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by jcheng 6y ago
Tegra (as found in Nintendo Switch). Have they given up on that line of SoCs?
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by jcheng 6y ago
That line really rubbed me the wrong way too. I think lots of people these days have their self-expression dial turned way up and their empathy dial turned way down.
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by jcheng 6y ago
I can imagine the impact Clojure had; learning about Lisp had a big impact on my programming journey. What was it about Go that made your Python code better, though?
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by jcheng 6y ago
Aww, after all that, we don't get to hear how the episode with the website and the white supremacists ends??
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by jcheng 6y ago
According to this, the sleep is very short indeed, done only while gaining altitude, and only done with one side of the brain at a time! https://www.audubon.org/news/scientists-finally-have-evidenc...
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by jcheng 6y ago
For those who, like me, wondered how this is possible without hitting the top-level await obstacle mentioned in the article, the options doc includes this line (emphasis mine): > "await":false - A boolean for top-level await in
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by jcheng 6y ago
For stocks[1], August 2000 is just about the high water mark of the dot-com bubble; for gold[2], August 2000 is the bottom of a "V" that extends 20 years in either direction. I'm not saying you cherry-picked August 2000 as a
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by jcheng 6y ago
The GPLv2 version of the clause says: > For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and
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by jcheng 6y ago
I agree that random engineers should have the humility to listen to feedback from lawyers. And IANAL. Here's the sentence with "scripts to control": > The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form mea
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by jcheng 6y ago
Is there a reason the company would want to do that? Why wouldn't they just let the price move higher?
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by jcheng 6y ago
It might imply that whatever path you take, you should also prepare a strong hedge in the other direction...?
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by jcheng 6y ago
It's from the TypeScript 4.0 beta blog post[0], which describes it as: > partialCall takes a function along with the initial few arguments that that function expects. It then returns a new function that takes any other arguments the
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by jcheng 6y ago
You can look at AMD CPUs if you want an apples-to-apples comparison, as theirs are on the same TSMC nodes as Apple.
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by jcheng 6y ago
Ampere Altra and Marvell ThunderX are targeting this market. Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Nvidia tried earlier and gave up, but I wonder if we will see them enter back in.
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by jcheng 6y ago
That makes a lot of sense for termination. How about hiring? Do you know if the European system specifies what attributes are and aren’t allowed to be considered when it comes to hiring employees?
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by jcheng 6y ago
I agree with your general point but I think OP is being a bit picky about this particular page. The descriptions are pretty good and wheelbase is indeed a common bicycling term (I see it all the time in reviews and it’s listed on the produc
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by jcheng 6y ago
Look at the size of those excavators--the bulldozer in the lower left of the image looks like a forgotten child's toy by comparison! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine#/media...
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by jcheng 6y ago
In fairness, a lot has also changed/churned in Windows desktop UI development, iOS development, and Android development over the same time period. (I know a lot less about the latter two, but didn’t they at least both change languages
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by jcheng 6y ago
Monopoly is the wrong word but I think Elizabeth Warren made a good case for why similar regulation is needed for very large, powerful platforms today (regardless if you agree with her proposed solution). https://www.theverge.com
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by jcheng 6y ago
It’s extremely widely used in the R world. The RStudio IDE has extensive tooling for the R Markdown format. https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ We don’t use the term “literate programming” much anymore, the concept of “reproduci
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by jcheng 6y ago
> knife-in-the-steering-wheel I wasn’t familiar with this concept so I searched around. Is it this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spi...
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by jcheng 6y ago
My current thinking is to schedule daily 1:1s at first. As they get their feet under them, scale it back to a few times a week, then once a week. If the onus is on the new team member to ask for help when they need it, they'll have to
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by jcheng 6y ago
Really fun, very polished! Stream of consciousness feedback: After a few levels I found clusters of letters I was having trouble with building up over time (there was an “X” right in the middle, and like six “I”s clumped up). I found myself
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by jcheng 6y ago
Can you explain how you got 6.6 bits?
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by jcheng 6y ago
Ugh, I made the mistake of looking up “goose pulling”. WHY.
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by jcheng 7y ago
The total population of these two countries is pretty different though.
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by jcheng 7y ago
> ...on top of the ¥8.5 million it paid per person based on estimates calculated under government-set interim standards. So ¥9.5 million, or ~$88,000 total
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by jcheng 7y ago
They used to have lifetime returns ! Regardless of condition, no questions asked! This American Life did an interesting piece on it, I was surprised the degree to which people abused—or, I guess, took advantage of—the policy. https:/
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by jcheng 7y ago
There’s a huge range of bikes between ones so sporty that they can’t take a rack and fenders, and step-through city bikes. Here’s a typical example, it has an endurance geometry and has mounts for a rack: https://www.trekbikes.co
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by jcheng 7y ago
Not the GP, but some proprietary software requires license activation and you only get a certain (small) number of activates/deactivates.

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