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by martinpw 3y ago
This is the right way to look at it. The P/E ratio of 90+ includes two quarters of relatively low profit before things really took off in the most recent two quarters. Annualizing the forecast earnings for the next quarter leads to a P
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by martinpw 3y ago
Funnily enough this cartoon showed up in the middle of an article I was just reading that was also linked from HN: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a27014 so a weird mix of being reminded about something that was abou
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by martinpw 3y ago
It's a long time ago but the thing I remember the most is that the binaries were huge, around 3x the size of x86 binaries. At the time we were very space constrained and that aspect alone was big concern. If the performance had been th
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by martinpw 3y ago
Can't read the article but pretty sure demand is not decreasing, what is decreasing is the rate of growth. So still growing, but slower than before, which is a far different story.
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by martinpw 3y ago
How does one go about donating and dedicating a bench? Obviously depends on country, location etc. Just looking for general pointers.
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by martinpw 3y ago
> What was more shocking to me in that article was that google used 25% of Dallas's water supply. As someone else pointed out, it is not Dallas, it is The Dalles. Totally different and vastly smaller town.
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by martinpw 3y ago
Happened to me - phone in pocket, pressed button to increase volume, didn't seem to do much so I pressed it multiple times - but I was actually pressing the power button not the volume button. Cue 911 call.
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by martinpw 3y ago
"Better to be 3 minutes late in the current life than 30 years early in the next"
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by martinpw 3y ago
I just don't understand this kind of comment. I've used Google docs for many years with dozens of collaborators. Could it be better? Sure. But "absolutely terrible"? That sort of comment makes it hard to take any other p
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by martinpw 3y ago
Well you could argue the name needs some explanation. The first time I heard it my mind immediately jumped to the dictionary definition of the word rocky - "difficult and full of obstacles or problems."
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by martinpw 3y ago
I didn't downvote, but maybe it was because the article can't be read without creating an account on the site?
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by martinpw 3y ago
Moore's law is still going strong. But when people talk about Moore's Law ending they normally mean a wider set of trends, specifically: - Transistor count doubles every ~24 months (Moore's law) - still going strong - Total p
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by martinpw 3y ago
SGTM. How about you make some of those changes to the article? Of course you may end up with possessive authors who revert, but the Edit button is there for a reason :-)
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by martinpw 3y ago
I feel the same. Comments used to be more thoughtful and nuanced, and I often found comments that changed my perspective on things. Now so many comments are massively negative and sweepingly generalize in uninteresting ways, eg just to pick
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by martinpw 3y ago
I think improving your writing is the least interesting use case here. How about things like: * Summarize this 200 message thread and list the key action items? * Find and summarize a discussion I vaguely remember I had with persons X and m
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by martinpw 3y ago
Context for title, from the Background section of the paper: One well-known example of this is The Ten Thousands Bowls of Oatmeal Problem, a term coined by Kate Compton and now one of the best-known idioms among procedural generation pract
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by martinpw 4y ago
> Most notably, I can't find an example in the NOAA data of the rate of sea level rise increasing due to industrialization. Anybody? You can look at the graph on the NOAA site here and see the acceleration visually: https:/&#x
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by martinpw 4y ago
The last three rows on the table at the end of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS imply V9.2 does not support AMD CPUs, and that support only comes with V9.2-1. That implies the version released here is I
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by martinpw 4y ago
Since it is not obvious from the title, clarifying that this is astronomy related. Some more context: Nine point sources appeared within half an hour on a region within ∼ 10 arcmin of a red-sensitive photographic plate taken in April 1950
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by martinpw 4y ago
And of the last remaining two, one closes this year and one next year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_coal-fired_powe...
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by martinpw 4y ago
I like the way they keep the very end of where the producer comes into the studio and asks the guests politely if they want coffee or tea. Something very satisfyingly British about that.
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by martinpw 4y ago
I'm curious how this process works. Is it that the researchers are experimenting with different ingredients and seeing what works best? Or do they have a clear idea what sort of structure they want to build and the research complexity
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by martinpw 4y ago
Since it is not mentioned in the title or any of the comments (yet), thought it would be useful to say that this talk is by Richard Stallman and is from 2 days ago.
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by martinpw 4y ago
Well the article also says there is no evidence Mark Twain ever said it.
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by martinpw 4y ago
Actually it seems that quote may have originated from Johnathan Swift not Mark Twain, although almost everyone attributes it to Mark Twain. Which is rather nicely recursive given the subject of the quote. https://professorbuzzkil
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by martinpw 4y ago
Actually what struck me from your link is how fast renewables are growing. Your linked article refers to the US only, but from that article, wind was 7% of power generation and solar was 2% in 2019. By comparison, in the first six months
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by martinpw 4y ago
There is an argument that it has to hit the plateau first before a new technology can take over, the problem being that if the current tech is really scaling by 2x every 2 years, a new technology that is 10 years from commercialization has
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by martinpw 4y ago
~20 years ago I interviewed at a large CAD software developer. The thing I remember most is when the interviewer pointed at six desks in the corner and said "that is the team doing fillets and blends". It is relatively easy to get
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by martinpw 4y ago
The article talks about 1.2km horizontal resolution. Is it a 3d grid? If so what is the vertical resolution? Or is the vertical dimension integrated within 2d boxes?
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by martinpw 4y ago
As a visitor the 9 euro ticket was amazing. In combination with Google transit navigation, frequent reliable service and transit stops that displayed accurate time until the next bus/train, it made getting round the cities almost frict

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