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by jdsully 4y ago
> Are they supposed to have individual meetings Yes? Surely they have managers proportional to their employees - I certainly don't expect the CEO to have the meetings but having their direct or skip level manager meet with them is t
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by jdsully 4y ago
The FDIC is funded by premiums paid for by the insured banks. It doesn’t rely on tax payer money.
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by jdsully 4y ago
The actual Supreme Court decisions are pretty approachable too. I wish more people read them.
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by jdsully 4y ago
There will be be repercussions from both China and global trade organizations as applicable - although that may indeed be worth it in the end. In addition the country will lose a bit of credibility with investors putting at risk investment
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by jdsully 4y ago
Excel was not an acquisition. Not sure where you got that from.
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by jdsully 4y ago
> You can build excel by relying only on standard ISO/ANSI C features. The fact that they felt like they were better than using a fully standard compliant compiler says more about their lack of competence than anything else. One of
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by jdsully 4y ago
They had a full blown analogue targeting computer. The Norden bombsight was revolutionary [1]. Sadly it was still not accurate enough to hit specific buildings reliably so it didn’t have the impact on the war its designers expected. 1: htt
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by jdsully 4y ago
Probably because they literally broadcast threats while they do it.
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by jdsully 4y ago
The predecessor to excel (multi plan) used binary coded decimal. But there’s nothing stopping you from doing arbitrary precision decimal in excel except back compatibility (and all the thousands of lines of code looking for a float).
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by jdsully 4y ago
Because perf was super important for a spreadsheet in the 90s, and now back compatibility is super important. You do not want your numbers changing in the next version of Excel.
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by jdsully 4y ago
Post product market fit scalability is critical. But a lot of effort is spent on things that will never get traction in startup land. Before you get traction the times at bat is the more important metric.
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by jdsully 4y ago
There was (is?) a software solution called Deep Freeze. They used it on computers at school when I was growing up.
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by jdsully 4y ago
Oddly that was how BASIC worked in the actual 70s. line numbers were virtual. Though I think the implementation left much to be desired.
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by jdsully 4y ago
If you’ve run an open source project you will get these bug reports. It’s also not obvious if it’s a bug in your code or a dependency many times so you’re going to want to debug it. As an example alpine has a smaller default stack size. I
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by jdsully 4y ago
Docker is a life saver if your shipping software on Linux. Otherwise you’re going to have to deal with endless bug reports from oddball distros. Docker lets you test with a stable set of dependencies and know that’s what your users will see
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by jdsully 4y ago
There’s a similar concept in Canada
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by jdsully 4y ago
They appear to be combat headsets with unique functions like night vision - not the ones you'd buy for gaming.
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by jdsully 4y ago
I got close to that back when it was new. These days there’s too many users on most towers to achieve it.
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by jdsully 4y ago
back compat is awful on Linux with the exception of the kernel. Unfortunately you need more than a stable kernel ABI to get proper back compatibility and the userland libs don't want to play ball.
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by jdsully 4y ago
They would have passed on the trademark rights with the rest of the IP
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by jdsully 4y ago
They aren’t quite there yet from my North American perspective. Only Tesla has the charging infrastructure to make long trips practical (I estimate another year before this goes away). Other cars still have weird edge cases and bad cold we
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by jdsully 4y ago
The problem is it’s ineffectual ads for their own stuff. They should be selling ineffectual ads for other people’s stuff.
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by jdsully 4y ago
Alexa spams me with ads all the time - doesn’t seem that hard.
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by jdsully 4y ago
You’re talking about revenue, while Google is talking about profit. They are not the same number.
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by jdsully 4y ago
That is 20 years and 2 CEO’s ago. Companies change.
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by jdsully 4y ago
Very interesting use case of SMT.
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by jdsully 4y ago
You have your thinking backwards because you're ignoring the need for a counterparty. In order for your sale to happen the market must first find a buyer to match it with (otherwise how could you trade?). There's no need to math
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by jdsully 4y ago
After AMD's 96 core processor, a 24 core chip just doesn't sound all that impressive. The article doesn't address why you wouldn't run Oracle on X86 with more cores.
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by jdsully 4y ago
Inflation is still 2.5x the target rate. Although it stopped increasing more. There is a lot of work to do to get back to 3% inflation.
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by jdsully 4y ago
If the CDN is just a part of your architecture that you voluntarily setup then you’re likely the one violating. Even if not the CDN very likely has an indemnification clause in their contract which would shift that liability back to you.

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