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by foota 2y ago
I think part of it's probably that the military is the largest discretionary spending in the US, and it's not especially popular, unlike say NASA or the NPS.
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by foota 2y ago
I think the idea for these words here is more about preferring speed over remote execution and large build caching type of features, but not limiting the subset of toolchain functionality etc.,. In theory if you scoped your build tool to on
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by foota 2y ago
I'm curious, how did you run into performance issues with starlark?
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by foota 2y ago
Personally, I have a (non-functional) TPU sitting on my desk at home :-)
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by foota 2y ago
Op is implying that there's excess labor lying around that with moderate prices (say, what you make in fields like construction, electrical work, etc.,) would be picked up. This isn't the case, or they'd already be taking the
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by foota 2y ago
> If the people aren't there, wages will rise until they show up. Most labor shortages aren't an actual shortage of labor, unless you genuinely can't produce that skillset domestically, or your labor market is so tight tha
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by foota 2y ago
The IERS will never stand for this!
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by foota 2y ago
This is a follow up to when the Fraud was discovered some years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441211 (Funny enough, almost two years to the date).
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Charlie Javice Found Guilty of Defrauding JPMorgan of $175M(nytimes.com)
5 points by foota 2y ago|1 comments
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by foota 2y ago
Maybe less has been written about these newer things, even if they had technically been released?
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by foota 2y ago
I think a lot of people might consider taking a pay cut in return for an easier tech job. In theory working in an equally profitable company by lowering stress and comp for everyone and hiring more seems possible, but I'm not certain t
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by foota 2y ago
I think the goal here is to find more useful algorithms that benefit from quantum computing. Being able to factor primes efficiently is only useful for the sake of the cryptographers' job security :-)
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Benchmark – W3C DOM vs. InnerHTML (2010)(quirksmode.org)
1 points by foota 2y ago|1 comments
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by foota 2y ago
I stumbled on this piece of internet history and thought it was amusing :)
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by foota 2y ago
Maybe the real difference is that costs are hidden in software engineering, but more obvious in other disciplines?
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by foota 2y ago
Okay, this is a nitpick, but I don't think ordinal can be used in that way. "Somehow, the ordinal values of the range seem less likely". I'd probably go with extremes of the range? Or endpoints?
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by foota 2y ago
Interesting, I'm not certain, but I think the same thing (e.g., no contention on cache lines) would be achieved through the versions used in optimistic lock coupling, since reads don't need to take a lock?
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by foota 2y ago
According to this maybe somewhat broken website (idk there's a warning that it's broken but it still seems to work) https://www.netmarketshare.com/ , Chrome has 65% market share on OS X.
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by foota 2y ago
The link title might be misleading if you're not familiar with the process. The justice department (and iiuc Google as well) gets to propose remedies, but it's up to the court what actually happens.
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by foota 2y ago
My new hobby, labelling my unused code as zero contention, because if it's not running there's zero contention :-)
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by foota 2y ago
I'm not familiar with bcachefs, so maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the b-tree discussed here also doesn't need to talk locks except for when data is written? I'm curious about the per-CPU locks you mention though, do you
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by foota 2y ago
This is primarily for in-memory data. You need something for the base layer of a LSM-tree no matter how you do it.
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by foota 2y ago
Will take a look, thanks! I think you meant height-optimized tries, since I had a tough time giving it at first :) Ideally I'd like to find a way to store a non overlapping ordered list of intervals while being able to atomically (wrt
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by foota 2y ago
Funny timing, I've been looking at this recently. Some other well performing concurrent ordered data structures are ART (adaptive radix trees) and masstree. Skiplists are common since they're easier to implement lock free, but the
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by foota 2y ago
The sibling commenter was nicer about this, but what are you even talking about? If anything, I think the finance industry is more built on stock markets, real estate, etc., and manipulating or trading on them to extract value from people p
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by foota 2y ago
Economics has two broad disciplinces, micro and macro economics. Macro economics is for if you're trying to plan or consider the economy, micro economics is if you want to understand a business or person and how it makes decisions etc.
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by foota 2y ago
Ah okay, I think I misinterpreted what you were saying.
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by foota 2y ago
I don't think currencies work the way you seem to be implying. While there are certainly economic advantages to being the currency everyone trades in (in particular for your ability to finance your way out of a recession with less impa
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by foota 2y ago
I don't think this is at all guaranteed by free trade. You could have one country stuck in a rut where they're exporting only raw goods, and they have to buy everything from a (smaller) country making more advanced goods and selli
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by foota 2y ago
In all odds I think by the midterms we'll have seen: * A massive recession as a result of tariffs, job losses, pullback in federal spending (e.g,. on infrastructure), and general economic uncertainty. * A significant public health cri

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