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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Haha yes they certainly do. One great thing they have is unlimited bandwidth (though I'm sure they throttle after some point), whereas the free tier on Google starts charging you after you reach the 5GB egress mark iirc.
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
The last time I had a wireless chargeable phone, the charger would get uncomfortably hot, which I assume degrades the battery as well. I understand wireless charging for my toothbrush (charging port = less waterproof), but it's such a
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Oh yes, I wasn't saying Oracle was good. It was the usual mess of conflicting systems (e.g. two different ways to do network ACLs...that conflict?). I personally wouldn't consider them for anything serious. If folks need a free bo
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Well at least one of the latter definitely has skeletons... [0] But in all seriousness, Oracle at least has very good free tier to get started. You basically get two free okay-provisioned VMs (lite on the CPU to say the least, but mem and d
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Wow thanks! These are awesome resources! Do these books (or perhaps courses around them) contain a graduated set of exercises for understanding? That's the thing that was so great about the MIT course, but it's been difficult to f
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I was looking at this the other day to learn OS stuff. Too bad, as it seems like a very nice design. Does anyone have any OS course / book recommendations? I've worked my way through the excellent MIT course on xv6 [0], but I&#x27
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I think the benefit when a well-run union and a well-run business negotiate is that employee satisfaction is up and turnover is down. A union can be a bulwark against employers treating employees like garbage because relatively high un- and
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
> If you believe the employer’s argument that unions aren’t useful and basically just exist to fund their own operations through dues, then it’s analogous to the “light 1% of the wages on fire” scenario. But why would the company care if
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
This is what I always tell people who are considering whether to join a union or believe the corporate overlords: why would the company be going so hard in the paint to get you to NOT join the union? Do you think they would be spewing propa
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I think the carbon footprint of one btc transaction is probably enough to power all the gameboys in the world for a few weeks at least!
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
One thing that really can bog down these infra things in the US (ya know, besides the general "got mine. screw you!" attitude of the oligarchs who rule this place) is the urban sprawl. On the same plot of land, you can have 8-16 h
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
It's a great language to learn as a gateway for language design, but I think what turns people off are unrealistic expectations. Haskell has warts, as do all languages. Something that's tedious in one language might be a breeze in
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
The only reason they are a burden to fill out (or more so than most other countries) is because direct incentives have some "stink" on them to most Americans, who have bought into this "bootstrapping faux-frontiersman" m
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
It's not necessarily big business, but short-term incentives of big business that may not align with any other stakeholders than the current stockholders. Big businesses are necessary to enact the scale of change we need (it takes a hu
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
In what way do SPACs indicate we're in a bubble to you? I don't disagree that we're in a bubble, but I don't understand much about SPACs and wonder what they indicate more precisely.
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Thanks for this great article! I've been circling my way around understanding coroutines and this really put it in place. I think this co_awaiting is the most confusing part for folks: in most languages with stackful coroutines, it mak
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
To clarify what stackless means when you're writing code: * calling into the coroutine from the caller uses the caller's stack (i.e. it just pushes on another stack frame). * the lack of a coroutine stack ("stackful" cor
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
"worth the effort" is very difficult to quantify. If you haven't touched C++ in a while, I'd say the things in C++20 are intriguing, even if half-baked: * ranges means that we're starting to get composable algorithm
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Yes. Anyone who has had to handle the affairs of someone in that "greatest generation" who has passed away knows, the amount of stuff they have accumulated is immense, almost overwhelming. It was a charming part of their lives (e.
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
I agree as well. Given the San Bruno gas explosion and the myriad fires started by unmaintained equipment, I'm glad PG&E didn't go wild with the "spicy rocks" way of making electricity. That said, I think most of the
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
It gets even worse if you are a US citizen abroad. The amount of financial clout means the US can bully other countries into bending to their laws (FATCA) and citizenship-based (global) taxation means I have to shill out several hundred buc
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
iirc, the quote s/he's referring to is approximately "Dropbox won't ever take off because it's just glorified rsync and everyone can already do that", i.e. "everyone" can rsync
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Cities do scale, but the low-density "Suburb City" that describes large parts of the US doesn't scale feasibly because the property tax / sales tax per square foot of property is insufficient to cover the city infrastruc
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Being able to locally run the integration tests for my work on my 32GB thinkpad has been a godsend during the 'rona times. If I only had 16 (or even 24) I'd have to carefully consider whether I should close Firefox to run them. Th
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
"You're just using it wrong" /s https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
What about paying the OEM markup for the RAM they install? god knows if I paid Lenovo for maxing out the RAM specs instead of just pay it from newegg at the like I'd be in the poor house!
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
For anyone else who looks at these people who just are seemingly unencumbered by self-doubt and can't relate to them because self-doubt practically has you in a chokehold every day, I have a book suggestion. After feeling stuck for a l
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Amen. The real benefit of Haskell is not some hyper performance optimization (when you actually truly need C++ or Rust), but for business critical applications that need to perform fairly well and, most critically, need to not be filled wit
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
> With haskell you spend less time on doing these kind of changes because the compiler tells you what needs to be changed. This. I think what all the other folks in this thread that are just throwing shade on Haskell after struggling thr
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by _huayra_ 6y ago
Yay I know I was a unique guy, being neither artificial nor intelligent!

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