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by martinpw 7y ago
Neither of those statements is true. Methane is not a worse source of overall warming than CO2 (which I assume is what you were trying to say). And methane does not come mostly from cows. These facts are trivially searchable. Livestock meth
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by martinpw 7y ago
> Then there was the Shuttle, which was supposed to have a less than 1% chance of losing a crew and managed to kill 14 astronauts in 130-something flights (and had a couple more very close calls). That seems like a misleading way to fram
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by martinpw 7y ago
> The air is much than it was 40 years ago as well. Few people remember what Los Angeles air looked like in the 1970s But that got cleaned up precisely because of decisive collective action. Regulations were passed and enforced to clea
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by martinpw 7y ago
> They're saying a Neoverse N1 core is ~40% faster than a 3.1 GHz Skylake thread; that's impressive. That's hugely impressive. I don't remember any ARM processors beating Skylake in single threaded workloads before. T
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by martinpw 7y ago
That doesn't seem like a contradiction. The newer phones do not have American chips, which matches the headline that says they have managed to make phones without these chips.
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by martinpw 7y ago
> The Chromebook sells are minuscule. Chromebook sales were 21% of notebook sales in the US in Q4 2018 and the percentage is growing: https://chromeunboxed.com/chromebooks-make-big-strides-in-sa...
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by martinpw 7y ago
Production now is below 2016, and falling: https://ieefa.org/eia-u-s-coal-production-to-fall-to-40-year...
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by martinpw 7y ago
> Linear improvements will get us there in the end. No, they won't. That's the point. To quote directly from the article: we’re talking about exponential rates of growth here, linear expense adjustments won’t move the needle.
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by martinpw 7y ago
> It’s likely that cloud computing will continue to see decreases in costs, which means the availability of computing will continue to raise after Mores Law has stopped giving. Why would cloud computing continue to see significant decrea
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by martinpw 7y ago
Nice thing about a die is that you don't need six different things. Lots of ways to map a 1-6 number range to limited choices.
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by martinpw 7y ago
From that article: The strategy positions Yahoo as an “amplification brand,” amplifying the things that matter, helping to “amplify you.” So, umm, I guess I have no idea what they do.
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by martinpw 7y ago
I guess one reason might be that they have a pre-existing social network to draw from, so much easier to coordinate social VR with friends. Not saying that is sufficient, but it definitely helps compared with a startup that has to rely more
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by martinpw 7y ago
I think I am reading your posts - we are just focusing on different aspects. I agree with your ideal - that indeed would be a nice place to be. My concern is more around the reality for most people which is that everyone is in an open offic
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by martinpw 7y ago
no_wave's reply is exactly on point. You don't need the open office to pair program, you just need to be with one other person. So go to an office, because otherwise you are disturbing everyone else in the room with your pair prog
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by martinpw 7y ago
That sounds like a great argument against open offices. I could not handle sitting near two people pair programming the whole day. If they went to a private office to do it that would seem ideal.
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by martinpw 7y ago
I had no idea the performance differences between the distros was so significant. Which settings/compiler flags have the largest effect here?
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by martinpw 7y ago
This was me too - until yesterday, when I made a minor change to one of our YAML config files and everything broke. On investigation it turned out that all of our YAML files had longstanding errors but those errors happened to be valid synt
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by martinpw 7y ago
I am certainly not an expert on global temperature analysis, but from what I have read, 'satellites' does not trivially equate to 'better'. The satellites are not measuring temperature directly, unlike thermometers, so t
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by martinpw 7y ago
Makes me sad that anyone chooses to self identify into marketing buckets like this.
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by martinpw 7y ago
Amazon revenue in 2018 grew 30% over 2017, but headcount grew only 15%, which is quite an increase in efficiency per employee. That doesn't really make the headlines since there is still overall headcount growth. As they get larger it
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by martinpw 7y ago
It is not just coding. This WSJ article has some more detail: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-retrain-a-third-of-it... eg The training programs could help Amazon workers find jobs in different industries, the c
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by martinpw 7y ago
Absolutely, and the fix involved adding a tolerance check. Not my code, I was the new guy at the time, and my job was trying to fix the bugs nobody else wanted to deal with...
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by martinpw 7y ago
There was code in between that could have changed the value, but it was never triggered in the bug case.
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by martinpw 7y ago
> On old x86 systems, the x87 registers were 80-bits and the bottom bits were undefined. You could theoretically have a 1-bit difference on some results I spent a long time once debugging an issue arising from this. Code was basically:
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by martinpw 7y ago
I was in Churchill Manitoba in November one year - it was -30C outside. The local store had an ice cream freezer with the Good Humor branding on it. It seemed very appropriate. Outside the window you could see frozen Hudson Bay stretching t
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by martinpw 7y ago
I had a 2010 Prius with the solar roof. It does work, but it just reduced the temperature from unbearable to quite hot, it did not make it cool. It's somewhat nice to have on very hot days, but is not really a killer feature.
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by martinpw 7y ago
Yes that must be what the statistic represents since it emphasises data heavy users. It would be interesting to do some back if the envelope calculations based on energy usage of Google and Facebook datacenters, percentage of content consum
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by martinpw 7y ago
The related quote is the one part I remember and thought about most from the book: The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is ver
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by martinpw 7y ago
For what it's worth, my dentist told me he didn't care if his patients brushed their teeth or not, as long as they flossed.
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by martinpw 7y ago
The HN headline is incomplete and therefore confusing. I realize it is an attempt to avoid the sadly clickbaity phys.org headline, but the fact the planet is smaller than Neptune and has its own atmosphere is not the interesting thing. The

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