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by exacube 8y ago
I'd love some further explanation here: what does locking memory mean in this context? For what purpose do security sensitive programs lock their memory? what is the performance degradation that happens with low-spec computers?
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by exacube 8y ago
i personally started to find dynamically/optionally typed languages troublesome to read -- i have to do type deduction in my head, which just feel burdensome. as simple and easy as python feels without static typing, a handful of files
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by exacube 8y ago
yes, if the government could manage to pass a good law there :) but in the event that the government won't, tipping helps correct the situation.
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by exacube 8y ago
yes! tipping is like a naturally occuring form of redistrbution of wealth in capitalist countries :) I personally view the evolution of tipping culture as positive on the whole. and also, I think people tend to tip a bit higher if they feel
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by exacube 8y ago
It's pretty possible, and has been for a while: 1) Flutter already implements the Material spec and Cupertino spec, so the biggest cost, the upfront cost, is satisfied. In fact, the Flutter team found inconsistencies with the Cupertin
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by exacube 8y ago
From googling: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-font-performance/ Skip to "Here is a comparison of hosting Open Sans locally vs Google CDN." They found it was faster to use a Google CDN. One of the thing
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by exacube 9y ago
> God, how arrogant. It's one thing to be opinionated about music, it's another to judge another's enjoyment It was meant in jest
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by exacube 9y ago
it sounds like you only enjoy it, not love it :P if you look at Spotify, you find they have all these features that music lovers would use, even though they may not be the majority class of users. This feels to me like Apple is marketing t
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by exacube 9y ago
Couldn't have guessed from this comment/URL that it would be about finding/accepting jesus.
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by exacube 9y ago
IIRC the biggest contributor to the transportation's emission are freight ships that cross the oceans. I wonder how they will be solved.. Maybe going all-electric will help people transform their mindset to no-emissions production (si
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by exacube 9y ago
Every browser borrows from other browsers. But really, browsers are mostly technology, and Chrome was a few notches above all the other browsers in terms of performance, security and crash-recovery. The browser industry owes a lot to Chro
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by exacube 9y ago
1) using channels + goroutine to implement a map doesn't seem like the most sensible thing to do; even golang's new sync.Map type is implemented with mutexs (eg https://github.com/golang/sync/blob/m
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by exacube 9y ago
or atleast ~4 years like iOS devices get.
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by exacube 9y ago
lyft currently does like 200-250 million rides/yr [1] with a crazy trajectory. if we "conservatively" assume 40-50% average growth YOY in ridership that's like 6 billion rides/yr by 2025.. which puts this estimate a
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by exacube 9y ago
if this is not a joke, i'm amazed by your perspective..
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by exacube 9y ago
from googling: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Nuclear/cardat.ht... "The low activity of the carbon-14 limits age determinations to the order of 50,000 years by counting techniques."
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by exacube 9y ago
how so? how would a type system have helped here
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by exacube 10y ago
maybe you don't mean it, but the way you speak sounds very judgemental and not-in-my-backyardy.
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by exacube 10y ago
I find it odd to tip for professions where they earn decently; restaurant waiters don't earn much (they earn 'restaurant minimums' or even under the table) and rely on tips. Uber and Lyft drivers earn decently ($20/hr+ i
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by exacube 10y ago
this is not ockham's razor. people here are refuting the 40% hiring decline, so it's not an explanation to choose from to begin with.
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by exacube 10y ago
there are many forms of intelligence!
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by exacube 10y ago
how do they estimate this stuff?
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by exacube 10y ago
definitely slow farts (it is not emulated, but runs inside a linux container instead, so it won't have that emulation overhead)
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by exacube 10y ago
i'm pretty sure they're talking about adding these "layers" at the C++ stdlib level, not at the language level. So it will remain portable.
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by exacube 10y ago
in general, hardware improvements will drive new swanky software, and make computing on smartphones closer to a first class citizen (remember motorola's laptop+phone dock, where the phone powers the laptop?). another big pain point is
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by exacube 10y ago
How do the economics of providing Basic Income work? I guess you would have increase taxes or provide lesser services? e.g., expect that basic income will cover some parts of the medical costs and provide a lesser health care for the averag
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by exacube 10y ago
:( !!!
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by exacube 11y ago
I've recently started going through the Raft lab for 6.824 (and still working on it), and I /highly/ recommend doing the labs in this course (I am not an MIT student, nor in college). This course is fairly practical in natur
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by exacube 11y ago
but the loss (from the stock tanking) would be the same regardless of how many employees had options though, no?
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by exacube 11y ago
If your data is growing at this rate (and you plan to keep this data around), you'd want a distributed database that can scale to terabytes. But it might be overkill if you dont care for data consistency (i.e., you dont need to read

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