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by rlonn 5y ago
Higher density means faster computation but also potential overheating issues. If the clock frequency is the same of course.
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by rlonn 5y ago
>Everything is very straightforward and understandable, the next step is always clear, I can spend an afternoon grinding out those 500 lines without thinking too much. But then I look back at what was actually accomplished in that time a
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by rlonn 5y ago
The rover has wheels, right? That's clearly copying previous efforts.
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by rlonn 5y ago
Presidents dither around for four years but unless they screw an intern or start a reasonably large war, noone will remember them a decade later.
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by rlonn 5y ago
Funny, I started using InfluxDB in several projects, but threw it out immediately when TimescaleDB appeared because I thought TSDB seemed a lot more solid and well-designed. Influx seemed much more of a quick hack in comparison - I did not
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by rlonn 5y ago
>Hydrogen works fine in ICEs with modest modifications. Just that they get lower efficiency than a fuel cell version, and apparently are sensitive to load, so mostly suited to constant-load applications, which a car typically isn't.
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by rlonn 5y ago
This makes me appreciate even more the advantages electrical motors have over ICEs. If you build a naive version of an ICE, it will have lousy performance, at best. It might not even operate without a lit of mechanical tricks and tweaks. An
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by rlonn 5y ago
Previous commenter did write "literally". A word which, IMO, is ridiculously overused and abused by people with a bit of a chip on their shoulder. I'd say they asked for it! :)
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by rlonn 5y ago
I agree with previous commenter: it's impossible to make an MMO on a shoestring budget. Until someone does it. Saying something is impossible because you've seen many failures indicates a lack of imagination, not wisdom.
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by rlonn 5y ago
I think that is called a mortgage :)
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by rlonn 6y ago
I wonder if things would have turned out the same if your mother hadn't cared about you. My theory is that love from parents and family growing up is hugely important for a happy life. Hard to optimise through political solutions, unfo
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by rlonn 6y ago
Yes, so unions tend to kill countries where they're too strong. They tend to promote short-sighted action that save/retain existing jobs. This makes it harder for the economy to change when it is needed which in the long run leads
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by rlonn 6y ago
Maybe there is a correlation between the two
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by rlonn 6y ago
Which Europe was that, and did you live among humans at the time?
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by rlonn 6y ago
This is a very uplifting post. Thanks for sharing. I hope more people will follow in your footprints, when they see it's possible. About racism, it is sadly alive and well in Europe also. I think the tech hubs are likely better than ma
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by rlonn 6y ago
In my experience, people who try to intimidate others into unethical acts are pretty much rotten at the core. They either lack morals, or empathy, or both. Chances are your superior did some damage control when expressing gratitude towards
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by rlonn 6y ago
social services are strangers, aren't they?
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by rlonn 6y ago
This reads like finance buzz bingo
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by rlonn 6y ago
About intuition - I've found that it can often be tricky to get young devs to listen to the "gut feelings" of an older dev. Many engineers like logic and want to act on data, not on hunches. It often happens that I feel a str
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by rlonn 6y ago
Funny, I'm also relatively old - 50 - and have been programming almost 40 years (if you count typing in zx80-Basic code from magazines...) and I am exactly the same. I love to make things, and programming is often a creative activity w
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by rlonn 6y ago
I think this is what usually happens and what causes many public projects to fail: the customer has no competent staff that can a) write requirements or b) evaluate tenders. They're often incompetent enough to even hire someone compet
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by rlonn 6y ago
Young kids are very effective alarm clocks. The problem is you can't set the wakeup time. And as they grow older they stop working, though you can always have another kid I guess.
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by rlonn 6y ago
Should probably not write this, but my first thought was "strange headline for yet another article about HTTP status code 418?" Apparently, I'm too damaged to associate the word "teapot" with the physical world...
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by rlonn 6y ago
Tsung is very solid, and high-performing. It lacks real scripting though - you can't write test cases as code.
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by rlonn 6y ago
I'm one of the people behind k6 - thanks for mentioning it :) As for Locust, I've been testing and reviewing a whole slew of load testing tools, and blogging about them, and Locust is definitely a favourite of mine. It used to per
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by rlonn 6y ago
Exactly what I just wrote in another comment :) Start with simple, "unrealistic" load tests of suspected hot paths and you're likely to get very good ROI on the hours you spend.
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by rlonn 6y ago
Good article. It brings up the biggest challenges with load testing. I think the "Maybe don't load test everything?" idea is the solution. We have to realise that there is no silver bullet . You can spend 101% of your hours
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by rlonn 6y ago
To me, it looks as if he wasn't obsessed with the problem. He did everything except work on the product, from what I can tell, and my guess is that he either wasn't interested in the problem, and not disciplined enough to work on
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by rlonn 6y ago
Try roasting marshmallows on your induction cooker.
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by rlonn 6y ago
But when talking of other solar system bodies, like Mars, isn't it the other way around? I.e. astronomically unlikely that contaminants haven't already found their way to earth, undirected, for billions of years now?

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