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by db48x 6mo ago
Not meaningfully. Anyone holding a smartphone might be recording you. You’d better avoid them if you don’t want to be recorded.
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by db48x 6mo ago
You're thinking about rust the wrong way. When you want to write in that exploratory way you should use a language that supports it, like Python, Javascript, or Lisp. These are all memory–safe languages that trade run–time speed for de
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by db48x 6mo ago
That may be true, but I suspect that it’s also hard to compare apples to apples. A burger in 1959 is hard to compare to a burger today. Today’s burger almost certainly has twice as much meat. The invention of (and ubiquitous advertising of)
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by db48x 6mo ago
> Fonts should be provided by the website No way! I don’t ever use any font provided by the website. I don’t even let websites choose which fonts get used. Instead I choose a set of fonts (monospaced and proportional) that are readable a
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by db48x 6mo ago
There’s a lot to be said for simplicity. The more logic you put into handling the dates correctly in the tests, the more likely you are to mess up the tests themselves. These tests were easy to write, easy to review, easy to verify, and ser
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by db48x 6mo ago
> "You can edit it in a text editor" which feels like a monkeys-paw wish Yes :) Although I will note that some editors are good enough to maintain the structure as the user edits. Consider Emacs with `csv-mode`, for example. Of
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by db48x 6mo ago
That’s one of my favorite books :) I agree that it’s plausible!
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by db48x 6mo ago
Classic! But before you judge the fix too hashly, I bet it’s just a quick and easy fix that will suffice while a proper fix (to avoid depending on external state) is written.
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by db48x 6mo ago
It’s like any other fundamental research: you don’t know how much it’s worth until people start using it to solve real problems. This is something that is literally impossible to guess ahead of time. The most abstract mathematical technique
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by db48x 6mo ago
Yes. The land is wealth, the house is wealth, and _living in_ the house is wealth. Like it or not, not everyone can afford to buy a house. Maybe they don’t have a down payment, or can’t get a good interest rate on a mortgage. Instead of ren
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by db48x 6mo ago
I really enjoy a good bug report like this. More people should write up their fixes and publish them! But the really weird thing is that I could basically copy and paste that code into an open–source game that I occasionally work on. I have
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by db48x 6mo ago
Sourcing and refining materials are just blueprints. Adaptations for other environments are just different blueprints. But honestly most of the work would be done in vacuum. Skip the planets, build the daughter probes out of asteroids. Most
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by db48x 6mo ago
> …and I also really don't want to do my taxes. What a coincidence! April 15th really is the worst day of the year, isn’t it?
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by db48x 6mo ago
Well, that we know of. None that can object to our sending the probes, at any rate.
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by db48x 6mo ago
Yea, the paper discusses a probe with a mass between 50g and 500kg using a diamondoid data storage medium that holds ~6,250 exabytes per gram. Plenty of room for any blueprints you want to include, up to and including a planet full of human
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by db48x 6mo ago
Right, but it’s only a feasibility study. By definition these only study the minimum system that could accomplish the goal, which was to visit as many galaxies as possible. Given the mass budget and density of the data storage contemplated
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by db48x 6mo ago
> Sure, but you then can't access the computronium, because communication is so bad. Who says all the computronium has to stay far away? Just move it all closer together as you build it. Second, you can spend much of it running para
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by db48x 6mo ago
That's probably true (although not proven!), but every science fiction story is allowed to ask the reader to suspend disbelief when it breaks one law of physics. (At least according to Campbell.) Since the story has no FTL travel or co
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by db48x 6mo ago
> What would the point of that be? I read an interesting book called Count to a Trillion. Astronomers detected an antimatter star a mere 50 light–years from Earth, and the US launched an unmanned mission to go there and learn what it cou
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by db48x 6mo ago
Not everything you do has to benefit you personally.
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by db48x 6mo ago
Ah :) 50Gbps is so very shiny…
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by db48x 6mo ago
No… I’m assuming that they didn’t use the same automation that creates RDS clusters for actual customers. No doubt that automation configures the EC2 nodes sanely, with hugepages turned on. Leaving them turned off in this benchmark could ha
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by db48x 6mo ago
I don’t know if there are zero free markets, but there are an awful lot of thumbs on the scale.
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by db48x 6mo ago
It’s not official, but you don’t always need to replace Cat5 cable with Cat6 to support 10Gbps Ethernet. Cat5 might only get you a quarter of the range of Cat6 on a good day, but since the range of Ethernet is 300 feet you would need a real
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by db48x 6mo ago
Game downloads, whether on a console or a PC, come from a CDN. The difference is that Steam has a lot of capacity. They can have millions of players all downloading the same game on the same day at gigabit speeds. Console makers invariably
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by db48x 6mo ago
They give you an IP address, maybe ipv6 or a static ipv4 address if you pay more. They compete on quality of service, network policies, backhaul capacity, price, necessary services like DNS, extras like email or bundled Netflix subscription
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by db48x 6mo ago
Probably just because there are so many ISPs in the USA that keeping track of all of them is impossible. I only know about it because I’m a customer (but not sadly of their 50Gbps service; maybe one day).
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by db48x 6mo ago
> What are people doing with their higher-speed Internet connections that makes it valuable to have such fast ones??! Honestly, most people go for the shiniest number they can afford. But I will say that as a software developer who has h
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by db48x 6mo ago
That may or may not be true, but in this case many cities signed exclusivity agreements with cable companies in the 60s and 70s when cable was becoming popular. Back then it was not technically feasible to have multiple cable companies shar
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by db48x 6mo ago
XGSPON is actually 40Gbps down, 10Gbps up. The 40Gbps is actually four separate 10Gbps downlinks on different frequencies. Filters are used so that each customer only sees one of those downlinks. Just a little note. > In reality point to

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