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by romed 8y ago
Vast majority of California’s forests are fossils. If you burn them they don’t grow back, you get something else. Climate change is reducing the length of the rainy season, worsening summer droughts, expanding the range of bark beetles, and
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by romed 8y ago
People are discussing this event as if it were a “pole” servicing some house. The downed line that is suspected here is a high voltage transmission line serving a hydroelectric power station. It’s major infrastructure and there are only a h
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by romed 8y ago
Market share.
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by romed 8y ago
Apple's cloud is already stored on Google's cloud. How do you figure it will work? Apple and Google cloud will somehow become mutually self-hosting?
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by romed 8y ago
Snap doesn't spend it all on what you are all discussing here, though. Even though it's wrapped up in Google Cloud marketing, Snap's main use seems to be of App Engine, a product that is clearly in the lead among comparable
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by romed 8y ago
The entire point of the system of record feature is that nobody is able to manually apply or remove the "sent" label.
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by romed 8y ago
First, note that a great many enterprise use cases are total nonsense. But still: people want to be able to put messages into gmail from random other systems and have the "sent" label be applied, so they can treat it as a system
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by romed 8y ago
How this feature works is even documented. https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/labels
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by romed 8y ago
This is a feature, not a bug, and it's required to get enterprise business.
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by romed 8y ago
Simple answer: Japan is up to their necks in money. Anybody can take a few billion off SoftBank.
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by romed 8y ago
I can imagine there are very solid reasons related to stalking that result in Uber wanting to make it hard to contact past riders or drivers in either direction.
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by romed 8y ago
"Tumble" always needs context. JHC how much data is in this URL? https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/FB#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6IndlZWsiL...
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by romed 8y ago
abseil targets c++11. Its modernity is arguable.
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by romed 8y ago
That is not a rumor. Google and Fiat announced the deal. Remember, the entire game for self-driving-car journalists is finding new and creative ways to ignore the fact that Waymo is obviously far ahead of everyone else. They ordered 62000
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by romed 8y ago
I can't believe you are being downvoted for this. It's absolutely correct and consistent with my point: a system that's abstractly superior but which cannot survive contact with humans is not a good one.
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by romed 8y ago
I've interviewed about 100 programmers who just passed their 366th day at Amazon and are looking to get the hell out. Further down the ladder their people are pissing in bottles and collecting food stamps. The only person at Amazon w
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by romed 8y ago
The problem as usual is with the users not the system. If anyone in your building turns the valve on their radiator off (because their space is overheated) then the water will condense and when they open it again the entire system will hamm
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by romed 8y ago
Many universities and other institutions like hospitals are steam heated because they have the steam anyway from their own combined-cycle power plants. I guess this is a legacy of universities having power before widespread electrification?
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by romed 8y ago
The timers are in TCP not HTTP. TCP only ACKs every other packet. If the stream pauses after an odd number of packets, the sender has to just wait for the receiver to perform a delayed ACK, for which there is a timer on both sides. The s
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by romed 8y ago
Yeah I’ve noticed a preference among the library authors for kicad-compatible releases. That’s fine with me. I consider it analogous to the situation between clang and GCC. All the compiler people are working on clang these days. But GCC is
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by romed 8y ago
TCP has major issues in low-latency environments. It has too many timers and they are too coarse for 50us RTTs and 100gbps bandwidth. QUIC as a transport for gRPC can solve a lot of this. What we know for sure today is that Linux distributi
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by romed 8y ago
People don’t really appreciate what a miracle the quick-turn electronics industry is. You can upload a Gerber file and get boards back in 24 hours. 2 layers, 4 layers, 6 layers whatever. Tiny little holes all over the board. Boards two feet
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by romed 8y ago
KiCAD is not bad but I definitely file under the category of software for people who like screwing around with software. If you’re making boards in your kitchen then the free edition of Eagle will be more than satisfactory, and it comes wit
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by romed 8y ago
San Francisco recently held a city council hearing on eliminating parking minimums city-wide. Houston has no parking requirements in its central business district. Mandatory parking is looking pretty dumb at this stage of the climate emerg
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by romed 8y ago
That's one data point, but how does that relate to whether the law should force people to build parking garages in their homes?
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by romed 8y ago
"Open tracing" is a bit too opinionated by be universally useful. For example opentracing makes sampling decisions at the end of the span, not the beginning. Because of this you always pay the cost of span annotations even though
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by romed 8y ago
If you've got a kid in 4th grade, all national parks are free all year long.
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by romed 8y ago
That's just your pet definition of transaction. That is not universally accepted.
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by romed 8y ago
If nothing else this would be a fun and easy way to develop a driver from scratch for unfamiliar hardware, even if you intended to port the whole thing back to C in the end, after it was all figured out.
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by romed 8y ago
Privacy derangement syndrome is big now. People even question license plates.

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