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by raphaelj 5y ago
What problem is it even solving? We are not missing space to put panels on, we need to make them cheaper. This will only make panels more expensive and maintenance cost will rocket.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
It looks gorgeous, but it's totally inadequate to show the data. Plus the way the scrolling gets hijacked is frustrating.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Use a short TTL on the CDN subdomain you use. Then setup an alternative CDN provider in advance, so that you can switch from one to the other in a matter of minutes.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
> The internet is designed for redundancy. Wonder why these companies don't have a fail over network. Makes me wonder if cost is factor considering their already massive infra. But a single point of failure .. Well, Internet was ind
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Only their main website though. My Heroku apps work pretty well.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Couldn't be happier I moved https://noisycamp.com to BunnyCDN.com.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
But they have competing products through AWS.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Well, it might be true for some positions, like engineering, but it definitively does not apply to all of them.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
The more cases you have, the more overwhelm your testing system is. The difference in death rate is most probably due to the fact that Finland was testing more positive cases (relatively) to Sweden.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
And that’s with all the safety measures most of us have been following for more than one year now.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Any idea why they shutdown some engines during ascent? Seems efficient as you are fighting gravity with less acceleration and more dead weight.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Parent was referring to the doubling rate. Cells produce more than one additional particule per reproduction cycle, so the doubling rate is lower than 8 to 72h.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Well, you can still probably reduce the training computational cost by feeding the additional FFT features to your NN.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Assembled in China would be more accurate. Modern supply chains are really complex. Your laptop might uses chips manufactured in Taiwan by Dutch lithography machines, have a screen build in South Korea using German automation devices, run o
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by raphaelj 5y ago
I few years ago, I wrote another substring search algorithm that is outperforming this one on a modern computer: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/fast_strstr/tree/master/benchmar... While the algorithm is tim
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by raphaelj 5y ago
In the case of web/RESTful services, I'm just relying on Heroku/Dokku.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
Could go the other way too. Having had COVID with some strong symptoms can make you more prudent as you might fear to get infected a second time.
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by raphaelj 5y ago
This is one of the best read I had in a long time. Too bad the pictures are not in higher definition.
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by raphaelj 6y ago
I've been working 4d/week for 4 years for a small Belgian company. I'm a software engineer. I've never got any complain from my manager, employer or colleagues about it. I'm usually taking my day off on Friday. All
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by raphaelj 6y ago
I had the same feeling. A lot of the things that NASA develops internally are mindblowing (e.g. the Mars rovers or the Casini probe, both developed by JPL), but everything subcontracted to Boeing or Lookeed endup uber delayed and hyper expe
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by raphaelj 6y ago
Exactly. And with respect to the counting, it seems like the Belgian numbers more of less match the reported excess deaths in 2020 within 10% [1]. [1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v...
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by raphaelj 6y ago
That seems pretty low compared to what is happening here in Belgium. We are at 22k deaths with +/- 25% of a 11M of the population having been infected (based on serology and statistical estimates).
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by raphaelj 6y ago
I’m pretty confident they have efficient fire suppression systems. They are hosting at least 400,000 servers. They for sure have multiple servers taking fire every single day, and yet it’s the first time it ends up in a catastrophic fire. T
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by raphaelj 6y ago
Do you have a source for the “years ahead”. Not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely interested.
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by raphaelj 6y ago
Indeed. One could look at the GDP per hour worked. France and Germany GDP per hour worked is only about 6% less than the US (while it was mostly the same until 2008) [1] [2]. Seems like most of the difference can be explained by stronger wo
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by raphaelj 6y ago
Are they planning to use the same ships to land on Mars and on the Moon ? You'll not be able to slow down (as much) using air resistance there.
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by raphaelj 6y ago
The high resolution, 360 panoramic view, of the landing site is also stunning: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8873/nasas-perseverance-rover-giv...
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by raphaelj 6y ago
The amount of work that went to this is insane. She made a (full ?) implementation of libc: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/libc
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by raphaelj 6y ago
A payload reduction of 30-40% is huge. And even if refurb and recovery is less than 10%, you still loose the 2nd stage at every lunch (18% of the rocket by weight). You then have to include the extra development costs and additional risk of
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by raphaelj 6y ago
In the video, the French-speaking news anchor says that one of the biggest challenge was to convert the DC from the engine to AC (around 1:10).

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