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by jeffbee 5mo ago
ChromeOS is linux. It's a Linux distro that works correctly out of the box, setting it apart quite strongly from all other Linux distros.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I think you're underestimating Google's ability and willingness to launch and maintain multiple competing products that appear redundant. But you are overstating the lack of support for past ChromeOS devices, because for the enter
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
A better source is the USDA AMS which surveys the prices of several different milk products in retail outlets in many cities. They do this not only for milk but many common foods. The data goes back decades. Example report https:/&#x2
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I don't see anything on downdetector suggesting this was particularly disruptive.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The point of being "cloud native" is you build redundancy at higher levels. Instead of having extra pipes and wires, you have extra software that handles physical failures.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Because taking drives out of service for SMART signals would cost a fortune and almost none of those drives were actually going to fail.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Wasn't it a conclusion of the Google hard drive reliability study that models based on SMART were not useful? I.e. drives with sector reallocations are much more likely to fail than those without, but their failure rate is still someth
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I think you are giving them too generous of a reading. The notice was that a subset of vehicles had loose bolts in the front end. They did not know how many, and there was no way to identify the subset. If you could be in this subset, stop
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
They told everyone who owned a rivian at that time to stop driving it immediately until the guy could come out and put the wheels back on. That is a recall.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
JSON parsing is probably one of the most thoroughly optimized subsystems in the whole industry at this point. Obviously there are ways to encode the same data that are easier to parse (e.g. instead of absolute floating point coordinates, us
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Rivian had to recall all of theirs for the same reason. Turns out a 3-ton car is hard to engineer.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
It's a shortage of refinery inputs, not refinery capacity.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
You can change the wifi mac on any chromeos machine with literally `ifconfig`.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
15% in absolute terms, 22% in per capita terms. And it is state policy to allow no more additional ICE cars in less than ten years, no net emissions in less than 20 years. Investing in a refinery today would obviously be folly.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
But this guy is fixated on the fact that 17% of the refineries were closed in a state where gas sales fell 17%.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
... because demand is down. California hit peak gas sales 20 years ago and reaching zero motor fuel sales is foreseeable.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Much of what fossil fuels are used for is to refine fossil fuels, a use that we don't need to entirely replace.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I can't think of any sense in which this statement could be supported by facts.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
If you have much experience with fedramp, and it sounds like you do, perhaps you might agree that it is a huge list of things that superficially indicate doing something, without actually doing anything. As the documentation for IPE freely
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Yeah the whole system is based on the ability of one task to apparently become another task, that's how Unix works. So the indicators in /proc are just that: indicative at best. There's no reason the task should even be assum
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Maybe, but there's a prctl to change that reference which a root process can use.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Based on what? Proc title?
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I've never had to write such software but in my imagination there is the sensor data, potentially from several exposures, and some static data about the camera, and a list of edits and parameters that the photo app is using to produce
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I wish there was a middle ground between what Android/Pixel camera saves as raw, and the in-camera JPEG. Sometimes I have a few quibbles with the JPEG and what I'd like to do is edit the raw file, but starting from something close
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
You are not addressing the claim that PHEVs can't reach highway speeds on batteries. That is a ridiculous claim, and it is false. You will not be able to name even one PHEV on the market with this limitation, because they do not exist.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Sure, that's the obvious downside of them. But in the role where they spend ~10h slowly charging overnight from a standard plug, about 25-45 miles is all you'd expect to enjoy in a steady state. I had a PHEV Honda and I put 20 gal
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
You're making this outlandish claim so it is on you to name any currently or recently-marketed PHEV that can't reach highway speeds in EV mode, and to demonstrate that this constitutes "most" of the market or installed b
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
That's because hybrids aren't designed to do so. The battery is small in terms of both energy and power. Sometimes, if the car is initially pointed the right way, you could complete a very short downhill trip at low speeds without
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
This is not true. Popular PHEVs like the Prius Prime can go any speed you like on batteries.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
"Remember the time Apple fixed iOS so the iPhone would run instead of crashing under low voltage conditions" remains, to me, the most inexplicable of HN's mass psychoses.

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