grandinj

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by grandinj 7y ago
Any very large project is expected to have a number of embarrassing failures. You just don't hear about most of them. Not surprisingly, on a __military__ ship, sewage is not considered mission critical and required to have multiple red
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by grandinj 7y ago
Given the size and complexity of such a device, and the limited number of them that are constructed (which means they are always a one-off), it would be a miracle on the order of Moses parting the Red Sea for one of them to be built __witho
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by grandinj 7y ago
(Paraphrasing because of my limited understanding of what my wife did) The biological pathway that makes them eat plastic is pretty card to keep activated. It's not a very profitable pathway, so the bugs tend to try eating other stuff
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by grandinj 7y ago
These microbes are surprisingly hard to scale up i.e. to make them work on large amounts of product at a time. (My wife did research on such bugs for a while). All sorts of things start happening once you have a lot of them, and the process
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by grandinj 7y ago
So then the real problem is the debt, most likely that US corporate debt is given special tax treatment.
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by grandinj 7y ago
If they hadn't used stock buybacks, they would have issued dividends, and we would be in the same situation.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Exactly. Also, that scatter has very high variance. I feel a lot less confident about the authors conclusions if they call that a "perfect" correlation
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by grandinj 7y ago
Terrible is hyperbole. They're not state of the art, but they are pretty decent. If you are using multi-G data structures, or chasing that last 2% of performance, then sure, they will make a difference. But in most large applications,
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by grandinj 7y ago
Second this. Recursive descent parsers are much easier in the long run, even if you can't immediately see your grammar after they have grown for a while.
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by grandinj 7y ago
They pay waaaaaaay more to keep their people. And there are powerful incentives at work - competition would seriously diminish their rewards.
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by grandinj 7y ago
There are 10 million lines of libreoffice code that has been updated to use these features
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by grandinj 7y ago
Or you could help fix up Libreoffice Base which badly needs some love
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by grandinj 7y ago
We do __now__, but that is a fairly recent thing (within the last couple of years). When this brouhaha started the projected costs looked astronomical, and seriously economically debilitating.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Oh more likely, both of them are correlated with a third variable (i.e. confounding) which is most likely living in a dense city
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by grandinj 7y ago
For large data structures I sometimes move them off the Java heap using the NIO/ByteBuffer APIs, which keeps my normal working set smaller. Only works for certain use-cases though.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Isn't this where Linux excels?
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by grandinj 7y ago
Another way of saying this: S&P 500 profits now about 10% of all R&D spending in the US. (Assuming buybacks return 10% to shareholders, which is optimistic) Because buybacks are just another way of returning profits to shareholders.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Sounds like go is missing the Java equivalent of -Xms which sets the minimum heap size before GC is necessary
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by grandinj 7y ago
Yeah, our kerning is not great. We're slowly chipping away at the problem because it requires fixes at several different layers.
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by grandinj 7y ago
I believe accessibility integration is still on the to-do list.
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by grandinj 7y ago
The problem with Wayland is the extremely long tail of use-cases that it does not cover (yet). (For example, I use VNC extensively and it has a lot of issues there still)
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by grandinj 7y ago
I completely agree. Silence is indeed the most useful solution. I routinely block, ignore or otherwise disassociate myself from issues/features/users/etc that I am not interested in. It is just a whole lot less emotionally de
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by grandinj 7y ago
Strikes me that some services ideally need to expose multiple interfaces, and that isolation should be on a per-service-interface basis. E.g. the monitoring service should only be able to access the metrics part of each service.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Even third world countries like South Africa can afford free online tax filing for the majority of taxpayers.
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by grandinj 7y ago
how long before it starts implementing SQL over the input data? They are already tables after all :-)
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by grandinj 7y ago
I have found (in mild but sometimes warm South Africa) that the best bet is to prevent the sun from getting through the windows. Curtains/blinds are not nearly as effective as external shutters or some kind of external blind. I make my
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by grandinj 7y ago
git was deliberately designed around the "known fast" things in Linux. One of those is that path name lookup for certain file attributes is dirt cheap because of the dentry cache. Since Windows doesn't have an equivalent, git
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by grandinj 7y ago
Nothing much will change (unfortunately) until the fish population crashes, the fishing industry is decimated, and thus there is no-one left to complain when sustainable fishing laws are passed. I really wish it were otherwise.
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by grandinj 7y ago
That's actually just a thing called "fallibility". We live in an age where so much stuff is so readily fixable we don't remember how common this used to be. We keep eliminating sources of error, but there will always be
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by grandinj 7y ago
I agree, skipping soap helps a lot. And when I do use it, I use liquid soap rather than bar soap. No idea why that is better.

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