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by shub 8y ago
What? They're CPUs. They're designed to run instructions. Intel's chips spend more energy on the really fancy stuff like huge reorder buffers and extensive speculation. They get higher IPC at lower MIPS/watt. An i7 isn&#
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by shub 8y ago
IMO the last good laptops Apple made were the pre-Touch Bar Retina MBPs. I've used three different ones, two for work and one that I purchased myself, and they were all solid performers with excellent screens, excellent keyboards, exce
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by shub 8y ago
One can represent themselves. It might be dumb, but people should have the right to be dumb when they're the only ones getting hurt. That's why I have no problem with engineering requirements: when a bridge, airplane, whatever fal
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by shub 8y ago
It's a step in the right direction. Doctors' stranglehold on pharmaceuticals won't disappear overnight.
35.
by shub 8y ago
Just one missing piece: the actual loss rate.
36.
by shub 8y ago
And rock is as heavy as rock.
37.
by shub 8y ago
Still more time and money than stacking boards in the back of the shop.
38.
by shub 8y ago
Is `empty("0")` still true in PHP?
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by shub 8y ago
If deciding join order and what indexes to use sounds like your idea of a good time. It certainly isn't mine.
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by shub 8y ago
Txns are just hard in general but mature RDBMS have spent a huge number of man-years on getting it right. After the time I've spent on Couchbase, Mongo, Elasticsearch, I doubt I'll ever use something non-transactional for anything
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by shub 8y ago
It's entirely possible that no one at Boeing believes the FAA will grant this exemption. However, if they don't make the attempt, then when Boeing gets dinged with contract penalties or loses deals because of this problem the resp
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by shub 8y ago
I've never had a problem using wars or fat jars for server deployments. Client distribution is another matter.
43.
by shub 8y ago
Refraining from being horrible is not the same thing as doing something good.
44.
by shub 8y ago
Ablative meat shield?
45.
by shub 8y ago
A lab publishes an exciting result, what does the physics community do? Wait for replication. Or if you’re LHC, be very careful what you publish.
46.
by shub 8y ago
I make six figures and work remotely in a low cost of living area that I happen to really love. My work may be fairly pointless on net, but it's interesting and challenging.
47.
by shub 8y ago
I actually agree with that statement. Tech is such good money though.
48.
by shub 8y ago
In practice, none. I just think contract law is interesting.
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by shub 8y ago
What do you mean by luck? Circumstances beyond your control? That's what it sounds like to me but I also think you can't possibly mean that. It's trivially false.
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by shub 8y ago
If I had hundreds of thousands of dollars in TSLA it would mean that I had tens of millions elsewhere. But then, my parents are both actuaries and even my groceries are hedged.
51.
by shub 8y ago
Not necessarily. At least for writing gigs my wife has done, often they involve assigning all rights but not ownership to the client. This is spelled out in the contract, I imagine to avoid controversy over whether there was "work fo
52.
by shub 8y ago
You think if Apple, IBM, Amazon, or another American giant got caught doing this kind of stuff they would get sanctioned nearly as hard by the Trump administration?
53.
by shub 8y ago
RMS has always struck me as the kind of person you generally avoid, except when you can't because they're family, and when they say things you smile and change the subject. Where he's unusual is that the ranting isn't ab
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by shub 8y ago
Is there really a clear line of authority between the glibc maintainers and RMS? It certainly doesn't seem like it. Authority decays, and RMS's is gone, over glibc at least. Compare with GvR: Guido is involved day-to-day, talks to
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by shub 8y ago
I've spent the last 3 years doing AWS stuff at work and agree 100%. If all you're using is EC2 then it's not a great value. Where it's worthwhile are the other services you can tie in to really easily. At work we're
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by shub 8y ago
That sounds interesting as hell. Also, when else do you get to test your code by driving an armored vehicle.
57.
by shub 9y ago
By default, even! There's a config option now, but it used to be that you needed KeyRemap4Macbook to change that.
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by shub 9y ago
LIMIT is great, and a necessity on MySQL. It's OFFSET that causes problems. If I were king of databases I'd make OFFSET > 1000 cause an error directing the user to the doc page explaining why what they're doing is a bad id
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by shub 9y ago
The writer is incorrect. MySQL doesn't wait for query execution to finish to start sending rows, unless it has to. For a SELECT with no WHERE, it definitely doesn't have to (ORDER BY requiring a sort step is one case where it does
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by shub 9y ago
I had a similar experience, although in my case the stumbling block was virtualenv. It needed to zip some .py files installed by nix and that totally failed because nix sets mtime to 0 on files it manages. I get why that's a thing they

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