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by awalton 9y ago
> The problem with Cairo is that it's painfully slow. It really isn't though... it's just painfully easy to fall onto slow paths, and not obvious how not to. Time and again I've seen people stack benchmarks of cairo
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by awalton 9y ago
...not at the quantities this thing would make. I'd be more worried about random Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) emissions, but again, too small of a volume to actually matter in any significant way. A couple of VWs are probably worse.
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by awalton 9y ago
Yeah this might seriously make me considering switching from my current half-baked solution of GPM and Pandora, but I still feel discovery is better on Pandora (and that's saying a lot because Pandora leaves a _lot_ to be desired).
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by awalton 9y ago
Well, for one, Linux/Windows/Solaris don't "brew"...
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by awalton 9y ago
> What is a 50-person bus with 1 passenger aboard? A poorly designed bus route. But, that's not surprising giving the state of urban sprawl; it's quite a hard problem to design a route that maintains ridership, simply because e
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by awalton 9y ago
> In fact, they are particularly easy access due to the excellent package manager. People keep screaming this like it's a huge advantage, but having built applications for years, knowing that one of the most difficult parts of moder
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by awalton 9y ago
> You are saying that because two locations have two different rates of obesity, that means genetics plays no role in obesity? This really, really needs some explaining from GP. All evidence in the history of genetics tells us that if yo
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by awalton 9y ago
> thickphones with batteries that last for days are not. Point me to a recent one with a recent build of Android that receives regular security updates from a reputable builder and I'll buy it immediately. I'd line up outside a
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by awalton 9y ago
The fear is not that we're going to run out, it's that we're getting cobalt directly from the suffering of others, so called "Conflict Minerals" - child labor, slave labor, etc. It's the same story with Toyota
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by awalton 9y ago
The app would likely be more expensive to develop and maintain than hiring a few seasonal part-timers per store (2000 people at, let's face it, minimum wage for a month is about $4M that immediately converts to sales numbers just by
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by awalton 9y ago
> How much would you pay for Facebook? $20 a month? $30 a month? $100? Not even Facebook thinks Facebook is worth that much a month from all of its users. ~2 billion times $20/month times 12m/y = $480B/year? You really thi
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by awalton 9y ago
Intel doesn't do this anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_...
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by awalton 9y ago
s/Comedy/Online short-format video content/g. Facebook desperately needs to fix this situation - they've grossly mishandled their video solution in order to try to beat YouTube, and it's costing content creators bil
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by awalton 9y ago
Doesn't work when Russians manipulate our elections (as eye-witnessed by the Dutch: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-dutch-spie... ) and receive zero punishment for doing so (as almost unanimo
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by awalton 9y ago
Pretty much exactly the same story here, but sadly most of us reading this are in Tech so we know better than to accept a BYOD policy, and our companies are rich enough to accept that and either issue phones or deal with the fact we're
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by awalton 9y ago
It's less that, and more that in high-performance-at-low-power realms, density (and CISC) is good - it means big complex operations can be hidden behind single instructions instead of needing multiple instructions and powering all of t
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by awalton 9y ago
Literally from the first moment the story broke, I had completely discounted the magical sonic weapon theory and was wondering what was in their environment and whether they had instead been poisoned. It fits vastly better, and there are
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by awalton 9y ago
> it's not worth my 30 seconds to unlock my phone It takes me ~4 "seconds" (saying "one-one thousand" aloud) to do it when typing in a password (sorry, don't have a stopwatch handy). Just did it 10 times jus
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by awalton 9y ago
...this doesn't seem like it is at all worth giving up 1% of battery life. I don't think it's even worth giving away 0.25% of battery life to detect whatever the 70k songs stored in the database is, nor is it worth the space
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by awalton 9y ago
> this false narrative of all Republicans are evil needs to stop. Then perhaps they should stop being evil. Republicans should fight the evil within their own party and drive it out. They should ask for the resignation of abusers, and vo
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by awalton 9y ago
> Why didn't Obama do a proper job if it's such an important issue? Obama was president while the Republicans held the legislature hostage. It was a miracle his administration was able to ask for and get any legislation passed
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by awalton 9y ago
[citation needed]. You're going to need some high octane evidence to compare adding new regulations that disproportionally help one industry, verses destroying the established works of the FCC, EPA, NOAA, the Bureau of Land Management&
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by awalton 9y ago
Luckily in this case I can point to the data the FCC collected themselves. After it's been denoised/despammed, it's almost unitary that legitimate comments supported net neutrality. Of course, the FCC was very quick to comple
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by awalton 9y ago
> This vote seems like the best chance of maintaining NN at the national level. Shame, because this vote is incredibly predictable by anyone who has been paying any attention at all. Republicans are on the bullet train to dismantle and s
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by awalton 9y ago
In fact, in this case, it's more probably immune because it's less mature. Only with advanced prefetching and speculative execution do you hit the Spectre of data that could have been. Either way, this is the time everyone and the
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by awalton 9y ago
Study pretty firmly starts with the assumption that all content providers are fungible, and that's clearly not the case. In fact, it's almost exactly the opposite of reality, apart from aggregators and news outlets, which could us
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by awalton 9y ago
This was happening at least a decade before the ACA was a glint in anyone's eyes. Probably more like three decades...
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by awalton 9y ago
I'm pretty committed now to a no-car-ownership lifestyle in the Bay Area, and my commute to and from work is optimally 45 minutes to go ~8 miles. It still feels like a huge sacrifice that I moved down the bay and added ~15 minutes both
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by awalton 9y ago
> If you could effectively triple your pay by "working" an extra 3 hours a day 6 hours a day - the commute is 3 hours both ways. In other words, she works 9 hours a day, commutes 6 more, and then has 9 more hours to do with wha
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by awalton 9y ago
We have no issue with lithium scarcity - it's tremendously abundant on earth, and we could recycle old batteries if we gave a damn... the lithium is just not currently worth recovering, that's how damned common it is. The problem

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