Even pretty ordinary cars these days can go pretty fast in a straight line. I managed to hit the rev limiter in 5th gear in a 2004 Toyota Echo (aka Vitz) on a straight flat road, which happens at about 199km/h, with the 67kW 1.3L engine. I got to about 225km/h in a 2008 Toyota Corolla Levin (aka Auris) accelerating onto a freeway before I realised how fast I was going with the 100kW 2.2L engine. Technology is a lot better than it used to be.
Firstly, they realised that they're competing largely with Chinese companies (e.g. BYD, Geely) and China has different ideas about intellectual property. Patents require you to publish, making it relatively easy to copy. They'll keep the real crown jewels as trade secrets and hope they don't lose to reverse-engineering too soon.
Secondly, if they make specifications open it may encourage an ecosystem to develop around e.g. their charger standard, cell form factor, etc. If their technology becomes a de-facto standard it helps reduce costs for them.
I've been using 10Gbps Ethernet for a decade, and 40Gbps Ethernet (effectively four bonded lanes of 10Gbps) for half a decade. 10Gbps NICs are cheap now. You can run far longer distances than USB, and switches, routers, etc. are readily available. USB3 isn't going to replace Ethernet in the datacentre any time soon.
GPL doesn't require all forks to be public. It only requires that you offer to provide source to anyone who you provided with a binary. You cant stop them from redistributing the binary/source, but that's a separate issue. It's a common misconception that GPL requires all forks to be published, but it actually isn't true.
It's not Samsung, it's good old JEDEC. The official JEDEC name for this storage interface is Universal Flash Storage, abbreviated to UFS. Initialisms are always going to be overloaded unless they're made excessively long and convoluted (hello PCMCIA). I mean, take SMBC: it's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sydney Missionary and Bible College, and (webcomic) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
At least I can carry a six-pack of beer onto a domestic flight and not show ID at any point during check-in/boarding. US is just like USSR - "papers, please" and a secret no-fly list.
Simple: multiple share classes. The VCs have a different class of shares to the employees, so in the event of a buy-out or merger they're compensated first, and whatever's left over (if anything) goes to the employee shareholders. I've seen this happen first-hand, but I was lucky enough to not have actually exercised my options. I felt sorry for the employees who'd literally bought in and lost it all.
Oh sure, UFS is better than FAT, but that's not hard to do. Just about anything's better than FAT in terms of performance and functionality. The one advantage FAT has is that it's dead simple and easy to implement. A high school student could probably implement FAT.
The BSDs kind of cheat by doing write-ahead logging for entire partitions. It's not that the filesystem supports it, it's that the OS storage layer wraps it around the filesystem. Unlike the journaling in newer incarnations of ext and HFS it protects data consistency in addition to directory structure integrity. But you can use that feature equally well with FAT or anything else on BSD.
My objection to UFS isn't just that it's old. It's that there are filesystems that are better at just about everything. XFS handles concurrent access better; directory access is a lot faster with HFS+; ZFS has data integrity features baked right in. UFS had its day, but technology has moved on. There are better filesystems for just about any application.
Yeah, UFS was a decent idea back in the '80s, but filesystems have advanced a lot since then. Find an OS with UFS support and try it out. You'll find it's slow and handles power failures poorly.
In a lot of cases Patreon doesn't host the content. People post content on YouTube, DeviantArt, their own web sites, distributed by e-mail, etc. and just collect payments via Patreon. I have a joke page on Patreon and all they host for me is that page and monthly single-sentence announcements.
Working in finance, a lot of people in this business cope by drinking coffee while their biggest problem is staying awake, then switch to alcohol. Lots of high-functioning alcoholics (I was for a few years, but weaned myself off). Plenty of people smoke weed after work or take cocaine on the weekends. Also some guys hire prostitutes to talk out their day before going home to their family. (Prostitutes are cheaper than shrinks, work at more convenient hours for you if you have a day job, and will happily listen to all your problems, offer sympathy, and not tell anyone about it. You don't even need to have sex with them, although that's an option. They may also be able to give you a massage, sing karaoke with you, and other stuff.) But in general this kind of thing happens outside the office. The vices in the office are just the caffeine and alcohol.
You're confusing options with delta 1 instruments. If someone was betting that the stock price would collapse, the easiest way to make a profit on it (i.e. requiring least initial outlay, margin and maintenance) is to buy a put option. You do that, and if the price falls below the strike price you make some money. If it doesn't fall below the strike price, you just lose the premium you paid for the option. No need to sweat bullets - you've already paid, you're not up for any other losses.
Now if you want to post a bit more margin, you can write a call option. In this case, you're paid the premium, and if the stock ends above the strike price, you pay the difference. In this case you want to hope that the premium you got when you wrote the option is going to be bigger than the difference between the stock price and the strike price at expiry. But if you're writing options without delta hedging, you're basically gambling, so if you lose you got what was coming to you.
If you want a short delta 1 instrument, the lowest initial outlay is a contract for differences (CFD). With this you get a delta 1 position, but you pay maintenance each month. The stock price needs to fall at rate faster than the maintenance you're paying on your CFD position. You're not going to be shitting bricks in this case either. You've been paying the whole time you've had your position open, and if the stock price isn't falling fast enough you just swallow the loss so far and close the position.
Actual short stock positions require an arrangement with a security lender if you want to hold them for more than a day. The lender is going to charge you maintenance on the position and require you to post margin. So as with the CFD, you'd cut your losses at some point if the stock price isn't falling as fast as you'd like.
I'm not going to try and give an overview of futures here, but as with the other delta 1 strategies there's no strike price involved. The only people who'd be shitting bricks would be people who wrote deep in-the-money calls and didn't hedge their positions. But they should've known what they were getting into.
They were on PowerPC in "the last days of the Newton" and while the DEC StrongARM was definitely amazing in MIPS/Watt, the PowerPC chips had better absolute performance, and definitely better memory bandwidth. (But yes, they completely crippled it with brain-dead designs at times, like the Performa/LC 5000 series with its half-width system buses. They'd done the same thing previously putting 16-bit memory on 32-bit 68k chips. There were a disturbing number of Macs that should've and would've performed a lot better if the system design wasn't brain-dead for cost-reduction or compatibility with old PDS/Comm Slot cards.)
What if it's not a laptop, or you don't want to flip it shut? I mean, on a Mac you can tap the power button and there's a Sleep button there, Windows can do it from the keyboard or in the menu that appears when you hit the power/standby icon in the start menu, why did the Gnome people decide to make it so unfriendly?
You're talking crap. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) organisation has a specific definition for "Open Source" and has a trademark on the term. Licenses that don't meat the OSI definition of "Open Source" are typically referred to as "source available", "shared source", or "public source" to avoid stepping on the trademark. Various services are only available to projects released under the terms of an OSI-approved Open Source license (e.g. SourceForge hosting, or free use of Coverity static analysis). Some OS distributions limit themselves to licenses that meat the OSI definition of "Open Source" so changing the license like this may limit their reach.
Rolling your own license may seem like a good idea, but it limits you later. Having done some of the work to track down contributors to get code relicensed under OSI-approved licenses and scrubbing code that coulnd't be relicensed, I can tell you it's no fun.
Yeah, I'm unimpressed with a lot of programming/CS books. The thing is, the core underlying concepts don't change even if the tools and frameworks change around them. Algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis... IMO the best introduction to software development is still Oh! Pascal! 3rd Edition (Doug Cooper).
Fuck me, you're the reincarnation of McCarthy. See kids, this is how an ideology props itself up: by spreading fear about the other ideology. Without constant fear of the other, ideologies fail. Don't play into their game.
You're asking for people to prove a negative. It's the responsibility of the person making the accusations to provide evidence of wrongdoing. Nothing ever satisfies someone asking for evidence to prove a negative.
Why does Huawei have to abide by sanctions that China isn't a party to? US law applies to the US, not the whole world. US spies all the time and treats its so-called allies with contempt. Remember the debacle over US tapping German chancellor's phone.
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JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) models are capped, but export models often aren't. If you get a grey import JDM car you'll get the limit.
Even pretty ordinary cars these days can go pretty fast in a straight line. I managed to hit the rev limiter in 5th gear in a 2004 Toyota Echo (aka Vitz) on a straight flat road, which happens at about 199km/h, with the 67kW 1.3L engine. I got to about 225km/h in a 2008 Toyota Corolla Levin (aka Auris) accelerating onto a freeway before I realised how fast I was going with the 100kW 2.2L engine. Technology is a lot better than it used to be.
There are two reasons for this:
I've been using 10Gbps Ethernet for a decade, and 40Gbps Ethernet (effectively four bonded lanes of 10Gbps) for half a decade. 10Gbps NICs are cheap now. You can run far longer distances than USB, and switches, routers, etc. are readily available. USB3 isn't going to replace Ethernet in the datacentre any time soon.
One can say the same thing about the US.
GPL doesn't require all forks to be public. It only requires that you offer to provide source to anyone who you provided with a binary. You cant stop them from redistributing the binary/source, but that's a separate issue. It's a common misconception that GPL requires all forks to be published, but it actually isn't true.
It's not Samsung, it's good old JEDEC. The official JEDEC name for this storage interface is Universal Flash Storage, abbreviated to UFS. Initialisms are always going to be overloaded unless they're made excessively long and convoluted (hello PCMCIA). I mean, take SMBC: it's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sydney Missionary and Bible College, and (webcomic) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
At least I can carry a six-pack of beer onto a domestic flight and not show ID at any point during check-in/boarding. US is just like USSR - "papers, please" and a secret no-fly list.
Simple: multiple share classes. The VCs have a different class of shares to the employees, so in the event of a buy-out or merger they're compensated first, and whatever's left over (if anything) goes to the employee shareholders. I've seen this happen first-hand, but I was lucky enough to not have actually exercised my options. I felt sorry for the employees who'd literally bought in and lost it all.
Oh sure, UFS is better than FAT, but that's not hard to do. Just about anything's better than FAT in terms of performance and functionality. The one advantage FAT has is that it's dead simple and easy to implement. A high school student could probably implement FAT.
The BSDs kind of cheat by doing write-ahead logging for entire partitions. It's not that the filesystem supports it, it's that the OS storage layer wraps it around the filesystem. Unlike the journaling in newer incarnations of ext and HFS it protects data consistency in addition to directory structure integrity. But you can use that feature equally well with FAT or anything else on BSD.
My objection to UFS isn't just that it's old. It's that there are filesystems that are better at just about everything. XFS handles concurrent access better; directory access is a lot faster with HFS+; ZFS has data integrity features baked right in. UFS had its day, but technology has moved on. There are better filesystems for just about any application.
Yeah, UFS was a decent idea back in the '80s, but filesystems have advanced a lot since then. Find an OS with UFS support and try it out. You'll find it's slow and handles power failures poorly.
In a lot of cases Patreon doesn't host the content. People post content on YouTube, DeviantArt, their own web sites, distributed by e-mail, etc. and just collect payments via Patreon. I have a joke page on Patreon and all they host for me is that page and monthly single-sentence announcements.
One place I worked had a Kenyan CFO, and he and I called each other "nigga" (I'm half Dutch, half Indian). It occasionally made other people cringe.
Working in finance, a lot of people in this business cope by drinking coffee while their biggest problem is staying awake, then switch to alcohol. Lots of high-functioning alcoholics (I was for a few years, but weaned myself off). Plenty of people smoke weed after work or take cocaine on the weekends. Also some guys hire prostitutes to talk out their day before going home to their family. (Prostitutes are cheaper than shrinks, work at more convenient hours for you if you have a day job, and will happily listen to all your problems, offer sympathy, and not tell anyone about it. You don't even need to have sex with them, although that's an option. They may also be able to give you a massage, sing karaoke with you, and other stuff.) But in general this kind of thing happens outside the office. The vices in the office are just the caffeine and alcohol.
You're confusing options with delta 1 instruments. If someone was betting that the stock price would collapse, the easiest way to make a profit on it (i.e. requiring least initial outlay, margin and maintenance) is to buy a put option. You do that, and if the price falls below the strike price you make some money. If it doesn't fall below the strike price, you just lose the premium you paid for the option. No need to sweat bullets - you've already paid, you're not up for any other losses.
Now if you want to post a bit more margin, you can write a call option. In this case, you're paid the premium, and if the stock ends above the strike price, you pay the difference. In this case you want to hope that the premium you got when you wrote the option is going to be bigger than the difference between the stock price and the strike price at expiry. But if you're writing options without delta hedging, you're basically gambling, so if you lose you got what was coming to you.
If you want a short delta 1 instrument, the lowest initial outlay is a contract for differences (CFD). With this you get a delta 1 position, but you pay maintenance each month. The stock price needs to fall at rate faster than the maintenance you're paying on your CFD position. You're not going to be shitting bricks in this case either. You've been paying the whole time you've had your position open, and if the stock price isn't falling fast enough you just swallow the loss so far and close the position.
Actual short stock positions require an arrangement with a security lender if you want to hold them for more than a day. The lender is going to charge you maintenance on the position and require you to post margin. So as with the CFD, you'd cut your losses at some point if the stock price isn't falling as fast as you'd like.
I'm not going to try and give an overview of futures here, but as with the other delta 1 strategies there's no strike price involved. The only people who'd be shitting bricks would be people who wrote deep in-the-money calls and didn't hedge their positions. But they should've known what they were getting into.
Doesn't AmEx also convert passwords to lowercase before hashing? They don't store the plaintext password - they lowercase it before hashing/verifying.
They were on PowerPC in "the last days of the Newton" and while the DEC StrongARM was definitely amazing in MIPS/Watt, the PowerPC chips had better absolute performance, and definitely better memory bandwidth. (But yes, they completely crippled it with brain-dead designs at times, like the Performa/LC 5000 series with its half-width system buses. They'd done the same thing previously putting 16-bit memory on 32-bit 68k chips. There were a disturbing number of Macs that should've and would've performed a lot better if the system design wasn't brain-dead for cost-reduction or compatibility with old PDS/Comm Slot cards.)
What if it's not a laptop, or you don't want to flip it shut? I mean, on a Mac you can tap the power button and there's a Sleep button there, Windows can do it from the keyboard or in the menu that appears when you hit the power/standby icon in the start menu, why did the Gnome people decide to make it so unfriendly?
You're talking crap. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) organisation has a specific definition for "Open Source" and has a trademark on the term. Licenses that don't meat the OSI definition of "Open Source" are typically referred to as "source available", "shared source", or "public source" to avoid stepping on the trademark. Various services are only available to projects released under the terms of an OSI-approved Open Source license (e.g. SourceForge hosting, or free use of Coverity static analysis). Some OS distributions limit themselves to licenses that meat the OSI definition of "Open Source" so changing the license like this may limit their reach.
Rolling your own license may seem like a good idea, but it limits you later. Having done some of the work to track down contributors to get code relicensed under OSI-approved licenses and scrubbing code that coulnd't be relicensed, I can tell you it's no fun.
Yeah, I'm unimpressed with a lot of programming/CS books. The thing is, the core underlying concepts don't change even if the tools and frameworks change around them. Algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis... IMO the best introduction to software development is still Oh! Pascal! 3rd Edition (Doug Cooper).
Fuck me, you're the reincarnation of McCarthy. See kids, this is how an ideology props itself up: by spreading fear about the other ideology. Without constant fear of the other, ideologies fail. Don't play into their game.
All the passengers were saved in that case. How would cameras have delivered a better outcome?
They're waiting until they have enough bandwidth on/off the planes to offer video calling at extortionate rates. It's like seat-back phones.
You're asking for people to prove a negative. It's the responsibility of the person making the accusations to provide evidence of wrongdoing. Nothing ever satisfies someone asking for evidence to prove a negative.
Why does Huawei have to abide by sanctions that China isn't a party to? US law applies to the US, not the whole world. US spies all the time and treats its so-called allies with contempt. Remember the debacle over US tapping German chancellor's phone.