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by cbhl 8y ago
Yes, you're right. In hindsight, I wish I could delete that first sentence -- there are obvious counter-examples (ray tracing / movie rendering, search engines, memoization, dynamic programming).
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by cbhl 8y ago
Reading from RAM is certainly faster than disk, but reading less is faster than reading either from RAM or from disk. Chrome is a big application that tries to be everything for all people. If Desktop performance mattered to companies, folk
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by cbhl 8y ago
His ire seems directed toward lazy thinking If nothing else, I feel like this is the biggest flaw in the author's argument. It boils down to "smart is good, dumb is bad", which comes off as "yet another tone-deaf acade
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by cbhl 8y ago
That ship has already sailed. Google redesigned all their desktop UIs to work with touchscreens in 2012, at the expense of mouse-and-keyboard users. Microsoft's Ribbon UI for Office, and Fluent UI for Windows 10 were both designed for
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by cbhl 8y ago
The NDIS funding might be useful when your child is an adult, in the event that your child has difficulty finding and keeping a full-time job. As an adult with Asperger's/Autism in a full-time job -- I agree that your child might
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by cbhl 8y ago
I am an adult who was diagnosed with Asperger's in 5th grade. How old is your kid? If they are as high-functioning as you claim, then you should involve them in the decision-making about what to do. ("Do you want me to tell your t
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by cbhl 8y ago
If I recall correctly, the SF Bay Area has quite a few Teslas on Getaround...
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by cbhl 8y ago
I'm reminded how, last year, at work, they changed the length limits on performance reviews from characters to words. They found that character limits resulted in men having more room to express themselves than women -- "she"
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by cbhl 8y ago
I really liked the juxtaposition of the "Technology is Incredible" guy from Pallet Town in the original Red/Blue/Green versus Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu. The side games are where all the cutting-edge development ha
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by cbhl 8y ago
If you don't care about reliability or read/write speeds, sure. But for just $218 USD you can have a brand new 1 TB USB 3.1 Portable SSD that does sequential reads/writes at 400 megabytes per second. Trying to write a terabyt
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by cbhl 8y ago
That's a really helpful response; thanks!
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by cbhl 8y ago
Does using multiple cores on a single NIC actually speed up a network connection? If you're doing gigabit with 1500 byte packets, you get 12 ms to encrypt and process each packet -- I'd expect any cross-CPU synchronization to easi
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by cbhl 8y ago
The Chrome folks working on the largest mitigation to Spectre-class bugs -- Site Isolation -- are the same folks who were behind the controversial proposal that would have broken certain third-party ad-blocker extensions. Their experience,
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by cbhl 8y ago
Without insurance , a 15-minute consult in Canada is, like, $40 CAD. That's like $20 USD. Factor of 5x or 10x savings.
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by cbhl 8y ago
Having used the ER twice in fifth grade in Canada, it seemed fine? Like, yes, sure you have to wait 12 hours to see a doctor if you're not bleeding out the chest. But also, I didn't have to face the prospect of paying $300 for a 1
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by cbhl 8y ago
Many service providers silently fail to deliver SMS when one is roaming internationally, especially if not on a post-paid account
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by cbhl 8y ago
Most of these are just COTS Android tablets. When they reboot the IFE, you sometimes see the Android soft home/menu button on the bottom. It's easy enough to repair, too -- just apply some opaque tape to the camera.
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by cbhl 8y ago
I believe the price of a .dev eventually will go to $12/year. The hundreds/thousands price applies to people who want to pay more upfront to get the first shot at a "popular" domain name.
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by cbhl 8y ago
In my opinion, the Roth IRA would be much more successful if it was for everyone, and not just "the poor". - Roth IRA is an investment account. Usually holds ETFs. TFSA can come both as a savings account and an investment account.
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by cbhl 8y ago
I really liked Canada's approach to this, the "Tax Free Savings Account". You get contribution room for every year that you are 18+ and a tax resident. Money goes in post-tax; withdrawals of principle and growth are tax-free.
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by cbhl 8y ago
True, but if you're eating raw spinach you need something like nine cups to get your RDA (assuming RDA of 8mg/day, and about 3 cups per 100g). Females 19-50 are told to eat 2x that; pregnant females 3x (27mg/day(!), source:
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by cbhl 8y ago
Some do; some don't. In my experience, most find a source of protein quickly (tofu, tempeh, peanut butter, chickpeas, quinoa). But some end up with iron deficiency and may need to take supplements. (Broccoli looks like a comparable s
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by cbhl 8y ago
Totally agree that it's easier to plan a centralized system over a decentralized one, provided that you adequately fund people to maintain all the components. (And trim trees!) But have you ever been in a power outage, used your cell p
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by cbhl 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the anomaly detection is overfit to banned users: comes from Kenya, or Russia, or China. Doesn't initially seed the account with in-person connections. Shares an IPv4 address or telephone number with oth
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by cbhl 8y ago
It's not at clear that all Software is a net good for society; look at all the people addicted to Candy Crush and Loot Boxes, people's unwittingly sharing embarrassing photos because of Facebook/Google anti-patterns, and malw
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by cbhl 8y ago
Using USB micro B lowers the BOM while making the device accessible in international markets (regardless of what your local power is, everyone has USB power adapters). Personally, I'd like to USB-C, but USB-C headers are still hella
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by cbhl 8y ago
Sometimes the accommodations are just as hidden as the disability. Things like giving people flexibility about when they come and go at work, or putting someone's desk in a different location (near windows, or away from windows). I adm
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by cbhl 8y ago
Are you based in the United States? I'd check to see if there are barriers preventing someone with physical disabilities from actually getting a job at your employer. This includes the physical building (is it ADA complaint? is there a
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by cbhl 8y ago
If I recall correctly, the folks who made RPi have serious nostalgia for the BBC Micro. So even if the target demo is nerdy kids, they need to interface with less-than-nerdy parents and teachers who make buying decisions for those kids. Ele

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