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by mpyne 10mo ago
> Yes, some rich folks won't be bothered, but even fairly low amounts make most people think twice. We saw this very clearly recently with the Manhattan congestion road tax. $9 paid no more than once per day to drive into Lower Manh
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by mpyne 10mo ago
Why? The police officer gets paid the same either way. And that's probably in line with how we want it, lest police officers start seeing infractions that don't exist when their daughter's next birthday comes near.
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by mpyne 10mo ago
Yeah, a big thing is latency vs. throughput. That's a great article you link and it basically notes up front what the throughput requirements are in terms of cores per player, which then sets the budget for what the latency can be for
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by mpyne 10mo ago
> I’d like to understand the constraints and systems involved that make 80% considered full utilization. There’s obviously something that limits a OS; is it tunable? There are OS tunables, and these tunables will have some measure of imp
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by mpyne 10mo ago
You absolutely do not want 90-95% utilization. At that level of utilitization random variability alone is enough to cause massive whiplash in average queue lengths. The cycle time impact of variability of a single-server/single-queue
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by mpyne 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM They collect it straight from the company after it's already been transmitted. It's not a wiretap, it's more akin to an automated subpoena enforcement.
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by mpyne 10mo ago
> Also, PRISM. PRISM works fine to recover HTTPS-protected communications. If anything NSA would be happier if every site they could use PRISM on used HTTPS, that's simply in keeping with NOBUS principles.
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by mpyne 10mo ago
They are certainly sometimes a key part of the retro look that makes things nostalgic. But even during the PSX era I found it distracting and annoying to look at so I can't say I have any nostalgia for it even now in the way I do for N
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by mpyne 10mo ago
> How do you do either of the following without spending any time at all on estimates? > "Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale." This i
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by mpyne 10mo ago
> Have you heard about the horror that is SaFe? Yes, and I successfully argued against it by pointing it was was a wolf in sheep's clothing. It has as much to do with agile as waterfall does. > I'm not convinced that true a
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by mpyne 10mo ago
> Which if you try to do - those agile people will kill you for it. Does this actually happen to you? This is literally the whole point of agile, is to change the plan as you learn more about your work. If you didn't want to chang
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by mpyne 10mo ago
There are agile methods that forgo estimates and deadlines though This is what "agile" is: https://agilemanifesto.org/ More specific methodologies that say they are agile may use concepts like estimates (story poi
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by mpyne 10mo ago
I think it's more fair to call it a distinguisher of American English vs. British English. Even just reading "I've a train to catch" gives a British accent in my mind.
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by mpyne 11mo ago
> If you're 97% over budget, are you successful? I don't like this as a metric of success, because who came up with the budget in the first place? If they did a good job and you're still 97% over then sure, not successful.
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by mpyne 11mo ago
https://medium.com/@hdevalence/when-hell-kept-on-payroll-som...
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by mpyne 11mo ago
And to add to that, the blurb you link notes explicitly that for IETF purposes, "rough consensus" is reached when the Chair determines is has been reached.
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by mpyne 11mo ago
Given the emphasis on reliability of implementations of an algorith, it's ironic that the Curve 25519-based Ed25519 digital signature standard was itself specified and originally implemented in such a way as to lead to implementation d
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by mpyne 11mo ago
> We’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century, gas taxes have been optional for driving for quite a while now. States mostly take the equivalent of those taxes out of vehicle registration fees for electric vehicles. And bicycle u
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by mpyne 11mo ago
It's worth reading about, but it's kind of wave-like even then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment#Interfe... It would be going too far to say it's only a wave though. It's both wa
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by mpyne 11mo ago
> PII has a very clear definition. It doesn't, actually, as many would-be DoD IT system owners are surprised to find that simply generating a 32-bit random UUID as a user ID is, per the regs, PII, and therefore makes your proposed I
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by mpyne 11mo ago
And even there, AMD did the GPU for the Wii U, that console was an evolution of the Wii (which was itself an evolution to the Gamecube). AMD had acquired the makers of the Wii/Gamecube graphics chip, and also separately designed the W
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by mpyne 11mo ago
> Something is very wrong if it takes 20+ years to field new military technologies. By the time these technologies are fielded, a whole generation of employees have retired and leadership has turned over multiple times. Conversely, the N
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by mpyne 11mo ago
For "I need this Python dict to exist in this unrelated JavaScript program's context space" JSON is absolutely much better. If only because you completely sidestep all the various XML foibles, including its very real securit
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by mpyne 11mo ago
> lazy and forgiving technologies drive out the better but stricter ones. JSON is not "lazy and forgiving" (seriously, go try adding a comment to it). It was just laser-focused on what the actual problem was that needed to be s
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by mpyne 11mo ago
They did, the issue is that the improved Web platform they invested so much to build and maintain has no use for XSLT, which is obsolete in the modern world of good JavaScript, JSON and modern Fetch APIs.
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by mpyne 11mo ago
What secret setting is that? Whether taking a branch or a conditional move is faster or not depends a lot on the code and the data it's being run on so it's not easy to say up front which one is always faster.
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by mpyne 11mo ago
I still use Gentoo for that reason, and I wish some of those principles around handling of optional dependencies were more popular in other Linux distros and package ecosystems. There's lots of software applications out there whose off
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by mpyne 11mo ago
Use Google's Squoosh.app: https://squoosh.app When editing an image you can choose the 'Reduce palette' option to bring up a way to reduce the number of images used, and the palette reduction panel will let you op
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by mpyne 11mo ago
Dithering is the right term. It was called this even as far back as the Win 3.1 era where program installers typically showed you a full screen window with a background gradient that went from dark blue to black and used ordered dithering t
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by mpyne 1y ago
It can mean a lot of things, yes, but that is not the same as saying it doesn't mean anything. If the detector was pegged high you certainly wouldn't assume a neutral frame to the situation, you'd assume some kind of signifi

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