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by koala_man 5y ago
Anker's business model is exactly identifying these quality manufacturers and doing the QC. It's a fantastic, valuable service, and they do it really well.
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by koala_man 5y ago
> only allow ever losing 1 second of data For a database this means that every transaction will take a minimum of 1 second, otherwise you can't guarantee durability.
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by koala_man 5y ago
I always ran my dishwasher on the three hour power wash program because nothing would get clean otherwise. Then I watched this video and started using powder. Now the normal program works fine every time.
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by koala_man 5y ago
"DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED" is a running joke at Facebook, used when soft-deprecating a field or method where you can't immediately get rid of all users. Sometimes it migrates into open source products. It's iconic
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Norway first to legally ban breeding Cavaliers and English Bulldogs(belfastlive.co.uk)
2 points by koala_man 5y ago|0 comments
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by koala_man 5y ago
Right, but the time I can manage with four fewer hours per night is measured in days, not months. I'd be more worried about falling asleep in traffic than gaining one pound.
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by koala_man 5y ago
> Our work showed that reducing sleep by about four hours per night, for four nights, led to an increase in eating, amounting to about 300 calories per day Is it just me or is this a rather extreme amount of sleep deprivation for a compa
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by koala_man 5y ago
>It's not clear where you'd just "find 10% more people" Well, you just gave millions of low-income workers 10% less money and 10% more time, so my guess is that more people would be forced to get a second job.
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by koala_man 5y ago
Many vitamins and minerals have lethargy as a symptom of deficiency.
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by koala_man 5y ago
Remember when consoles were all trying to beat each other on word length? We had machines marketed as "128bit" for a while.
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by koala_man 5y ago
Author here. In all cases, most access is still RAM. The storage is only hit to stash or load overflowing pages. I originally ran the benchmark with 1GB RAM instead of the final 2GB, but the start-of-disk test did not finish in the 9 hours
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by koala_man 5y ago
The overwhelming majority of access would still happen in the 2GB RAM the benchmark has. The disk is only hit to stash or load overflowing pages, not on every memory access. That's why it doesn't mirror the hardware difference bet
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by koala_man 5y ago
Author here. Keep in mind that most access in the swapping case is still RAM, so we can't just say that there's a 3x difference between DRAM and NVMe flash. I originally tried running the test with only 1GB RAM, but killed the job
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by koala_man 5y ago
Isn't it about ~2GB/s vs ~20GB/s? It's really impressive but still an order of magnitude.
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by koala_man 5y ago
Why don't you use rechargeable batteries? I stopped using them in the 90s but switched back a few years ago. More convenient and less wasteful than single use batteries, higher capacity and longer device life than built in batteries.
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by koala_man 5y ago
> The company says that, in the future, it will also introduce a new model number when making any hardware changes to its products that impact performance. So they'll keep selling products called "Western Digital SN550" ru
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by koala_man 5y ago
Which category are tomatoes in?
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by koala_man 5y ago
Can't answer for Finland, but in Norway: >Does that include their "offshore" income? Yes. It counts as taxable income even if you end up paying 0% tax on it (such as via foreign tax credit). >Also, what is income? Net r
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by koala_man 5y ago
I don't think "digital native" was ever intended to mean or imply "skilled in computer science", and more "takes digital technology for granted (and therefore thinks differently)". For example, if you ask
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by koala_man 5y ago
That is bashate, not ShellCheck, but there is good reason to use [[ since these operators are not POSIX to begin with and don't work in [.
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by koala_man 6y ago
Whether or not it should, it may fail for any kind of glob. This could be either because the glob ends up unintentionally matching something: $ var='*'; touch xfoo xbar $ [ x$var == x"hello" ] bash: [: too
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by koala_man 6y ago
Definitely quote. `[ x$X == x"hello" ]` may fail for a variety of different values of X like `*`, `Rocky_[1976].jpg`, `hello world` and `foo = xfoo -o bar` Quoting works in all those cases.
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by koala_man 6y ago
One-time donations were not originally an option, but I'm happy to see it's been added since. It's now enabled. Thanks!
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by koala_man 6y ago
Thank you for your support ^____^
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by koala_man 6y ago
I feel really bad for the service reps. If you hate doing this every time you cancel, imagine how they feel having to do this all day every day, always with the threat of being fired from their minimum wage job if they're accidentall
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by koala_man 6y ago
You don't owe them a justification just because they ask for one. You can simply say "decline to state".
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by koala_man 6y ago
Thanks! The geometry and SVG/spline aspects were new to me, as was React.js. The bulk of the logic was more familiar graph algorithms.
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by koala_man 6y ago
This multi-weekend side project draws an arbitrary photo using a single space-filling line, creating shades of gray by varying the line density. It's written in C++ compiled to WASM, with a React.js interface.
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Show HN: FiniteCurve – Draw a photo with one continuous, non-intersecting line(finitecurve.com)
7 points by koala_man 6y ago|3 comments
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by koala_man 6y ago
You can use QEmu snapshots to start a VM in under a second (but more than 125ms). I used this in 2009 for an IRC bot that safely evaluated arbitrary shell commands for demonstration purposes, and a fork thereof is still chugging along to th

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