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by gopalv 6y ago
> Is this study important because they found the gene (or a gene?) that corresponds to that? The paper only concludes that the gene is inactive when there's demyelination, the paper doesn't actually say that it causes it. The
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Why this is being framed as a hardware/OS error? Because this error closely matches the new Tesla hardware replacement (MCU mmc is not a "wear item" or not, depending on who you ask) and like that chip, the M1 also has n
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by gopalv 6y ago
> It's kind like a snapshot-based local history. You can extend it to remote-history too, because git makes it almost trivial to create a repo that you want to work over the network (without a running server of any kind). I use git
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by gopalv 6y ago
> What's special about natural gas here? On/off in seconds as the sun fades or the wind drops to fill in for the missing power output.
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by gopalv 6y ago
> For a 50-entry timeline, the latency is usually less than 25 milliseconds. There are a lot of good ideas which don't scale down to a smaller single-core system. For example, there's a CROSS JOIN in that example, which is jus
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Be wary of any references about this that are from before 2013. And now that it is 2021, ignore the pre-2018 numbers. Somewhere in that old thread, I referenced the indirect jump performance hit from the whole Spectre/Meltdown mit
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by gopalv 6y ago
> This being a zero-sum game doesn’t matter, if you have either an edge or are simply lucky Picking stocks is basically "I'm feeling lucky". People do win the lottery and not buying a ticket prevents you from ever winning
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by gopalv 6y ago
> I remember it as one of the most productive periods of my life but it was incredibly anti social and got the strangest looks from management. The modern WFH culture has probably made it easier to do that than ever before (plus the lac
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by gopalv 6y ago
> shouldn't it instead try to enforce determinism in any possible way That would only fix the build machine's problem, it wouldn't fix anyone else's builds. A repeatable build without determinism is a fix for all peop
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by gopalv 6y ago
> The round steering wheel looks good and works nicely. This is of course an anecdote, but I'm too tall to sit in a Model 3 and drive it without having my knuckles bump into my knees. Of course, I should probably buy a Model Y, but
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by gopalv 6y ago
> The article feels like a lot of unfortunate self-flagellation for being 'morally incompetent' That's an acceptable thing to do for catharsis, but not so much fun when your diary entry lands on hacker news. The problem i
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by gopalv 6y ago
> As a rule of thumb, your bed should be dedicated to sleep CGP Grey had a pretty good video about living in the lockdown titled "Spaceship you". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck I'd say that a
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by gopalv 6y ago
> seem to be about 25% faster So if you tested sometime between Haswell and Skylake, there was a period when there was no noticeable difference in cgoto vs a switch dispatch[1]. Then Intel got caught up in Meltdown, which is how it was s
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Is that a reference? Can you point me to it? Yes. There was a lot more than this tweet, but there are screenshots. https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1333524631219822600 + https://twitter.com/s
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by gopalv 6y ago
> but it should not become Mission A of the company, or engineering (and other) talent will look elsewhere. There's 3 things that I judge an employer by 1) Sector the company is in (Space, electric cars - Yay) 2) Revenue/Growth
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Do you consider this to be a good thing? Doing the same now, and wondering if it’s okay. It probably does, but not in the way you might expect - takes you out of despair, but not out of the burnout. I keep this cartoon in my bookmarks,
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Accumulating more stored data doesn’t make it slower That is a valid theory when we talk about readers which look at recent data or when you are trying to append data to the existing system. But in practice, the accumulation of cold da
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by gopalv 6y ago
Are you thinking about the area just around the SFO landing zone? I thought that was less of a "won't" and more of a "can't" between the lack of taller building towers and the radio interference zone for the ai
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by gopalv 6y ago
Not satellite offices, I was specifically talking about employers who are entirely local. Yes, the strong incentive is to stay put, stick to the local employer as long as you can and still get a role that pays more money. The skills you get
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by gopalv 6y ago
> no idea where you think all the talent was hiding until covid 19 The talent isn't being converted from potential - as was recently said, "You can't be what you can't see". I was in Kansas City meeting people in
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by gopalv 6y ago
There are reversible bit hash functions too. I've used twang's 64 bit mix in places where the domain is just as big as the hash space - 64 bit to 8 byte hash to 12 byte Y64 strings. That said, the results are almost always ugly, i
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by gopalv 6y ago
> While criminalising hard drugs is not ideal, legalising them and thereby making them more easily available will have a devastating impact and destroy too many lifes. The problem is with demand creation driven by the process, not with t
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by gopalv 6y ago
> It was super awesome when we were able to delete a huge chunk of the GCS Connector for Hadoop It's been a few years, but I lost customer data on gs:// due to listing consistency - create a bunch of files, list dir, rena
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Just making one server run well won't do much to your resume. That's pretty much true, because doing that and that only will also mostly get you hired at a place which has a single server (like say "use SQLite" inst
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Where can I read more about AlO2? Sorry, bad typo for the oxide - Al has many oxides. I meant Al2O3, not Al2O (or AlO2)
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by gopalv 6y ago
> but is iron optimal for such an approach? I found the question equally intriguing. This is still an energy storage medium, so think of it like a very energy dense battery rather than a true fuel & today it is produced by burning ca
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by gopalv 6y ago
> we can check other elements as potential reversible fuels In theory, you want an abundant substance which takes up oxygen, produces solid waste, which is easy to clean up, raw material which is stable in outdoor conditions (if spilled)
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by gopalv 6y ago
> already beat you to it. Netflix's "Connected" had an episode which was probably prescient on this topic. There was an election analyst at the end of the episode, who said that Benford's law is broken when people vo
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Works temporarily but doesn't last? I'd have assumed it meant a tolerance would kick in after a few rounds. 1 reset day out of every 100 does sound achievable/possible even with clinical administration, but needing it ev
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by gopalv 6y ago
> many of those bugs have been covered up for years by the relatively friendlier x86 memory model vs weaker models like ARM I had to take a peek at a friend's Cavium's ThunderX2 kernel issue a while back, which stops having con

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