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by pradn 6y ago
There's a line of thinking, popularized by DHH of BaseCamp, that skewers Google for allowing competitors to place ads on a brand's keywords. I can totally see how this would be infuriating. You have to pay money to just "prot
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by pradn 6y ago
Oh, I thought they were talking about the Wikipedia article's title.
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by pradn 6y ago
The article simply uses the term in the title so it can discuss it. Historians prefer the Middle Ages or the Medieval Period. Since this is relatively Europe-centric, historians are trying to go in the direction of "global Medieval stu
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by pradn 6y ago
The term "Dark Ages" is not used by historians any more. And it's doubly odd because these rules, from Charlemagne's times, were the very cause of the "Carolingian renaissance" of the eighth and ninth centuries
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by pradn 6y ago
A great Twitter thread with many articles/resources if you want a critical lens at the global logistics supply chain. https://twitter.com/CharmaineSChua/status/137586855212986368... I found this article on th
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by pradn 6y ago
Is there evidence that Google+ caused the demise of Google Reader? Couldn't a simpler explanation be that the VP in charge of this product wanted to put headcount toward something more profitable? One problem with talking about a large
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by pradn 6y ago
Yes, absolutely. Still, the point is that the factory will be useful, but not a panacea to the US's lack of cutting-edge chip-making prowess.
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by pradn 6y ago
I'm not saying ASML -> cutting-edge capacity, but the opposite. Having cutting-edge capacity probably means you're dependent on ASML.
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by pradn 6y ago
But TSMC's Arizona plant will make 5nm chips in 2023, by which time 5nm wont be the leading-edge node - 3nm will be. It's nice to see some geodiversity however. In any case, TSMC is dependent on ASML, which has a monopoly on leadi
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by pradn 6y ago
Thank you. Is this for billing reasons or something technical?
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by pradn 6y ago
It looks like the term "edge computing" conflates the location of the services and the method of distributing the services (serverless apps). You could imagine writing servers that then get automatically distributed to the edge as
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by pradn 6y ago
Do you know if StarLink would help? Is it possible to set up a StarLink antenna on an RV?
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by pradn 6y ago
Electronic lights seem like a small convenience for a high price, not to mention how they require even more use of smartphones and such.
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by pradn 6y ago
Moreover, I don't want to be on a highway with people driving cars with code they modified. Ideally, we would have an model where the source for all of the components is visible, with customers able to make suggestions, but with the ve
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by pradn 6y ago
Most art sales don't happen through public auction. If you want to invest in more art, you'll have to go through galleries, which may choose whether or not to sell to you. And word does get around about who is bringing down the pr
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by pradn 6y ago
I remember my grandfather asking me why the newspaper website went down when he pressed the up button and up when he pressed the down button. I had no answer. And it was the only thing keeping him not bored as he spent a year in American su
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by pradn 6y ago
And, for the 'art investor', as long as other collectors don't sell for a lower price, it doesn't even matter. Many galleries will blacklist collectors who sell for lower prices. As long as there's someone to buy, y
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by pradn 6y ago
Having to QR-code into a web-app is quite a pain. I wish we didn't tie identities to a phone number like that. Messenger offers even more seamless "handoff" between form-factors, and that's why I find myself preferring i
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by pradn 6y ago
I don't notice any special CPU issues with the Dropbox client.
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by pradn 6y ago
Is this a real problem? It should be possible for Amazon to update their code to generate IDs a different way, and for them to update their client libraries well ahead of a time when this becomes a problem. Yes, code that relies on the ID b
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by pradn 6y ago
It seems unlikely that talent is leaving because moving money out of the country is hard. Where would they move to? The simple explanation is income and quality of life is higher in richer countries. The vast majority of emigrants don'
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by pradn 6y ago
Thanks for confirming this. Do you have an idea of how modern allocators compare with generational GCs on the cleanup / realloc / fragmentation side?
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by pradn 6y ago
Dropbox has the best sync clients, but that's not enough to save them from being a commodity. Dead-simple and reliable sync seems like a nice-to-have that isn't going to save them from the incredibly large footprint the likes of M
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by pradn 6y ago
Yes, among Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs. Watch a minute of video here to see examples: https://youtu.be/ZPmAltGay3s?t=1965
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by pradn 6y ago
A good thing to watch is this episode of the Indian social issues show, Satyameva Jayate. (It's hosted by a major Bollywood actor.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPmAltGay3s The episode shows contemporary discriminat
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by pradn 6y ago
Modern memory allocators like tcmalloc are pretty good with putting structs of the same size in contiguous areas of the heap. For smaller structs (which most real world cases fall under), it's just one lookup to find the next place to
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by pradn 6y ago
Where I work, the interview is based on the level we're hiring for, not their background. If someone's expected to perform as a mid-level engineer, it doesn't matter to me how long they've worked as long as they can solv
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by pradn 6y ago
I start off by asking them about an interesting technical problem they worked on recently, so I get to talk to them about that stuff. Unfortunately, many candidates mention the company they work for off the bat, which may introduce unconsci
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by pradn 6y ago
> I've been to plenty of interviews where my CV hasn't been given more than a glance. I do technical interviews and I never look at CVs before doing the interview. I do this to avoid bias. I want to treat them the same no matt
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by pradn 6y ago
For erudite articles on everything from Tang Dynasty poetry to the international ransom insurance market, I recommend the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. Or, in general, any of the book reviews. They give assignment

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