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by raldi 5y ago
This is a decent approximation. It handles all the common hazard cases: +10/-0 should rank higher than +1/-0 +10/-5 should rank higher than +10/-7 +100/-3 should rank higher than +3/-0 +10/-1 should rank h
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by raldi 5y ago
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Stan-rogers-white-collar-holler-lyrics
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by raldi 5y ago
And then they just keep saying over and over: - Spiders are smarter than you think - Wow are they smart - Here’s a scientist who says spiders are smart - A lot of people don’t think spiders are smart but they are They should just cut everyt
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by raldi 5y ago
Yes, the HN mods reached out to me and asked me to post it again.
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by raldi 5y ago
I think that’s the lesson of this article — the SIM can instruct the phone’s radio to send and receive any sort of data (including SMS) without the rest of the phone ever knowing about it.
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by raldi 5y ago
Or on Star Trek, “[Officer], please report to the bridge.”
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by raldi 5y ago
The whole point of this dorm is that singles are way too hard for UCSB students to get, and triples are much too common. This dorm would be all singles, and would eliminate the need for any triples campus-wide. Introverts would be able to c
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by raldi 5y ago
The idea for this dorm is that the students wouldn’t do that. They would go to their bunk to sleep and dress and have sex, and spend all the rest of their time in huge, luxuriously-windowed common spaces.
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The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013)(smithsonianmag.com)
162 points by raldi 5y ago|182 comments
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by raldi 5y ago
This is the corporate equivalent to “See me after class” and “We need to talk.”
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by raldi 5y ago
Let's string wires on poles down every street in the nation and use them to put a device in every home that allows anyone in the world to ring a loud bell at any hour, day or night.
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by raldi 5y ago
It's a joke that's sort of open to interpretation. The most straightforward is, "I just want do this incredibly simple thing; why is it so hard?" But there's also the level of, "Googlers are so engineeringly pa
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by raldi 5y ago
The best and worst parts of being a Google engineer: Impossible things are merely very hard, but on the other hand, easy things are also very hard.
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by raldi 5y ago
Or: These are really good points for a visibly-user-facing post-alpha service, but isn't it a bit overengineered for an experimental internal service whose clients can tolerate the risk of occasional downtime?
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by raldi 5y ago
Background: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/10/30/5tb/ This video was hugely influential on changing the way Google does internal tools and operations.
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Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public(youtube.com)
1130 points by raldi 5y ago|513 comments
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by raldi 5y ago
"One of" ... I love this site :)
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by raldi 5y ago
Thank you
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by raldi 5y ago
For students who prioritize windows in the room where they're almost never awake, they have every other dorm on campus to select from.
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by raldi 5y ago
I see two back-to-back bathrooms per eight bedrooms.
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by raldi 5y ago
In addition to the two entrances, there are ten emergency exit stairwells on every floor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FC1jlGjVEAIvAG8?format=jpg
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by raldi 5y ago
I don't think either of us is qualified to express fire-safety-analysis statements with absolute certainty, but I would think the prior likelihood would be very small that plans would be drawn up with glaring fire-code violations, or t
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by raldi 5y ago
There's a small common area for every eight bedrooms, and larger ones shared between groups.
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by raldi 5y ago
I count ten emergency stairwells on every floor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FC1jlGjVEAIvAG8?format=jpg
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by raldi 5y ago
There are ten emergency stairwells on every floor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FC1jlGjVEAIvAG8?format=jpg
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by raldi 5y ago
There are ten emergency stairwells on every floor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FC1jlGjVEAIvAG8?format=jpg
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by raldi 5y ago
Yes, because what matters is exits , and I count at least ten stairwells on every floor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FC1jlGjVEAIvAG8?format=jpg
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by raldi 5y ago
But in this case, every student will have a single, on a campus where the lack of singles is one of the biggest student complaints. Especially loathed are triples, which would be eliminated campus-wide once this building opens.
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by raldi 5y ago
There are tons of windows and natural light in the common areas; the design is meant to encourage congregation there. The bedrooms are just for sleeping, dressing, and sex.
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by raldi 5y ago
Students seem to love it. It's a shame that this sole piece of actual data is buried so far down underneath piles of speculative naysaying.

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