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by greggyb 6y ago
Infinitesimals tautologically exist in any finite representation of numbers. For floats, it's the smallest representable positive number. For integers of any type, it's 1. As for how common they are, we learn about them in any int
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by greggyb 6y ago
Infinitesimals and infinities are nice if you're doing some sort of bucketing logic. tiny = infinitesimal huge = infinity N = number to be bucketed tiny <= N < 10 --> bucket 1 10 <= N < 20 --&g
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by greggyb 6y ago
Put the whole thing on a platform with casters and bolt the case and a UPS to the thing. With a solid metal base, you could put on a shelf for mouse and keyboard and a stand for a monitor. This seems like a pretty achievable project if you
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by greggyb 6y ago
From a data analytics perspective, it is surprising to me if I don't find multiple opportunities for order of magnitude improvements in data processing infrastructure at my clients. At one client where I was doing more IC dev work, i
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by greggyb 6y ago
HA and scaling are not the same thing. High availability represents architectural decisions to maintain operation in the face of subsystem failures. With respect to high availability within a data center, this can be achieved with a passive
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by greggyb 6y ago
It depends on how you feel about the word "should." At core, there are two different philosophies at play here. On one side, you see copyleft licenses. These licenses impose a requirement on anyone who uses/modifies the sourc
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by greggyb 6y ago
I can only speak for myself. I have Google Fi service. One of the big selling points for me is the dead simple billing. Another huge selling point is trivial unification of calling and messaging across devices. The latter feature has been e
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by greggyb 6y ago
iOS seems to have a fully functioning HTML5 browser. (: There's also no iMessage on Android. Also, Fi support for iPhones is listed as beta, and I don't think there's ever been full support for iPhones on Fi. Finally, if Appl
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by greggyb 6y ago
No. The article links to this page[0], which has a section on Fi integration. The guidance is to move to Messages which will support SMS and dialing through the Messages app, including web app usage when the phone is off. [0]: https:/
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by greggyb 6y ago
Just curious if you've looked at cost for Threadripper for the extra PCIe lanes. There's definitely a premium over mainstream processors, but they're also cheaper than server SKUs.
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by greggyb 6y ago
My dad was an electrical engineer and used to keep a cutout of a press release from a company. It announced the company's production of its billionth transistor. I really wish I still had that. I don't remember the company or the
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by greggyb 6y ago
Even the first generation of Zen was not the low end. The low end of x86 is well below anything whose name starts with 'Core' or 'Ryzen'. Ryzen came in the door at #2 in a market that goes well beyond #10. The motherboar
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by greggyb 6y ago
> Maybe I'm too left-leaning, but doesn't it feel wrong to deny people the possibility of seeing a doctor, calling in sick if they don't feel good or earning enough money to afford more than Ramen at the end of the month,
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by greggyb 6y ago
I'd love to hear more about this - do you have any write-up you've done on the process you and your team went through? If not, would you be willing to share where some of the big pain points were?
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by greggyb 6y ago
I only get one coin out of this article, and it's got two sides: 1. Infinity is really, really big . 2. 0 is really, really small . Infinite clean energy with no cost? Nonexistent transaction costs (economics meaning)? Yeah, this is
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by greggyb 6y ago
I was obsessively watching this[0] (and several other) page during the last week. The affiliations listed in that report are (in descending order of count (that count is mail-in ballots received)): - Democratic - Republican - No Affiliation
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by greggyb 6y ago
The Constitution of the United States is a document written to preserve co-equal sovereignty of a bunch of states that wanted to be closer to nations than provinces, while avoiding the then-very-apparent risk of centralized absolute governi
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by greggyb 6y ago
What was explained that I haven't encountered before? My original post in this thread clearly states that I have come across the phenomena before, and that I have explored it with multiple people. You assume someone doesn't unde
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by greggyb 6y ago
Yeah! Like I said, too big for my britches. (;
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by greggyb 6y ago
Or it's like you're ending a sentence the way you always do. I think it's like that.
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by greggyb 6y ago
If a one-word response would seem more negative or less enthusiastic with a period, then I posit it was not carrying a positive or enthusiastic message in the first place. If I want someone to interpret a one-word answer as enthusiastic, I&
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by greggyb 6y ago
I've come across the period-as-negative idea before. I communicate in text media to audiences ranging from people in their early twenties to several decades my senior. I strive to communicate similarly to all. This includes capitalizat
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by greggyb 6y ago
My big complaint is that this means I get no value from my Tridactyl keybindings. I would use reader mode on almost everything by default if it weren't for this.
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by greggyb 6y ago
> and What No One Knows The question certainly has some flaws in phrasing (discussed elsewhere in this thread). Its use of the word "implies" is not a flaw. If intro-level formal logic is a valid requirement, then there is no p
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by greggyb 6y ago
'Implies' is a term with a formal meaning in logic. You don't get to question a domain simply because one of its pieces of jargon has other interpretations in the vernacular.
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by greggyb 6y ago
Ah, good catch. You are spot on. Names were just the first thing I thought of when trying to come up with an example. Thinking about it a bit more, there is a strong convention in functional languages to decompose lists into "first&quo
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by greggyb 6y ago
And the 'cetera' means essentially 'the rest'. Though it is common in modern usage to to use 'et cetera' to imply a continued list of items not named. A stricter interpretation would only use 'et cetera&#x
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by greggyb 6y ago
Disk storage for the WAL and periodic checkpoints can get you sub-second recovery targets easily. Ninja edit: or a UPS and a shutdown procedure triggered by it that writes the database to disk. You can write 100GB in a couple minutes over a
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by greggyb 6y ago
My fans are offset ever so slightly to account for RAM clearance, as I, too, have eight sticks. I think we basically built the same computer with a couple different choices (; I lose millimeters of fan coverage (I have millimeters of fan pe
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by greggyb 6y ago
Yeah, with no industry events, it sure was impossible for them to spawn a hundreds-of-comments HN thread with their announcement video yesterday....

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