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by engie 3y ago
Synergy worked great without perceptible lag for normal desktop stuff in the late 90s (including across all the steam powered pcs in the school computer room).
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by engie 3y ago
I chatted to a Facebook engineer at one of the early HN London events back in 2013, got talked into sending through a CV and I've been with ... Meta ever since. Very grateful to this community as it had genuinely never occurred to me t
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by engie 5y ago
This is the key observation - hitting breakpoints in efficiency that let us remove active cooling, silicon area or heatsinks reduce weight, cost & complexity.
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by engie 5y ago
Latency can be a key consideration. Async style code can make it a lot easier to fire off a set of requests in parallel and wait for all the responses to come back (e.g. with https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/asynchronous-oper
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by engie 6y ago
I hope being able to assemble the turbine & the "foundations" together in a factory brings better economies of scale than factory turbine with foundations built in situ.
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by engie 6y ago
Being able to move the bulk of building an offshore turbine into a factory could lead to amazing economies of scale. It'll be an incredible assembly line to pull together 10,000 ton of materials but if we need to build hundreds of thou
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by engie 6y ago
Read tracking is a feature of many/most popular chat clients (certainly hangouts, messenger & whatsapp), and anecdotally it seems to be valuable. Of course, everyone would love to see the read status of other people yet be able to