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by mdasen 7y ago
In a certain way, this move is horizontally integrated. Intel vertically integrated its chip design and fab. This moves design and fab apart. One of the reasons that Intel is falling so far behind is that they can't keep up with TSM
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> Apple is laying out a roadmap for exactly what Google needs to do with its own chips. To ask the question: why would Google make better processors than Qualcomm? Apple has immense economies of scale at the high-end because that's
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That's certainly reasonable, but I think it seems harder to keep up with when people compare it to languages like Go (first appeared November 2009) and Kotlin (first appeared July 2011). Those languages both seem really easy to keep u
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by mdasen 7y ago
https://www.universalhub.com/2020/baker-got-krafts-involved-... The Feds seized 3M masks that Massachusetts purchased. The governor found a supplier to get more masks and had the Patriots (football team) fly their jet
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by mdasen 7y ago
Not according to BT (British Telecom): https://newsroom.bt.com/the-facts-about-our-network-and-coro... They've seen a 35-60% increase in daytime traffic, but it's still only half of what they're seeing in the
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by mdasen 7y ago
I definitely concur that the radically different architectures weren't good for developer productivity. There was a lot of crazy going on. I guess it just seems like we're now wasting money on duplicate consoles. It feels like i
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I'm not a big gamer, but at this point it seems like Microsoft and Sony are just selling the same hardware. There are very minor differences, but I remember when N64 was such a vastly different experience from the PlayStation. Even t
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by mdasen 7y ago
This is close to how the TARP bailout (2008) worked and the government did get the public's money back. From the banks, the Treasury got about a 21% profit ( https://www.thebalance.com/tarp-bailout-program-3305895 ) One
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That isn't true anymore. In the old days of limited data plans, they would throttle customers to 2G speeds after their allotment was used. Today, they deprioritize which simply slows speeds when there is network congestion in the
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I think that data caps aren't a good solution simply because they don't have a good connection with network capacity. Many wireless carriers have started doing "deprioritization" after a certain amount of usage which is
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by mdasen 7y ago
If you watch Brooklyn 99, you'll see in the credits "Promotional Consideration Sponsored by Apple". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXFsXnklOhY (28 second mark) It might not be paid in all cases, but I'v
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by mdasen 7y ago
So, the home page makes some big claims, but doesn't link to how Ballerina solves those issues. I'm not saying that it doesn't. I'm saying that it would be nice to have a link to what makes it different for that aspect
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by mdasen 7y ago
I guess I'm left wondering how this is Express inspired vs inspired by the countless other options that already exist in Go. app.Get("/", func(c * fiber.Ctx) { c.Send("Hello, World!") }) app.GET("&#x2F
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by mdasen 7y ago
This makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't explain why the pricing isn't consistent. Why is an N1 the same price as an N2, except for sustained-use? Why is an E2 cheaper than an N1/N2D, except for sustained-use? E2 is just s
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> If Google tried to streamline everything...they'd have another cohort of users screaming that the product doesn't meet their needs Except that they could simplify it without reducing flexibility. For example, the difference b
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by mdasen 7y ago
Since people from Google Cloud are likely here, one thing I'd like to ask/talk about: are we getting too many options for compute? One of the great things about Google Cloud was that it was very easy to order. None of this &quot
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by mdasen 7y ago
Possibly, but it would mean transitioning to a new instruction set. AMD processors wouldn't require a transition. I used Macs through the PowerPC to Intel transition and it wasn't a great time. Apple had to do it because PowerPC
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by mdasen 7y ago
> why do I need a "special" driver's license to satisfy the feds? Ultimately, because they say so. I'm genuinely curious: are you going to fly domestically with a passport after September? I'm not saying the go
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by mdasen 7y ago
I remember an article on video encoding where Netflix had approached some people basically with the question "what if we didn't care about encoding times?" Netflix doesn't want to was money, but encoding cost might not
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by mdasen 7y ago
That can happen for a time. Investors might sit on things hoping that it will appreciate in value. However, many times there's a myth of "empty houses" used to justify not building more. Some people have cited non-owner-oc
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by mdasen 7y ago
After-hours numbers can be somewhat random and "estimates" are often sand-bagged a bit so that companies will beat them. With Tesla, deliveries of the Model 3 look good and the company keeps increasing production capacity so if yo
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Housing supply has been increasing at far lower levels recently than it has historically. Lots of good jobs have been flooding certain cities and which means people with the money to bid up the existing stock. Since people are coming for
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I think you've hit the nail on the head for the bullish Tesla case. I don't think there's enough profits in the automotive industry for Tesla to be worth $105-120B. Sure, Toyota is worth more, but basically no one else is a
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Let's say that you write a bill "you can't sell insulin for over $100". If insulin sellers refuse to sell for less than $100, there's no insulin available. However, the bill might also say that insurance companies
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The fact that it allows them to put the pipes needed for all those items in the same place probably also helps. In a lot of places near me, the kitchen sink shares a wall with the bathroom because it's cheaper to do the plumbing that
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Service animals are meant to be able to help accommodate physical tasks. Most animals aren't good for these tasks and there are a few animals that work well for this. Emotional support animals can have a much broader definition becaus
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Yea, I was thinking about writing that, but it seemed really pedantic given that it's basically always there. I mean, Python never comes with Flask or a MySQL driver. You never end up paying for a PHP host without it. But you are te
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The thing about PHP is that the language has built-ins for almost everything you need for classic web development. Want to use a relational database? You don't need to install a library (often one that requires a C extension in a lang
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Ultimately, it's probably that Python is older and it's use in the English-speaking world is substantially older. Python is around 5 years older than Ruby and the first book about Ruby in English came 10 years after Python existe
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by mdasen 7y ago
I'm not a bitcoin person, but... I don't think you can mine $0.01 worth of bitcoin. Most of the time, you'll lose the race to find the correct hash collision and so you'll end up with nothing. Other times, you'll

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