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by bhauer 9y ago
> Sure, but by the same token, you can't conclude Rust code is never faster than Go/Java/whatever for real-world code on account of some TechEmpower benchmark, as the parent poster was trying to do. A very good point, an
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by bhauer 9y ago
The benchmarks establish a high-water mark and establish the magnitude of performance. Specific rank ordering is mostly a trivial matter, if admittedly a point of potentially fun competition. Some laser-focus on the plaintext benchmark i
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by bhauer 9y ago
The grandparent comment implied it was speeding: > and an algorithm which encouraged the car to speed 3 mph over the limit when it was dark conditions But the linked NYT article said 40 in a 45 zone.
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by bhauer 9y ago
Meta: Zuckerberg's statement is, unsurprisingly, hosted at "facebook.com" and uses JavaScript to render. My browser is configured to not execute JavaScript from facebook.com because that site has a reputation for undermining
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by bhauer 9y ago
Looks like this is already covered by the "Social" add-on to StevenBlack's hosts: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/extensions/...
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by bhauer 9y ago
Well, certainly SpaceX has done a lot for the city I call home, Hawthorne. It makes me happy when I hear their mission control cited as "Hawthorne Control." We also now have the Boring Company test tunnel going in under 120th Str
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by bhauer 9y ago
Meta: Can we please not link to AMP versions of pages on HN? Yes, it's easy enough to remove the amp/ suffix from the URL [1], but linking to AMP version directly is even more annoying than linking to mobile versions directly. [1
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by bhauer 9y ago
> Luckily I found an old local copy of my project, but this taught me not to rely on Github as only storage for code. This is the distillation. If something matters to you, you should personally take responsibility for its long-term s
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by bhauer 9y ago
> Even more striking, "the diversity of the company or organization" is second last for women. My wife works at a tech organization that is (unsurprisingly) mostly men. The data here seem to align quite well with what she ha
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by bhauer 9y ago
> a dialog begging for Facebook follows Or that monstrous dialog Facebook has on its pages asking its visitors to join Facebook. Annoying on desktop, supremely annoying on mobile. Just another reason I usually don't bother click
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by bhauer 9y ago
Since several DST articles have been posted this week as we approach a DST-event weekend, I have found it interesting to read the comments on HN. My own comment [1] on Florida's vote to use permanent DST (assuming the federal governme
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by bhauer 9y ago
As a reservation holder, I can answer fairly quickly: Not really. I suspect many early issues will be worked out by the time they finally get around to building mine. And most importantly: there is no other car I want more that I can affor
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by bhauer 9y ago
And I can get behind that, which is why I say we can be either PST or MST, I don't really care which. (MST being functionally equivalent to PDT.) Frankly, I just want us to choose something and lock it in. PST, MST, UTC, or whatever.
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by bhauer 9y ago
Yes! Bravo to Florida. I don't care what timezone California wants to be in—PST or MST—as long as we stop the nonsense of changing between two timezones every year. This coming Sunday is another DST change, and with it will come coun
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by bhauer 9y ago
As a consumer/prosumer/user of some IoT devices, the compute model I prefer is probably most closely aligned with what the author calls the "Fog" model. For devices at my home, I want: * No data to leave my personal pri
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by bhauer 9y ago
It's certainly the force that is pushing a majority to willingly hand over all of their personal data to third parties. Presently, it is inconvenient to set up a virtual private network and application servers to host personal omnipre
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by bhauer 9y ago
In a surprising demonstration of not burying the lede, it's given away by the subheading: " Earning a degree is about signalling, and not just learning ."
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by bhauer 9y ago
Am I old-fashioned to raise an eyebrow when I discover that Memcached servers are running visible to the public Internet? This strikes me as approximately as bizarre as having a database server that accepts connections from the public Inte
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by bhauer 9y ago
Yes, please! This aligns with my rants on the subject [1] because I want all software to use UTF-8 by default. In my experience as an application developer nearly all of my character encoding grief has been caused by an application or lib
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Framework Benchmarks Round 15(techempower.com)
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by bhauer 9y ago
Yes, if by "connected to a VPN" you mean two things: 1. You are connected to a trusted network via a VPN protocol. A trusted network might be your home network, a network you operate at a data center, or a network you operate at
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by bhauer 9y ago
Yes! What I want is an always-on high-speed virtual private network (in the traditional sense) of all of my devices. The devices should see one another directly via the always-connected virtual network (ala ZeroTier). I want that network
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by bhauer 9y ago
> I used to ask why anyone would ever need 100 Mbps, until I got 100 Mbps. Then I said the same about gigabit, until I got gigabit. I wish more technologists who have become tolerant of stagnation in technology would remember that. A
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by bhauer 9y ago
Amazing. Wishful thinking: If this included something akin to Shoutcast (perhaps via WebRTC), it would give us back the peer-to-peer listening joy we had for small groups and teams back in the day. I miss the era when things were more comm
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by bhauer 9y ago
> Capitalism hates it though if there's no reason to sell new devices. "Capitalism" (the free market) is us. And I for one do "hate" that CPU performance is not increasing as rapidly as it did in the past. I
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by bhauer 9y ago
Indeed. I've been using home-built PCs since the 1990s, more than a dozen in total, each with lifespans of 4 or more years (many overlapping with one another in periods of usage). Most using some flavor of Windows NT starting with NT
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by bhauer 9y ago
Imagine a world with less centralizing force, where owners of devices are encouraged to decentralize data storage. In such a world, autonomous vehicles would ask you to specify where to store the data they collect. The owner could select
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by bhauer 9y ago
I hear what you're saying, but am compelled to ask: what intrinsic value does gold have?
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by bhauer 9y ago
I don't want to discount your experience and preferences. I hear and understand that you are using desktop email less frequently. I use desktop email extensively, and I suspect others do as well. I do not know where Mozilla sourced t
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by bhauer 9y ago
I was apprehensive of your comment at first since you start with fierce criticism of Mozilla. But on reflection, I concur that regardless of the high esteem I have for Mozilla generally, it is disconcerting how little attention Thunderbird

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