OldManAndTheCpp

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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
China has many people: a large number of tourists for Cambridge MA, but only a few percent of Chinese citizens knowing about MIT are compatible facts.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
This seems to be an argument that one scheduling system is worse than the previous. However, one of the major objectives of a scheduling system is to reduce cost, which this seems to have done. What is the downside?
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
>> they’re Japanese so they’re good at building infrastructure This argument strays into racism, or a circular argument. Either the Japanese are uniquely genetically capable of building public goods cheaply, or their continued success
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
Because the services offered after getting onto the public cloud are better than the internal ones, more transparently priced, and cheaper.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
I don’t see a reason the landlord should care about eating with your hands, it doesn’t affect the state of the apartment.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
And you also get some benefits: enough internal bandwidth to allow every input port to cut through at line rate, and a single buffer to prevent starvation (the tomahawk chip has 4 groups of ports, each with a separate buffer). Also, you can
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
This is a joke: the parent commenter is talking about fingerprints on your hands, not browser fingerprinting.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
I don't understand why you went back to using a scooter, if you were so clearly able to diagnose the dangers, and had one fairly severe injury. Why not switch to a commuter bike (the ~1 ft wheel foldable ones)? Also, separate question,
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
A time traveling radio does seem pretty novel, to be fair.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
He is known for his articles about the financial industry, written with clarity and humor.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
I’m a believer in China dominance in the coming decades. However, painting the West’s ability to heap “unequal treaties” on China cannot reasonably be described as a function of finding and conquering the new word. Firstly: the major conque
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
The US did acknowledge this: the Marshall Plan was clearly an effort by the US to dually resore the homeland of many Americans and to bind the broken or beaten powers closely to the US. The term “Greatest Generation” is a bit passé, but the
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
In order to show that the engines are wastefully large, you first have to show how a smaller engine provides better fuel efficiency over the 95% range, and then show how the remaining 5% is unimportant. For example, if the big engine is 5%
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
NileRed mentions this as a shout out to AvE. I recommend both: AvE has a fantastically interesting folksy veneer hiding deep experience (a joy to watch). NileRed has a much more polished style, although both are working out of garages. To s
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by OldManAndTheCpp 8y ago
It is not obvious that this is satire. Mr Hipp (main contributor) links his homepage at http://www.hwaci.com/drh/ . From that page, he links his wife (Mrs. Wyrick): http://www.hwaci.com/ggw/index.ht