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by CountSessine 4y ago
Certainty. The CCP has (right or wrong) declared that Taiwan is an inviolable part of China and a rogue province. That means that if Taiwan were to declare independence and succeed, it would be a signal failure for the CCP - a gross loss of
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by CountSessine 4y ago
As a non-USian, SF actually makes a lot of sense to me now.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Ah - I see. Yeah, raw performance was (and is) really an enabling feature with gfx chips.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
My mate says that “if they built bridges like we built IT infrastructure a lot more people would die”. If people regularly died because of IT infrastructure, we'd be regulated and licensed like civil engineers and we certainly wouldn
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by CountSessine 4y ago
You sent it triangles with aRGB color, and it interpolated and rasterized them. Dat's it. Total dud compared to Voodoo 3DFx or ATI Rage3D I don't get it - that was what all gfx chips were before shaders came along. That's n
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by CountSessine 4y ago
- Are you willing to hire lawyers or approach lawyers? - Yes: - Xiaomi sells products outside of China, both through their own website and through Amazon and Walmart. Sue retailers who carry Xiaomi products and sell them in the US
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by CountSessine 4y ago
I'd bet that this is the difference between having good middle managers and not. If you have confidence in your directors and middle managers, you can target the C players. If not, then you can't and you'll wind up shedding B
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by CountSessine 4y ago
I could see a scenario where voluntary attrition helps them get reduce size more organically and with lower cost than a layoff This is a terrible idea, though. It's always the desirable employees that have options that leave an envir
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by CountSessine 4y ago
This is consistent with my bias that FAANG salaries are where they are to discourage developers from accepting equity stakes at start-ups that could eventually disrupt the FAANG companies - that these salaries exist to starve the start-up e
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by CountSessine 4y ago
One thing to understand about CMake is that it's a bit like C++ - it had a terrible beginning (C, C++98), improved a lot in later versions, but can never really leave it's troubled past behind. CMake 2.x and earlier weren't r
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Give companies a subsidy So we give existing house owners a subsidy by creating artificial housing scarcity, and then we give companies a subsidy to fix the house owner subsidy by starting new towns? Who pays for this? Productive young pe
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by CountSessine 4y ago
…and Microsoft and Apple if your endpoints include Windows, IOS or MacOS. All of those have 3rd party drivers but I don’t think any of them come with SCTP support out of the box.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
What it really means is that they like using it when it’s free and that the cost of switching away from Babel to an alternative is less than the cost of supporting Babel.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Yes. An NaN in IEEE754 has all 1’s in the exponent, and then the high bit of the mantissa determines whether it’s quiet or signalling, but then rest of the mantissa is/can be a “payload”.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
That’s neat - Borland C had the same thing with the `emit()` pseudo-function with their C89 compiler. I guess Borland’s compiler writers wanted it more than gcc’s?
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Yes - especially if they can do this in a way that still makes them money but is expensive and burdensome to comply with. That would keep them in the game but seal the market off to potential competitors.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
In theory this could be handled by stuffing the extra 96 bits in an IP extension header. But this solves nothing because then any switch that isn’t IPv4+ aware will route packets incorrectly. Literally every single switch on the internet ne
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by CountSessine 4y ago
What metric would you use? Daily impressions? Those seem to be up. Posts? Also up. Impressions, posts, and status codes are the measure of success (status codes of course being a proxy for earnings as well as operations given that if they g
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Yes exactly - and the US dollar plunged afterward and sank most of those investments. Trading goods for capital investment isn’t the one-sided trade it appears to be.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
What is it then? That seems like the best description to me.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
522368 excess deaths in the US in 2020 suggests otherwise.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Again - is the pay really all that great, when the job market for devs is actually really quite good? When you could get a new job in really short order? Why would anyone put up with this nonsense? Or are we talking about the non-devs here?
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by CountSessine 4y ago
This is perhaps an unintentionally ironic comment because the only languages that have any business at all being 1-based are MATLAB, Fortran, and Julia because they’re used to directly translate math notation which for series, sequences, an
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Ask and ye shall receive: Biogen annual net income for the year ending... 2010-June-30: $1094M 2011-June-30: $1076M 2012-June-30: $1342M 2013-June-30: $1608M 2014-June-30: $2140M 2015-June-30: $3490M Also, because someone asked, edgar has a
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Their net income for 2021 was $1058M on about $10B of revenue, so this mostly wipes out 1 year of profits. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by CountSessine 4y ago
The Emotion Engine was very much the CPU+VPU of the PS2, not the GPU. The GPU was referred to as the GS or Graphics Synthesizer. I still had all the tech manuals for the PS2 lying around on my bookshelf until a couple of years ago. Can’t ho
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Thanks for this. My first suspicion was that it had something to do with crypto.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
I think any language that has the concept of storage classes will be complicated because you have to deal with copy versus move vs borrow semantics. Other languages get around this by just saying that primitives are on the frame and everyth
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Diet is an HN magnet for bike-shedding and anecdotes.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
This is the very definition of enterprise software - the people who buy it are not the same people who use it.

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