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by jnwatson 4y ago
I have fond memories of Atari Basic. It even came with its own keyboard.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Shared libraries can reduce load time as they might already be in page cache. There’s also potential for a small impact in reduced instruction cache misses. On the other side, link time optimization on static libraries allows deletion of u
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Super confused. There is nothing new with WeWork other than perhaps cooler interior design. Renting an office room by the hour/month has been a thing for a very long time. Regus/IWG was founded in 1989.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Just Google “executive suites”. The WeWork business model has been around for decades.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Demo is producing gibberish.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The average game is closer to 12 minutes.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The existence of the XFL is evidence that NFL doesn't own the sport of football.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
"magnetic compression hypothesis being a byproduct of white dwarf simulation" That is the coolest thing I'll read all month.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It is unfortunately also when the wind slows down and the sun stops shining, which is where an increasing amount of our power generation comes from.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
.sucks charges $2499 a year for premium domains.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
SIMD instructions are so uncommonly used that when you see one in a binary, it is probably an inline memcpy.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Minecraft is the exception that proves the rule. There have been perhaps 5 indie games in the last 10 years that made it big money wise.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Why? Swift has never worried about it, and Dart’s target market is a lot closer to Swift. Swift has made large backwards-incompatible changes 3 times now.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It isn’t common, but they are easy to find because they’ll let you know.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Driving a bus is a tactically complicated job. The rules of the road in a major city are already a little soft. They are doubly so for buses. They park where they must, and sometimes use their size to bully their way in. City buses will
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by jnwatson 4y ago
“Very coherent, but technical details wrong” covers a great deal of human-generated content as well.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You missed the part where Ulbrict put a hit on someone.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Nearly every bug is a security bug. If Google made a CVE for every bug, we’d have millions of CVEs to wade through. Linux works the same way.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The oddest thing about the whole affair is that, even if Musk is a genius tech executive that can build exciting new products, that has almost nothing to do with the cost efficiency process that Twitter needed. You don't even need to b
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I don't understand this at all. There are certainly plenty of problems in the housing market, but the existence of landlords isn't one of them. Even if you ignore the substantial amount of work it takes to actually maintain a pr
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Emulators are not remotely normal software. If there's any static or dynamic binary translation at all, there's a lot of architecture-specific stuff you gotta know.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I recently spoke to a datacenter planner. I wouldn't be surprised if the global spend on new datacenters for 2023 is on the order of $100 billion. If this continues for a few more years, this is planet-shaping change. I just Googled
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by jnwatson 4y ago
"Riding shotgun" was from the stagecoach days. It was the seat next to the driver that acted as a bodyguard.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
PRs accepted.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I would have agreed with you 20 years ago. Now, the cloud architecture stuff is real engineering.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Woodworkers make many of their own tools.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ You are free to think that, but most folks' use of the term relates strongly to cryptocurrency.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Also 1.3 million men are incarcerated, most of which fall into that age range.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Most startup founders with families use one or more of the following: * Already be wealthy, or at least well off. * Be able to live of spouse's income. * Live off your parents' money.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The weird thing is that 13% seems high. It is hard to imagine they are less than 13% more efficient with those tools. It is weird that software engineers are the only engineer-types that are supposed to be able to do their job with just a

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