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by jdblair 5y ago
Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_City,_California#Sloga...
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by jdblair 5y ago
The description reminds me of Slackware, circa 1996.
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"A lemon" is the slang term for a badly manufactured car. Until the 80s there was often a noticeable difference in build quality for the same model. Some customers would even look up what day a particular car was built on, not wan
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by jdblair 5y ago
It doesn't "seem" US centric, it is deliberately so. It is about US broadband policy.
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The best internet service I ever had was symmetric gigabit fiber, terminated in my home in San Jose. Not only was it fast, the latency was 2ms. It wasn't cheap, about $120 / month. So it's definitely possible. The worst, not
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by jdblair 5y ago
It's the stated compensation policy and confirmed by my experience as both an individual contributor and a manager of a team in the same organization.
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This is definitely not universally true. My current employer sets compensation by asking "what is the business cost of losing this person?"
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But this number is per capita energy use across the whole society, including manufacturing and transportation. Not just household use. France only reached this level in the 1960s, Japan in the 1970s. China reached this level in 2012.
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Arggh... I made a typo. It is 22.6 megawatt hours per capita per year, so an order of magnitude higher.
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If you're interested in learning more about the big picture connection between our human society and energy, I recommend "Energy and Civilization: A History," by Vaclav Smil. My biggest takeaway from his book is that transiti
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by jdblair 5y ago
Just for the record, I agree H2 fueled cars make terrible sense. On top of the points you make, hydrogen is simply too hard to store.
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Drives like an electric, refuels like a liquid fuel car (it uses a compressor, not electric charge).
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It depends on how you define convenient. Hydrogen can be refilled quickly, in minutes, like a conventional liquid fueled car. If there were a network of hydrogen filling stations then driving, especially long distances, would be similar to
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by jdblair 5y ago
I really like PlantUML for drawing state machines and sequence diagrams, but I never use it to actually draw UML.
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Camcorder, More Like Camcord-RW: The History of Camcorders That Used Discs(youtube.com)
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by jdblair 6y ago
When I read the headline, I thought it was QuickDraw, and it was going to be some kind of classic MacOS / Google mashup.
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Glynn Lunney Has Died(npr.org)
1 points by jdblair 6y ago|0 comments
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Bug 323 – optimized code gives strange floating point results(gcc.gnu.org)
1 points by jdblair 6y ago|0 comments
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What aspect of portable floating point did Java back down on?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
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I hope the Fry's pyramid in Campbell is turned into something awesome before it decays.
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by jdblair 6y ago
From a marketing perspective, "mold" meaning "a form used to cast an object from liquid" is a lot more appealing than "green fungus growing on bread." A mold for casting objects is also a lot closer, metaphoric
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The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes(vanityfair.com)
3 points by jdblair 6y ago|1 comments
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Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns(web.archive.org)
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by jdblair 6y ago
Correction: it was hosted on an anonymous FTP server, not a web server. Also, I was one of those people who downloaded every issue, probably with ncftp.
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by jdblair 6y ago
Reading this article back in the day is how I learned how stack smashing works! I also remember when the EFF stopped hosting Phrack because most of their bandwidth was people downloading every issue off the EFF’s web server.
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by jdblair 6y ago
discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25817320
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FCC reminds radio users to not use radios to commit crimes(arrl.org)
4 points by jdblair 6y ago|1 comments
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I think his point is that the same source numbers are used to calculate both inflation and GDP. If you suppress inflation by undervaluing goods and services you also suppress GDP. You could get away with divergence if your didn't provi
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It was the only device to use this version of Android. There were other issues, too, this was just the most interesting.
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Yes, that's all correct. The reason for the small block size has to do design decisions made in the rest of the streaming stack, which is shared between all TV devices.

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