mempko

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by mempko 4y ago
Kind of shocked how many people here on HN are like "I'm totally fine with 8GB of ram on my mac". What? Isn't this hacker news? What are you guys doing with your computers? Are computers just toys now? Is HN no longer a
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by mempko 4y ago
Then explain the over hiring during easy money after pandemic stimulus. Poor decision making, even if consistent, isn't 'right decision' making.
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by mempko 4y ago
I mean, it's turtles all the way down isn't it. I would just call that second hand irrationality. Why? Because investors chasing shiny new things because they are new is also irrational.
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by mempko 4y ago
I opted to store feather for one particular reason. You can open it using mmap and randomly index the data without having to load it all in memory. Also the data I have isn't very compressible to begin with, so the cpu cost vs data sav
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by mempko 4y ago
PineTime. Best 30 bucks. I missed notifications, but then got PineTime. Keeps me from missing important messages. Easy to use. Also hackable!
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by mempko 4y ago
A message isn't zero finite resources. People think software is ephemeral. It's not. Software has a physical manifestation (should be obvious, it runs on hardware and uses energy). By 2025 the internet alone will consume 20% of al
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by mempko 4y ago
Keep in mind, most of that 20T didn't go to regular people. It mostly went to asset price inflation.
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by mempko 4y ago
Ok, but, have you seen Boston dynamics robots? Much more capable. In fact, what Tesla showed seem worse than the old Honda Asimo robots in terms of tech. So to call it a leading robotics company is just so strange since they are just enteri
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by mempko 4y ago
Well that's not good, because the build quality of the car isn't that great... Seems other companies have caught up in the EV space.
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by mempko 4y ago
I like Nassim Taleb's point about Lex's reading list. That you can only get a very shallow understanding of the text going this fast. I think it's a reasonable criticism. If shallow breadth is Lex's goal, then it's
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by mempko 4y ago
If you rephrase it, kind of sounds bad. What bothers you about C++ is that it's mostly experienced people now?
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by mempko 4y ago
C++ code using their flavor of strange guidelines... Google C++ is not how the rest of the world writes C++.
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by mempko 4y ago
Dwarf Fortress!
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by mempko 4y ago
But what if we don't have a free market, never have, and never will have. Also most misunderstand 'survival of the fittest' which Darwin never said. Evolution is about creatures fitting to their environment. If you have a com
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by mempko 4y ago
It's true co-located teams do better. Remote is worse. But, for the sake of the climate and environment, we need to eliminate commutes and wasted resources on office buildings.
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by mempko 4y ago
What did the CEO do? He gave control to the workers. They got to choose what books go where and on what shelves. Most businesses can learn from this. Give control to the people who care. This is how most co-ops work and why they are special
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by mempko 4y ago
One thing you forgot to mention. The guy who said those horrible things about drowning Ukrainian children was suspended from RT because of the huge backlash within Russia. That kind of speech is not acceptable to Russian people. Simply isn&
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by mempko 4y ago
This report goes into detail why. https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report Essentially the south and south west have the worst impacts, with PNW least in the lower 48.
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by mempko 4y ago
Global warming is going to mess up your fun. Texas will eventually become unlivable. Not that California will fair much better...
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by mempko 4y ago
Not that California is better, but all those places are stupid places to move to for global warming reasons. At least in the long term.
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by mempko 4y ago
Exactly, relying on the stock market for any sort of prediction is silly. Markets are short lived, over react, and basically rely on the supply of cheap money and growth of money to keep going up. But exponential growth can only go for so l
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by mempko 4y ago
Don't be ashamed to call yourself a programmer. Alex Stepanov, who created hundreds of billions in value by creating the C++ stl calls himself a programmer.
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by mempko 4y ago
People seem to sign up to email just fine.
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by mempko 4y ago
The discussions how a decentralized system like Mastodon won't work reminds me of the early days of networks. People were saying the same thing about the web and the internet and claiming CompuServe and AOL would dominate. Twitter is l
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by mempko 4y ago
Really? Email scaled. Internet scaled. Decentralization is scalable. Why doesn't anyone remember how shitty Twitter was when it was growing. Slow and constantly breaking. Mastodon is working fine even after millions moved to it. Yes, A
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by mempko 4y ago
And he's ... suspended from Twitter. Didn't take long!
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by mempko 4y ago
JetBrains is amazing! As far as I'm aware, not a single prominent US tech company left the US because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. JetBrains, by any standard, is doing a great thing here.
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by mempko 4y ago
Ok, but A million dead Iraqis. Afghanistan was childs play for the US. In fact, US sanctions against Iraq starved 500,000 children. Both governments, Russia and US, are war machines. As far as I'm aware, not a single large US software
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by mempko 4y ago
It works flawlessly for me on linux using proton. Just select properties on the game and force compatibility to have it use proton.
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by mempko 4y ago
Works flawless for me using proton experimental (didn't try other versions). I wouldn't hesitate to buy it at this point, has platinum rating on ProtonDB.

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