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by choeger 4y ago
My hunch is that these companies are cargo-culting their strategies. The hiring freeze is as essentially a gut reaction. If one starts with layoffs, others will follow. The real problem is that companies of the Google scale will always need
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by choeger 4y ago
Sand is heat storage, not electricity storage. Storing heat can be much simpler and much more economical (considering that heat is the majority of your energy consumption).
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by choeger 4y ago
I think the fear mongering is spot-on and there's no way back. The only positive way forward would be a non-profit org taking over the role of key manager. No for-profit org and no government should be in the position to control comput
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by choeger 4y ago
I think with 30kWp you should be able to heat enough sand to make it over the winter. It's a matter of space and finding someone to build you that heat storage.
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I would argue that software maintenance would also benefit from metrics. Heck, even development would. Unfortunately, maintenance is hardly ever done at all and sensible metrics for development are really hard to come up with.
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Contracts, if done right, could be used by the compiler or some dedicated linter or tester before execution. This could open up safety guarantees that are way beyond what we can currently use. The question, of course, is what kind of cons
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by choeger 4y ago
Did she take a photo of the camera?
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by choeger 4y ago
Pretty much everyone with more than one production environment will. Imagine developing Firefox. How do you do a "self-healing deployment" automatically whenever trunk changes?
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by choeger 4y ago
There are many benefits of sum types: - Their values can be discriminated at runtime (it's depending on the implementation of union types whether that's possible. In C a union is just a structure large enough to hold all constitue
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by choeger 4y ago
Funny thing that I read this line: > Solve problems as they arise, not in advance. It strikes me that this particular philosophy, that I associate for no other reason than a gut feeling with US-American culture, is one of the biggest rea
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by choeger 4y ago
Choosing more than one language as a startup can become really expensive quickly. As long as your tribes are small, chances are high that you one day run out of. e.g., python developers while you still have a lot of Java guys (or vice versa
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by choeger 4y ago
This work is another point in a larger trend that I observe since last year: In discussions and news about economics we suddenly read and hear much more concrete information instead of abstract numbers: We produce this quantity of X, we lac
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by choeger 4y ago
First of all, it should be a fundamental principle of practical software engineering to be able to execute every test on the developer's machine. Software development that relies on "special" environments is prone to break do
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by choeger 4y ago
But it did, for certain assets at least. I think part of the reason for the last decade of unorthodox inflation is that demand is not as flexible as theory would require it to be (people stop buying ever more consumer goods when they get x%
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by choeger 4y ago
Again and again I click these articles to see something about ML the programming language only to be disappointed by a machine learning topic. Overloading acronyms sucks.
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by choeger 4y ago
I really think that a new browser is possible. The people that worked on Firefox and Chromium over the years learned a lot . Programming languages and tools have improved massively . That doesn't mean it will be easy, but I have litt
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by choeger 4y ago
There is, as far as I know, no fundamental physical reason that prevents us from having high-efficiency electrolysis and high-efficiency fuel cells. As an example (I did not try to corrobate the report) here is a company that claims 95% for
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by choeger 4y ago
>There’s no recession as far as the eye can see. Back your pardon? The Fed is expected to raise the interest rate by 0.75% in September, IIRC. If that's not a recession on the horizon, then what is?
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by choeger 4y ago
As long as we take "models" (what are they modeling, btw ?), optimize a set of parameters, and then apply parameters and apply parameters and model to a problem, we shouldn't speak of AI. Real intelligence would have two more
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by choeger 4y ago
With profits, shouldn't you have an infinite runway?
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by choeger 4y ago
Humans act extremely quickly - in geological terms. That's part of the problem, of course. Unfortunately, it stands to reason that OP meant quickly in human terms.
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by choeger 4y ago
I have no idea, really. If I would, I would try to submit a paper to POPL or so.
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by choeger 4y ago
> The parser just needs a table to look up the precedence (and associativity) for a given operator. But a parser already needs a bunch of different tables in order to work, so that's certainly not a problem. Think about how you&#x27
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by choeger 4y ago
Back-of-the-envelope calculation regarding the market size: World primary energy consumption is well below (and will remain below for a while) 200PWh, if I am not mistaken. Assuming a lifespan of 30 years, this quantity would allow for 30TW
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by choeger 4y ago
Don't expect empathy from someone who has found the Rightful Cause(TM). You have my sympathies for going through a this procedure even though I never had to do that.
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by choeger 4y ago
It's astonishing how hard "modern" PL find it to implement parametric polymorphism. Java got it wrong and C# did at least have a hard time. I don't want to talk about what C++ did. Go needed years for that feature and no
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by choeger 4y ago
Maybe, just maybe, we should stop building lifestyle trackers outright?
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It's only not hard if you have a parser that allows you to carry that kind of context. Admittedly, operator precedence is so important that most parser (generators) have some canonical way to handle it. But try to implement a language
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by choeger 4y ago
The worst part is the non-linear growth in productivity of uninterrupted blocks of work. Not always, but very often a 4h block is much more valuable than 2 blocks of 2h with a meeting in between. This is not even about "flow", i
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by choeger 4y ago
Can someone explain me how this works? The article mentions a "rigid frame". Does that frame need to have the (inverse) shape of the lense? Is the method thus just a way to copy lenses or can it make a truly new (i.e. more preci

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