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by beering 7y ago
Here's an application of ultrasound towards essential tremors that is already being used on people! https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-11-20/... Transcranial ultrasound + monitori
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by beering 7y ago
TL;DR: AWS now has a managed connection pooling service for MySQL on RDS only (public preview right now). The article talks about using it in conjunction with Lambda.
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by beering 7y ago
If you ping eternalterminal.dev, does it go straight to localhost? If so, it's probably your own computer that's redirecting .dev to localhost.
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by beering 7y ago
You can't compare apples and oranges percentages. If drunk driving accidents went from 13 to 8 incidents (62% drop), but the 10% increase in heavy drinking is applied to 10,000,000 people, then the negative health effects could outweig
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by beering 7y ago
In my experience, a lot of the companies in the Midwest wouldn't survive if they were paying salaries aligned with big coastal tech. I.e., they exist in the Midwest because they can't exist elsewhere. And the rest are taking advan
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by beering 7y ago
I'm surprised there weren't backups they could've restored? If the difficulty was setting up the build environment correctly, then even a duplicate hard drive for each build server would've saved them from a pinch.
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by beering 7y ago
There is the Amazon Transparency program that some manufacturers are participating in: https://brandservices.amazon.com/transparency It is not decentralized, nor free, nor open to everyone, but I think it's close to wh
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by beering 7y ago
It's also a myth that lack of regulation necessarily makes the market freer. There are many tactics that a huge company or monopoly can carry out that suppress free market dynamics. Antitrust regulations are one example that promote fr
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by beering 7y ago
At the very least, releasing their source would make available any bug fixes or enhancements they've made so that other users can choose to incorporate or learn from those changes. Yes, this is a case of tivoization in that you can&#x2
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by beering 7y ago
Matt Levine made the point that to get chosen as one of the IPO banks, you had to pitch to WeWork that you could get them a good-yet-plausible valuation. I.e., take what their last (private) valuation was, and bump it up by a decent amount.
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by beering 7y ago
Still, PAO is not close to Stanford nor Sand Hill offices if you have to drive through congestion to get there. It would be faster to Uber from SFO to Palo Alto via 280 once you factor in getting on/off your shared helicopter ride.
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by beering 7y ago
Can you explain why 1ms ping is not possible because of physics? Otherwise this comment comes off as rather rude and unhelpful.
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by beering 7y ago
And to help anyone else who might be confused, the device comes in two parts, a "transmitter" and a "receiver". But the transmitter detects motion by itself without needing another piece placed on the other side of the d
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by beering 7y ago
It's not a single axis of (dis-)advantage. A wealthy black person in America has economic advantages over a poor white student, yes. But the black student will have disadvantages based on their skin color that a white student wouldn&#x
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by beering 7y ago
It sounds like a weird case of the Peter principle - Levandowski might have been a good engineer, so good that he couldn't stay an engineer and had to try to climb up until he was directing the self-driving program. It sounds like he w
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by beering 7y ago
Is he worth that much though? Everyone seems to paint him as a genius, but is his value 5x the other engineers on the team? 10x? 100x? It seems like there are plenty of smart and talented people you could hire for your self-driving car init
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by beering 7y ago
Because they understand that many students are disadvantaged or advantaged based on race. Affirmative action is meant to counter that.
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by beering 7y ago
Sorry, that should read "might not be helped".
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by beering 7y ago
You are right, I tried creating a 16x16 image with 3 colors and despite my best attempts, the GIF came out to 93 bytes and the PNG 139 bytes. So there are cases where the GIF will be smaller than the PNG. On the other hand, if you are loadi
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by beering 7y ago
This chart offers some dubious suggestions, even ignoring the "Burn it with fire" bit. Unfortunately, it doesn't explain any of its reasoning. A photograph that's not real big is probably still better suited for JPG. And
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by beering 7y ago
Your risk with holding onto your cash until a downtown is that the crash won't be more than the rise. The market will need to crash to below current levels for this strategy to come out ahead. A lot of people have been waiting for a cr
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by beering 7y ago
I wonder if there's a consumer perception around big file sizes for expensive software, e.g. they're getting more for their money. The commercial 3D programs bundle a lot, including: extensive documentation, video training, exampl
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by beering 7y ago
Upvoted this because the LWN article seems to give a much better picture of the what and why, including key kernel devs explaining what tgl called "kernel brain damage". The posted danluu.com link seems to be just the pgsql mailin
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by beering 7y ago
I don't know if it's the same person, but someone working on Atlassian's cloud offerings said he reported this issue (along with a working patch) to Postgres and they declined it. Sounds like what they do for cloud services i
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by beering 7y ago
Would you be willing to pay more to have the SLAs behave like that, and if so, how much more? Genuinely curious, maybe there's a market for "cloud but better SLAs".
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by beering 7y ago
It's usually been salespeople trying to sell me stuff when I've been asked to use proprietary video plug-ins. The calls with clients usually are scheduled by my side and use our choice (now usually Hangouts or Uberconference, both
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by beering 7y ago
Standard workflow features targeted towards video editing, hopefully. I use Blender for all of my video editing, but that's despite the Blender video editing UI, not because of it. The Blender devs are very clear that video editing i
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by beering 7y ago
See the comment elsewhere in the thread about how (according to the German-language article) Schlitt ignored the requirement that the specialist flush the toilet, causing the incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20
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by beering 7y ago
If other bidders are irrational, then bid-sniping can work. It doesn't give others the opportunity to contemplate, "I've been out-bid, do I actually want this item more than I originally thought?"
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by beering 7y ago
I think that's not an accurate description. He avoided $117,000 in losses by trading on inside info. The gain is just sale price - purchase price. If he hadn't traded on insider info, he would've been able to gain $500k - $1

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