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by gok 7y ago
I wonder if they'd still be doing this if they weren't dead last place in the league.
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by gok 7y ago
A bold prediction, given that around 2% of people die every year.
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by gok 7y ago
NeXT was out of the hardware market about a month before P5 shipped, and they were already in the process of trying to move to PPC. The CPU was just about the least interesting chip in NeXT hardware though.
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by gok 7y ago
"Cost Analysis - An x86 Massacre" Quite a headline
665.
by gok 7y ago
It's weird for someone selling an ostensibly breakthrough EV energy storage system to say that he's mostly focusing on plugin hybrids. Batteries aren't the major contributor to cost or complexity in PHEVs.
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by gok 7y ago
They are normalized but also they've run this chip on Geekbench 5: https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/708 [Technically, that's an Opteron 275 instead of a 250, but they're quite similar. 250 was cl
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by gok 7y ago
I think just having an employee explaining "just leave, we'll send you a bill" would be pretty fast, and wouldn't hold up the queue for people who know what's going on.
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by gok 7y ago
That 420 vs. 440 comparison animation is rather problematic. GIF can only represent 256 colors. Most of the artifacts in those images are due to GIF-specific dithering. also, previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by gok 7y ago
Self checkout works ok until: 1. A customer born before 1968 or so shows up 2. The scale's state machine gets corrupted ("UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA") Both of which end up needing more retail labor than a traditional che
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by gok 7y ago
Having used it a few times, it is really cool. I noticed my local Amazon Go locations never really had items worth stealing out on the shelves though, which make me wonder if they're not actually confident in its performance yet. I&#x2
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by gok 7y ago
Suggests we should ban buses.
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by gok 7y ago
Needs a (2016)
673.
by gok 7y ago
Would get a single threaded Geekbench score of around 250, similar to that of a 2013 iPhone.
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by gok 7y ago
That was what I looked at yeah, and I appreciate that it's actually a Netflix gag site for Bojack Horseman but still.
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by gok 7y ago
A lot of the criticisms have been addressed though. Basically no one outside of enthusiasts uses X any more; Android and Chrome OS use an entirely different graphics system. The filesystems have been replaced. Shells have been replaced and&
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by gok 7y ago
> like Sun's Open Look clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory Meanwhile the clock app on my phone is currently using 12 MB. A popular time telling website uses over 100MB on my laptop.
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The 5th-generation Waymo Driver(blog.waymo.com)
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Why Lambda School should have a lower success rate than college(chrisstucchio.com)
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by gok 7y ago
Presumably a stepping stone towards spinoff. Waymo never really made business sense as a part Google. Even technically it only ever made sense in that both AVs and advertising require very complicated algorithms that almost no one understan
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by gok 7y ago
One downside: you will probably need a bit more memory to do the same work. An unmentioned benefit: better ASLR, for what that's worth. > A 64 bit system means that RAM can be accessed in 8 byte read/writes per instruction. I m
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by gok 7y ago
Realistically—if this ever gets approved by regulators—airlines will just sell this as business class.
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by gok 7y ago
The main problem with Market Street for pedestrians is the heroin and poop, not cars.
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Unions push FTC to investigate Amazon for 'anti-competitive practices'(cnbc.com)
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Announcing ArgumentParser(swift.org)
5 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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Where will you need your umbrella?(pudding.cool)
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IBM C/C++ and Fortran compilers to adopt LLVM open source infrastructure(developer.ibm.com)
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by gok 7y ago
But WASM has the same buffer overflow problem, and at least that bad of a perf hit.
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by gok 7y ago
I wonder how this would compare to compiling the sandboxed code with ASan and UBSan on
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by gok 7y ago
From the CNBC article [1]: > The NTSB also called out Huang’s employer, Apple, for failing to set a strict policy for its employees banning non-emergency use of mobile devices while driving Yeah the real problem here is insufficient empl
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by gok 7y ago
Prop 13 essentially makes raising revenue through property taxes impossible in California.

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