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by bruckie 2y ago
Async Rust (by default) can allocate memory, which is (almost always) nondeterministic. I'm not sure how hard it is to guarantee that nothing is using it so that all allocations happen deterministically. Async Rust schedules (mostly) c
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by bruckie 2y ago
The classic role of an RTOS (realtime operating system) is to run applications that are, well, realtime. Like the anti-lock brake controller in your car, or the fly-by-wire system in the F-117A that compensates for its natural aerodynamic i
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by bruckie 2y ago
And FFmpeg. :)
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by bruckie 2y ago
You are saying that heat pumps get less efficient when deltas are larger, and the parent post says they get more efficient when deltas are larger. In a sense, you're both correct. There are multiple relevant temperatures for a heat
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by bruckie 2y ago
Since most people pay with cards these days [citation needed], it seems like it would go over much better if the 3% processing cost were built into the normal price, and then you offered a 3% discount (or 2.91% for you pedants out there) fo
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by bruckie 2y ago
You can get a low miles used Chevy Bolt for that much, and it's significantly nicer than most 90's Civics (has AC, Android Auto and CarPlay, cruise control, satellite radio, power doors and locks, keyless remote, etc.). Not new, b
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by bruckie 2y ago
> Your manager doesn't get upset when you leave, bit weird how people feel so differently when they get fired. When you leave, your manager loses 1/N of team productivity. When you get fired, you lose 100% of your income. I bet
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by bruckie 2y ago
I'm a big fan of the "Don't mess with paste" bookmarklet that I got from this thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38014653 One click and I can paste anyway. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
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by bruckie 2y ago
I noticed Missoula as an outlier, too. Anyone have a good explanation? My completely uninformed guess is that a bunch of highly-paid engineers moved there during the pandemic for some reason I don't understand, rather than anything inh
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by bruckie 2y ago
1-dimensional? I think you forgot the Z dimension. Its mountains are world famous.
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by bruckie 2y ago
What orientation did you print it at, and did you use supports?
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by bruckie 2y ago
Google uses a lot of weather data in their products (search, Android, maps, assistant, probably others). If they license it (they previously used AccuWeather and Weather.com, IIRC), it presumably costs money. Now that they generate it in ho
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by bruckie 2y ago
At least as of 2017, 15% of Google searches were novel (had never been seen before) [0]. Assuming that still holds, and generously assuming that it's free to process the other 85%, 100x of 15% is still a big cost increase. [0] https:&
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by bruckie 2y ago
Ian Lance Taylor did a lot of the work on generics, too. Thanks to both, and the rest of the team!
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by bruckie 2y ago
This is one of my favorite items from Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions ). There are lots of other interesting ones there, too.
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by bruckie 2y ago
I get your point, but let's assume that you had separate resources for escape and home power, and then you needed home power for an extended period. Wouldn't you like to have the option to be able to use your escape resources to p
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by bruckie 2y ago
If your setup burns your house down, will insurance cover it?
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by bruckie 2y ago
There are 2 million people in the military. All the president would need to do is find a handful of existing personnel and organize them. He doesn't need to "raise" or "provide" anyone.
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by bruckie 2y ago
Is there a cost effective way to move that heat to where it could be used? Nuclear reactors can produce very high temperatures, but in most reactors the heat is moved to turbines using water. Are there ways to move the heat at the high temp
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by bruckie 2y ago
Ha, I had the exact same experience. The lawyers sent me what they wrote for me to verify that they didn't mess anything up, and it almost seemed like they had based the patent on an entirely different document than the one I wrote up
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by bruckie 3y ago
> Do you think Jobs was a hands-off idea man who let others sweat the details? Very much not the case. I was on the iPod software team 15 years ago, and let me tell you, we got plenty of detailed feedback from periodic "SJ reviews&q
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by bruckie 3y ago
I own a Bolt (bought used) and have never activated OnStar, and I'm extremely unhappy to learn that it might be spying on me. I did some reading when the NYT article came out, and found this, which explains how to install a terminator
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by bruckie 3y ago
That indicates real increased risk, though, compared to someone who drives in places where animals are less likely to be in the road. Insurers aren't trying to determine how good of a driver you are (conditional probability of you bein
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by bruckie 3y ago
The argument is that you can't say activity A increases or decreases net energy demand without modeling whether there are activities B, C, D, ... whose energy demands will decrease if activity A happens. The implication is that AI may
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by bruckie 3y ago
WB = Warren Buffett, for those wondering (like I was) https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26ever...
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by bruckie 3y ago
Umbrella insurance. Most umbrella policies require you to carry a certain amount of homeowners and auto liability coverage, and then they add additional coverage on top of that. It's relatively cheap (hundreds of dollars per year for
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by bruckie 3y ago
> Also, they have a bunch of tooling to manage open source projects that mirror google3 projects. ... if I recall correctly the tool itself was open sourced too. https://github.com/google/copybara
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by bruckie 3y ago
Maps came from the acquisition of Where 2. Here are a few links: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions - https://medium.com/@lewgus/the-untold-story-about-the-foundi...
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by bruckie 3y ago
What did you switch to?
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by bruckie 3y ago
I'm curious how you'd define "success story". From my POV, it seems like there are definitely some B2B successes, such as Oracle or Salesforce.

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