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by boulos 4y ago
I am! That's billions of a metric that people would agree is "a lot" :). Billions of searches per year is just a weird metric that obscures what you'd actually want to know.
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by boulos 4y ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear: I just dislike the use of "billions!!!" when what should be discussed is either qps (system load) or daily-active users (engagement). You could guesstimate DAU from qps by choosing a "que
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by boulos 4y ago
So... about 160 qps? (Using the 5B queries annualized). Even if you multiply by 10 to account for a very high peak to average, that's sub-2000. I wish companies wouldn't try to make something seem big by using "billions"
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by boulos 4y ago
Sun RPC / XDR doesn't have consistency checking like that built in. So you definitely can't bolt this onto older NFS protocols, but they could have for NFS v4 (and didn't).
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by boulos 4y ago
Huh, TIL that Steve posts these here himself :). As feedback, I find that new executives, even with external credibility won't be able to get the "innovation heroes" to talk to them at first. You have to make time, make space
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by boulos 4y ago
Except it was Carter...
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by boulos 4y ago
FTA, they already measured it and will deploy in 2024: > The prototype delivers 100% heating at 5°F at double the efficiency, and 70% to 80% heating at -5°F and -10°F. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory validated the performance and eff
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by boulos 4y ago
At least in California, the fire code doesn't allow you to have a bank of batteries without building a dedicated room with active fire suppression for them. You need to prove (to your local fire department) that your array of batteries
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by boulos 4y ago
Huh. What I miss about being a grad student is working whenever I wanted and not working when it didn't make sense. Sometimes that meant working on a weekend, because I had an idea I was making progress on. Other times, even if it was
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by boulos 4y ago
As others have said, it just distinguishes between "Premises" and "Home". They're the same. They differ from FTTN (Node) or in the UK apparently FTTC (Cabinet) which is one of the boxes outside "near" your
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by boulos 4y ago
Disclosure: I used to work on GCE. EC2 has historically not focused much on instance boot time. We did for GCE and drove it down pretty heavily. The post here from fly has a good set of sequence diagrams for "what are the various phase
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by boulos 4y ago
They might be net positive for the workers within the co-op (at the median anyway) versus taking on outside investors and giving them a slice in search of larger scale. For diversified investors, it's more valuable to have some of your
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by boulos 4y ago
This post is dangerously innumerate. I don't like Tesla, but I do like math: accidents are a rate , so of course mileage matters. The table is also pernicious, as it shows cars sold in a year per model vs deaths in a year per model. A
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by boulos 4y ago
As folks have mentioned, LLVM's JIT produces great code and is (relatively) easy to use. However , LLVM is extremely heavyweight. Which "latency" did you mean? Are you going to run these functions 1M times, so that the quali
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by boulos 4y ago
Right, the big news was that it was already sold off months ago. But just because Sharp / Voxx is going to reuse the brand name (and likely some base IP) that doesn't mean people won't notice. (It's not likely anyone has
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by boulos 4y ago
Yeah, AirPlay is such a disappointment. I'm thinking about investing more heavily into Chromecast related things since they're more amenable to custom code. Unfortunately, there's no way I'll sign up for any Google-based
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by boulos 4y ago
It's too bad Denon (DENki ONkyo) didn't buy this Onkyo to make the merger complete :). I'm guessing it wasn't worth it to go downmarket via Onkyo, and it sounds like Onkyo had been accumulating debt for years.
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by boulos 4y ago
Many modern receivers support both Chromecast and Airplay, as well as some level of HomeKit / Google Home / Alexa integration. I think for Onkyo, they just fell in an awkward middle. Not as high end as Denon/Marantz/etc.
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Cloud TPU VMs are generally available(cloud.google.com)
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Qantas promises direct flights from Sydney to London and New York(bbc.com)
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by boulos 4y ago
Hmm. That's not how I recall it. The folks in Israel working on Sandybridge (Gesher), already had their AVX plans in place before LRBni was "finalized" (even by the time of "our" siggraph paper -- I was only tangent
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by boulos 4y ago
It's been a while, but IIRC the integrated GPUs are only L3-cache coherent. So while that greatly improves the memcpy problem, anything that would have fit in L1 and does a bunch of math may still be a better fit for AVX2 or AVX-512.
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by boulos 4y ago
There are a few things, mostly due to the runtimes but also because the JVM bytecode assumption has real implications for system behavior. Let's start with bytecode. It "requires" (except for AOT work) a warm-up / JIT ph
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by boulos 4y ago
As people have remarked, Amos's style can be grating and hyperbolic. That doesn't make a lot of his complaints about Go as a language incorrect. I do think he's misunderstanding that the design intent is "networked C&quo
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by boulos 4y ago
Huh. Am I alone in thinking that hard mode (must reuse previous letters) should be the only option? Being able to choose a completely different word to fill in the gaps seems overly easy... (There's still luck, but it's vastly eas
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by boulos 5y ago
There was Windows Server Nano, but now it's a Container "OS" only? [1] Edit: ahh Server Core is probably what you're looking for as the base OS [2]. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-serve
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by boulos 5y ago
I'll add to your false negative case. I only write code over ssh in mostly emacs (and sometimes vim). A couple years ago I was asked to interview via CoderPad and while I appreciate their attempt at having emacs and vim bindings, the
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by boulos 5y ago
$100M or even $50M is real money though. If Stripe had wanted to enter the market directly, that pays for many person years of compensation. Corporate VC funds are supposed to do one of two things: find uncorrelated investments or adjacent
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by boulos 5y ago
tl;dr: Seems like the folks at Stripe didn't do very good diligence and others followed them in. I believe this really boils down to "Why did Stripe's investment arm value at $150M for an A they lead and then go on to co-le
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by boulos 5y ago
No, I think they mean the iPhone 12 Mini: https://www.apple.com/iphone-12/key-features/ .

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