jdsully

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by jdsully 7y ago
Your first link doesn't say they sold US secrets, just technology US firms weren't allowed to provide. They have an extensive domestic tech industry and due to their history quite a large defense industry as well. The second link
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by jdsully 7y ago
Thanks for the correction!
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by jdsully 7y ago
I think the missing piece is keeping the two threads tightly synchronized. You can ensure the data is passed exactly when the adjacent thread will need it.
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by jdsully 7y ago
SMT would be amazing if there was a way to share data across “threads” without going through memory. GPUs have this and it works wonders for performance.
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by jdsully 7y ago
I read the book last weekend and am going with my memory (I’ve since lent it out). In the book Travis found out about Lyft’s planned rideshare service and raced to launch UberX first. Alas google has become useless for finding useful inform
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by jdsully 7y ago
Uber was very profitable when they just had Uber Black. The problem is they were disrupted themselves by Lyft and had to launch UberX (give Travis credit for launching this before Lyft even though it was their idea).
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by jdsully 7y ago
I hate cases but Apple is making this less and less tenable over time. Not just the camera bump but also the lower quality glass they use on the screen that easily scratches now. I used to never have a problem up until about the iPhone
818.
by jdsully 7y ago
Its nice to have the choice, but sometimes following a "ritual" is nice. We're trained to appreciate things that we have to work hard to get.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Linear throughput is the wrong way to think about this. Random access is much more important for DRAM workloads. Persistent memory has a block size of 4 cache lines (256 bytes) vs 4KB for an SSD. This drastically cuts down on read/writ
820.
by jdsully 7y ago
This is a use case where persistent memory really shines. Its about 10x slower but you can get 1.5TB or it for less than $10,000. You don’t have to use the persistence - you can treat it as RAM.
821.
by jdsully 7y ago
In fairness almost everything is cheaper in Poland. Even compared to Europe.
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by jdsully 7y ago
There is something better than security features: Case Law. Fax signatures are acceptable because judges have consistently ruled that they are. Sure a judge might agree that your emailed signature is also acceptable. But do you want to be
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by jdsully 7y ago
Is this after accounting for gas and insurance? Or are they just hoping everyone confuses them with employees?
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by jdsully 7y ago
The big deal here is the patent grant. FAT related patents were held over linux like a gun in the Ballmer years. Its a reason Linux was stuck with 8.3 length filenames for so long.
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by jdsully 7y ago
No they cannot. The new zero tolerance policy means all illegal crossers are charged and forced to remain until court proceedings are concluded. There is no option for voluntary repatriation anymore.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Illegal immigration is different because often the entire family commits the crime together. Further an irregular border crossing is a misdemeanor not a Felony. We don’t take kids away from parents for misdemeanors. But even if you ignored
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by jdsully 7y ago
The twist was to determine which was the A and which was the B drive. IMO a lot nicer than the jumpers you had to set properly on both IDE drives.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Police cannot bring you to the police station for merely being suspicious. The standard is much higher for an arrest. They are allowed to pat down the outside of your pockets under the argument they need to be aware of weapons. I do agree t
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by jdsully 7y ago
Funny you mentioned Japan. All the travel videos I see warn you the police can (and will) question you, search your pockets, etc. And can detain you at the police station for merely being suspicious (so you better answer when they ask!). It
830.
by jdsully 7y ago
Enron employed boots on the ground construction workers and line men. They started as an LNG pipeline company. All of those blue collar workers lost their pensions when they went bankrupt. You can see some of them in the Enron documentary
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by jdsully 7y ago
I’m arguing that Tesla ignored range anxiety and traded range for power and style. The other manufacturers weren’t willing to do it. Batteries did improve but its not like Tesla had access to better batteries than GM (at least in their earl
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by jdsully 7y ago
Your right, they built Power Plants [1] and fibre optic networks instead [2]. Enron was at its core an infrastructure company. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabhol_Power_Station [2] https://www.washingt
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by jdsully 7y ago
I think most North American consumers would consider it ugly (I do), but I haven't done a survey.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Tesla was the first to show that electric cars could look good and be performant. Before this the prototypes were excessively aerodynamic and underpowered (probably because of range anxiety). Unfortunately for the environment good aerodyn
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by jdsully 7y ago
Funny there were people just like you saying the exact same thing about Enron when Bethany ran her famous article back then (yes this is the same author that took down Enron). As with Tesla Enron was big on "innovation". Innovat
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by jdsully 7y ago
It almost certainly comes from this paragraph: > In 1979, wages at the 10th percentile ranged from $10.03 for black and Hispanic women to $14.42 for white men, whereas in 2018 wages in the 10th percentile ranged from $9.72 for Hispanic w
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by jdsully 7y ago
You’ll find the US already spends comparably per capita. They just get much less for the money.
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by jdsully 7y ago
I haven’t seen a perceptron circuit done in less than 4 transistors plus a few diodes. However these chips are almost certainly digital and will use a lot more to perform the floating point math. Single transistors can’t even compute our si
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by jdsully 7y ago
Canada
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by jdsully 7y ago
Their "rebuttal" almost seems like a taunt to other security researchers to prove them wrong. Calling the researchers irresponsible and their tools rudimentary was a dick move.

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