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by __alexs 5y ago
A $3 burger is made from mechanically reclaimed scraps with a high level of automation. A $100 burger is made from prime cuts by hand by skilled butchers. It's not inconceivable that the resource consumption is 30x more.
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by __alexs 5y ago
I've worked on several large websites and that doesn't sound terribly high. Even of just clients that execute JS often 20% of the traffic was also bots.
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by __alexs 5y ago
It's definitely a thing : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango
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by __alexs 5y ago
They are an elaborate pay day loans company.
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> The former approach was release + upgrade all projects. Now if one of those fails post-update you have to build a new release and upgrade all projects _again_. Multiply that by hundreds of services and it can become pretty annoying. I
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They don't want to. These companies employ thousands and thousands of people in Ireland and pay them pretty well. In the bigger picture it's probably in their collective interest to tax them more but there's a pretty strong i
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by __alexs 5y ago
Does anti-hydrogen have the same spectral signature as regular hydrogen?
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by __alexs 5y ago
Except the density can vary hugely for a single process depending on the type of circuit you're building so even measuring that is quite tricky.
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by __alexs 5y ago
> If a company turns around and reverses a decision citing the very reasons they were criticised for making it, shouldn’t we applaud them for listening? Making a terrible mistake suggests you might have bad judgement. Fixing it doesn&#x2
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by __alexs 5y ago
It used to be incredibly slow but these days I find it's not so bad. It even has parallel pip installs now which while occasionally triggering some issues in projects with over complicated setup.pys is usually a lot faster than a good
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by __alexs 6y ago
How do you imagine an airgapped version of codecov would work? You walk over to it with a USB stick with your branch on every time you need to check the coverage stats?
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by __alexs 6y ago
Curse anyone that uses an inline microphone on some earbuds. They sound awful and people frequently bump against them causing even more terrible experience for the listener.
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by __alexs 6y ago
uWSGI had a similar bug for a long time that was only fixed by accident and was never reported as security issue. Concurrency is hard I guess.
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But at least it's an interesting ecological disaster!
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I wonder if this another Buffalo situation. Mold is also a place name...
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There is only ASML.
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by __alexs 6y ago
We barely use email here so no one thinks about signatures but many people have their pronouns in their Slack profiles. Seems pretty helpful to me. We're a very multicultural work place so working out preferred pronouns just from peopl
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by __alexs 6y ago
"SoftBank Vision Fund" is all you need to know.
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by __alexs 6y ago
"There may even be a phenomenon like Dunning-Kruger at work..." His lack of self awareness is incredibly impressive. I'm almost envious.
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by __alexs 6y ago
> TSMC is building a fab in Arizona, but it won't be production ready until mid 2020s. By which time they will be shipping 3nm from Taiwan. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16024/tsmc-details-3nm-proces...
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by __alexs 6y ago
The 3090 is priced at $1500 because it is designed for whales who want the best regardless of price.
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by __alexs 6y ago
It's called Title Case. It's been popular in the US for decades. In the UK we often just use sentence case for titles.
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by __alexs 6y ago
Seems like the the processor may just gradually be storing the explicit branch pattern at that point in the program? 2000 branches isn't that many if you have tens of megabytes of cache on the die.
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It has blocks for this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/templates/builtins...
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> The problem is, is if the most important feature is easy, it can be left to last, and can be jettisoned, if work on the most difficult (but less important) feature borks the schedule. This sounds similar to principle of WSJF and Cost o
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by __alexs 6y ago
For an article called "GPT-3 on Philosophers" it really goes to a lot of lengths to avoid saying a single thing about philosophers.
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> Private enterprise handles food just fine This is not the case in the US where millions of people don't have convenient access to food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
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I've read many of his essays on inequality and generally he over simplifies the economics and social issues involved so much it's almost impossible to critcise it. His style is so vague on these matters I'm not surprised he g
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These hypothetical people are getting fired because their words cause real harm to people. They encourage others to act in ways that result in (not at all hypothetical) physical, emotional and economic harm, usually to underrepresented grou
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Yes the world is scary, people speaking up have always put themselves at risk but we have better tools to protect ourselves and find like minded people now. This isn't new and at worst doesn't seem that much different to how peopl

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