that anyone seriously considering writing mobile apps will have to do so using two different code bases if they want to have a remotely usable app.

Portable frameworks might have a place where you target extremely simple like forms based stuff. But even then I would personally never deliver something like that to customers. I guess we all have different standards when it comes to quality.

"A revamp of the language is already in the works". Of Javascript? Haha, that is hilarious. Progress on ECMAScript has been a such boondogle in regards to politics, glacial adoption rate of new features and other general fuck ups that we will unlikely see something even close to a modern language in our lifetimes. But, you know Linux on the desktop will take over the world anytime now, won't it?