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by ehvatum 6y ago
> GCC does not require a C++ compiler to build it > GCC front-ends are very mature and already support C++. clang's support for C++ is nowhere near what GCC supports. These things were true when Apple first went with Clang, and t
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by ehvatum 6y ago
The proposition that free and open discussion creates civil war is frightening. If we are prepared to believe such a thing, then we have no democracy to protect.
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The argument goes: “we can be prosecuted if people find out that their kids are mail ordering zero-g hydroponic kush from dudes they met in our online software, unless they have already agreed that it’s not our fault.” Unless you want to do
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> Frankly most organisations continue spending on digital ads despite seeing diminishing returns because they have had hired people, often at the VP level to do just ads. These people obviously have to justify their salary so they forcib
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Quiet, the UK will start fining for this too if they think of it.
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A physical adjacency graph of fairly regular shapes will end up resembling the original arrangement, when laid out to minimize edge lengths.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
It can easily go too far, so people are reluctant to see any but the most tasteful and opportune plug.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> One of the things about poison is that the more poisonous it is, the fewer living people it will be found in. Haha, that’s excellent!! PFOAs do have various impacts on mice, at high dosages: https://cfpub.epa.gov/si&#x2
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by ehvatum 6y ago
The kinetic energy required to spin up a rotor mounted on low-friction bearings says very little about its efficiency.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
“When hiring in secondary markets, choose employees with the assumption that you’ll work together for at least 10 years.” A nice idea, but I haaaaaated lying to interviewers about my intentions when they asked me, “where do you see yourself
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by ehvatum 6y ago
That’s an interesting point. Which for-profit Linux distro is using you as an unpaid beta tester for their closed-source code?
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Haha, yes, I love those! Of course, the real answer, “ask your boss Cesare Borgia and do whatever he says, or you will be fired for insubordination”, is conspicuously absent.
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The domestic cat, rampaging through countless new environments, killing everything.
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I think I can explain. The original google interface was a text box hanging in white space. Mind-blowing. Let's use this as our design language.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> Most likely though is that EA only wanted the licenses to F1 and WRC series. Typical.
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We are in the black, and I'm investing time in people to help carry weight. It's at least as hard as the core business. Offering a slice of potential big profits to intelligent people who can't get their shit together does no
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Consider Elon's move from California to Texas. His energy costs are vastly reduced, expenses generally are reduced, and he can continue to hire directly in the US and draw directly on US machine shop production capacity. There should b
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> chemists don’t look for how the quarks are configured Neutron magnetic moment results from quark configuration, in terms of where the up and down quarks like to orbit each other within this gigantic neutron hadron thing. This is useful
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Congrats! After two decades as a salaried engineer, my brain was convinced that customers would give me money just for being a superior human being. People who were brought up right might not have this problem when they start a new thing, b
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Very nice! It might well be possible to produce economically at scale, just by growing your sales and production, over time. Then, when you eventually retire and sell the company to some boring company that cuts costs and quality, the cycle
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by ehvatum 6y ago
We are well beyond material scarcity. If you need something, you can buy it on Amazon, made in China, and it will do a great job of brushing your teeth, boiling your tea, or whatever. But it will not be unique. And so, every need met, our l
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> It will restart itself even if a user launched application is running. This was a huge problem, for me. Some multiaxis CNC toolpaths require days to generate. I missed a critical deadline as a result of Windows 10 deciding to update it
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That's right; you'd have to pay Bezos substantially more to get that sandwich.
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Laughable. I must have heard and read the full name, Nikola Tesla, a thousand times by the time I was 12. I am certainly not alone in this. It’s one thing to name your company after an inventor, and another to name it after an infinitely mo
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by ehvatum 6y ago
"For decades, a mystery epidemic has plagued young male labourers toiling in Nicaragua’s sugar cane plantations..." "They are working in the hottest climates and conditions possible and at the same time their energy expenditu
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by ehvatum 6y ago
In order to build on a superlative strength or insight, a small business absolutely needs the iron will to be good enough at everything. Any crippling weakness must be met head-on and fixed, or growth is out of reach. Bill Gates, Steve Jo
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"here’s the secret to success in just two words: Ship it" "After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%." I feel like this conflict is reconciled today by releasing the first 90% and the
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by ehvatum 6y ago
> Even the humble Nissan LEAF is under 6secs. First in line, I used to habitually accelerate from stoplights at full throttle, in my Leaf. This resulted in ICE vehicles screaming past me, after they finally detonated enough fossil fuel t
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Many of the items on this list seem questionable to me, but perhaps the ideas first nucleated there. From https://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/silicon-valley-achie... : • Long distance high-voltage transmission • Amplify
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> The same people who almost universally use a Mac? This has become steadily less true since about 2012, in my experience. I don’t know any full time developers still using an Apple laptop. The keyboard situation caused a lot of attritio

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