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by cletus 4y ago
So I've been oncall at two major companies (Google and Facebook) and, at least in my experience, this covered both ends of the spectrum. Basically, Google gets it mostly right and Facebook gets it mostly wrong. At Google, a new service
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I agree with this but would state it differently. This most often comes up in rewrites (which are usually a mistake) and the problem is that time doesn't stop once you start you rewrite (or, more generally, your long term plan). Featur
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I once saw a documentary about commercial Scuba diving. This is for the guys who work on oil rigs and such. At one point the instructor asks the students, "How much will you get paid for diving in the first year?" They throw out a
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I worked at Google up until 2017. In the last year or two of my time there I had many conversation with some people who worked for or were adjacent to the Fuchsia team. It's hard to believe it's been 6 years. We're now talkin
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I looked in Part 1 and 2 and didn't see this point raised, which is a shame because it's one of my favorite stories of intertwined technological process. An engine requires piston that move within a bore. To create the pressure th
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Som eyears ago I was thinking of joining my local Equinox. A few of us went for a tour and here's what I remember most. In the lobby there were 5 "membership consultants" for signing people up. None of them were doing anythin
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None of these are top of my list. Mine is a better PHP. To be clear, I like PHP. It actually has many attributes that make it almost ideal as a Web development language, most notably: 1. Pretty much everything is request-scoped. This makes
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Some random thoughts: 1. You didn't specify wireless or wired. It matters. With wired, your biggest problem is going to be getting permission to deploy towers and licensing part of the spectrum; 2. Wired avoids this but adds the proble
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I'm with you on group size and volume. I'll add another: a lot of bars tend to be annoyingly dark. Volume could either be music or TV. Sports bars are big in the US. When faced with unkowns, I'll tend to gravitate to hotel ba
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My understanding is the HDL-to-LDL ratio is important. I can't say for sure other than my doctor says my values are excellent.
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There are four aspects to this: 1. Weight: I've been 50+ lb heavier than I am now and I, personally, hated it. It makes everything harder and that only gets worse with age; 2. Fitness: this one is (IMHO) less extreme than weight differ
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And with skyrocketing rents and house prices, hanging on that first place presents a challenge.
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Count me in that 6.8%. In my 40s, resting heart rate ~50 (no it's not bradycardiac), relatively healthy weight, low LDL, low HDL, 115/70 BP. I ride 25 miles 3/week on average and probably walk another 3 miles 3/week. Pre
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People who've never spent significant time in the UK may not appreciate the significance that pbus have played in the UK culture and social structure. Pubs have for many eyars been a social nexus. You wouldn't even go to drink nec
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Eventually we're going to have to reduce the sunlight hitting the Earth because the Sun is getting ~6% hotter every billion years [1]. The Earth is set to become uninhabitable in ~1.6 billion years [2] because of it. Here's what I
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I played the original Everquest from 1999 until 2004 or so with some gaps. it really was amazing at the time. WoW killed it of course. There's good reason for that but it's wild to think of how hard core EQ was at the time. For ex
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Systems design questions are tricky. There are some key principles like how you handle scaling and how you estimate resourcing. But it can really go awry. I've had this happen when asked to design something I have intimate knowledge of
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Story time. I worked at Google years ago and there was a presentation once done on some optimizations done on Chrome performance. This is probably 10 years ago now. So C++ has std::string of course. C libraries however use "const char
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by cletus 4y ago
I have enormous respect for the systems, complexity and emergent behaviour (eg [1]) that these two guys have created over decades at this point and continue to create. But I just cannot get into DF in the way I would like. Even with Dwarf
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> Consciousness is an emergent property of computation It's interesting to see the negative comments about this here because I agree with you. "Consciousness" or even "sentience" is notoriously difficult to defin
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The Fermi Paradox isn't a paradox to many (including, I believe, Fermi). The answer many suspect (myself included) is that spacefaring life is incredibly rare so it's not really a "paradox" because there is nothing to de
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The law of large numbers comes into play here. There are at least 100B stars in our galaxy. Over the last 20+ years we've gained a lot data on exoplanets. Exoplanetary systems seem to be really common. So stability, the right element
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SETI began by looking for radio signals that were highly unlikely to be "random" because that fit what we ourselves were using at the time. As we've since discovered, this sort of communication was shortlived lasting just dec
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The earliest signs of life at >3.5B years old [1] while photosynthesis dates to ~3.4B years ago. That seems to be pretty quick (by some definition, ~100 million years with huge error bars is "quick"). If photosynthesis only evo
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That's not that new an idea. Even at 1% of c we could fully colonize the Milky Way in 10 million years, which is a blink of an eye compared to the >4B years the EArth has been here. The second issue is that planets don't really
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The oldest stars in our galaxy are >12 billion years old. Ours is 4.5 billion years old. We obviously don't have a lot (meaning more than 1) of data points here but that one data point is that life can evolve in 4 billion years. W
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We again return to the rabbit hole that is the Fermi Paradox [1]. In short: there are so many stars and planets and we've had billions of years. Why aren't ther emore signs of technological life? A core idea of this is that there
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This is an idea that fascinates me and it goes beyond literature. it certainly includes history. One of my favorite examples is cuneiform tablets. Less than 10% of the 500k to 1m tablets recovered have ever been translated. These are partic
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You misunderstand my complaint. Windows already does this. There's a volume mixer where each app has its own volume. That's still the case AND the game/app has a separate volume. So the actual volume playing is effectively: H
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As an alternative to a stream deck, I started using a MIDI board last year. I tried a copule and settled on the Behringer X-Touch Mini [1]. It's less than $100. What I primarily use it for is volume control (including muting). Like I h

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