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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Is petroleum for chemistry and plastics a GHG source? It seems like the carbon involved stays out of the atmosphere.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
With all the people riding around with these sensors now, shouldn't it be possible to synthesize a very accurate basemap elevation from the reported barometric and GPS readings?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I'm surprised you thought this thing had more bugs than Garmin. My Garmin randomly inserts week-long periods of time into my bike rides, and I'm not the only one: there is an entire site dedicated to un-ruining your Garmin .fit f
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Interesting that you allude this the coexistence of C++, Java, Python, and Go because I think this bolsters my point. The overwhelming majority of services at Google are in C++. There are individual C++ services that consume more resources
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
You and I seem to be using a different denominator to quantify "most" services. I'm thinking of it as "most" in terms of who has all the resources / budget. You seem to be thinking of it in terms of sheer num
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I think you are misreading that comment. He’s saying that stubby is fast, not grpc. In fact performance is the big unknown with grpc adoption within google. It definitely isn’t on par with stubby today and it has to get there before anyone
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Unclear in what way existing DNS and certificate attestation is not peer-to-peer. DNS authority lies wherever you want it to lie, and root certificates are yours to honor or ignore. I don't see what real material benefit this has.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Many of Google's advances in machine learning really do owe their existence to just throwing computers at the problem. Jeff Dean et al realized several years back that there were techniques in the literature that didn't seem to w
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
How do you figure in the chance that some birdbrain from Microsoft is going to call you up and demand that you participate in a "voluntary" audit of your license compliance, which you agreed to as a term of your Windows license ag
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
You're kidding about people preferring the human, right? If I have a choice between what is know is a professionally maintained fleet vehicle owned and operated by Google, or a chance of riding in some guy's f'ed up Toyota w
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Consider a motorcycle.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
While it's amusing to consider that someone cares, the fact is that if someone wanted to specifically surveil you the most likely way to do so would be to crack into your computers and network devices. That's the real threat mo
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I've had my Google OnHub for three years now and it works flawlessly, regularly updating itself without any detectable downtime. It is by far the longest that I've had any wifi access point, and it is the only one I haven't
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Soon to be followed by: Uber shuts down, full stop. Sure, Softbank shoveled another shipload of money into the gaping maw of this capital furnace, but they're still burning it. Now, in addition to a tragically bad main business, they
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
A truck stuffed to the gills with batteries would hold maybe 4 MW-hours of energy. You'd need a lot of trucks, except most of the time you wouldn't need any of them and they'd just sit around. Sounds expensive?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Will it be possible with solar and on-site storage to largely roll back rural electrification grid? In California PG&E can't afford[1] to maintain the rural system and it just starts fires constantly. 1: Can't afford it, net
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
At the same time google was stocking every level of their org chart with legendary engineers, Yahoo appointed a demented Scientologist from Hollywood as their CEO. Yahoo for some reason thought they were in the show business. They could not
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Oddly, when I go hiking in the forest what often happens is I can hear two people, miles away, yapping at each other at the tops of their lungs.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
This is irrelevant to American anti-trust law. Europe will move to protect competitors, but America will only act to protect the consumer.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That doesn't provide a perfect answer. Sanjay and Jeff (and a lot of other senior Googlers) were all at DEC. Why didn't DEC succeed to the degree that Google has?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
gnuplot> set term xterm
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That's also true of any property in San Francisco, rent control notwithstanding. As long as one pays the rent, one is at home. There is a lot of jurisprudence around this. For example, if I live in a property for 30 days, I am the t
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
$35k, that's cute. A friend of mine was the tenant of a rent-controlled victorian house in SF's mission and the landlord's heirs paid him a quarter million to get lost. He took the money and bought a house in Oregon. The l
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The underlying operation of multiplying a shitload of numbers together hasn't changed at all. Google's revisions have essentially been more and way more multipliers, respectively. The main problem with FPGAs is having to deal wit
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Bazel comes with an installer package that you click and run. I didn't find it that complicated. It comes out of the box with CROSSTOOL support for GCC, clang, and MSVC on Windows, among dozens of other toolchains. https:/&#x2F
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
You could build with bazel, which ships compiler configs for clang and gcc on linux (among other combinations) in its "CROSSTOOL"[1] file. Then it's trivial to switch compilers with one argument. This feature is a result of
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Because gcc got faster or because clang got slower?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
This is what I do. I use clang for everything except the final release. I get clang's speed and superior error messages while I'm editing code, and I get the very slightly, but measurably faster code generated by GCC.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
For C++ in my experience clang is much faster, especially for plain (unoptimized) builds.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The same way they are reported when it's open: approximately, with the cooperation of the various market makers.

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