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691.
by lacker 6y ago
This review is a bit of a window into the past itself... after all, more time has passed since this review was written than elapsed between GEB’s publication and this review. In 2021 the conventional wisdom is basically the opposite of the
692.
by lacker 6y ago
That's a pretty funny story ;-) My tests on children who still have the patience to undergo such tests indicates that the most common human response to this question is in fact: Q: How many eyes does my foot have? A: Zero.
693.
by lacker 6y ago
1 ms per transaction is quite optimistic! In practice occasionally you will have some sort of latency spike caused by an external event or a single extra-slow transaction, and then your single-threaded queue will get backed up and requests
694.
by lacker 6y ago
For static sites, GitHub pages is extremely easy, if you're already using GitHub to host the code. You follow a few lines of code to stick a deploy script into your repository, point your domain, and you're done.
695.
by lacker 6y ago
It's possible that those wallets are compromised, but it's quite strange that both of them would be compromised at the same time. It's also strange that someone in possession of a compromise for one of these wallets would use
696.
by lacker 6y ago
When I was working on database services there were actually many applications with more writes than reads. A common example is applications where you want to keep the user's state saved frequently, but you only need to reload it when t
697.
by lacker 6y ago
I know very little about boat data but I was also curious; it looks like it is using Vesselfinder which in turn uses data from this AIS system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_syste... There is a
698.
by lacker 6y ago
Oh wow, I was biking in the Berkeley/Oakland hills recently and was surprised to hear what I thought was a clear eagle call, because I never see eagles around but I frequently see red-tailed hawks. It all makes sense now!
699.
by lacker 6y ago
I used to work at both Google and Facebook and I still know a lot of people at both those places. My take on working at these large companies is, your experience will be massively different depending on what project you work on and what tea
700.
by lacker 6y ago
“standard practice”
701.
by lacker 6y ago
Just a job that doesn't involve interacting with and moderating a community seems reasonable. Nobody would be upset if she was, say, a software engineer quietly fixing bugs in application logic for tax software.
702.
by lacker 6y ago
The difference is, it's legal for a farm to smell like manure. They do say in the article that the car club is breaking several laws. So it's more a case of, for a long time the cops haven't enforced the laws here, but now th
703.
by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, the article is clearly pro-car-club but it seems to disregard what to me is the main question - is this car club doing anything illegal? If they aren't breaking the law, then it's not appropriate to call the police. If they
704.
by lacker 6y ago
It's not paranoia if the internet really is full of hackers out to get you
705.
by lacker 6y ago
There has to be space for a YC like company which lends similar credentials, but provides more personalized support. I feel like this is backwards. Back in 2010 Paul Graham could advise every YC company himself. But if anything that was
706.
by lacker 6y ago
More companies means less attention for the 7% you are giving away. There are also more YC advisors. When I first went through YC in 2010, it was Paul Graham giving advice to everyone. Nowadays it's more like each company has a few p
707.
by lacker 6y ago
If the value of YC goes down, it should be clear soon, because the valuation of YC startups on demo day will go down. That hasn’t been the case at all though - since 2010 when I first went through YC the typical valuations have pretty clear
708.
by lacker 6y ago
I don’t support whatever these police are doing per se but this doesn’t seem like something the EFF should get involved in. What does this have to do with digital privacy or defending free speech? This is just a police department deciding w
709.
by lacker 6y ago
Cockroach definitely seems like a case where you'd want to keep your design more conservative, putting in more effort and being stylistically more restrictive to reduce bugs and increase performance, compared to something like a statel
710.
by lacker 6y ago
the phrase “Centaur Bard” is too long and unwieldy, I suggest you just call it a Centard
711.
by lacker 6y ago
So here's an example that I'm not sure how it would work with nurseries. Let's say I'm writing some sort of logging functionality for a larger codebase. The API in my library is `log(message)` where message is some rando
712.
by lacker 6y ago
It is unclear to me what the real impact of this deal is. The article spends about one sentence describing the deal directly: "All research with a UC lead author published in Elsevier’s extensive portfolio of hybrid and open access jou
713.
by lacker 6y ago
"How I successfully went off the grid, and got to 300,000 YouTube subscribers!"
714.
by lacker 6y ago
It sounds less trivial than an app that lets you put filters on your photos.
715.
by lacker 6y ago
I see it as upload is for creation and download is for consumption. Nowadays, I see it as upload is for Zoom, download is for everything. It used to be basically okay to have slow upload speeds, but in an era when everything from kinderga
716.
by lacker 6y ago
That number is too high. If you restrict to the FAANG companies, though, it is only a small overestimate. See https://www.levels.fyi/ and select Google. There an L5 represents an "experienced" engineer with at lea
717.
by lacker 6y ago
Crispr, while awesome, has not yet turned into real concrete technology that is making our lives better. I think the best example of serious technological advances recently is the mRNA vaccines.
718.
by lacker 6y ago
That’s pretty theoretical at this point, though; it’s been quite a while since we had high inflation.
719.
by lacker 6y ago
"Convenience" is such a funny way to put it. As if the time spent making food is worthless, and saving hours of labor is only useful because it provides this abstract property of "convenience".
720.
by lacker 6y ago
According to this map, 49% of Berkeley residential areas are single-family zoned: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-may-get-rid... But yeah I think in practice the bigger question is whether Be

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