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garmaine
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
He said they were going to break down the door. Police in the US will never do that without guns drawn. Maybe he was confused about the exact circumstances though.
garmaine
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> Do you think it a coïncidence that most spy satellites are launched from Vandenberg?

That's the only place you can launch a polar mission over ocean from the continental United States.
garmaine
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
So? Why should "my son hasn't answered his phone" escalate to an armed response?
garmaine
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
TFA. Although I think they’re wrong on this account. It doesn’t matter that the stock was worth more mere months later when the cashed their investment checks.

But what is an issue is the self-dealing of buying shares in a company he holds a major role in the management of.
garmaine
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Most of a wind turbine is concrete and fiberglass, which doesn’t recycle very well.
garmaine
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
That would undo the entire point of it, no?
garmaine
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
She’s the one I was alluding to.
garmaine
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
What I mean is that they were hired based on their acting CV and auditions. It turns out that a very small number of mostly minor actors had some run in with the law in their youth, and there is one actor who had been selling drugs decades before. This story got media play when The Wire was on TV and people thought that the producers had gone out and hired actual gang members for the cast. This isn’t true. They went through the usual screen actors guild and casting process. The iconic characters people remember are mostly stage actors, and not from Baltimore (two of the main characters are British).
garmaine
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> The actors -- many of whom are actual former gang members, police officers, judges, politicians, teachers, etc. from the city Baltimore

This is a persistent myth. They were all professional actors.
garmaine
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Our elementary school is 5 hours of Webex meetings daily. There are breaks scattered in between, but it is grueling. My 4th grader can barely manage it, but my 1st grader can’t sit still that long.

Edit: Why is something like this downvoted? I didn’t state anything other than my relevant direct experience.
garmaine
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> Yea, but you wont buy a Mac just to run Omnifocus.

I did.
garmaine
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I don’t use Chrome. Never have, never will. Why do you?
garmaine
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Sorry, I read "order of magnitude more efficient" and was confused.
garmaine
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
...why? That's not at all obvious.
garmaine
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
No. In this context it simply means "network-standard." And the standard has always been big endian for network applications. Not because of any advantage, but simply because that was the standard.
garmaine
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Well that, and the fact that it actually says “Advertisement.”
garmaine
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It’s called a “weak ordering memory model.” Synchronization requires explicit memory fence instructions.

RISC-V, btw, supports both weak and strong memory models as an implementation choice.
garmaine
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Many ARM chips have this.