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by cbr 10y ago
> I bet you could infer the energy usage of certain > appliances such as hair dryer, curling iron, stove ... https://sense.com/ does this, figuring out what different things you run at home and knowing when they'
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by cbr 10y ago
Trust works differently selling electricity. At each step in the chain from generation to distribution to consumption everyone involved can easily measure what they're getting. This means that each entity only needs information about
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by cbr 11y ago
But once there are strong consequences for downtime the service provider is going to set up training, monitoring, oncall, etc to make sure things stay within the SLA limits. So you are effectively negotiating uptime.
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by cbr 11y ago
Typically beta/stable is about stability, not about features or platform support.
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by cbr 11y ago
Set your site up to be able to handle option A and option B at the same time, randomly assigning visitors to each. Now you don't need to control for anything, because you can just compare the A-visitors to the B-visitors. In your case
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by cbr 11y ago
The idea is that you should prioritize based on impact-for-effort and not sweat the small stuff.
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by cbr 11y ago
I'm imagining a test-taking skills test. You have multiple choice questions, drawn from an incredible range of domains that people couldn't possibly be familiar with most of. I'd love to see how predictive this would be!
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by cbr 11y ago
There are actually some cases where you can gain by losslessly compressing these. For example, EXIF data in a JPEG is plain text, so gzip can help: $ curl -sS http://www.exiv2.org/include/img_1771.jpg | wc -c
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by cbr 11y ago
Yes, Coke that's kosher for Passover can't contain grain, including corn, so they use sugar. Some history: http://time.com/3769657/coke-passover-kosher/
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by cbr 11y ago
The FreeBSD manpages have: Note that the -n option as well as the effect of `\c' are implementation-defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002. -- http://www.freebsd.o
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by cbr 11y ago
I think this article is better researched: https://80000hours.org/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-...
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by cbr 11y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11323584
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by cbr 11y ago
Plug for my (open source) project, mod_pagespeed: it can automate all of these. > not using image sprites sprite_images filter: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filter-... > not usin
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by cbr 11y ago
It lets you look at things like "are women being paid less than men" and see how that interacts with location, experience level, salary-vs-bonus, etc.
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by cbr 11y ago
Lowering the sale price to $7k only bumps the per-year cost to Uber from $8k to $10.5k.
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by cbr 11y ago
Here's what it looks like on iphone: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160309_JW_14VA/
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by cbr 11y ago
Well, mostly If-None-Match is used to save bandwidth by allowing the client to validate a stale resource.
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by cbr 11y ago
Looks to me like trains are slightly safer than that 0.43 to 7.3 for cars: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436-manuscrip...
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by cbr 11y ago
Why doesn't it make sense to talk about the inherent difficulty of a language? I agree that some languages are related and this eases learning (PT to ES, PL to CZ) but why can't we look at learning speed on completely unrelated l
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by cbr 11y ago
I totally believe that it's easier to learn English than Mandarin (and maybe easier to learn Spanish than English) because the writing system gives you more hints, but that doesn't have anything to do with the (
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by cbr 11y ago
Let's say we pick a random person and make them learn a completely unrelated language. Sometimes they will learn faster than others, like Spanish or Swahili vs English or Mandarin. Why would we expect them all to be the same difficul
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by cbr 11y ago
Why do you think most of the new housing here in Boston is going to foreign investors and staying empty?
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by cbr 11y ago
The question of whether the physical structure is enough to preserve the information that makes you you is the key thing, and Myers is right to say we should be trying to figure out how to read the information off of very small brains. On t
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by cbr 11y ago
Cool. We're working now to make this possible. (And, in fact, to work at all when compiling against 1.9.11, since the addition of dynamic modules broke us: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/issues&#x
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by cbr 11y ago
Sadly, probably not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11066250
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by cbr 11y ago
Nginx doesn't really have a module API. While lua reaches deep inside, loadable modules already have to be compiled for the specific nginx version, which means this module isn't in a different situation from any of the others.
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by cbr 11y ago
Generating all those binaries would still be a pain, but you're right that containers could help. We'd also need to write a script that looked at your nginx install and figured out what would be the right precompiled module to dow
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by cbr 11y ago
That's fine, and is something you'd be able to do with PageSpeed. (But I'd really love a way to distribute binary modules anyone could just use, with no additional compilation.)
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by cbr 11y ago
Unfortunately, it looks like it may not be something will be able to work with. Instead of an ABI like Apache uses, Nginx went with signature checking. To load a precompiled module, the signature has to match. This means we would have to c
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by cbr 11y ago
Specifically: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/ilVXr6BF7iAU/v4/-1x-1.png

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