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LoSboccacc
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LoSboccacc
6y ago
I agree against microservices where they aren't in real need, and that a single database can go along way if well designed, since ram today is abundant everywhere and stuff like moving indexes on dedicated disks with dedicated iops is
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6y ago
because they have something tangible on their books producing value: the line for the cars. without the self driving vertical promises, uber is a middleman with a booking app, and they're one squeeze away from tesla or waymo into irrel
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6y ago
It's inevitable, the player distribution isn't uniform and as you move forward the gradient steepens. Most sbmm as they call them suffers from oscillations, even games with a large player base, where you'd think there's
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6y ago
> google is just arbitrarily deciding what they want the web stack to look like well yes they do try but not arbitrarily, with them running as much infra they do and margin being as they are, a bit here and there on the stack can dramat
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6y ago
there's still one area where it kind of mitigates another issue, which is making sure fonts are on the client by the time text is visible, idk what's the status now but last time I checked, admittedly more than a year ago, there w
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6y ago
> It just peacefully and gently starves to death? they know damn well and are already diversifying their portfolio; beside, even if we stop burning these fuels, fossil based carbon polymer will be with us for a while until vegetable alte
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6y ago
the 2 and 5 year average are interesting too, because another important matter for a age-skewed disease is how much it impacted life expectancy
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6y ago
> software engineering hasn't killed enough people to advance and where it had, you get pretty serious control and certification process put in place to avoid it (Boeing notwithstanding)
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6y ago
I know. but that's not an excuse to pass or accept a wrong information ("y only cost x to me in this country") as correct.
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6y ago
I didn't try to pass a moral judgment on the issue and I like the socialized system we have, for the most part. but confronting cost without taxes is trite and tiresome. I'm going to pay north of 150k eur to subsidize healthcare t
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6y ago
in Italy it costs to me about 300eur every month for work life to potentially have partial coverage at some point in the future if something happens. I suspect your 3000 cost is skimping on a lot of taxes that are subsidizing the actual
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6y ago
important to notice this is not the medical bills they showing, but the claim rejection, and the claim rejection is "we require additional information" we don't know what information was on the claim, but judging but the long
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6y ago
...and other common, unsurprising results from the power law distribution
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6y ago
quite many startup exist to capture vc capital, not market share
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6y ago
well yeah anything you can do with NN you can do chaining enough functions what NN allows is to test millions of permutations of thousands these functions to find the one that works if your problem is intractably hard to figure out function
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6y ago
...and then he decided to put his name in small caps under the ligature article, and that one isn't a link.
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6y ago
Apple literally solved their production chain suicide issues by installing nets to catch jumpers, which made the rounds across media https://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-joelinchina/ I didn't see people ditc
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6y ago
then again, the signature is indistinguishable from small cap and isn't a link
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6y ago
“ligatures in programming fonts are a terrible idea” I agree as well with the point about ligatures, but I find funny that the advice comes from a site that thinks straight up normal text with no hover, no distinct color, no distinct font a
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6y ago
> vastly more preferable to a false negative depending from the POV. if a condition has an incidence of 0.001%, production capacity of test kits will probably be geared to that. if you suddenly have 0.01% false positives, you're out
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6y ago
...and other common, unsurprising results from the power law distribution
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6y ago
SWT had a lot of weird cross platform quirks which were unbearable to diagnose, it's been 10+ years now so I can't recall all details, but every time I tried under the premise of the better components, as the UI got complex, there
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6y ago
yeah transmeta c1 had the same claim. turns out there's a lot more to cpu speed than executing math operations in a straight line.
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6y ago
> you will be locked out of all the services where you signed into using Google most services keep your identity even if you sign in with another authenticator, because your profile key is your email.
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6y ago
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/GDP-per-capita-ppp-selec... even disregarding the other issues with communism, the central premise is wrong: it's quite apparent that what growth centralized economy countries e
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the first point stands but the second line is not the best example, the West German economy was built on top of the Marshall Plan money, not on it's own merits.
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this wasn't that far off. for a while you could upgrade celeron to pentium soldering a connection, the r5 are r7 with cores disabled, the athlon II did the same but was easier to unlock as the extra core are turned off not from yeld bu
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6y ago
interesting how can user share data with each other?
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6y ago
Apple has missing middle _strategy_
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6y ago
> equally based on its own merits unless you have a slightly non mainstream opinion on some of the HN dearest, then you get drowned in flags irregardless of merit.
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