Jabbles

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by Jabbles 4y ago
> if he's a boy You are, of course, implying that FGM is far, far, worse and would be unthinkable for anyone on HN?
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by Jabbles 4y ago
With 22 separate tests you have the possibility of knowing that only a subset of them fail. Knowing which fail and which pass may help you debug. In Go, in general, tests fail and continue, rather than causing the test to stop early, so you
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by Jabbles 4y ago
Here's some actual data that contradicts your hyperbole: In March 2021 the median download speed of UK home broadband connections was 50.4 Mbit/s https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/002
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by Jabbles 4y ago
> like right now when house prices fall Please specify which market you're talking about.
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by Jabbles 4y ago
Well you have to reduce them to a single bit eventually: either they get admitted or not.
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by Jabbles 4y ago
You wrote 0.005c not $0.005
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by Jabbles 4y ago
The blog post doesn't mention DeepMind. I assume that's because they exclusively use JAX? https://www.deepmind.com/blog/using-jax-to-accelerate-our-re...
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by Jabbles 4y ago
> like 0.005c/gb You're off by a factor of 100. https://www.belugacdn.com/cdn-pricing/ $5000/PB = $5/TB = 500c/TB = 0.5c/GB
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by Jabbles 4y ago
> Why not dismember the body? Why not use them for crash tests or other cadaver-driven science? Oh HN. Medical schools aren't just some kind of cadaver multiplexer, farming them out to other industries that want one for "crash
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by Jabbles 4y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096580
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by Jabbles 4y ago
It would be much easier to pick the nearest N stars and point lasers at them with a peculiar frequency that would stand out on any spectra. This random quora answer[1] suggests lasers could potentially have a spread of ~0.1 arcseconds so th
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by Jabbles 4y ago
From the article: While it says Niemann’s improvement has been “statistically extraordinary.” Chess.com noted that it hasn’t historically been involved with cheat detection for classical over-the-board chess, and it stopped short of any co
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by Jabbles 4y ago
You realise that puts have a cost that is determined by the market?
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by Jabbles 4y ago
This story from last week seems to indicate that that is not true, though it hardly makes Google look perfect! https://twitter.com/samwcyo/status/1569897392560050178 Discussed in https://news.ycombinato
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by Jabbles 4y ago
> A company spokesperson declined to comment on the specifics of how it conducted layoffs through an anti-racist/anti-oppression lens. Well I don't think there's much to discuss then... it could mean literally anything.
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by Jabbles 4y ago
"Facebook has 500+ fulltime engineers" Technically true, but seems out of date...
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by Jabbles 4y ago
> It's not grounds for arrest, though... in the US Are you sure? It's not absolutely certain. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1112/funeral-pr...
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by Jabbles 4y ago
It would be good if the post contained some data to justify its points, like a graph of loading times. Otherwise assertions like "So fast that it's faster than a static website." don't seem supportable. I would have like
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by Jabbles 4y ago
> cold fusion This isn't "cold".
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by Jabbles 4y ago
Most people have to pay for their internet connection. Gmail used to be ad-supported, but is now just a loss-leader for other Google products. Bittorrent is built on top of people's paid-for internet connections and cannot scale to any
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by Jabbles 4y ago
Another way to ask the question is how small are your projects? How many engineering-years do you put in each of them? If the cutoff is something like 10 years, what would your response be?
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by Jabbles 4y ago
> I believe it is in the tens of billions when a monarch dies (changes of money, ceremonies, etc). That doesn't sound right by an order of magnitude. The main "cost" would be the extra bank holiday, but that is difficult t
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by Jabbles 4y ago
I would like a Japanese primary school teacher to confirm that this isn't actually taught in schools there.
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by Jabbles 4y ago
Perhaps you are too concerned with women's appearance? Mountaineering comes with obvious risks, and other less obvious risks.
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by Jabbles 4y ago
It sounds like your oncall is far stricter and noisy than those I have experienced. It genuinely sounds like it is disrupting your life to a large extent. "failure is not an option" is not something I recognise, in the same way th
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by Jabbles 4y ago
But why? Why do you think oncall should be paid the same as full work? Perhaps you have a different definition of oncall than me, where you expect to be paged once or twice a week, and spend maybe an hour or so fixing it each time? Why woul
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by Jabbles 4y ago
It's not. It's ridiculous to expect to charge more than normal work for oncall. And your expectations are misplaced, as TFA shows.
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by Jabbles 4y ago
You can't just cherrypick examples and say this is typical. Even worse, you (GP) can't say this is typical without providing any examples when the most obviously relevant analogy (precendence in Go) does not support your statement
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by Jabbles 4y ago
Given that Go does not have the same syntax, you cannot claim that these are examples of "typical Rob Pike design".
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by Jabbles 4y ago
Since an undergraduate degree takes 3 years of not quite fulltime study, I imagine following Susan's list will take approximately half that long, since you will not be doing any practical classes. The key word here is _study_, not read

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