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by klooney 2y ago
> Did you know that you can’t write to video memory on the Game Boy Advance in units of 8 bits, and if you do, it’ll still work but all your graphics will be messed up with no obvious way to figure it out unless you read one specific par
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by klooney 2y ago
Boston Globe does this too, it's very odd- but it's a long-standing house photo caption style thing.
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by klooney 2y ago
Rhymes with another story ( https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/notes-on-china ) on the front page > It’s funny how China has basically the inverse problem as America. We subsidize demand and restrict supply. They subsidi
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by klooney 2y ago
> Fundamentally, you cannot be both an IP creator (eg. Design) and chip fabricator, as both functions have different economics and competitive structures, and one BU inevitabely holds the other back. Vertical integration can win too, it
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by klooney 2y ago
I was addicted to, of all things, text MUDs, when I was younger. It's ditch weed compared to what you can get now.
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by klooney 2y ago
McGill big three, every other day.
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by klooney 2y ago
I wonder where the fraud will go now. Maybe the body shops will hire "researchers" instead?
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by klooney 2y ago
Well that was wild. An industry wide recruiting blacklist sounds terrible. Key takeaways here are probably "Vinfast doesn't have much in house engineering" and "don't buy one right now".
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by klooney 2y ago
This makes much more sense
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by klooney 2y ago
New languages should make sure the default random() is cryptographically secure, and hide PRNGs behind weakrandom() or repeatablerandom() or something. Safe and slow defaults are better than fast and unsafe.
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by klooney 2y ago
The tyranny of the one-small-change use case having outsized importance. Usually the build system is no one's job, which means that all hurdles grow.
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by klooney 2y ago
If only there was a giant money fountain with a vested interest in keeping mountain pass functional for the long haul.
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by klooney 2y ago
> The skills built up by European carmakers over decades are simply not directly transferrable. Germany does have a giant, excellent chemistry industry. > China's interest in batteries is not a recent trend. It has been investing
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by klooney 2y ago
I mean, I feel like we've made a lot of progress on "how to do a good job" that's valuable- we've learned a lot about the value of automated tests, how to write fast ones, how to manage changes, how to design langua
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by klooney 2y ago
My company runs servers in Alibaba Cloud and blocks access to the Alibaba Cloud API endpoints on the grounds that they're in a high risk country.
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by klooney 2y ago
> A Google can stop 10000 potential startups simply with RSUs The real killer here is the Bay Area housing market. You need those RSUs to pay for a place to stay.
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by klooney 2y ago
Wireguard's premiere user space implementation is in go.
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by klooney 2y ago
I think Meta deserves more credit for the salary growth- they weren't a part of the cartel of companies colluding to keep salaries down, and them poaching from Google helped to force Google to defect.
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by klooney 2y ago
I had a Honda that I loved with a backup camera but no infotainment- it showed a little picture-in-picture on the left hand side of the backup mirror. It was pretty slick.
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by klooney 2y ago
Cannons are legal to own, which is a little wild
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by klooney 2y ago
> dedicated Kubernetes team with an established on-call rotation. Using EKS or GKS is basically this. K8s is much nicer than ECS in terms of development and packaging your own apps.
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by klooney 2y ago
Ansible ultimately runs scripts, in parallel, in a defined order across machines. It can help a lot, but it's subject to a lot of the same state bitrot issues as a pole of shell scripts.
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by klooney 2y ago
I watched cartoons on a dirty floor in a random house before school, I basically came out fine.
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by klooney 2y ago
There's a huge class divide in affordability. Unlicensed childcare, home remodeling, etc., is wildly cheaper.
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HackerRank's Next Generation of Hiring(support.hackerrank.com)
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by klooney 2y ago
>“I know it’s not exciting, but nutritional approaches and exercise really go a long, long way,” he said. The beatings will continue until morale improves. Lifestyle change is possible, but very hard, and not likely for any one person.
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by klooney 2y ago
Windows has adopted io_uring, it can't be that bad.
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by klooney 2y ago
I think the Cybertruck has a lot of crossover appeal.
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by klooney 2y ago
Have you considered a Leaf? They've been around forever, with around 200 miles of range.
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by klooney 2y ago
I mean, this is the Nissan Leaf- lightly used ones are really cheap.

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