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by hinkley 8mo ago
If 10% of firefox users are also iOS users, which is not unlikely, then those people get double-counted. In my case I probably use my phone and tablet for at least 50% of my web traffic, not counting youtube, which also skews things.
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Every so often when I'm doing refactoring work and my list of worries has decreased to the point I can start thinking of new things to worry about, I worry about how as we reduce the accidental complexity of code and condense the criti
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by hinkley 8mo ago
However if the third chip on your memory stick is properly broken, then the third bit out of every word of memory may get stuck high or low, and then the whole chip is absolutely worthless. The most expensive memory failure I had was of thi
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by hinkley 8mo ago
It was intended to solve the problem of interactive coding sessions such as with Language Servers, which GCC utterly fails at (because what we think of as modern IDEs did not exist in 1990). An awful lot of people have tried to use it as a
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by hinkley 8mo ago
What I’ve found is key to UI design is to take this a step farther. Users will often try to explain why it isn’t what they want and they will be wrong about the explanation.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
WoW at least figured out sometime around Pandaria or the previous expansion that they needed to launch the game engine changes a month or so before the full release and do beta servers so add on designers had time to adapt to api changes be
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I spent some formative years helping people run MUDs and applying my pattern matching brain to the problem of how to make a multiplayer game succeed. I played WoW precisely because they dodged the first bullet, which is inflationary or defl
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Due to the XY problem what they ask for often isn’t what they need. And what they yell about won’t make them happy. By and large I’ve gotten better feature requests out of looking at patterns of frequently asked questions and turning them i
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I’m always surprised to learn LLVM is so slow given that was one of the original motivations for developing it. I don’t know if that’s down to feature creep or intrinsic complexity being higher than people presumed was the case for GCC.
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It’s also common for JITs to sprout a tier and shed a tier over time, as the last and first tiers shift in cost/benefit. If the first tier works better you delay the other tiers. If the last tier gets faster (in run time or code optimi
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Oracle’s wasn’t but I haven’t used it in a very long time so that may not be longer be true. The problem though was that it had a single shared pool for all queries and it could only run a query if it was in the pool, which is how out DB ma
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by hinkley 8mo ago
When I tried to look myself it was about this waffly but I’d also note that they were all talking about neutrinos at rest. But they’re wizzing around at relativistic speeds which makes them all many times heavier doesn’t it? Between things
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Someone gave me that idea about eight years ago and I spent the next several trying to look for a nail for that hammer. I eventually expanded the one I wrote to include URLs to the right places in Bamboo to do things like disable triggers o
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Cavitation is a bastard. I wonder if the successor has any pressure buffering built into the design to absorb pressure waves or if they're just gonna make them 1) stronger or 2) fail more gracefully (it's okay if a sensor crumples
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by hinkley 8mo ago
My automation is always an escalation of a run book that has gotten very precise and handles corner cases. Even if I get the idea of an automation before there’s a run book for it.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
It’s a hard sell. I always get blank looks when I suggest it, and often have to work off book to get us there. I generally recommend that the break glass solution always be pair programmed.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I know someone whose CFS is about 10% of hers and it was still a rough watch. She got hit really fucking hard.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
She’s been pretty open about it. She even touched on it at the end of this video.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Isn’t that also the one where a sensor imploded and caused a chain reaction that destroyed like a third of the other sensors?
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How much of the mass of the universe is neutrinos?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Some of my favorite YouTubers have done guest spots on her channel, which made me love them a little bit more. Her back catalog is good and you still get paid for people watching your old videos.
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They care the way a cheetah cares about gazelles.
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So that's kind of a non-starter for self-directed learning.
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Many viruses end up causing more damage than they mean to, via bugs.
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I say, 'your civilization' because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became... our... civilization.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
microsoft.com's header also takes up half the page.
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Same reason MS used a Perforce fork instead of Source Safe. Because the dogfood tastes terrible. One of the executives at the late, great, Sun Microsystems once dunked hard on Microsoft by saying, "At Sun we don't make dogfood. We
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BAHBOORAAAAAAH
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Not a company well known for listening to user feedback.
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That's been obvious for decades. Everyone who worked in the 90's or 00's has stories about coming in one day to find that the VP has been conned into a $1m contract for MS office or development software everyone hates and now

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