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by 16bytes 5y ago
That's the first thing that came to mind as well, and Stack Overflow definitely operates at scale, but OP asked for people doing distributed systems. SO is famously monolithic, famously operating from just a handful of machines.
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by 16bytes 5y ago
I'm also really skeptical that one could maintain 1K/lines per day for more than a couple weeks if that. There have been a lot of studies that measure average output of new code at only ~15 or so LOC/day. One can manage more
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by 16bytes 5y ago
Hi Richard, This is neat work. Regarding the extension requirement, you state that you believe that it's impossible to compete without the convenience of navbar search, aka against Google/Chrome. You may be right, but this threa
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by 16bytes 5y ago
I strongly second not gating the service. Honestly, I laughed and closed the tab when I saw that I had to install an extension. Furthermore, literally drawing a search-box and then having it not actually perform a search is a dark-pattern.
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by 16bytes 5y ago
I don't understand what exactly this rename/rebrand entails. Is it restructuring FB like Google became Alphabet? So, under the "Meta" umbrella, you have all of the individual FB assets, and www.facebook.com just becomes
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by 16bytes 5y ago
A better estimate of fully loaded cost is $350K. That's still a boatload of people if you take your simple estimate, but companies don't spend 100% of revenue on people. Mozilla foundation has about 650 people which gives it a re
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by 16bytes 5y ago
What's your definition of long term? mRNA vaccines are built on science started 30 years ago, are being made by companies founded to make mRNA vaccines 10+ years ago, and have been to numerous trials for many years now. The current se
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by 16bytes 5y ago
I had the same issue on my screens in that the body font size was too small to read comfortably. I tried a few different CSS modifications, but it seems like that particular font just doesn't perform well on a wide variety of screens.
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by 16bytes 5y ago
As others here have pointed out, the goal shouldn't be to replace radiologists, but to enhance their capabilities. That is to say, pair human judgement with AI. It may not be as good as two humans making a judgement call, but it'
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by 16bytes 5y ago
IIRC, the early consensus wasn't that they were useless, it's that there was no RCT that said they were effective. That's a big difference. Our understanding now is different. If this was Sen. Paul's only statement--th
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by 16bytes 5y ago
Sure, it's a valid area of discussion. There are valid ways to critique the effectiveness of masks. To say, however, that: "Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. That's because the virus particles can go ri
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by 16bytes 5y ago
I would frame it as, your current dev env is your specific laptop, and codespaces requires any laptop. It's certainly reasonable to think that a SaaS can approach availability time of a single piece of hardware. Furthermore, it appea
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by 16bytes 5y ago
They technically can, but then you'd have those satellites spend a ton of their time over nearly unpopulated areas doing nothing. If you instead launch at about a 60 degrees inclination, you spend all of your time between N60 latitude
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by 16bytes 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm > How do they measure such things? By have a sophisticated surveillance network and testing people. To quote from the above page, there have been 931,726 specimens coll
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by 16bytes 5y ago
While that's true, during Apollo 10 didn't the LEM and CM stay on the same side of the Moon? The "loneliest" anecdote is based on how far away Michael Collins was from the next closest people. Since the LEM was on the o
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by 16bytes 5y ago
It's great to see that I'm not the only one with this opinion. As an engineer who consumed design work from figma, I hate it. * Slow is an understatement. And huge. Like 100Mb to start working on a medium size design (~20 frames?
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by 16bytes 5y ago
For those confused, this acquisition is due in large part by Nuance's dominance in healthcare related products. From Nuance's last earnings release[1]: “We are very pleased with the strong start to the fiscal year, as we delivere
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by 16bytes 6y ago
Instead of relying on ignorance to push your agenda, you could frame that paragraph against what search engines were doing at the time, how Google was doing something different, and what Google still is transparent about today [1][2]. Publi
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by 16bytes 6y ago
You underestimate the complexity here by orders of magnitudes. You also overestimate the usefulness to news companies. You underestimate the harm that bad actors can take. The search algorithm tells you the order of search results for a p
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by 16bytes 6y ago
The point is that logistics are hard. Even if you have an "extras" list, there will be odd circumstances where you're forced to pivot. > we had a year for preparing for this... I hear this argument a lot. Health offici
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by 16bytes 6y ago
AFAIK, this is a hearing for a preliminary injunction, not the actual trial itself. That means that saying, "Well, other people do it too" is exactly what a judge should be examining at this point. There was a T&C contract,
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by 16bytes 6y ago
I'm highly skeptical of the lower ranges. Typically, a professional bass has a range down to around C2, and can hit a loud E2. There are some exceptionally low voices, especially in Russian choirs[1] that routinely hit B1s, maybe ev
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by 16bytes 6y ago
For printing the codes? The programmer in me says something like: "Error: 0xC0000005 - STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION - (Error, Microsoft defined, unreserved) Error: This is an internal error that prevented normal operation of the applicatio
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by 16bytes 6y ago
I would've expected a DLL load error to be ACCESS_DENIED instead of ACCESS_VIOLATION because the path for the DLL goes through a system call to open the file. ACCESS_VIOLATION would be more like dereferencing a null pointer, but it&#x2
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by 16bytes 6y ago
I still don't understand why Microsoft doesn't print human readable error code instead of just "0xc0000005". To figure out what the actual message is, you first have to figure out if you are seeing a HRESULT or a NTSTATU
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As one who has traveled to rural India and experienced the culture shock, I can still say that India and the US are more similar than India and China. The systems of government, economic engines, individualism vs. collectivism are all well-
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by 16bytes 6y ago
DP is used in many large-scale production systems. For example, Google used it in their COVID-19 mobility reports [1]. Also, there are implementations of DP that do not rely on limiting queries. Lastly, most companies aren't "hi
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I'd be OK with non-competes if the departing company had to pay 150% of salary during the non-compete duration if they elected to invoke the non-compete. In contract law, this is known as "consideration". California has deci
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by 16bytes 6y ago
This line of reasoning isn't new and has been used numerous times historically to disenfranchise, prohibit or otherwise block "undesirable" groups of people. To answer the question, yes. You absolutely want every single eligi
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by 16bytes 6y ago
Both sides in this thread could have improved communication. E.g. instead of saying LMGIFY, the response could have said that a creative is the thing that is the audio, text, picture or video part of an advertisement. Or as M-W puts it, &q

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