LeifCarrotson

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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
The important part is the segmentation of inflation between the whole economy (consumer goods, industry, and also the basics) and the price of just the basics: housing, health care, transportation, education. If those basics were the basket
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
The tricky thing about protocols is that you have to be willing to follow them and deal with the consequences when you step off the normal path through the flowchart. If the protocol says "(1) Check out tools before using them. (2) Che
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
It ends up being mandatory if you're sharing a non-MIMO link with other systems that are using large packets.
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I think you're underestimating the harsh nature of the ocean. Few things last for a decade on the ocean without frequent maintenance, high up-front costs, or both - and often not even then. There's very little intersection between
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
> Normally, damaged or sunken ships remain the property of their owners, who are responsible for securing a solution... Sounds like that was written on behalf of public companies who imagined they'd always want to assert their owner
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I can believe that there are corporate legacy apps might look bad on 4k - you might not even be able to do a naive 1:4 upscale if it's forced to be full-screen. But I wouldn't optimize my display experience for that. However, I&#x
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
They're not all gorgeous - 1080p displays with pretty poor color gamut are the default, and they still offer comically bad 1366x768 options for a base model. But some models do have 2560x1440 IPS glossy, 3480x2160 IPS anti-glare, or 3
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
If they're not fluent in the same abbreviations but have decent English-as-a-second-language skills, they can read Rosalyn style code but not 2-letter abbreviations. Heck, I can't even read my own 2-letter abbreviations a year lat
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Why not just write out ProgramCounter, StackPointer, Accumulator, InputFileDescriptor etc? It doesn't take significantly longer to type. It's faster to read because you can recognize the shape of those words and don't have to
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
You're missing my point completely. When the complex system of people and laws and org charts and incentives and procedures that is the organism known as Google makes a decision, whether or not a particular decision is virtuous or not
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
"A few lawsuits" is an so much an understatement that it might as well be a lie. You'd need one out of every few (13.75) people in the USA to successfully bring a $5k lawsuit against Google to reduce them from highly profitab
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
The compressed representation requires 44 TB of disk space. Assuming the author has a typical home internet connection with about 5 Mbps upload rate, the transfer would take 2 years longer than it took to actually run the calculation in the
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
You start on a Friday, forego sleep and responsibilities, and let your weekend couple-of-days spill into a Monday with a brief distracted work day and the early hours of Tuesday.
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I think you're being sarcastic? But I also think the article genuinely believes that's true. In 50 years there will be C programmers who know how to fix a buffer overflow, compile, and run your program. Conversely, a program writt
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
After reading your comment, I was curious what your photograph might have looked like and where Dubbo was. A moment later, I had selected, searched for, and been presented with images of and articles about Dubbo. I gave them a brief, bored
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
This applies to lossy communication with or without feedback and with or without a server. Feedback is just another layer of confirmation messages. If the server is up and sends a confirmation message to one side, but the other side disconn
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Revenue comes from shipping a product, right? If you have no product, you're guaranteed to run out of money.
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
No, I don't think it takes only engineers to run a good phone company. I dispute, however, that it takes mostly administration. And my concern seems to be validated by the outcome - they failed to build and ship the phone. They hav
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
That's an interesting team page. They have, by my count, 20 engineers total, and 45 other employees in categories like administration, business, sales, finance, leadership, marketing, operations, management, and other positions that do
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
The question is whether the problem is one of insufficient engineering optimization or whether it requires a step-function in technology that does not exist now. It appears to me that self-driving cars are of the former type, while flying c
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I design industrial automation equipment and have much the same feelings about those devices. I've programmed robot cells, with redundant software and hardware safety systems. I've run through the checklists to make sure the opera
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
It's quite trivial to get the source from a C# exe file in the same way as a decompiler makes it trivial to get the source from a C++ exe file. Obfuscators are common if you're concerned about the symbols leaking. If you don'
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
My math says they're already over 1000 PB/1 EB: 1,089,318 = 4 * 2852 + 4 * 12746 + 8 * 1000 + 12 * 1560 + 12 * 10859 + 4 * 19211 + 6 * 886 + 8 * 9809 + 8 * 14447 + 10 * 1200 + 12 * 37004 + 12 * 7215 + 4 * 99 + 14 * 3619 Don't
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Interesting how the numbers carry over year-to-year in https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bl... Some models are dwindling. Some are being tested. Others (like the Seagate and
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Your flagged comment can't be read by anyone but you and the moderators: https://i.imgur.com/L7tL23M.png
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
The people buying the goods may be happy with the exchange, but it's inauthentic/dishonest. I don't think they'd be as happy buying "Lookalike cheap boardshorts from husk of surf company", as evidenced by the f
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
They sell something that feels like a free, unrestricted, perpetual license to use the services "that come with the car". But when you buy a car it's natural to think that it's yours in full, as much as a banana you t
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I agree. There's a big difference between a long, flowing formal gown and cocktail casual women's clothing. If the Gitlab women showed up in the former they'd look and feel out of place, just like if a man showed up in a tux
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
This won't break existing code. It will break new, good code that gets back-ported from eg. a 3.7 tutorial to a 3.5 environment, without any syntax errors. > Changed in version 3.7: LIFO order is now guaranteed. In prior versions,
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by LeifCarrotson 7y ago
It's more nefarious and subtle than that. The trick is that you first get popular among actual surfers. That's a tiny population, the population doesn't like to spend money, it takes expensive R&D, expensive materials, di

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