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by jakear 6y ago
That seems odd to me - sure in the water rowing is slower (friction is way higher), but in terms of muscle use and energy output, rowing uses way more muscles and gets better range of motion in the legs.
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by jakear 6y ago
Rowing machines are in my experience much more efficient. 200W is maintainable for an hour or more with some experience. (2 minute split, for any rowers out there). 60W (3:00/500m) is genuinely difficult to pull - any effort at all wil
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by jakear 6y ago
Just FYI.. you perhaps meant counsel not council, though the meanings are similar enough it can be hard to tell.
934.
by jakear 6y ago
I expected `tree` to allow multiple side by side (but still synced) timelines. For instance in your examples there'd be one line for European ops, and another for Japanese. Any plans to add that?
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by jakear 6y ago
See sibling. But yes I patched cpython, it’s pretty easy to build yourself.
936.
by jakear 6y ago
60% decrease in startup time, 10% improvement in general runtime. Of course if you exceed the initial allocation the whole thing will crash. That could probably be worked around with a bit more intelligence in the allocator. This was part o
937.
by jakear 6y ago
I once got quite a bit of startup time improvement by simply swapping out cpython's malloc calls for a version that took a large amount of resources at first (~5GB, can be tuned to your workload), and allocated from that. CPython makes
938.
by jakear 6y ago
I've had great success with the ~$20 ear pump devices available at your local drug store. They look like a normal squirt bottle with a tube tip, you fill it up with warm water and just keep squeezing. I'm not sure what the scope w
939.
by jakear 6y ago
> My partner uses MS teams on a beater of a windows laptop with at most 4GB of ram and it performs substantially better. So not an electron issue, an engineering issue. That's I think at the root of all these "electron is bad&q
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by jakear 6y ago
I understand where you’re coming from, but I also think that having a generally-reasonable-ish response time on decade old hardware that was considered lightweight-tier even at the time is not as awful as you make it seem.
941.
by jakear 6y ago
Curious what perf problems you’ve run into on the frontend (I.e. things electron would impact)? It doesn’t seem to me like they do anything complicated enough to take time.
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by jakear 6y ago
"Everyone hates on Electron" = a very vocal minority of HN folk don't like that Electron apps tend to be higher in memory consumption and executable size, but the majority of users don't really care about either of those
943.
by jakear 6y ago
Funny that the “small government!” states are the same ones with governments disallowing them from consuming plants deemed socially unacceptable.
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by jakear 6y ago
That’s plastic to-be recycled, not thrown away. We don’t put our trash on shipping containers, we have closed trucks bring it to landfills. We do put recycling on shipping containers and it often blows off into the ocean or ends up in their
945.
by jakear 6y ago
Yep. The safety of nuclear depends of governments 50-100+ years in the future continuing to maintain and provide for the upkeep of the facilities. If they won't even do it now how the hell can we expect them to do it continuously for 1
946.
by jakear 6y ago
What was the point in time between when the existing myriad failing/failed nuclear installations were designed and now that the engineers started taking risk to public health seriously, testing every component exhaustively, and putting
947.
by jakear 6y ago
The leaking nuclear waste will magically disappear and the ground water will magically deradiate when the nation collapses? I have my doubts...
948.
by jakear 6y ago
Sure, but if they're nuclear sources it'll bring the world down with it.
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by jakear 6y ago
> these days we can at least store it safely Did the folks creating the containers in the article believe themselves to be creating unsafe storage? I doubt it. Our current situation is no different. We think it's safe because we hav
950.
by jakear 6y ago
> at least 40 years ...seeing as $MY_AGE+40 is smaller than $HUMAN_LIFE_EXPECTANCY, this does exceedingly little to reassure me. Taking my progeny into consideration tips the scales even further away from being reassured. > no known e
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by jakear 6y ago
This is why I’m always suspicious of nuclear folks touting the “incredible safety” of nuclear. Sure whatever new wave thing their paycheck depends on them believing is safe might be safe now, but what about in 50 years when it’s 10 years
952.
by jakear 6y ago
Who said anything about global? Each “cell” (elementary particle? string?) in the automata could be responsible for its own update function, based on its own clock ticking along at its own plank time.
953.
by jakear 6y ago
This has been bugging me quite a bit recently. The model I keep coming back to is some giant cellular automata embedded in a some sort of higher dimensional compute structure —- perhaps what we call the “big bang” was the randomly initializ
954.
by jakear 6y ago
There’s nothing here to say it wasn’t. Further, how can you be sure the universe wasn’t created as it appeared last Thursday and everything since has simply been some higher dimension’s cellular automata set up with that as its initial stat
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by jakear 6y ago
Agreed. US official response has been to lie to the population so as to “not cause a panic” then act shocked when that same population doesn’t trust the officials anymore. Go figure.
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by jakear 6y ago
Eh... I don’t share your cavalier attitude. You assume these attacks aren’t targeted just because we haven’t seen them, but it wouldn’t be hard at all for an attacker to take control of a package through some means (purchase, social enginee
957.
by jakear 6y ago
/yr, surely?
958.
by jakear 6y ago
Why do you think the shareholders are nothing but happy with its performance? It’s by far the slowest growing FAANG, and over the past 5 years has basically tracked the Nasdaq, suggesting it is performing no better than any random tech comp
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by jakear 6y ago
Interesting you had issues with bluetooth -- I use it as my car stereo (car is too old to have bluetooth), and often leave it running with the car shut and I can walk all the way from my garage to the house and still hear the music chugging
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by jakear 6y ago
Up to you if you want to go through the rigamarole, though we do appreciate every issue^, even if we do end up closing it as a duplicate :) ^well, every issue that isn't completely void of information ;)

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