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by dannypgh 7y ago
It's definitely not a continuation of Moore's law as it has nothing to do with transistor density, but it may mean that the performance people expect from computers - which is why people are usually talking about Moore's law
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Commercial usage of amateur bands is prohibited. How can you tell if communication is commercial if you can't understand what's being communicated?
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Really? It's clearly a work of fiction, set in the future. It opens with "It’s been a couple of year now, since the 2020 Coronavirus disaster"
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by dannypgh 7y ago
It probably won't affect them nearly as much as widespread shutdowns, social distancing, and mass COVID-19 casualties due to hospital shortages will. I think it's useful to keep things in perspective - life in the United States is
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by dannypgh 7y ago
There's also decreased demand - look at airlines, jet fuel uses 1.7 million barrels per day normally, and COVID-19 is causing fewer people to want to get on planes. The fraction of the price drop that can be attributed to large produce
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by dannypgh 7y ago
We used to celebrate alternatives to gcc in the name of compiler diversity, and now we're wondering about gcc preservation in the name of compiler diversity. This is mostly just an observation, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Co
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by dannypgh 7y ago
My rule is be skeptical of anyone proposing a rewrite who doesn't fully understand the existing system, to such depth that they would feel comfortable refactoring it. Which means anytime someone says "we want to rewrite it because
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by dannypgh 7y ago
"Go back to?" I don't know what period you're longing for, but it sounds like an outlier. The church history I'm familiar with is one where the Pope had power at least on par with the head of any government or milit
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by dannypgh 7y ago
This caused me to look it up. I was way off! https://io9.gizmodo.com/theres-a-scientific-reason-why-a-pin... This makes me a bit skeptical that the type of salt matters much. Perhaps it's simply easier to get the dosag
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by dannypgh 7y ago
It's a larger crystal, which makes it easier for the salt to pull water out of the watermelon, versus (I'm guessing) just making its way into the watermelon as a dissolved solid. My understanding for the mechanism by which the sal
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I think this comes down to correlation versus causation. The fact that someone (perhaps yourself) valued a property highly recently is correlated with that property having a high present value. But it does not cause it. It is possible the m
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by dannypgh 7y ago
> If I spent 3 hours getting the tickets and I value my time at $150 an hour then the value of the tickets is now $505 and I'm only getting offered $500 Except that's not how spending time (or money) on something works. If you
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by dannypgh 7y ago
> money doesn't come out of thin air. It can, though. Money is created all the time by banks only having to keep a fraction of their deposits on reserve. You deposit $100, they lend out $80, then you have $100 (in the bank) and some
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Yep, it's an American pastime to blame the poverty experienced by much of the indigenous population on the indigenous population. It makes people feel less guilty to be profiting from the status quo. Criticism of indigenous folks witho
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I don't buy for a second that the wages absent a union are what a free market would predict. A free market requires freedom to participate, and most individuals are forced to sell their labor in exchange for food and shelter, let alone
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by dannypgh 7y ago
You're conflating a lot of things here. GOOG class A versus C (GOOG vs GOOGL) dates to a 2014 restructuring of ownership, whereas the Alphabet reorg was in 2015. Can you break out revenue in a single company? Sure. But you can also eas
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I don't think it was mostly motivated by management separation, as much as it was desire to break out revenue and expenses by unit. And this is unchanged.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I would love to teach math to elementary students but I make a base-10 order of magnitude more as a software engineer for a FAANG. I'd take a pay cut of a factor of 4 or 5 to do it in a heartbeat... but having to go back to school to g
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by dannypgh 7y ago
> I still don't know why long-division works I was taught long division in the 4th grade (age 9) but wasn't taught a proof of why it works until a college algebra course (age 19). For whatever it's worth a different type o
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by dannypgh 7y ago
The idea of terraforming Mars seems increasingly quaint given how hard it's been for us to keep the Earth comfortable for humans. I think it makes far more sense to work on geo-engineering solutions to climate change first - it's
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Sometimes. If I'm writing something where I know what the API to use it should be and the requirements are understood, yes, I'll start with tests first. This is often the case for things like utility classes: my motivation in writ
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by dannypgh 7y ago
This is a complex situation, because another party is involved: the parents. The ethics and morality of accepting a payment (even if it also satisfies a debt) to let the son continue to defraud his parents is certainly something that reason
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I think it's not only extortion, it's blackmail, and depending on how the parents paid their son it may have been a federal offense: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/873 The son was likely
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by dannypgh 7y ago
It is approved but not recommended, which means insurance doesn't have to cover it to satisfy the ACA. I'm 35 and one dose in (about due for the second dose) - what this has meant for me is that it's no trouble to get my doct
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Surely it's a computer, and not a person, handling triage of bug reports. At Apple's scale, bug reports are easily ignorable until there's multiple.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
> Following the analogy, a general purpose AI simply isn't a bigger Deep Blue or AlphaGo; it's probably something different that requires knowledge that we currently don't have. I agree with this, but it isn't clear t
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I think I'm misremembering and they were method names. I believe it was clone, in fact.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
...but surely it's also the case that successful suicide is more likely when someone is taken off of suicide watch, no? Citing this as evidence of malicious intent seems like a reach.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
If your timeframe goes back to PHP4, this most certainly isn't true. Just one glance of https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php should prove this - every new keyword is a backwards incompatible ch
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by dannypgh 7y ago
> Often it seems to me that there are plenty of other motivations to run a company. The founders hire people who they like to hang out with, maybe same hobbies etc. There are laws against employment discrimination, and I suggest to you m

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