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by gaius 8y ago
The data centre editions have bigger heatsinks so you can run them 24/7. But that would cost a few dollars, not thousands...
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by gaius 8y ago
There are dark sides to every industry, for example when does a game cross the line into being a Skinner box? I don’t think it’s as simple as industry A unalloyed good, industry B unmitigated evil.
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by gaius 8y ago
Leader GPU too, they are Dutch
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by gaius 8y ago
much of the benefit comes from the fact that one gets to work on games as opposed to B2B SAAS apps or other banal businesses I’ve sometimes wondered if that’s true. I mean debugging a race condition in C++ is going to be the same in a gam
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by gaius 8y ago
There are always alarm bells, free fruitbowls disappearing, drinks fridge replaced by vending machines and suchlike.
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by gaius 8y ago
Just a suspicion based on Eric Schmidt being so involved with Hillary’s campaign. But the link I posted shows that there are no technical barriers to doing it, and that doing it is openly discussed within Google
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by gaius 8y ago
It was clear that the military had full control over the flow of information They learnt the lessons of the Falklands, where the BBC was happily informing the Argentinians that e.g. they were setting their bomb fuses wrong...
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by gaius 8y ago
The issue is that Google are shipping something with a default configuration that violates their own policy, then blaming the user of it
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by gaius 8y ago
Search for "gun rights" in Google, and the Wikipedia feature box on the top-right of the results page is the Gun Control article. It is known that Google employees have the capability to skew search results politically, just n
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by gaius 8y ago
a lot of Chinese parents send their children to study abroad because they know Chinese universities suck I'm told the value of a British degree, once highly prestigious, is rapidly declining in China due to the number of degree mills
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by gaius 8y ago
that doctors themselves are one of the leading causes of death in the united states. Didn’t Machiavelli say the best way to assassinate someone was to assign them a private physician? It’s been going on ever since there were doctors.
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by gaius 8y ago
you're liable to scare away good talent that way People, in general, like to talk about themselves, and engineers like to talk about their own code. "See this if statement, well there's a funny story behind that...". A
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by gaius 8y ago
This is a blast from the past Sourceforge too, the only thing more retro was if this was posted on Slashdot.
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by gaius 8y ago
In fact, taxes and bureaucracy are both way higher in Germany. People generally don’t mind paying a premium in time or money if they feel what they get it worth it. Everyone knows this is true, witness people happily stand in line for hou
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by gaius 8y ago
My take: all the progress in the last 30 years has been in hardware. Software is going in circles.
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by gaius 8y ago
They're all data scientists and ML engineers now, which means all the data mining, cleaning/preparation and labeling is going to be beneath them You have absolutely hit the nail on the head there and this mirrors my observations
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by gaius 8y ago
You just posted a link that is over 4 years old. Yes, to make my point that it hasn't been true "for a long time". Yes Mongo had JSON support before PG did, but PG soon surpassed it. these tired memes just make you look ba
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by gaius 8y ago
MongoDB is a much better JSON store That hasn't been true for a long time, if it even ever really was when you consider that the key role of a database is to reliably persist your data https://www.enterprisedb.com/n
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by gaius 8y ago
Could you please elaborate how to use Postgres as a time series database (like InfluxDB)? There's some good discussion of it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16539317
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by gaius 8y ago
The Soviet central planners allocated different activities to different countries. If it had not been Bulgaria it could just have easily been Czechoslovakia or Romania.
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by gaius 8y ago
Investing in Indian Bank as a depositor will get you a guaranteed 6-7% return per annum depending on the bank. That would be free money, so it’s already priced into the exchange rate. All other things being equal if you transferred US dol
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by gaius 8y ago
Check out what Citus are doing with PG https://www.citusdata.com
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by gaius 8y ago
If you're an employee (no equity), be assured your employers don't care about you when the money starts to dry up Plot twist: they don’t care about anyone holding mere common stock. That’s why “preferred stock” became a thing.
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by gaius 8y ago
With Postgres you don't need MongoDB, InfluxDB, or any other trendy thing, Postgres does it all, and better than all the wannabes.
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by gaius 8y ago
He was fired for making his feelings about his views in relationship to his company a national issue. Point of order: Regardless of Damore's thoughts, he posted them on an internal message board didn't he? It was the leaker who
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by gaius 8y ago
“Don’t be evil unless it’s scalable”
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by gaius 8y ago
Everyone knows that you can be fired or worse if you're caught leaking. But that’s not what’s happening. They are being reported to HR for even reading it or being aware of it. That’s why this is relevant. Just like the way Google
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by gaius 8y ago
in some other nodejs code ML/DL is nothing at all like webdev :-) but these days you can compile OCaml to JavaScript if you want, I encourage you to check it out
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by gaius 8y ago
But this will bring home the reality of how it can be used against them. Just as they have helped to gather information that could be turned against ordinary people very easily.
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by gaius 8y ago
Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained “pixel trackers” that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined. Not very nice being tracked is it? I hope that will be a wake-up call for eve

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