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by magnetic 9y ago
> I am genuinely curious about this as it seems to be a rising trend where the vocal minority want to enforce their idea of culture and beliefs onto others as if it were a religious or cult like movement that I have seen before in Christ
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by magnetic 9y ago
I guess it all depends how much they invest in scaling that part of the business. It's a bit of an optimization problem to figure out the "right" formula to grow the business. I can already feel the pinch at the supercharger
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by magnetic 9y ago
> Education is top-notch (pretty much all of our universities are top 5% worldwide) How is that top 5% computed? Do you have a source?
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by magnetic 9y ago
I own a Model S and I know that one of the painful parts of ownership is that you have to go to approved bodyshops and Tesla service centers, as well as use only Tesla original parts. That translates into very long wait times to fix your ca
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by magnetic 9y ago
But if you are the insurance of the Tesla driver, it's the other party (through insurance or directly) that will come after your driver, not you. You will just say to your driver "per our contract, I cover up to $X, and the rest,
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by magnetic 9y ago
That's not a bad idea provided you have it good. The challenges in finding happiness often occur for the other subset: those who don't have it that good.
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by magnetic 9y ago
Money is no substitute for health. It will just sound like a "philosophical tidbit" until you get hit by a health issue for which you'd give everything you own to get rid of. Then you'll really understand the meaning of
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by magnetic 9y ago
It's not that simple unfortunately. Some disabilities are "invisible" (as in "we don't know how to measure it with medical equipment"), which brings the challenges to a whole new level as the patient cannot pro
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by magnetic 9y ago
> It's a global variable, it's not on the stack. It's in the data section. And because it's a const, it's in the .rodata section... (read-only) Playing too liberally with the data often leads to a SEGV (as it sho
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by magnetic 9y ago
> Just mention in the documentation that they are macros, in big letters. The macros themselves are usually in BIG_LETTERS already... that generally gives it away.
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by magnetic 9y ago
> However it also pays incredibly well. Even moreso for specialities and surgeons, who can make over 200k a year even in low cost of living areas. Despite the difficulties of being a doctor it's harder to get into medical school tha
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by magnetic 9y ago
Well doesn't that depend on what metric you use to define speed? It sounds like you are measuring latency... but if you were to measure throughput you may be getting a different answer. The 100 ms flush may not do much good for latency
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by magnetic 10y ago
I was following you until... > I can't imagine how bad software development would be if we acted like the medical system. ...which made me laugh. Until I realized you weren't sarcastic (I think).
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by magnetic 10y ago
You're leaving out other important factors: e) safety: there may be a risk to get mugged on your way to the car, but you can also get mugged on the way to the public transportation. However, once in your car, you hardly have to worry a
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by magnetic 10y ago
Individual Contributor, if I'm not mistaken
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by magnetic 10y ago
Probably nothing of importance.
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by magnetic 10y ago
And it seems to me the OS should ensure the pages are zero'd out rather than user space (via malloc()) doing it, because it's still a security hole to let a process read data that it's not supposed to have access to (whether
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by magnetic 10y ago
> What changed is the paged memory model: modern systems don't actually tie an address to a page of physical RAM until the first time you try to use it (or something else on that page). Initializing the memory on malloc() would &quo
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by magnetic 10y ago
The HTML source does have it all in about half a page of <div>s
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by magnetic 10y ago
If you rely on http to ensure the one-and-only-one type of paradigm, I have bad news for you (because you won't be able to distinguish failure vs success case when you hit a timeout: did it not receive the request or did I not receive