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by hinkley 3mo ago
Sounds like it. I wasn't familiar with how python does this but it looks like the identity operator is 'is' so while someone could definitely screw that up, it would stick out more in a code review than == versus ===
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by hinkley 3mo ago
One of the best sound designs ever invented was the 'you just lost' melody created for The Price is Right. That is not a non sequitur.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
There was a generation of date processing in Java when the class wasn't reentrant. The API was functionally flavored though, so people would instantiate one instance configured how they liked and reuse it across all calls. You would on
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by hinkley 3mo ago
The especially nasty thing about that boxing pressure is that when I still paid attention to the JVM, they had some sort of cache for boxing of numbers under about 128, which meant that if you did tests with toy inputs, identity checks woul
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I worked on projects where we indeed needed the manual stringbuffer refactor on hot paths in the code. It's not difficult work but boy is it tedious. Spent a lot of time with headphones on during those days. Only to work on another pro
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by hinkley 3mo ago
It's like caching, in kind but not in type. Once you add it, people will stop trying to be parsimonious with resources and just reach for the cache every time. They'll just lean into it. In a hot minute you will discover you can&#
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Just before arduino became a thing I had an idea to create a device that could read your your text messages by tapping out morse code on your skin somewhere, like your hip or arm. It would never be able to keep up with modern levels of conn
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I have never gotten the knack for decoding Morse. I'm so good with music I would have thought some of that would transfer over. It absolutely does not. Zero natural aptitude for the task.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
People gave their lives to dig underneath Chernobyl. If they hadn’t the aquifers in Eastern Europe would be radioactive for the next million years.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
But it’s really the same old problem we’ve seen for decades. Developers write code. Owners declare victory. Owners rid themselves of expensive opex. Owners sell the division or try to keep the project limping along but all they see is vagua
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by hinkley 3mo ago
You're slicing that sentence pretty thin. I said "But once we stop doing things entirely because we are jealous of how some people use it" That's not jealousy, that's totalitarianism. I'm not going to let you d
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by hinkley 3mo ago
> We don't measure capacity in GWh I cannot even express how much hatred I have for bad charts, and getting tricked by one anyway when I go in already expecting it to be lying to me is incandescently indescribable. On Wikipedia ther
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by hinkley 3mo ago
How many people do you know who own a house? Not a mortgage, own. The housing market is such that a lot of people are overextended, and the mortgage market encourages people to change their definition of 'enough' house which makes
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by hinkley 3mo ago
And if anyone is wrong, they will only have to deal with it for 20-50 years, then they die and the next 5000 administrations have to deal with the literal fallout. If your uncle hitting his thumb meant everyone in his line and all of his ne
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't PG&E charge one rate for the first ?? kwh and then more for the rest? Perhaps OP made a mistake of using the base rate (which you will blow past if you have too many computers or AC)
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by hinkley 3mo ago
That makes it worse! A euro is worth about 10% more than a dollar. Ireland has a lot of oil in their power mix from what I'm seeing, so that makes a bit of sense. Maybe the high power cost is why they're deploying ~600GWh of new w
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Okay, fair enough. But once we stop doing things entirely because we are jealous of how some people use it, everything gets a bit dimmer. I'm all for pricing externalities in. There are some obvious ways to do that with plastic surgeon
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I think it's a mistake to represent average speed increase instead of characterizing the speed increase as as hours of full, moderate, and low speed traffic per day. Because an extra ??minutes a day of avoiding stop and go traffic is w
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by hinkley 3mo ago
It's always more complicated than that because the prestige and Early Adopter users are what drag other people to also be customers to avoid FOMO. Your gym members who got a subscription aspirationally and don't show up are absolu
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Ah, the ol' retail switcharoo. Increase the price by 70% and then cut it by 50%, resulting in a 15% cut that sounds like a major deal.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Serious Willy Wonka energy?
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by hinkley 3mo ago
There is a negative incentive to fix problems that result in customers picking a more expensive plan to work around it. There are probably several engineers who have ideas about fixing this and they get apathy from many people and obstructi
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Oh yeah, power distribution is kind of a circus there isn't it.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I haven't found a single source of Irish power mix over time but what I did find suggests that the amount of renewable power in Ireland has been spiking aggressively in recent years. I see something like 15% in 2024 from one source and
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Being poor is expensive.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I think it's obvious from 'all nuance is lost' that it does not matter, at all. You're inviting collateral damage, as I already said.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I'm actually quite surprised that California only has 4x as many data centers, with CA having more than 7x the population (not to mention being pivotal in the Information Age)
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by hinkley 3mo ago
What kind of plastic surgery are you looking to gatekeep? Because I guarantee you the people who pointed out that plastic surgery was covered have ideas of what that should be. Plastic surgery can include burn and emergency surgical scars (
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I had the first generation Anker TB2 doc and that was the first time I ever saw them produce a product that was a dud. They sent me a replacement and I had the same problems. Then found out it was a design problem not a manufacturing one. T
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by hinkley 3mo ago
You were coming into the field just as companies were fielding their first reasonable answers to the Threading Model that Java put forward, which was sort of Windows' but with extra features. Even Solaris choked on Java. HP UX did wors

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