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by hylaride 4mo ago
It'll really depend on apple's contracts with suppliers and the types of ram used in certain products. I could see them having medium term contracts, with first right of refusal to purchase on the longer term. Memory has been a b
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by hylaride 4mo ago
As always it depends. Are there noticeable bottlenecks/latency in the app? No? Why pre-optimize then? Look at this image: https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/site/img/storage-hierarchy.png At scale, the timing a
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by hylaride 4mo ago
It's because you only hear about the loud ones. There are lots doing good work. In particular Lauren Bezos and Laurene Powell Jobs. Warren Buffet is essentially bequeathed the majority of his wealth to good causes. A lot of the work o
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by hylaride 4mo ago
He actively campaigned against any regulation of derivatives. There is an infamous lunch that he had with Brooksley Born (who was head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission) in the late 1990s where she attempted to regulate them. Th
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Alan Greenspan acquired too much power and went out of his way to railroad regulators. It was a classic "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and his flooding the markets with dollar liquidity at every crisis completely destroyed
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by hylaride 4mo ago
If I ever get "fuck you" money like Mitchell did, I plan to use his post-money life as an inspiration to "retire".
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by hylaride 4mo ago
It'd be a learning experience to find the right settings. Coffee usually goes in two directions. Under-extracted (sour) or over-extracted (bitter). Things that will affect the extraction are temperature (hotter usually means more ext
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by hylaride 4mo ago
> SQL Server is a fork of Sybase. Not a MS invention. It's long-since been rewritten. Pre-SQL Server 2000 it was garbage, but it's been improved significantly since then. I'd still use alternatives given the choice, but i
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by hylaride 4mo ago
> Nick clegg received $20 million + from working for meta after being in power. That's not corruption. That's just proof he had no principles.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Active Directory and MS SQL Server are both solid products, as is .NET. The windows NT kernel is very well thought out, too. The last iteration of windows phone was quite good, if too little too late. Don't get me wrong, MS will ensh
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Most developed countries I've been to use NFC/Apple Pay. Where you see the use of QR codes is in China, Africa, and other countries that VISA/MC/AMEX hasn't penetrated (for either political or socioeconomic reasons
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by hylaride 4mo ago
More pro: Spain may be one of the best places in Europe to raise kids (culturally, especially), though a good chunk of the country has emptied out of its young people - so it can vary by region. It's a shame that their birth rate has
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by hylaride 4mo ago
PDP-11s and their VAX successors could often still be seen in hospitals as late as the mid 2000s as the back ends to all sorts of expensive equipment (MRIs, etc). At the time I was told that rewriting the medical code was one of those &quo
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by hylaride 4mo ago
I think he's a product of his time (pre-internet). He stopped because he felt he hit the limits of what he could create, and while a large part of it was the restrictions the newspapers put on him, it was also that he was running out
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by hylaride 4mo ago
I get the joke, but if anything it's that there's too much money sloshing around.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
> coffee get’s so much worse when cold Coldbrew is a thing and done right it brings out a refreshing sweetness. Also iced coffee. Bad coffee is bad hot or cold.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
There's taxation reasons. Stock buybacks mean that investors get the usually lower capital gains tax rates instead of dividend income tax rates. On top of this, it also juices earnings per share.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Low-level debugging, older games (so many consoles have used everything from MIPS to PowerPC as CPUs), etc. In the early 2000s, I used a linux-based emulator to virtualize some ancient manufacturing hardware control software that was still
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by hylaride 4mo ago
The only things these "smart" speakers are good for is timers, adding to lists (especially grocery lists in the kitchen), and playing music. And even then they often stutter...
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Some went bankrupt, with Worldcom being the most famous example...though that was fraud. But even those that remained had large amounts of debt that never ends as there's always CAPEX for upgrades to networks to fund (both fixed and w
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Embedded devices or other SoC situations, certain limited scope situations where docker is undesirable/unnecessary, etc.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
I'm not complaining myself, but the system has broken down due to abuse (and outright fraud) of student visas, where the "students" then started working front-line retail and delivery jobs. We stopped getting the skilled wor
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by hylaride 4mo ago
It's a contentious issue in Canada, too. There are legit reasons families may want to bring in certain extended family members (grandparents for childcare, etc), but it becomes a chain. Canada's elderly benefits are designed for
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by hylaride 4mo ago
What's worse is that in many areas kids are not allowed (or can't due to urban design) go out of the house on their own anymore. I would actually prefer my kid being out and getting into some trouble than waste around the house.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
It's funny how that works. I (90s high schooler) was made fun of merely for being on the internet or being able to fix electronics. The early days of Facebook were amusing (when everybody was friending everybody), seeing the same peop
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by hylaride 4mo ago
With real-time telemetry and feedback, companies now know what keeps people "engaged" and "hooked". It's god-awful for brains that are still developing.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
I think we're on the same page. For me, cars are a perfectly fine mode of transport, but the way so many places prioritize it over alternatives (whatever the reason) isn't necessarily better. My "wtf" moment was 20 years
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by hylaride 4mo ago
$2000 is a lot of money, but so are the tech budgets of most places I've worked. Money can be a funny thing in corporate environments. They'll spend freely on some things, and be stingy on others. $2000 as a test case that you c
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by hylaride 4mo ago
This certainly helps, but I still get spoofed calls from my bank - and there's legit reasons for my bank to contact me.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Subsidies played a huge role, including the eminent domain bulldozing of cities for free-at-use highways. If people had to pay upfront for those costs, the urban landscape would look much different (probably closer to Japanese cities, whic

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