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by WJW 3y ago
Not OP, but the fact that I have an easily accessible text file on my desktop with the exact commands to run in my terminal to recompile the graphics driver when upgrading packages breaks graphics again should speak volumes. I don't re
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by WJW 3y ago
Because offshore wind can be even cheaper than onshore solar, basically. It all depends on local grid conditions of course.
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by WJW 3y ago
> Our mitigation requires minimal kernel changes (i.e., 2 LoC) and incurs only ≈5% geomean performance overhead on LMBench. 5 percent is not nothing but seems like a worthwhile investment here. Really cool exploit strategy btw.
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by WJW 3y ago
I find it incredible how much design room there is in GC research and how much is as yet unexplored. In my opinion, GC (and relatedly, event loop scheduling) are often way too integrated in a language runtime. I would love seeing this becom
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by WJW 3y ago
Meh. People still do athletics competitions even though cars exist and can outpace any human. Weightlifting is also still a thing even though even an entry-level forklift beats any human weightlifter. Chess is more popular than ever before,
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by WJW 3y ago
Note: this is only for charged particles such as happen in solar flares, and only in space. Your personal shield against bullets and the like is still impossible, sadly.
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by WJW 3y ago
Of course, cost goes up linearly with mass and thus cubed with `r`. Mars missions are expensive enough as it is without making the launch vehicle much bigger than required for the mission.
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by WJW 3y ago
Many fictional titles explain very little if you have not already read the work. Take "lord of the rings" for example, or "Anna Karenina", or even "the Bible". "Flowers for Algernon" is a fine, memora
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by WJW 3y ago
In 1951, when Turkey joined NATO, the country was not actually all that dictator-like.
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by WJW 3y ago
This is just something you might learn during history lessons in school, no online-ness is needed.
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by WJW 3y ago
Probably some variation of "hardware usually influences what the optimal datatype is way more than any theoretical runtime differences". For example, B-trees for databases needing to be adapted to the block size of the underlying
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by WJW 3y ago
> all of the space exploration. How does the receiving technology get built? Surely at least someone will have to go there the first time, and they will have to take the long way. It will still be quite a problem to get to a system 10k l
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by WJW 3y ago
I think you are focusing on the wrong part of their argument. Whether or not a user has an iphone is pretty much irrelevant. The point is what they prioritize above or below interoperability. For zero downside, everyone prefers more interop
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by WJW 3y ago
Legs
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by WJW 3y ago
Meditation is something you purposefully do, as in you would put a daily half hour of meditation in your calendar or something. Meanwhile you cannot plan niksen, if you do it on purpose it is no longer niksen. Also, in the west, meditation
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by WJW 3y ago
Proclaiming yourself average may not be such a bad thing if your experience consists of a 3 month bootcamp. If anything, proclaiming yourself "average" with that kind of background is vastly overselling yourself. I would say it is
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by WJW 3y ago
What do you think corporations were founded to do in the 1800s? The term "robber baron" didn't come about because executives were all socially-minded back then.
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by WJW 3y ago
Posts with the basic messgage "Use nothing but postgres for everything from pubsub to background job queues, it's the best thing since sliced bread and will solve all your problems" have been a HN staple for at least a decade
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by WJW 3y ago
Thanks!
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by WJW 3y ago
No it's basically just a big background job cluster, but for all the microservices at the same time so they can get a higher average utilization out of their servers by averaging out the peaks.
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by WJW 3y ago
Depends on your size and workloads, obviously.
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by WJW 3y ago
Most of the companies I've worked for or consulted with had some sort of background worker system for , usually with a queue in postgres/redis/rabbitMQ/kafka/whatever in between. It usually gets used for non-latency
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by WJW 3y ago
Do you have a link to some materials to help get me started? I did an optimization/ILP MOOC once and that was indeed a lot of fun.
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by WJW 3y ago
Maybe it could answer the question for an already indexed data set, but it probably couldn't INSERT 1 billion rows and then answer the question within that time. The ingestion is part of the challenge.
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by WJW 3y ago
Not to mention the video where the board is presented in the "wrong" direction, so he enumerates to himself which squares the pieces are on, then closes his eyes so he can see the board clearer .
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by WJW 3y ago
It's been weird/amusing observing how different age groups at my local chess clubs call pieces and concepts. The older group very much stays to the local Dutch terminology for both while the younger group (presumably influenced by
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by WJW 3y ago
Imagine the latency though.
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by WJW 3y ago
There's plenty of free Basecamp alternatives out there, but since they don't even come close to providing the same stability and polish none of them have a chance at unseating the original in the eyes of its core audience.
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by WJW 3y ago
> Say we also reject the notion of social control. This is like writing a physics paper that starts with "assume humans could jump to the moon" or an international relations paper with "say we could all just get along&quot
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by WJW 3y ago
Here you go mate: https://www.dexpan.com/collections/dexpan-demolition-agent/p... 45 dollars for an 11 lb bucket of "expansive demolition grout".

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