jrockway

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by jrockway 3y ago
New Panamax ships can carry 13,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units. 13,000 * 20 ft = 260,000 ft = 49 miles. (You can stack containers on top of each other, so 25 miles. There also needs to be space between the containers on a train for the
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by jrockway 3y ago
This line works: nc -l -p 1234 -q 1 > testfile.txt < /dev/null The other one doesn't. alias foobar=nc cat testfile.txt | foobar 192.168.2.100 1234 I was hoping that it was a "useless use of cat&q
723.
by jrockway 3y ago
Because your job at this type of company is to train junior engineers. That might not be a priority elsewhere, so the idea is to get you to work elsewhere instead.
724.
by jrockway 3y ago
I think there's a pretty significant amount of UV coming in even through a pinhole. There are indoor-only things that are damaged by UV (old computer cases) even though windows block a lot of the UV. I think what's hard to balanc
725.
by jrockway 3y ago
I disagree with some of these points: 1. Z-wave is better, but Wifi can be fine in the right environment. Like, my weather station uses Wifi because it sends a few bytes of data to a server once a minute. No need for an additional protoco
726.
by jrockway 3y ago
I agree with you. Everyone is trying to get you riled up over theft, but it's really just a calculated risk. There are two retail strategies. One is to let people walk into the distribution centers and touch everything, hopefully mak
727.
by jrockway 3y ago
I feel like The Simpsons covered this decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea5L2hQurWA There is an early-seasons Simpsons clip for every "new phenomenon" that people notice today.
728.
by jrockway 3y ago
Not all of the stakeholder's voices are in the room, right? Something that's essential for Big Tech is the wave of newly minted engineers to facilitate growth (and replace people that retire). These people don't even work f
729.
by jrockway 3y ago
> Is there any difference between taking a 1000 year exposure and taking a photo every day for 1000 years and laying them ontop of eachother? There is a difference between taking a photo every day for 1000 years, what you end up with is,
730.
by jrockway 3y ago
I would have expected a hole drilled into a cave or something like that. A piece of steel attached to a deck probably won't survive 100 years, simply because someone will want to make the deck bigger or better in the intervening time
731.
by jrockway 3y ago
Because the dream is to replace expensive human workers with a graphics card and some weights. That is what all the money behind LLMs is. Nobody really cares about selling you a personal assistant that can turn your lights off when you le
732.
by jrockway 3y ago
Wal-Mart and Target are the 'curated' everything stores. My biggest disappointment with them is that they never have what I want. I think I'm OK with Amazon being Aliexpress for the US market. Sometimes I want to get random
733.
by jrockway 3y ago
Wait, you get an update cycle done in 10-30s? I feel like on mine I download an update over the course of 3 weeks, and then it takes 4 hours to apply. Also every time I touch a game it needs to be updated, which takes another 4 hours. All
734.
by jrockway 3y ago
Sales seems like a truly miserable role. You have to sell whatever the company makes, which often times isn't what the customer wants. You mostly get paid by commission, so if someone just goes out and buys your product without talki
735.
by jrockway 3y ago
I do always laugh a little about these things. "Safety is our top priority." It can't be, or you wouldn't be in the business of drilling mines or whatever. Safety is the second priority.
736.
by jrockway 3y ago
> If you absolutely must know that it's precisely 14:22:04 it's not the device for you. I think that's false. Railroads used precise watches and published timetables to coordinate train movements well before signals were
737.
by jrockway 3y ago
A few years ago I tried writing an application (something like Status Hero for internal use) with a non-traditional database. I used Badger, which is just a transactional k/v store, and stored each "row" as protobuf value an
738.
by jrockway 3y ago
I agree with this. I usually wrap my HTTP handlers in a function that copies the error to the HTTP response, and can then just return an error from my actual handler. I think it's fair to not force this in the standard library. HTTP d
739.
by jrockway 3y ago
I doubt it matters. They wanted to be big in Korea. Local competitors got big instead. So they're leaving instead of spending more money. Interest rates could be 0% and you still wouldn't necessarily want to borrow money to ba
740.
by jrockway 3y ago
I am pretty sure these songs turned me into a die-hard OpenBSD fan back in the day. I remember first hearing of one on Slashdot at like 1 in the morning, and immediately shook my roommate awake to listen to it. He was not pleased. I thou
741.
by jrockway 3y ago
> Has NYC even had a comparably large snowstorm since then? 14 inches in 2021. > To this day, the MTA says that over 12" of snow would still result in system disruption and service suspension I think the MTA's "undergro
742.
by jrockway 3y ago
In NYC we actually have a bunch of yard capacity that is completely underground, and then a bunch of other yards that are covered (like condos built on top). Typically the snow service plans involves stacking as many trainsets as possible
743.
by jrockway 3y ago
Japan is better than the US, but I've definitely been standing around in Shinjuku station waiting an extra long time for a train, freezing my butt off, while the signs scroll "because of heavy snow in Gunma prefecture, trains are
744.
by jrockway 3y ago
> whatever happened to flying at mach 0.9 Someone made a website showing which airlines have the most delays, so airlines just added an hour of padding to every scheduled flight, and then fly slower / burn less fuel when there aren&
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by jrockway 3y ago
The IRS should do a code review and see. That script you wrote at 3:00AM after waking up to your pager? That thing is going to be around forever and will have to be amortized over the next 2000 years. 5 years, you're getting off eas
746.
by jrockway 3y ago
Netcraft confirms it: Netcraft is dying!
747.
by jrockway 3y ago
They aren't, but because you can send Foo-Bar as fOo-BaR on the wire, someone somewhere depends on it. People don't read the specs, they look at the example data, and decide that's how their program works now. Postel's
748.
by jrockway 3y ago
I think what's needed from the government side is indemnity for copyright and patent infringement on open-sourced code. What I've always heard is that AMD steals Nvidia's IP, Nvidia steals AMD's IP, etc. so if they ever
749.
by jrockway 3y ago
With a 3 day outage and a status page that says "a small percentage of users are experiencing decreased availability while we investigate a network issue in us-east-1".
750.
by jrockway 3y ago
The statistics are also available as "per passenger-hour", which eliminates the speed factor. An 8 hour road trip is reasonable. An 8 hour flight is on the longer side.

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