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by riknos314 2y ago
As a user of S3, but not any service with an S3 compatible API, this execution of the change is perfect for me as I get the benefits with 0 effort - including needing to learn about the availability of the feature. AWS is beholden first and
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Wireless High Resolution Scrolling Is Amazing [video](youtube.com)
2 points by riknos314 2y ago|0 comments
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by riknos314 2y ago
These are much more technical and don't even mention the more obvious issues: Block settling time: If a transaction isn't complete until 1 (or n) blocks have been committed, and mining a block takes meaningful time, then this pla
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by riknos314 2y ago
An overview of a subset of the myriad issues that contribute to bitcoin being a very bad currency: https://github.com/theborakompanioni/bitcoin-spring-boot-sta...
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by riknos314 2y ago
What specific feature gaps would you like to see them address?
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by riknos314 2y ago
> In order to continue delivering X10s and supporting our customers, we have to take the drastic step of rationing batteries to one per drone. ... We are extending the software license, warranty, and support term for all drones fulfilled
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by riknos314 2y ago
> And security work is rewarded even less While I do recognize that this is a pervasive problem, it seems counter-intuitive to me based on the tendency of the human brain to be risk averse. It raises an interesting question of "why
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by riknos314 2y ago
"the law" is always subject to interpretation in a given context. The entire concept of case law is that "the law" has been interpreted in a certain way in a similar context before.
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by riknos314 2y ago
I literally gave up on trying to read the article because of this. The eyestrain from the font size nearly immediately gave me a headache.
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by riknos314 2y ago
The engineer-driven Google of old is truly dead.
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by riknos314 2y ago
My optimistic hope when reading their salaries is that they posted a monthly value instead of annual. If the values are in fact annual then the execs are completely delusional.
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by riknos314 2y ago
Does anyone know if the google maps team offers a simulation platform to city planners? Seems like it might be useful for testing hypotheses about how proposed road projects might impact traffic flow.
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by riknos314 2y ago
Worth noting that the only requirements to be recognized as an Association by the IRS is that there must be a dated, written document showing its creation, signed by at least two people. [1] [1] https://www.irs.gov/charities
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by riknos314 3y ago
Not really. The challenge is that higher interest rates increase the total cost of buying. Standard demand curves tell us that the quantity demanded at a higher cost is lower. In a typical market, an increased cost is balanced by sellers i
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by riknos314 4y ago
The important thing to consider is: What tradeoffs are required to achieve consistency for your use case? Delivering consistency in either the CAP or ACID sense requires some amount of constraints on other aspects of the system. Sometimes
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by riknos314 4y ago
Mastery is not a binary state. Either you have the skills to solve the problem at hand in a satisfactory way or you don't - but where exactly that line is is different for every problem. One can display mastery over one set of problems
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by riknos314 4y ago
This is a great insight. Considering the idea of embodiment made me think of the context in which the neurons in our brain operate. They don't fire in isolation, but rather in the presence of neurotransmitters which change the context
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by riknos314 4y ago
Likely contents weight vs (shipping weight).
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by riknos314 4y ago
The company can make an official statement making it public at any time. Releasing information to the public is not restricted to earnings calls, but they generally don't have incentive to do otherwise.
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by riknos314 4y ago
"Unlike Thomas Edison's later invention of 1877, the phonograph, the phonautograph created only visual images of the sound and did not have the ability to play back its recordings." In my mind this seems like the difference b
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by riknos314 4y ago
This. Especially with stovetop cooking the intuitive feel of just turning the heat up or down a bit as appropriate is huge. I've yet to find any level-based cooktop where the discrete steps are fine-grained enough to match the adjust
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by riknos314 4y ago
Flying commercial wouldn't gain Musk any anonymity. The second he sets foot in a public airport social media of all forms would be flooded with photos of him, what gate he's waiting at, etc. And that's MUCH worse for Musk b
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Tesla Semi Delivery Event(youtube.com)
5 points by riknos314 4y ago|0 comments
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by riknos314 4y ago
What does it mean for a protocol to fail? There's multiple layers to the bigger picture: the protocol itself, and the systems that use the protocol to provide value to users. Customers don't actually care about the protocol, they
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by riknos314 4y ago
Caviat: only have access to the abstract At least 4 servings of fruit vs less than 2 servings is a huge amount of variability, even within groups. Someone could eat mostly fast food and be in the control or eat a very strict keto diet and
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by riknos314 4y ago
> It would be fairly simple for them to allow users to set up hard billing limits. former AWS SDE here I don't believe it would be "fairly simple" to build a completely new off switch into 150+ services, likely with multip
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by riknos314 5y ago
Basics first: The brain is an organ. Physical health and brain health and mental health are deeply interconnected. Find a physical activity that you can do several times a week with minimal motivation. Bonus points if you get friends int
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by riknos314 5y ago
One of the big issues mentioned was that one of the circuit breakers they did have (client back off), didn't function properly. So they did have a circuit breaker in the design, but it was broken.
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by riknos314 5y ago
Maybe, there's still a lot of unknowns. The cost and power consumption of the nitro hardware to translate from the mac mini to everything else being the main one. They're also likely pricing in some form of opportunity cost since
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by riknos314 5y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

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