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by hnov 4y ago
They already run on gcp and presumably have a negotiated agreement on pricing. Their core competencies don’t include managing hardware. Migration off is deliberately expensive and hard. Own hardware still needs a story for backup and restor
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by hnov 4y ago
So much for running a personal VPN in the cloud.
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by hnov 4y ago
Right, the author seems to be unfamiliar with H2, which is bizarre for someone who worked on gRPC.
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by hnov 4y ago
I love the sentiment of avoiding the totalitarian dictatorship but you don’t exactly have any control there. Technology is leverage and it can be used for evil, just as with IBM tabulating machines in nazi Germany
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by hnov 4y ago
I believe the outer shell is usually fiber reinforced.
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by hnov 4y ago
GCP has been fairly stable: a lot of the old App Engine APIs from 2008 still function more or less the same.
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by hnov 4y ago
The app spams requests as you hover, but should be trivial to slap a cache-control: public, max-age=600 so it's served out of edge.
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by hnov 4y ago
Maybe the thing to solve this will be individual electric motors that are mounted to subframe as to not add unsprung mass but articulate with the wheel somehow. Or more realistically instead of huge angle on undriven wheels, a bit of an ang
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by hnov 4y ago
Exactly, Rust has been around for a while and it hasn't reached parity in terms of LoC with C and C++ in Gecko's codebase, presumably because it's impossible to rewrite individual units unless the API is impossibly narrow. Th
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by hnov 4y ago
An average of 70 means you’re doing at least 80+. Maintaining an average of 80 requires going over 100 on that route in my experience.
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by hnov 4y ago
Big-tech has solved this internally. Everything down to the linux kernel they're running in prod is versioned and has people maintaining it and interacting with upstream (if any). This is obviously a full time job for at least a person
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by hnov 4y ago
What have they done with your data? Also have worked at a few FAANGs and from what I’ve seen (admittedly not working on social or B2C products) data is subject to rules and is generally used in aggregate only.
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by hnov 4y ago
I’d agree, it matters not whether the surrogate for a person’s missing personality is a designer label and a lime green Lamborghini or a second home in Sonoma and ayahuasca trips to burning man.
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by hnov 4y ago
Polish district heating is mostly coal, hence the cost savings vs imported gas.
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by hnov 4y ago
Aversion to sex work aside, how’s this different than some of what’s done in Silicon Valley? Uber will happily extract the remaining equity in your car as you teeter on the brink of homelessness at which point DoorDash will be happy to make
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by hnov 4y ago
I don’t update any software I work on without canaries and a slow (order of days) roll-out, you think the bug manifested for a big chunk of the fleet?
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by hnov 4y ago
You're right, you'd need an F450 to hit the 14k lbs GVW, not sure why I thought they were exempt.
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by hnov 4y ago
True, there are plenty of invisible emissions causing chronic air quality issues, but um an over-rich diesel exhaust in your vicinity is rather acute.
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by hnov 4y ago
In CA, trucks are (were) exempt from smog checks. Hopefully law enforcement will send those caught rolling coal to a date with the state referee.
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by hnov 4y ago
But a gas car with no cats, tuned for maximum power is not really comparable to a diesel truck rolling coal. One might leave soot on its own rear bumper, the other covers everything behind it in disgusting soot.
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by hnov 4y ago
I think iOS makes use of NX bits such that for your vanilla app, the executable pages aren't writable and writable pages aren't executable. Historically, this resulted in WebViews not having JS JIT which severely impacted performa
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by hnov 4y ago
The load time is contingent on ping, for instance with TLS over TCP you need 3 full round trips to get a pipe that can carry HTTP, this is 3x as many as with TCP alone. In the author's scenario there's a 500ms delay, so naively th
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by hnov 4y ago
They're annoying, but once/if they get good you'll get to write what amounts to a CLI versus a (crossplatform) GUI.
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by hnov 4y ago
Plaid is a menace. My checking account was synced on Venmo just fine using the small transfer method for years until plaid was introduced. I redid the old school verification 3 times before giving up and linking via Chase. I changed the pas
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by hnov 4y ago
As much as I'll miss being able to type raw HTTP into an nc/telnet/openssl s_client when H/1.1 support is dropped, these are all caused by HTTP originally being a simple, textual protocol that got thrust into supporting
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by hnov 4y ago
You actually do, what Tulsi generates is an XCode project that has shell script build steps that call out to bazel. Bazel underneath the covers will end up calling the clang that comes with XCode.
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by hnov 4y ago
You need a full Santa exemption with business reason to use brew. The average person working on some server that deploys to borg does indeed use their Macbook as a thin client. Who's obtaining deps for their builds from brew? If you&#x
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by hnov 4y ago
Possibly a new Prius, which should be less environmentally destructive to produce given its lower price (this is kinda disingenuous since price is only a rough predictor of env impact, there’s economies of scale, taxes and subsidies, etc) t
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by hnov 4y ago
You could be running gas through fuel cells if you want, still not as efficient as amortizing existing infrastructure. This reminds of the EV debacle, you should be buying a used Prius or walking places if you care about the environment, ev
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by hnov 4y ago
Gas and (real) rangetop extraction are definitely things that I consider, but I do love to cook. An inductive stove-top would be fine, but a resistive one would be a huge negative for me.

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