ericbarrett

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by ericbarrett 6y ago
All good points. But now imagine all the ships are traveling at 14,500 knots and can’t stop or turn, aside from minor depth changes.
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
In the quantity and pressure required to match even a fraction of the existing energy grid, wouldn’t transportation be insanely dangerous? A cylinder of highly pressurized air is basically a bomb.
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
The price of securities is also an interface between the perceived value of the company and the value of US dollars exchanged for shares thereof. So while the market may be “bullish,” it could also be that the value of dollars has dropped a
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
I think these ads front a range of schemes, from boring old check fraud (as described) to pyramid schemes to money muling.
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
I also live in L.A. and can attest to how nasty tiger mosquitos are. When I was still using our patio, I had eight bites on one foot (they like to go for the lower limbs where you can’t hear them). One of them is still scarred 6 months late
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
This culture was absolutely pervasive throughout Silicon Valley, likely since the first ground was broken for the first office park. I remember being taken to a strip club lunch by a field team, years before Zuckerberg graduated high schoo
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
In this case sag is meant literally. https://www.atcllc.com/blog/why-do-power-lines-sag-on-hot-da...
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
I read grandparent's post as saying that despite all the research and untold amounts of compute power poured into NLP over the decades, its practitioners have yet to address the original real-world goals that led us to study it in the
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
Many of these even now remain on dial-up, so they just have a modem and the cable is a phone jack. If you have a favorite bodega ATM that always takes 15 seconds to respond after you type your PIN, it's probably dialing. Newer ATMs a
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
In 2012 I was an infrastructure engineer at Facebook. Up to that point I had the typical IC's view of project managers as worthless, typical bureaucracy, etc. All the stereotypes. In fact we were proud of working without PMs in our
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
The fossil record indicates life on Earth appeared no later than about 800,000,000 years after it first formed, and possibly much sooner. While there’s no real evidence for panspermia, it is a fun topic to read about. I recall one hypothes
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
These only seem “vaguely connected” if you haven’t studied them together. IAM and S3 are intricately intertwined and you should understand both at at least an intermediate level to work with them in sensitive environments. (Note that IAM ha
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
I really have to disagree here, at least with your conclusions re complexity. No doubt AWS S3 configuration is very technical and has a lot of docs and corner cases. However, if you are a company like Twilio, and S3 is front-and-center th
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
It's closer to Quickbooks. Gnucash's interface is stripped-down but fairly friendly, focused directly on the chart of accounts and registers, with lots of keyboard shortcuts and relatively little unintuitive behavior. It runs fi
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
Grant and I lived in the same building in San Francisco for a while and I met him at the HOA-run functions. Always a delight to talk to about his crazy path through life. He was a good man and I'm really sorry to hear of his passing.
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by ericbarrett 6y ago
You have nailed it; I agree this is the biggest reason why the idea of CPU scaling matching current GPU chips is exciting. Many other replies speak of the difference between “GPU” and “CPU” without describing it—it’s thread divergence. Proc