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by jonas21 4y ago
> And there are ways to avoid having to do JVM GC in critical areas of the code as well. Yeah, you allocate a large pool of objects up front and manually reference count them. Every high-performance Java application I've seen ends
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by jonas21 4y ago
~50 million people live along the Boston to DC corridor. That's roughly the population of Spain, and not much less than that of France.
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by jonas21 4y ago
In the tech industry, you'll probably find a lot more engineers making $600k/yr than sales people.
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by jonas21 4y ago
There's no need for a recall because it can be fixed with a firmware update. And as the article mentions, vendors did issue urgent/critical firmware updates for it back in 2020. https://www.dell.com/support/ho
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by jonas21 4y ago
> Writing out an acronym one time in your paper/article/blog is not "constantly". I think you mean "your paper/article/weblog (blog)"
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by jonas21 4y ago
4% efficiency may be just fine when your energy source is free and abundant.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Ah, but if you both learned to write from the same person, then you would expect the handwriting to look similar (even if you didn't let them see your notes). And I think that might be going on here. Take a look at a Chinese-language
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by jonas21 4y ago
The US uses ballistic missile submarines to provide counterstrike capability that can't be destroyed by a nuclear first strike. This deters adversaries from attacking us because they'll know that no matter what they do, we'll
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by jonas21 4y ago
> you can't take a battery deficit and make up for it later with a reversion to the mean. Sure you can. Let's say you have a lousy day where you get 30% of the peak power (1.6 kWh in the example). You'll use 2.4 kWh of bat
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by jonas21 4y ago
The 700W number comes from Aptera's website [1]. You don't have to believe them -- but to achieve that, they'd need about 3.5 square meters of solar panels, and if you look at the overhead picture on that page, it looks like
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by jonas21 4y ago
> Can't imagine you're getting much power from an extra panel on the hood over the course of a drive? It's not just over the course of a drive. It's charging while your car is parked out in the sun all day long. &gt
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by jonas21 4y ago
My overactive imagination thinks it went something like this: Engineer A: Gee, I need to store a few flags with each block, but there's nowhere to put them. Ah! We're storing timestamps as 64-bit microseconds . I can borrow a few
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by jonas21 4y ago
This sounds like the standard blackout period that public companies have every quarter to prevent insider trading. If so, it'll be lifted a few days after TWTR reports Q2 earnings later this month.
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by jonas21 4y ago
You must have had a very low opinion of the WSJ if that's all it took.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Nah, throughout most of history, things sucked if you were rich, and sucked even more if you were poor.
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by jonas21 4y ago
The point of the law is that you don't have to call. If you signed up online, you can cancel online, without talking to anyone. California has a similar law, and it's saved me a lot of time and stress over the last few years. By
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by jonas21 4y ago
And these are the folks responsible for enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act. Sigh.
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by jonas21 4y ago
It's much easier to sit on the sidelines and come up with reasons why you shouldn't do something new than it is to actually do it. Some people have figured this out and built careers on it. This wouldn't be a problem, except
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by jonas21 4y ago
If you scale it up over 100%, you won't be in business for very long.
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by jonas21 4y ago
$50/hour? How about $2/month? This gets you support from real humans [1]. Given this already exists, I guess the answer to your question is "no". [1] https://one.google.com/about
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by jonas21 4y ago
> Then the icing is that when Bungie came knocking Google initially resisted a court-related request to allow Bungie to identify the user and stop the abuse. Wow. A big corporation came asking for data on an individual GMail user, and
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Amazon's Latest Trick: Pipe in a Dead Person's Voice Through Alexa's Speakers(gizmodo.com)
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by jonas21 4y ago
Rather, I think they're afraid of the criticism they'll face over such biases if they make the model generally available. It doesn't take much imagination to see these issues being used by AI opponents as justification to ban
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by jonas21 4y ago
> That made me lose a whole lot of respect for Ive. I dunno... It sounds like they let him rest and vest for a few months as a courtesy even though he was already checked out. And then, during that time, he sent an email to the entire
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by jonas21 4y ago
The site in today's submission seems to have copied the original article wholesale and slapped their own byline on it, along with a bunch of ads. The only credit to the original author is at the very bottom, and that's probably ac
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by jonas21 4y ago
The case you cited says nothing of the sort. It only establishes that a religious organization can be sued for fraud if it uses coercive persuasion ("brainwashing") techniques [1]. It doesn't make a statement as to what is or
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by jonas21 4y ago
There was also an odd clustering among early Google employees who all came from a place called "Stanford." It may be difficult to distinguish between these two hiring patterns without asking the sorts of questions that are illegal
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by jonas21 4y ago
Ah, you're right. I had misread this chart earlier. Sorry about that. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
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by jonas21 4y ago
No, only individuals can buy I-bonds. EDIT: that's not right. please see below.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Is this surprising? Well-run news organizations have integrity and keep an arm's length relationship with their owners. You say that "it was usually said that billionaires owning mass media is used by them to push their free marke

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