jychang

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by jychang 9y ago
I'm saying that as size of project (lim -> $infinity), (probability death or injury) approaches 1.
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by jychang 9y ago
Literally nothing I said stated about society and risk stated that dangerous jobs are only for low level construction workers. You're just using silly ad hominem ("desk jockey") and emotional appeals (poor vs rich!) without c
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by jychang 9y ago
I agree, I'm only arguing the hypothetical. I would highly doubt that $250mil went into slower progress for the sake of safety. Definitely, there were other costs. You're supposed to only consider the abstract idea I presented. Th
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by jychang 9y ago
I don't. That's moving the goalposts. Who cares if Oroville Dam is in the USA or not. The same thing would still apply if it was in the UK. I'm merely saying the modern public should reconsider spending $250million extra, ins
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by jychang 9y ago
A quite a bit less than $250million, which is how much is being paid. In fact, people would even volunteer to die for "just" $100million. Just see this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/co
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by jychang 9y ago
I feel like this comment is callous, but unfairly downvoted. All projects contain risk. Getting out of bed and taking a shower involves risk, you can slip and fall. The larger the project, the larger the sample size and the more statistical
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by jychang 9y ago
> This was one of the few railways to survive the great railway crash The government well made its money back before the great railway crash. Let's say the Internet suffers a crash in a few decades. Few would argue that any previous
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by jychang 9y ago
Spawning git doesn't mean that it can't just check for a timeout and stop the task with an error. Someone will probably have to actually try an experiment with Gitlab.
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by jychang 9y ago
No, he's correct. Ctrl-Alt-Delete on windows is a privileged hotkey that goes directly to the kernel. A phishing program can't intercept it once it has been pressed. If you know that Ctrl-Alt-Delete has been pressed, you are alrea
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by jychang 9y ago
Uhh, an airship? On a planet with winds at 350kmph? That sounds like a horrible idea.
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by jychang 9y ago
This is not a good example. The reason the iPod sold so poorly the first few years was because you can only sync them with Macs. Very few people owned Macs, so iPod sales were poor. It took iTunes for Windows to come out before things chang
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by jychang 9y ago
IIRC, the calculations from NASA says that for a trained individual, the value of a human life is around $50 million. 1/6 of that is $8.3 million. It may be unethical to play russian roulette, but is it still unethical to choose to pla
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by jychang 9y ago
I currently live in Bellevue, not looking for a job right now but where is the Alibaba Cloud office? Downtown? Factoria near T-Mobile? Crossroads near MS campus?
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by jychang 9y ago
> Is there anywhere where that does not work? Your local Apple Store in the USA.
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by jychang 9y ago
Is the lack of car leases a UK-only thing, then? In the USA, car leases are extremely common. People understand that they have to return the car after the lease. Hell, even the common advice given is "buy a Toyota, lease a BMW" wh
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by jychang 9y ago
Well, yeah. The consequentialist viewpoint is if IPFS fails to succeed because it jumped too early, then ZERO people benefit from it. That's arguably the greater sin. There's a saying, cutting off the nose to spite the face. That
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by jychang 10y ago
That grayishness is due to the S-Log tonal compression, not the sensor.
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by jychang 10y ago
I'm sorry, but need for basic infrastructure like WATER does not disappear when you receive internet and electricity.
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by jychang 10y ago
The actual percent of users who use it may be small, but they're the most vocal and activist group who recommend products to the majority of ignorant people. Coreboot is a good thing, and if AMD could implement it, they should do so.
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by jychang 10y ago
You're a year out of date. New ownership. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...
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by jychang 10y ago
Just a reminder that wccftech.com is notoriously pro-AMD. I would caution against taking their word as proof. I'm not an AMD hater (actually own AMD stock), just cautious.
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by jychang 10y ago
Berkeley did cover skip lists, along with a lot of other algorithms, both practical and esoteric.
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by jychang 10y ago
Eh, I use a Macbook Pro as my primary machine, and that's overselling it. Sure, the people who say "look at this $700 machine with the same specs as a Macbook Pro" are stupid, but there's a couple of comparable laptops.
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by jychang 10y ago
This is inaccurate. Lenovo is shit for their $500 level consumer level laptops, but their professional Thinkpads are still top tier and were never affected by the crapware incidents. The current T4x0, X2x0 and Px0 series Thinkpads are still
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by jychang 10y ago
Two can play this game! "Hurricane Katrina caused $81 billion in property damages, but it is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana and Mississippi may exceed $150 billion" Tell me again dirty power is cheap.
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by jychang 10y ago
Let's say you are an honest citizen. You earn $1000, of which all of it is properly taxed. You get $100 in cash and give it to a corrupt official in order to do something. Another person is a corrupt official/businessman; under th
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by jychang 10y ago
> Anyone with outstanding notes must either deposit them in a bank -- potentially incurring a tax -- or exchange them for replacements in strictly limited sums. Incurring a tax is the entire point of replacing the old currency. A large
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by jychang 10y ago
This article is horrible. The first 10 paragraphs have nothing to do with the actual subject in the title (the performance gap between GSM and CDMA iphones). > The component at the root of the performance gap is the modem, a tiny chip bu
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by jychang 10y ago
Petapixel is half blogspam anyways, a tiny step up from Gizmodo. It was actually banned from r/photography for spam reasons.
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Things I Won’t Work With: What This Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide(blogs.sciencemag.org)
7 points by jychang 10y ago|1 comments

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