echlebek

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by echlebek 5y ago
"Architect" seems a bit strong but the article on him says he contributed to famine in the USSR and China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Consequences_of...
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by echlebek 5y ago
There's no evidence the disk crashed in this case.
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by echlebek 5y ago
Your idea about paying a yearly subscription vs having advertising presents a false dichotomy. Since the internet is a public good, search functionality could be reasonably delivered for cents on the dollar by a public utility.
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by echlebek 5y ago
Not everyone can leave their job at the drop of a hat, even with a big severance package. You don't know their motivations or plans.
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by echlebek 5y ago
According to the SAR people I follow on twitter, What3Words is worse in every way than simple Lat/Long.
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by echlebek 5y ago
My prediction: there will never be a bottom for facebook.
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by echlebek 5y ago
Ell Oh Ell. LSD is a Schedule I controlled substance. That means you can go to jail for a long time just for having some. Boards can't afford to have CEOs that might go to jail.
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by echlebek 5y ago
If you view it as an improvement to your home, which increases your home's value, then it can make more financial sense than if you only look at the pure electricity savings.
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by echlebek 6y ago
They are just respecting older, more venerable tools, like find.
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by echlebek 6y ago
I'd say it was unnecessarily dismissive.
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by echlebek 6y ago
The headline could use some "in mice" in it.
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by echlebek 6y ago
https://twitter.com/maplecocaine/status/1080665226410889217
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by echlebek 6y ago
I saw this soon after they tweeted it. I personally found it to be utterly pathetic, even before Klippenstein exposed it as a lie later that day. Extremely condescending, but also tone deaf and ignorant. A lesson on what not to do in publ
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by echlebek 6y ago
I don't think that's true either. You can get 8-core desktop Ryzen parts that have a TDP of 65 watts. I have a passively cooled 8-core Ryzen system that uses a 240 watt power supply. Also: by the time you've wired up 8 raspis
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by echlebek 6y ago
I've read through some of the comments here, and more of you need to quit your jobs.
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by echlebek 6y ago
The 1070 had GDDR5 RAM and the 3070 has GDDR6X RAM. Instead of greater capacity, we get greater bandwidth. https://graphicscardhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gddr6...
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by echlebek 6y ago
This is an awesome comment, thank you! I had long wondered myself why GPU power delivery was so complicated.
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by echlebek 6y ago
The conclusion seems based on the relative execution times for the two benchmarks. Since the benchmarks are measured in the same way, their error bars should be basically the same as well. This analysis is not an analysis of the absolute ex
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by echlebek 6y ago
This self-indulgent rhetoric is so tiresome, and its aims are so blatantly transparent.
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by echlebek 6y ago
With MADV_FREE behaviour, RSS isn't even a useful measurement.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Nobody seems to have posted Stuart Halloway's Narcissistic Design yet, so I'll just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZv-kQUSi4 Has some great insights and quips. "Nothing says 'screw yo
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by echlebek 6y ago
HN feels more like a single subreddit than reddit as a whole. There is far greater cultural diversity on reddit.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Thanks for the great blog post, and congrats on finding that long dormant bug!
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by echlebek 6y ago
Very cool, although I prefer semantic navigation. In vim-go: :GoDef Takes me to the place that the declaration or symbol exists at. Then when I need to go back, I just :bp If I want to see the docs, I just: :GoDoc Take
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by echlebek 6y ago
The USA should change its laws so that fraudulent news outlets can be sued into oblivion. Then they won't need censoring.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Great summary of the article right here.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Rob Pike already made an easier way to do this, using go generate, in 2014. https://blog.golang.org/generate
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by echlebek 6y ago
> I think that retribution, which is of course the principal component of justice That ain't necessarily so, and not every penal system has that philosophy. If prisons turn out people who are unemployable, they will simply keep doin
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by echlebek 6y ago
People aren't just going to write things they don't have an interest in.
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by echlebek 6y ago
The very article you posted backs up the claim in the very first paragraph.

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