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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Jay walking is the big crime here?
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Some reasons why a computer system is beneficial: * Can send out updates quickly, e.g. changing rooms when you discover your secretary forgot to book the usual one that week 5 minutes before the club meeting. * Folks can see/post updat
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
The system seems to have no master or leader at all. Where in the article did you get that reads from a master have no consensus? Of course, you could build database that uses meerkat to do leader election, and then neither reads nor writes
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
It doesn't mention CAP because it's obviously opting for consistency over availability, and is explicitly compared next to other systems that treat consistency as paramount. There's nothing interesting or new about it's
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
This sounds like a very direct approach to linearizability - just put everything in a linear order. But this includes READ operations too! You have to get global consensus for every read! Most distributed systems have additional complexity
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Until legislators fear loosing their seats more than they desire a policy, they're not going listen to the people. That's why political manovering, lobbying, activism etc are part of the political process. It's even worse fo
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Which makes this effect even strong, because the civil service and it's internal priorities are long lasting and don't change with elections.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
So many comments about the EU constantly re-trying the same law with minor tweaks, and about how legislatures do this in general. I wanted to provide an explanation for this behaviour. The way legislation is expected to proceed in countries
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
OMG are people actually doing this for personal chats? That's psychotic.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
This article and the one it is responding to are explicitly talking about non-business meeting contexts. They are talking about personal conversations, medical appointments and much more casual business contexts like informal interviews. Pl
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Did you look at the $3000 house? https://govauctions.app/auction/hud-home-420-e-dayton-st-fli... It needs to be torn down and rebuilt. It's not a large plot. It doesn't seem to be in an attractive location. F
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
This says it's using AmazonBrandFilter's list of brands. Why would we use/support this chrome extension instead of the upstream one [1] which is actually doing the important maintanance task? "Knockoff" seems to be
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Yes. When ZeniMax owns Id, and Microsoft owns ZeniMax.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
> I'm guessing the police simply reached out to all the analytics companies Ngrok ends up indirectly/directly sending data to, which ends up saving everything they get their hands on. But those companies would have no way of kn
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
BRB, spraying DayQuil up my nose
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
> how do they radiate the heat from the capsule with humans going to the moon https://blogs.esa.int/orion/2018/01/18/keeping-cool-while-st... https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api&#x2
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Automakers are constantly doing functionality-neutral tweaks. There's fashion in how cars looks, and they want every year's model to feel new. Climate control is constant, but one generation has a knob, the next has a slider, the
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
I have heard (but have no insider knowledge) that it's not just the cost of parts, but what parts do to the development lifecycle. With physical parts, the development process is highly sequential. Pick the look, design how it fits, en
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
https://archive.is/kcCG5
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Google docs are how leaving notes are usually written internally at google. My guess is this is the internal version accidentally seen outside.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Google provides annual RSU refreshes. There is no "last RSU". This announcement is also 9 years after they started, and Google has a 4 year vesting schedule, so it's not even possible that this coming after the initial grant
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Of course, but is there any actual evidence that these accounts are NSA related? Or is it an assumption because they are supporting the proposal (which would be very circular logic)
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
What are they going to do in these orbiting datacenters that would be getting them shut down on earth?
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
The hotter you are, the less radiators you need for the same heat dissipation. The ISS needs to run at human-comfort temperatures, but a datacenter can run much hotter than that (note the "at 60 °C" in the article). I forget the
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Clicking around I don't see any "nsa.gov" email addresses for the positions this site says are from the NSA. Have I just missed some things that are clearly from the NSA? If not, how would one know that these various academic
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
The article says: > The facility was backed by the EU's Chips Act with one billion euros in subsidies
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Power companies don't want to turn away customers in order to keep prices LOW! If you want that outcome, you need a government intervention (which could be laws around utility pricing, requirments for DC buildout etc)
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Sometimes safety comes from lots of little adjustments. So perhaps we should see 10% as large, not small.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
The author is proposing a new feature on existing package managers, not replacing package managers with a new one.

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