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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I understand they are privileged but the way Linux handles this feature seems acceptable.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Why does this need to be a kernel extension? Is there really no access to MSRs in macos as shipped by Apple?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
It’s not just a goof, it’s the entire hook of the article and it’s repeated twice. And although not pedantically wrong, the description of Putnam as the GOP candidate for governor is highly misleading. He’s running in the primary for the
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That article is so confused that I’d be careful taking any of it at face value. For one thing there certainly is not anyone named Adam Putnam running as the Republican candidate for Governor of California.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Why do you assume there's any "AI" in it at all?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
You have to be kidding, right? How much do you think it would cost, per mile, to build roads capable of moving 100k people per hour? That's a 100-lane freeway. California High Speed Rail is being built because of all the alternative
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The 2013 Hyperloop paper claims a capacity of 840 pax/hour under some pretty optimistic assumptions. I'm willing to grant them all these assumptions because this number is tiny and pathetic. A highway has a nominal capacity of 1
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
China probably sees it as being in their long-term interest to prop up American hyperloop companies so that Americans don't come to their senses and build trains. The longer we're distracted by hyperloops, on-demand taxi services
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Did you mean should we compare it to airports? LAX will land 54 aircraft in the 60 minutes starting now, and I assure you that amounts to rather more than 1000 pax/hour.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Since the capacity of a Hyperloop system is close to zero (less than 1000 passengers per hour, much less than a lane of highway and two orders of magnitude less than an ordinary railroad), it doesn't really matter where you put it.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
It reads to me like the bug required a particular feature to be enabled, and the feature wasn't enable when the software was rolling out, then the feature was globally knife-switched to the "on" position without an orderly st
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
There’s a particular global system that’s very reliable — Global Chubby — and to keep people from putting it in their serving path they just regularly take it down for like an hour per quarter.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The green space is amazing but we didn't build the housing so everyone can enjoy it. All the blocks within walking distance of Golden Gate Park should be upzoned to five stories. The rest of the city should have, at a minimum, blanke
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
When San Francisco builds a desk for an office worker and no corresponding house, that person moves to Tracy where household water consumption is roughly triple what it is in San Francisco. Given that San Francisco enjoys a reliable water
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Yes, a real heart-breaker. http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Obviously the people who enjoyed the benefits of the borrowed money. Which might have been road users and university students, but actually turned out to be hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The USA enjoys a unique position with respect to sovereign debt, since it is denominated in our own currency. Also, a great deal of it is owed to ourselves and it has always been the plan of political parties to just stiff future generation
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I suspect they'll treat it as a secret since telling you the magic formula for established accounts will compromise their anti-abuse regime. It is the same reason there are no docs about how to become a high-reputation email origin fr
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
It’s odd that people think Google should keep their business running even when “minor credit card issues” result in them not being paid. If you don’t pay the meter your car gets towed. Simple.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
This is the problem with common economic measures. We spend 18% of GDP on health care, but that's just overhead and we should be trying to drive it to zero.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
If there were any EU tech companies to check, then they would be.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Actually the x86 instruction format is key to Intel's performance dominance. It happens to be rather dense in terms of instruction per byte, and it turns out that instruction cache hit rate (and iTLB hit rate) are extremely important
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Pulling out of a nosedive is a neat trick at an airshow, but it's less fun when the plane slams into the ground. Maybe you think Dropbox is on a trajectory to turn a profit, but we won't know for a few more quarters. It also rem
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The second statement is interesting, because it contradicts the thinking within Google (platforms and capacity management) that in the long run we're all deeply screwed on the DRAM front, whereas CPU performance will probably not hit a
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I noticed the word "profit" doesn't appear anywhere in the article. Will Dropbox ever make money?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I don't know why this is flagged. I'm honestly interested. Why not a bunch of other things, like Dropbox Paper or Google Docs?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
In the running for worst presentation ever. Most of this doesn’t seem to even be rendering on Chrome/iOS and the parts that do render disappear as soon as I get them where I want them on the screen.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
What I see on SO is a lot of really annoying people refusing to answer simple questions because they believe, based on nothing, they know more about the question than the person who asked it.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Technically the Prime Minister is forbidden from driving to work, or to any other place.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Kind of a weird argument that nobody wants to take the bus or the train because it's too crowded. Very Berra.

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