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by dahfizz 4y ago
Then why is Google still appealing the fine from 5 years ago?
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> I have a partial solution: researchers “publish” papers to arXiv or similar, then “submit” them to the journal, which conducts peer review. The “journal” is a list of links to papers that it has accepted or verified. This made me curio
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by dahfizz 4y ago
Right, but that 140 bytes of JS runs on mountains of browser and OS code. The ROMs run directly on the hardware. Just think of the boilerplate needed to set up graphics when you can't simply output to a canvas tag. That's the poin
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In 23 years you have worked at 18 companies? Has this hurt you during interviews?
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> Can you steelman allowing terminology to evolve and allowing new forms to be the assumed/default meaning? Obviously, terminology does evolve over time. The word "hat", for example, has a default meaning of "baseball
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> and I am even okay with going as far as saying "walking into a convenience store, talking to a clerk in a human language to retrieve items in exchange of paper currency" is an API. I think that is a bit far. Social customs de
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Since this is an article about pedantry, I am sick of people conflating "API" with REST or HTTP. Applications had Programmable Interfaces before HTTP even existed. Services hosted over the internet that let you make requests are a
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I don't understand. How do you get hundreds of thousands of units, each with an outdoor patio? Is this building very long, but very thin? Is it some fractal that bends in on itself? At that point, I don't understand the benefit of
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They are paying for a service. They don't want to worry about maintenance, they want to be able to move frequently, etc.
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Moving has extra costs associated with it, but you still build equity. After ~30 years, you don't have to pay a mortgage anymore. Any money you saved from renting better go straight into your IRA, because you're still going to be
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So python is marshalling data to and from an ffi in the fast path? That sounds even worse
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I'm sure every state is different, but there are places where the state can enforce their tax lein by foreclosing and taking ownership of your property.
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You're always going to live somewhere. Moving is easier when you rent, but you still pay rent at the new place. The rent doesn't stop like in the case of tools or hotel rooms.
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Is python in the fast path? Why not rewrite in a performant language for a XXX% speedup?
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Ah yes, a bus. The obvious solution to large, heavy vehicles on the road.
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It's a problem with web technologies in general. A real application framework would have hooks for knowing where the viewport is. The web was designed from the ground up to display documents, so we would have to resort to URL hacks.
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That's exactly the issue. Writing an app once shouldn't mean a lifetime of maintenance. You shouldn't have to test and rewrite once a year (!!). If I gave you a three month warning before punching you in the face, it doesn&#x
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by dahfizz 4y ago
This is something I don't think people understand about "luxury" cars. You may find a good deal on the sale price, but you're still paying the inflated repair bills. A $30k BMW is way more expensive than a $30k Toyota.
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> That's not the pitch that is made for the stuff. I mean, how often do salespeople understand the technical details of what they are selling?
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They use saline because it goes directly into your blood stream. If they used pure water, the osmotic pressure would force water into your cells, causing them to burst (hypotonic). You can drink pure water because it "becomes" sal
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Taking your number of 0.05 MW/m^3, Back of the napkin calculation is that the USA would need ~8,000 gigafacory-sized reactors to meet 100% of electricity demand.
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I don't think it is so clear cut. Charity money going to third world countries often ends up finding corrupt governments and destroying local markets.
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The UK has a much more moderate climate than most of the US. Compare London avg temps[1] with Boston[2] or Dallas[3]. The UK temperature averages are pretty close to LA, which is well known for being so moderate. [1] https://www.
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I love the idea of a good cross platform sandbox to ship apps. I think it's really unfortunate that we chose a web browser to be that application platform. The underlying technology is terrible. HTML and CSS are for displaying document
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Yes, but a lot of that heat comes "for free" from cooking, your fridge/computer/apliances, hot water usage, body heat, etc. I have a heat pump for heating and cooling, and my electric bills are only slightly higher in wi
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Yup, I have had that experience as well. I think companies with shitty chatbots would otherwise have bad support anyway, though. For companies that do care about support, chatbots can be a pretty useful tool.
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> It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. <snip>. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion.” I do
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> What about an art director at a video game company? 0% artist? Yes. My CEO has excellent technical (and business) knowledge. He will often give me direction on my projects because he knows both the business requirements but also the te
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I think well implemented support chatbots are amazing. They collect all the information they need upfront, and forward it to the correct person who can then quickly solve my problem.
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This goes back to OPs point about devaluing the concept of respect. I'm generally polite to stangers I meet. Not because I respect them (how could I? I don't know them), but because it's morally good to behave decently. By co

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