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by loeg 8mo ago
Yeah, identifying single-digit millions of savings out of profiles is relatively common practice at Meta. It's ~easy to come up with a big number when the impact is scaled across a very large numbers of servers. There is a culture of
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by loeg 8mo ago
Why should Apple go to this R&D effort to benefit a commodified market of headphone products? Europe has no answer to this question. The result, just as with pharma research, is both lower profits and less innovation.
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by loeg 8mo ago
Polymarket is headquartered in NYC; it's a US company; it has many US customers, and it knows that, even if it did a wink-wink dance "disallowing" that prior to 2024. Since then, it has explicitly expanded into the US market
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by loeg 8mo ago
> The think tank has nothing to do with Russia and official denounces the invasion and upholds Ukraine's territorial rights. GP did not claim it was associated with Russia or that it had made specific claims about the invasion. >
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by loeg 8mo ago
It is required to be evaluated at compile time, and it's const. An optimizing compiler might see through a non-constexpr declaration like 'double a0 = ...' or it might not. Constexpr is somewhat more explicit, especially wit
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by loeg 8mo ago
Nothing about GP's comment is ad-hominem; it's neutral, factual context. Unless you dispute the factual claims?
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by loeg 8mo ago
Kalshi doesn't pay out for demise of a person (though, arguably inconsistently[1]); Polymarket does (probably in violation of US regulation, but there are no rules anymore). [1]: For example, they did pay out on a bet over whether Jimm
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by loeg 8mo ago
The prediction markets achieve a scale that CP doesn't.
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by loeg 8mo ago
Sports betting seems worse? Easily lumped in to the same category, though.
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by loeg 8mo ago
Yes -- in Wool (Silo), the silo builders launch the nukes / biological weapons. The weird thing about the Silo universe is that Hugh Howey thinks the mass murderers were the good guys.
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by loeg 8mo ago
> With Apple's proclivity for proprietary standards, I'm amazed they (or others) haven't rolled their own wireless audio standard by now. Can you imagine Europe's reaction? They'd fine Apple to the moon -- no in
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by loeg 8mo ago
My graphics card is from 2016; you'll be fine.
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by loeg 8mo ago
I mostly agree, although we've seen big shifts in the culture towards rule-deviating norms over time. Look at the guidelines for ideological battles or throwaway accounts, for example. And, as always: > Comments should get more th
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by loeg 8mo ago
It's an interesting guideline, but will require self-enforcement.
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by loeg 8mo ago
The worst drivers do it a lot more than good drivers.
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by loeg 8mo ago
> The strongest humans on earth can manage about 400W for an hour. Hayden Pucker did ~500. But more or less, yeah.
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by loeg 8mo ago
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/546/187/fb1...
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by loeg 8mo ago
I disagree with your handwaving bitflips away as a minor annoyance. Consumers don't love software crashing, even if they don't have any data they care about. Imagine ECC was free -- would you rather have free ECC and no bitflips,
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by loeg 8mo ago
The offshoring doomsayers made it seem like offshoring would contract the domestic market, but in fact the US software labor market has grown by >100% since that time. Median software engineer compensation is up something like 90% o
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by loeg 8mo ago
The US tech labor market is much more of a seller's market than when I started. Domestic demand has grown faster than supply, despite any offshoring that has also happened.
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by loeg 8mo ago
People have been booggeyman'ing offshoring since before I entered the industry and it's never been all that significant of a factor. Time zones are a big piece but there are a lot of other factors that make offshoring less appeal
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by loeg 8mo ago
https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/trump-v-v-o-s-se...
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by loeg 8mo ago
Why is this in particular more notable than the other thousands of companies suing for tariff relief? (In particular, V.O.S. Selections.)
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by loeg 8mo ago
Yeah but like... area under the curve. All of those jobs and more were added very recently, 2020-2022. It's a major retreat from that growth, but the trend since, say, 2008 or 2010 or 2018 is still positive growth. 2020-2022 was j
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by loeg 8mo ago
> Someone said AMD "kinda" lets you do ECC on consumer hardware, not sure what the caveats are besides just being unbuffered. That was me. It isn't "officially" supported by AMD, but it should work. You can en
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by loeg 8mo ago
I think it's coherent -- it's an argument for why most people don't want to buy Workstation class products just to get ECC. (Prices scale with core count. Not linearly, but still.)
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by loeg 8mo ago
Interesting! Seems generous.
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by loeg 8mo ago
So what? You still save millions of lives.
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by loeg 8mo ago
Eventually you might notice the pictures or other documents you were saving on your home server have artifacts, or no longer open. This is undesireable for most people using computer storage. > I much prefer cheaper hardware. The cost s
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by loeg 8mo ago
Test suites often don't scale, actually. Unit tests usually run single-threaded by default, and also relatively often have side effects on the system that mean they're unsafe to run in parallel. (Sure, sure, you could definitely

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