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by pwagland 3y ago
I'm not the one attacking you, but I think I can explain. Your original statement was quite absolutist "It’s really the only way to do accurate time." A statement which would have had more agreement would be "It’s really
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by pwagland 3y ago
I suspect that most people just complain about "another thing to lug around", this is marketing speak to that problem. Certainly I wouldn't be that excited to carry around multiple items all day. Probably still wouldn't
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by pwagland 3y ago
Funnily enough, I would argue that dice and dies sound different, phonetically: dies daɪz dice daɪs
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by pwagland 3y ago
One big difference with your university analogy is that the university _did_ pay for the resource, often way more than you would as a private citizen, since it is for sharing purposes. Even worse, for e-books, libraries are often limited to
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by pwagland 3y ago
But, be honest, git was better than mercurial as well. And the reason that it's better is that the support is universal (now). Even back when the battle was being actively waged between git and hg, the popularity of git made it a bette
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by pwagland 3y ago
This was also mentioned in the article: > But are there other examples? Yes. One mind-blowing story from ProPublica that came out in 2022 was about landlord software sold by a firm called RealPage, which essentially told big landlords to
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by pwagland 3y ago
We once ran into a very similar issue, but using the old glibc allocator in bionic. For us the difference was between JVM versions/vendors. The arenas in glibc all allocated memory, based on what thread they are in. Because threads in
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by pwagland 3y ago
Footer to your footer. At least in the Netherlands, ounce is still used as well, it's defined to 100g.
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by pwagland 3y ago
I have never had this experience though. It does appear to be incredibly unfriendly to a lot of people, but honestly when I look at some of the questions that get downvoted, it seems that a lot of the questions that do get downvoted are &qu
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by pwagland 3y ago
This is a great easy to understand resource that I'd recommend to anyone interested.
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by pwagland 3y ago
64kWh makes no sense. This is the equivalent to 64kW if used for one hour. Indeed, the parts are for the Hyundai Kona, with either the 39 and 64 kWh batteries. If the examples _really_ used 64kW, that would be the equivalent to the average
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by pwagland 3y ago
One small point. > If people have the means to complain, they have the right to. You can ignore them (unless you depend on them) but others might not. Having the means to do something in no way gives you the right to do so. I have the me
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by pwagland 3y ago
Yes, on small heaps you are still forced to use a 64bit pointer instead of a 32bit pointer, which means that your per-object overhead is higher, this means that on "normal" heap sizes, < 32Gb, you end up paying a reasonable pen
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by pwagland 4y ago
I like this description, but I have always thought that the saying "There is some red port left in the bottle" a much simpler way of remembering the conjunction of these terms. Assuming you are fasting forwards in the boat of cour
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by pwagland 4y ago
Except that this maze clearly has at least two solutions. Straight through the corridor, or via the loop. And that's assuming you don't wander around the loops n times.
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by pwagland 4y ago
There's a third common sound where it rhymes with "on": 1. /skɒn/ 2. /skoʊn/ 3. /skɑːn/ But I guess that also depends on how you pronounce gone, as to whether it rhymes with 1 or 3…
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by pwagland 4y ago
It doesn't have underlying physical assets, it does have the backing of large stable government. This is largely the same reason why the USD is more stable than, for example, the Kenyan Shilling.
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by pwagland 4y ago
The auto-nav feature is very nice. However others do this, Apple Maps, at least, will suggest a destination based on behavioural patterns. Tesla also have a "simple" version of this, if you are at home, it will automatically to go
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by pwagland 4y ago
This is a zsh thing, it's shorthand for: cat "$(which egrep)" "$(which fgrep)"
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by pwagland 4y ago
Note that the memory usage _could_ potentially be significantly improved for the JVM by just using an alternative allocator, such as jemalloc. In our system, we saw, in some instances, native memory usage decrease by about 60%, and it also
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by pwagland 4y ago
Not really, Op says: > The only rational use for a doctor back then was if you needed emergency surgery because you were going to die very soon. It was a situation that they could only make better. Having an arrow in your head qualifies
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by pwagland 4y ago
It is a stretch, but they are clearly also not the worst. The company clearly has value without FSD. Not the value that the market currently gives it, but value nonetheless.
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by pwagland 4y ago
This looks like a reply to something, but has no parent…
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by pwagland 4y ago
No, but in this case, the JIT will get rid of this empty loop.
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by pwagland 4y ago
Since the author is monitoring this discussion, one minor point: In the first "choice", there is: For that, they must either: 1. Hire more servers 2. Increase the rate at which employees serve beigels 3. Do both However, in the te
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by pwagland 4y ago
Inductive cooktops are quite reactive, the pan stops generating heat as soon as the electricity is cut off, and while the glass does get hot, it cools reasonably quickly, at least IME. Older style "convection" electric cookers wer
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by pwagland 4y ago
No, I think that the real message is "If your employees don't want to leave, make them return to the office". And then you announce a hiring freeze, and that equals an official downsizing.
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by pwagland 5y ago
The first points are salient. The last point is interesting, since a car is generally much more required in the US, yes it is easier and more convenient to have a car in the US, as well as a buttload cheaper, but life without a car is (gene
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by pwagland 5y ago
As I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29969166 , it is unclear what they were trying to "fix" given that the article has said for the last nine years that Brown Windsor Soup doesn't appear to
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by pwagland 5y ago
The initial edit of the page, in 2013, had this: Brown Windsor soup is a hearty British soup that is said to have been popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.[1] It was one of the starter dishes on the menu at the fictional Fawlty

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