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by ebg13 6y ago
> it takes me ages to convince myself this implementation is correct It would take them less time to convince themself if they switched min and num to put the values in proper semantic order: min < num < max. Math.min(Math.max(mi
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by ebg13 6y ago
> What's the difference between a homemade pastry and store bought pastry? People consume less when consumption is less convenient. A billion people aren't going to start baking cupcakes every day.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> if the topic is important for the company they probably already do what is the best Having worked at many companies, I find that statement very bizarrely naive. I don't understand how anyone with any real world experience could
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by ebg13 6y ago
> trends are less likely to be fake I understand why someone would think that, and I do it myself too, but do we have evidence that it's true?
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by ebg13 6y ago
Because their entire comment is "here are reasons why you should have known".
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by ebg13 6y ago
You say "I'm sorry", but in context it really sounds like you're saying "fuck you". I like to consider things this way... At your local grocery store how vigilant are you that your orange juice carton might act
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by ebg13 6y ago
Another name for it is being maliciously or callously antisocial. I wish fewer people desired to tear apart the social fabric for short term personal gain. A world where people could trust each other would be a better world for everyone inc
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by ebg13 6y ago
They say more electrons, not more energy.
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by ebg13 6y ago
It's interesting that, despite Seagate being relatively bad compared to HGST, Backblaze keeps installing more and more Seagate drives and not that many HGST drives. I guess the analysis that's missing here is the cost per drive ho
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The person holds onto the rope with his gloved hands and feet and slides down it. Someone decided to make a special name for sliding down a rope. Ok. What other fun names can we make for common uses? Do firefighters in the station &q
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Why "the entire western world"? As an European, why should we align with the US in this? That's some real cut-your-own-nose-off-to-spite-your-face territory. This is not aligning with the US. This is defending against
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Yup, and to that point, the fix is really stupid simple, push the drivers into the linux kernel mainline and give google (or whoever) a kernel build profile for your device. "If only the bad people would just stop being bad!&quo
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by ebg13 6y ago
That's wrong everywhere with cable internet. See my response to your other similar comment.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Cable boxes do not typically have bidirectional connections This hasn't been true in many places since the takeover of digital cable in the 2000s. Without a bidirectional data link, how do you think cable internet works? Or cabl
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by ebg13 6y ago
> A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company Redhat is not a Silicon Valley company.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> As with many voice control systems, you have to say a specific phrase, which presents a discovery problem: how do users learn that phrase unless they're the kind of people who search out documentation on the internet. The intern
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by ebg13 6y ago
Sorry. My context here is cable boxes, which do communicate bidirectionally and somehow take even longer than DVB receivers to change channels. If you're actually receiving everything all the time, then there are other things you can d
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by ebg13 6y ago
Sorry. My context here is cable boxes, which do communicate bidirectionally and somehow take even longer than DVB receivers to change channels. If you're actually receiving everything all the time, then there are other things you can d
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by ebg13 6y ago
Currently I'm talking only about sending _one_ additional I-frame per station switch at the time of the switch, not always sending them or sending them for unrelated broadcasts. I just object to the idea that it's reasonable for a
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by ebg13 6y ago
No. It will work regardless. I'm talking about having a single additional client decompress the broadcast and act as a first-frame keyframe source based on the decompressed stream. In a traditional compressed stream, a reconstructed fr
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by ebg13 6y ago
It was huge at the time. It only died because Apple killed it.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The technical reason is that digital TV is a heavily compressed signal [1] (used to be MPEG2, perhaps they have moved on to h.264) with a GOP (group of pictures) length that is usually around 0.5-2 seconds. Just because they transmit
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by ebg13 6y ago
> With newer M.2 drives like the 970 EVO or Sabrent Rocket Apple has no valid excuse for charging so damn much for storage... Can you show any other major manufacturer that includes a competitive internal drive for significantly less?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> What kind of magic fairy dust SSDs are they using I don't know about magic fairy dust, but Apple's SSDs are known to be phenomenally fast in benchmarks. $300/TB is compared to $200/TB aftermarket for a high end NV
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by ebg13 6y ago
> We should be able to say say “I’m free for meetings from 2-5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and if you want to talk to me then that’s when you can.” It's a nice idea, but the moment you have more than a very small handful of peopl
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by ebg13 6y ago
It's described in the article.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Now that Tesla does it, people love it. No they don't. Nobody ever applauds this. People buy Teslas despite the touchscreen being the only way to do certain things, not because of it. > Is there a psychological name for this
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I asserted that American's will notice a travel ban A very small percentage of Americans will notice an overseas travel ban right now, given that: 1. Only 20-30% of US citizens have _ever_in_their_lives_ traveled outside of Nort
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by ebg13 6y ago
I'm not even talking about varying heights of cells, just resizing the window. It. jumps. and. jerks. and. crawls. and. chugs. Even if it's a fresh blank sheet. And the problem gets noticeably and rapidly worse the bigger the wind
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by ebg13 6y ago
Yes, sorry, that part of what I wrote was unclear, but that's what I meant. I edited to hopefully clarify.

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