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by shric 3y ago
Indeed, after 25 years of work (15 in Australia, 5 in Singapore, 5 in Malaysia) I've never driven to work except during work trips to the US where I had to rent a car. At various times it's been train, bus, cycling, walking.
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by shric 3y ago
> Prisoners: our responsibility, their fault. What percentage (approximately) of prisoners in the United States would you categorize as "their fault" and not some product of their upbringing/situation?
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by shric 3y ago
Are you referring to the CPU used for the site? If so, how did you arrive at one hour? I'd put it closer to a second.
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by shric 3y ago
> You want to dollar cost average into the market fine, but I wouldn't take out any margin loans for at least the next year. Six months ago I borrowed 3 years of my gross income (principal and interest, not margin) to buy more low c
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by shric 3y ago
My understanding was that HFTs make the most profits during periods of highest volatility. Why do they pull out?
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by shric 3y ago
If there was a computer that performed one operation per nanosecond and it would take 100 years to do a particular problem, then that same problem would be solved in approximately 3 microseconds on a machine that could perform the operation
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by shric 3y ago
Indeed, even 11 years ago people were commenting on how many times it had been posted with substantial amounts of comments and upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3505201
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by shric 3y ago
(2007) Previous discussions (with >25 comments): 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039537 (67 comments) 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30564287 (121 comments)
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by shric 3y ago
I've lived in the Sydney CBD (Haymarket) for 10 years. I don't own a car because I don't need one. I jaywalk at every opportunity many times every day. I've never been fined for jaywalking. One time I was crossing the st
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by shric 3y ago
Newer versions of Linux dd support status=progress. iirc, dd on *BSD will show progress on ^T because it sends a SIGUSR1
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by shric 3y ago
There is legal C that is illegal C++ There is legal C that is legal C++ but has different observable behaviour And if you're "writing C in C++" then you're not really using C++ as it was intended, might as well just writ
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by shric 3y ago
Maybe the GP assumed 410km/sec instead of 410kph.
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by shric 3y ago
Your areas are off by a factor of 1,000.
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by shric 3y ago
I know you were joking but "As of Apr 8, 2023, the average annual pay for a TV Writer in the United States is $62,837 a year." -- somehow eliminating writers isn't going to make much difference to the cost of a typical TV ser
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by shric 3y ago
"The confirmed exoplanet with the shortest orbit is K2-137b, which orbits its host star, K2-137b once every 4 hours, 18 minutes. The planet is 0.89±0.09 times the mass of Earth, and orbits its host star at just 0.0058 times the distanc
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by shric 3y ago
Not when it's 0.01734 AU from its star, and therefore 1.7% of the distance compared to the earth to its star.
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by shric 3y ago
I didn't say, or mean to imply, he was automatically right, just pointing out yet another interpretation
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by shric 3y ago
And Alan Kay (first user of the term "object oriented programming") said: "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in
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by shric 3y ago
“You don’t get rewarded for being extra. You don’t get any money when you save costs. You’re going to get a raise below inflation. You’re stupid for caring the way that you do. The business’ downside risk is not yours, and it’s profits are
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by shric 4y ago
I would highly recommend C Programming: A Modern Approach by K.N. King as an alternative and replacement for K&R. http://knking.com/books/c2/index.html
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by shric 4y ago
I went on vacation for two weeks last month and unplugged everything except the fridge and one HP Microserver N54L and the apartment averaged a little over 4 kWh per day (~120 per month, ~1440 per year) However, when we are not on vacation
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by shric 4y ago
I've never seen a 70 inch monitor either, but usually text looks a lot better on a monitor and of course many monitors offer much higher refresh rates. Ads aren't the only reason why a 42" 4K TV is generally much cheaper than
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by shric 4y ago
> As far as I know two of those people are from the country with the best healthcare system in the world Which country are you referring to here? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290168/health-index-of-...
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by shric 4y ago
> The SDE role at (FAANG) I don't think you're generalising to all FAANG, just whichever one you work at. That said, this has not been my experience at all at another FAANG which doesn't use the TLA "SDE".
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by shric 4y ago
Just speculating... airplane seatbelts don't restrain the torso of the adult, so any strong forward motion could potentially injure or kill the baby restrained in such a manner?
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by shric 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601
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by shric 4y ago
curl works best with peer though :p
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by shric 4y ago
Why does a hello world need SDL?
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by shric 4y ago
Isn't 1 megagram a tonne? A ton is a slightly larger non-SI unit.
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by shric 4y ago
It's also a peculiarity of kilograms. The kilogram rather than the gram is the SI base unit for mass. Thus it's normal to use e.g. 1e6 kg rather than 1e9 g.

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