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by sligor 3y ago
> I can't imagine the whole thing can't be done with between 30 to 50 engineers in total. How WhatsApp served 1 billion users with only 50 engineers. https://blog.quastor.org/p/whatsapp-scaled-1-billion-use
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by sligor 3y ago
Well, whatsapp reached 1 billion user with only around 50 employees
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by sligor 3y ago
> lifespan of nuclear projects, which is easily 2-3 times longer than solar and wind Not sure it is a really solid argument. For wind maybe yes, but life expectancy of solar panels is about 40 years (warranty are 25-30 years but are pess
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by sligor 3y ago
you can export and backup your entire workspace in usable format ( markdown for pages + csv for databases + attachments).
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by sligor 4y ago
How about using gitsubrepo ? https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo >This command is an improvement from git-submodule and git-subtree; two other git commands with similar goals, but various problems.
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by sligor 4y ago
Road cyclists don't wear backpack and don't touch rocks or branches like most other outdoor activities. Backpack + body movement will rub and wear out the naked goretex membrane quickly. And of course, rocks and branches will cut
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by sligor 4y ago
Is it really a parody ? In fact it is mostly pretty accurate and that's why I love Hacker News over any other social media
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by sligor 4y ago
The paid option is very expensive. I would pay for an ad-free only Youtube, but this option is not available in my country. I already pay for Spotify and Netflix. So I don't care about other services of youtube premium except ads-free
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by sligor 4y ago
I wonder how long before car companies convince law makers that "unlocking heated seat" impacts critical safety of the car and voids insurance in case of accident.
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by sligor 4y ago
Wow the Xerox Alto was so crazily ahead of its time
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by sligor 4y ago
In fact the main goal of the plate number is to use cameras with plate number recognition to automatically generate the fines
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by sligor 4y ago
Human shaped robot is not a technical solution, it is a feature
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by sligor 5y ago
> HEVC has slightly better efficiency Notice also that the encoder implementation is as important as the codec format itself for the quality/bitrate ratio.
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by sligor 5y ago
It has always been unclear for me if an instruction set falls into patent protection (20years) or in copyright law (a lot more). I think (not a lawyer) that it is allowed to reuse ideas inside another instruction set after 20 years (patent
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by sligor 5y ago
Not an array, a struct is ok, and in C99 style it is very well readable. For example Linux Kernel style is: static const struct file_operations fops = { .open = my_open, .release = my_release, .read = my_re
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by sligor 5y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but vue.js is just frontend js. So in theory it can be used in pair with a static server on backend side. So the problem here is surely not vue.js
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by sligor 6y ago
> "Implementing a complete C ABI (with struct arguments and returns) is incredibly tricky, and not really a lot of fun." This sounds like it should be wrapped as an helper library on top of LLVM and embedded inside LLVM. Why it
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by sligor 6y ago
It only works at home. Or you need to always have and take your "router-in-the-middle" wherever you go, this is a way more complicated solution
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by sligor 6y ago
So the next step will be for the governments to use VPN as the primary vector of attack
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by sligor 6y ago
can you explain why ?
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by sligor 7y ago
That's main problem of RISC-V ISA: doing multi-precision arithmetic needs to do branching. It is not only a programming complexity issue, it is then very difficult to do large number arithmetic in constant-time due to the branch predic
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by sligor 7y ago
Yes, but... there are also many fake books sold on Amazon, and with bad printing quality
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by sligor 7y ago
> Does anyone know of a successful server-based peer-to-peer project other than TOR and cryptocurrencies? Git
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by sligor 7y ago
Let's see how the authorities react to such hostage-taking. If they do nothing quickly then, yes, it is a very bad thing for the country notoriety
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by sligor 7y ago
>> I can see why the Tunisian hotel did what they did that's hostage taking, it is a crime, there is no excuse.
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by sligor 7y ago
$95 per session is definitely non-free :D
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by sligor 7y ago
Good DSL are hard and expensive to design and maintain. Look at the good example of DSL in comments here. They are not small project with small workforce. If not very limited, a DSL is an ambitious project (if very limited a GUI will surel
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by sligor 7y ago
how many time did these "non-programmers" spend on learning SQL ? wouldn't have they learned basic programming skills on languages such as python or ruby during the same time ? The problem with DSL is the S, they are Specific
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by sligor 7y ago
Many DSL can be replaced by python modules: it is far easier to develop and document a well written python module than a good DSL Defining a syntax, documenting it, doing parsing, syntax checking, generating good error reporting on a DSL is
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by sligor 8y ago
you're right, and even on old versions of gcc and clang it seems that it is correctly generated as mul + umulh pair

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