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by seoaeu 5y ago
Do you have more details on the "speed of light" motorcycles? That sounds like an interesting read
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A lot of it is presumably binning [0]. They make a bunch of CPUs and check each to find the number of defective cores and the max clock speed it can run at before malfunctioning, then slap on the appropriate product number for that combinat
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Honestly 80 models that differ by clock speed, core count, or target form factor bothers me way less than trying to figure out the difference between Comet Lake, Cascade Lake, Ice Like, Rocket Lake, etc.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That strategy seems hopelessly sensitive to the exactly granularity you calculating things at. If you have four tasks each with four subtasks and you think each subtask will take 90 minutes, should you really be budgeting an entire quarter
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Spacecraft seem like one of the few cases where a small decrease in safety factor can result in a big decrease in cost. The thing about rockets is that they have to lift their own fuel, so if you decrease the mass by 10% you can leave off n
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Police do have enormous discretion over who is arrested and who goes free. It could certainly be a whole lot worse, but it could also be much better.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Obviously HN commenters like us are going to think that. Honestly, I bet even YouTube commenters would say the same about their own community.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
How exactly do you imagine that an unbanked person living in rural India would be able use cryptocurrency? It isn't like they can just enter their credit card into a website and buy some. Not to mention that even if they someone manage
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah... in hindsight checking for impassible cliffs would have been a smart move too
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The functionality is making the owner feel superior to consumer who buy consumer grade products
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by seoaeu 5y ago
If you are going into the wilderness, you should really check a map beforehand. At very least, figure out which cardinal direction you can go to get back to civilization. Even just knowing "walk west and eventually you'll hit a hi
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A substantial portion of theoretical computer science. There are huge swaths of the field that deal with things like machine learning or distributed systems or computer architecture that don't really fall under that categorization.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I've always interpreted the statement to mean "theoretical CS is the only real CS: everything else is just glorified software engineering."
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The reverse statement would probably be something like "The core pursuit of computer science is how to best design and harness computers" . Which is a reasonably accurate description of many areas within CS including machine lear
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Something tells me that a theft ring doesn't get to $8 million without anyone taking more than $1K. And even if they did, I personally don't see why society should foot the bill for prosecuting and incarcerating someone over a sto
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by seoaeu 5y ago
See, but he was smart enough to list a date so far in the future that no one could call him on it...
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I don't see how it is lazy scheduling to have at least one meeting each day of the week that you cannot reschedule. Finding time for six one-hour meetings is by definition easier than finding time for one six-hour block of meetings.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Honestly this just highlights a weakness of shell scripts. The idea that you cannot use any new dependencies (or even upgraded versions of the current dependencies!) would be unthinkable in most other settings.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
None of the points seem all that bad to me, though I can see that their security mechanisms could cause issues if you're doing netsec. For instance is wrong with de-duplicating files on the backend provided they use a strong enough has
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Obviously not ideal, but it could for instance come up when the file format has one overall endianness but wants to include fragments of data conventionally encoded with the opposite endianness. Trivial example would be a .tar file containi
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The problem is that sites will just pretend that any such standard doesn't actually exist. All of these sites could suppress cookie popups for clients that send a do-not-track header, but choose not to.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
"Be the change you want to see" doesn't really work for society level collective action problems. My concern with Facebook isn't that they have too much information about me, it is that they know too much about my countr
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I'm very curious how the author imagines the beginning of that process works. Where does your first security deposit come from? How do you pass any sort of credit check? Your first paycheck won't come for a couple weeks, so how do
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah. I know HN doesn't like the social sciences, but people have actually studied social mobility and found how limited it is in the US and similar countries.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That's empirically not true. There's tons of people who make all those sacrifices and still don't end up rich.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You can certainly do very well speculating on real estate, but in most places and most of the time you are better off investing in the stock market.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Having $1 million in retirement savings only lets you spend $40-50k per year during retirement. That's a pretty solid amount of money for not having to do any work, but doesn't lend itself to luxurious lifestyle that people think
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by seoaeu 5y ago
There is small but non-zero chance that any given paper on climate change is wrong or fraudulent, but it is absurd to go from that to claiming that we should disregard literally all scientific research that has ever been done. At a certain
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The status quo isn't perfect, but I think you are severely exaggerating how bad things are. The fact that nearly all scientific publishing is done by people who are paid to do research (grad students, research scientists, professors, e
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Providing source code is a good thing, but a lot of people confuse re-running experiments with replicating them. If you take the authors' source code and re-run it, then any bugs are going to invalidate your results too. The only way t

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