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by kenhwang 8y ago
You can reduce brake wear by engine braking aggressively on an ICE; it's just not worth the effort given how cheap brakes are.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Point is, the brakes on a car are cheaper than the tires for the same car. I'd be very surprised if you can get a full set of tires + labor for less than your quoted $200 total for brakes.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
What's probably scary about the Taycan is it's targeting the profitable segment of Tesla's lineup. Tesla's strategy of selling more expensive cars to fund R&D for cheaper cars completely falls apart if they can'
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Unless you optioned $15k carbon ceramics (which last 3x as long), the standard brake pads don't run much more expensive than other cars ($100-200 per pair). Rotors might cost $500/pair, but you're not replacing them as freque
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by kenhwang 8y ago
California uses a lot of wood because of wood's seismic resistance properties.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
200ms is faster than the 300ms cast time of Axe's call and Tidehunter's ravage. Pros almost never react fast enough to blink/euls dodge those skills (0s cast time for blink/euls, 200ms reaction time gives the bots a 100m
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Maybe from an AI perspective, it's impressive that the bots almost managed to learn the rules of the (still drastically simplified subset) game. From a game skill point of view, it's a joke; it's incredibly obvious that the b
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I think they should be training 5 different bots for the 1-5 positions because their priorities and roles are quite different. It seemed like all 5 bots had the same, "kill enemy, hit building" strategy, which is locally optimal,
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by kenhwang 8y ago
They reversed the characters used for the 2nd game. The pros considered the matchup to be fair (no draft advantage to either side). It's argued that drafting is one of the major components of competitive play and more often than not, d
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The caster team played against the iteration of the bot that was trained on a different version of the game that's very unlike the normal game (multi-invincible couriers). Multiple invincible couriers makes the game very similar to the
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by kenhwang 8y ago
As someone who played a bunch of Dota2 (and was present at TI where this happened), the bots were a joke -- and the humans that played against them were not only super sandbagging and screwing around, they quickly figured out the bots'
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by kenhwang 8y ago
handle/check looks like try/catch in reverse order with check/try limited to statements instead of code blocks. Not sure if that's an improvement or just different for the sake of being Go.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Completely forgot about vote buying for a moment. Secret, but verifiable is a hard problem.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Sure, just like how you can just steal physical absentee ballots out of mailboxes and mail them in. There's no such thing as perfect security. The problem of secure elections is how secure is secure enough? How many keys/ballots c
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Ideally, you'd want to be able to verify your vote was counted correctly, but not be able to determine whether a specific individual voted a certain way. It's so you can't feasibly sell your vote; it's one thing to say y
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I think a way around this is: everyone gets randomly generated keys every election, like how everyone gets randomly numbered paper ballots. Currently, you can check if your numbered ballot was counted after you voted, but you can't ver
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I think "secure election" is one of the few uniquely viable use cases for blockchain. In my opinion, elections should be easily anonymized, verifiable, distributed, and resistant to bad actors. That seems like a slam dunk for the
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by kenhwang 8y ago
On one hand, this is really cool and I'd love this type of info out of AWS. On the other hand, the whole point of using a cloud provider is to lower the amount of ops work, and this feels like I'm helping do ops work for Google, a
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I'm still mind-boggled by the crusade against the lockfile. It's a completely unambiguous source for everything that costs essentially nothing, why is there so much time and energy devoted to getting rid of it? Especially with all
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I love Ruby, but I would still advocate for Python as a teaching language. Ruby's grammar is objectively more complex than Python's. People generally get stuck on syntax issues when they begin learning programming. Python's s
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Half my time in Slack is just banter and gifs, the other half is skimming discussions that would've been a meeting otherwise. I think the time I waste chit chatting about cancels out the time I've saved from emails, meetings, brie
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by kenhwang 8y ago
And Python is taught in the intro to programming course in just about every college in the world. Dumb simple languages make better teaching tools, but unlike Lisp and Smalltalk, Python was also good enough for widespread professional use.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
SF in general seems to be more vitriolic towards public services. Might be the entrepreneurial mindset of the region rubbing off.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
This is a very strange CVE; the risk of exploit is effectively zero and the remediation effort and attention is equal to a routine version bump. I suppose this serves as a nice PSA and fire drill for the security team.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The biggest drawback of the JVM is the resource use, warmup time, and unpredictable GC latency. The JVM certainly is freakishly fast once it gets going, but it's not always cost efficient for it's performance.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I found out that 90% of the time, I'm more at fault than the borrow checker because I'm writing code that would be unsafe should concurrency/parallelism be introduced. But a lot of people don't naturally write or even kn
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by kenhwang 8y ago
At least Instagram prints money (at the moment anyway). Netflix is almost as insane, but they're the (almost uncontested) leader in global online content distribution at the moment. Tesla is dead last against like 20+ competent profita
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Tesla's valuation certainly is insane. They're valued higher than GM and Ford, the former moves over 100x more vehicles and both are actually profitable. If you value Tesla as battery company that happens to make cars, it's j
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Looks like it's targeted more towards the Elm crowd with npm install instructions than the Elixir crowd with no hex/mix install method.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Santa Monica is already planning on enacting a sort of moat law that would seemingly protect Bird (conveniently HQed next door in Venice).

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