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by richardw 6y ago
Most of that power came from the Cell processor, which was awesome but supposedly hard to develop for. I assume they’ve learned that lesson.
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by richardw 7y ago
Just for a laugh, try changing your phone keyboard to Dvorak. It seemed like a good idea but felt alien to see the keys I naturally use. Swiping was just ridiculous. Obviously it’s just practice but I don’t mind using qwerty on my phone. It
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by richardw 7y ago
And cigarettes. Smokers must be going insane.
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by richardw 7y ago
It probably means this is your best possible case outside of an Olympic village.
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by richardw 7y ago
I found an abandoned Asterix in a dump in my apartment block as a child in around 1984. My mother discovered it and loved them. Getting one was a very special treat, even more so in hindsight. I still have many and will read them with my da
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by richardw 7y ago
We haven’t built herd immunity to the flu despite millennia of trying. This thing has evolved three strains with only a couple hundred thousand cases. A couple billion turns it into a shit show.
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by richardw 7y ago
> The 258 cases in Qatar might have been 500 if it was colder there, no one can proof or refute that. It certainly means hot weather won’t “stop” the virus, just slow it by (in your example) 50%. That’s not a lot of comfort, although it
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by richardw 7y ago
People who have been in the job for a while aren’t always the best people to explain something. What I’ve often done is asked new hires to document what they discover. New people are easier to mould to a new behaviour and often have the que
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by richardw 7y ago
What is most amazing: what people achieved with those 14 megaflops.
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by richardw 7y ago
Bit scary due to latency and connection reliability. If the connection breaks you’re stuck, or worse. If it breaks when you’re on the highway at speed, or on a twisty road, or in a tunnel...
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by richardw 7y ago
It often underperforms during periods of exuberance. Everyone bleats until there’s a crash, leaving Berkshire as one of the few still above water.
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by richardw 7y ago
We know it arrives as a particle. We don’t know it travels as a particle. What we know is that it acts very wave-like when it travels. If I were forced to bet, I’d say it travels like a wave and arrives like a particle. That doesn’t mean “d
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by richardw 7y ago
Generally true but some architecture jobs have you designing solutions across multiple technologies that you just can’t be expected to master. Sometimes you need to rely on experts, including devs or other architects. The job then becomes f
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by richardw 7y ago
The virus has impacted hospitals so badly they can’t keep up and they’ve had to turn away patients. China isn’t building new emergency hospitals for flu but is for the Coronavirus, so something is different.
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by richardw 7y ago
From article linked here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22251388 . I think it deserves its own post.
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Coronavirus Live Map(gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com)
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by richardw 7y ago
It’s possible to remove the infrared filter from a normal camera and replace with one that only lets in IR. lots of articles online but no idea how hard it is. Edit: for example https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/1
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by richardw 7y ago
I think it’s safe to say consumers would benefit from lower prices because companies wouldn’t have to bid so high on ads. We’d also possibly benefit from fewer ads on the main page, diluted ad tracking, more competition in other areas Googl
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by richardw 7y ago
I show my 19 month old daughter like three cartoon drawings of owls and she recognises a live one at the bird park instantly, unprompted. We have a way to go.
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by richardw 7y ago
Betting on Google’s offering is like betting your business on Bing. It might work but it’s an also-ran. And that’s before this leak. Time for leadership to clarify hard, ASAP. Infrastructure should be built on rock, not sand. Google has so
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by richardw 7y ago
If a leopard can't catch something, it will die. We have alternatives. And we know about them. And we can grow them.
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by richardw 7y ago
It's an incredible contribution, but in general childrearing isn't a skill you'd use in other areas of work. So the time spent on it is wasted compared to the extra e.g. 5 years becoming more competitive.
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by richardw 7y ago
Googol can help: "Bezos instead named the business after the river reportedly for two reasons. One, to suggest scale (Amazon.com launched with the tagline "Earth's biggest book store") and two, back then website listings
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by richardw 7y ago
South African here. We tend to use products, integrate systems and do custom dev. There's really no reason to pay crazy salaries because "pretty good" is good enough. When you're competing on the output of developers and
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by richardw 7y ago
My guess, and paraphrasing: it's like software that blocks out distractions. No modern web, he stays mostly focused on his job, which is writing. The software works in a way that suits his sensibilities - consistent, minimalist, quirky
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by richardw 7y ago
I've moved a bunch of static sites to S3 (or Google equivalent) and CloudFlare. One article was hit by HN and (for fun) I spent the time massaging the CloudFlare rules to almost fully handle via cache and try get the response time as l
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by richardw 7y ago
Sounds I choose let me create my own auditory environment, one that suits how I want to feel. Sounds my co-workers choose, don't. Ive got in-ear noise cancelling headphones and they're amazing. I often come up for air to hear a de
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by richardw 7y ago
Adults too. As a young adult I was amazed at my friend's ability to know where we were in the city. When I started driving I learned fast. It's similar to learning something by either being told or by coming to the conclusion your
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by richardw 7y ago
My first though was risk to Earth. Those things move fast and give you much less time to plan/build/launch.
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by richardw 7y ago
I just paid around $3000 to replace pistons on a golf 7 with 73000km. Supposedly they know it's a fault but no local support aside from reducing the parts price. Initial quote was around $4000. Not loving VW. Never buying another until

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