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by stu2010 5y ago
From the article: "My staff visited 79 nearby stores. Forty said they wanted to hire. Twenty-four said they'd hire people with no experience." This is John Stossel's favorite stunt, he has also walked around offering to
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by stu2010 6y ago
Unless I'm missing something about existing coax cable deployments, this would practically force large-scale fiber buildout. Cable isn't built to service symmetrical speeds, and more than that I don't think that most resident
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by stu2010 6y ago
Relational databases enable some very flexible data access patterns. Once you shard, you lose a lot of that flexibility. If you move away from a relational model, you lose even more flexibility and start having to do much more work in your
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by stu2010 6y ago
The manifest file could be generated at build time. I believe it's more developer-friendly in the long run to be able to do configuration from in-band in the same language / environment the application is running in vs out-of-band
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by stu2010 6y ago
Who says that you even need a file of defined size? Rig up a server to continually serve pseudorandom data over https.
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by stu2010 6y ago
The last time that I checked, Instant Apps have not been enabled by default on the vast majority of devices. It's impossible to develop around a feature that must be specifically enabled by digging through settings menus by individual
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by stu2010 6y ago
Large parts of Amazon finally got the go-ahead to use Slack internally instead of Chime.
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by stu2010 6y ago
Everything is a trade-off. Immutable objects enables easier safety when having multiple threads do work concurrently. Shared mutable state is still very difficult to do correctly, and at the point where you're introducing locks then yo
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by stu2010 6y ago
Amazon's total all-in cost per dev is almost certainly >$300k per year, so more like >$7 million if that's an accurate number. As far as how it gets approved, that's not enough money to really register at Amazon's
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by stu2010 7y ago
Pixel 3A is the most comparable thing. It's a little big, but not as bulky as most flagships.
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by stu2010 7y ago
Lyft's reputation is nowhere near as well known as Uber's. I'm curious to hear if they've fallen into the same trap of "just hire smart people and see what they do" without clear direction.
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by stu2010 7y ago
If you can tolerate risk of data loss, VPS or even physical hosts are likely to be far cheaper than any cloud. Look at OVH, Hetzner, Linode, DigitalOcean.
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by stu2010 7y ago
$1800 for a 1U server in a 24C/48T and 64GB of RAM configuration? These are incredibly competitive. How much cheaper are whitebox versions of the same thing if this is the HP premium price?
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by stu2010 7y ago
If they're going with a bottom-dollar host, it's possible that the out-of-band server management tools were exposed. It's less likely to be a software backdoor, and more likely to be Supermicro IPMI or other baseboard managem
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by stu2010 7y ago
Most MIPS or ARM router CPUs are significantly underpowered to handle OpenVPN, and high-end routers are expensive now. If you're intending to use OpenVPN, you could easily justify a basic x86 pfSense or linux router: https:/&#x2F
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by stu2010 8y ago
I don't understand why these are so chic, but manufactured housing isn't. For these quoted build costs, you could do a pretty highly upgraded singlewide, and it would age better than any of these and can actually be permanently in
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by stu2010 8y ago
I've known some r/science mods. The removed posts were reinstated after the AmA had achieved enough traction on its own, things weren't left permanently deleted. It was still blatant vote manipulation, but the end result was
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by stu2010 8y ago
Google could have ended up paying for some of the R&D needed for phones to work on both existing networks at the same time.
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by stu2010 8y ago
Intel's market segmentation is getting even more aggressive, which gives them future flexibility to address pricing in a very fine-grained manner. Notice that they make you pay up for 2 AVX-512 modules per core: Xeon Gold 6xxx has them
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by stu2010 9y ago
Some hospitals are even going further than this: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/29/4829940... It's cheaper to just pay for a patient's apartment rent than keep treating
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by stu2010 9y ago
How do you reconcile this with the extreme cost increases since the mid 2000s in education, healthcare, and housing (rent, at least).
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by stu2010 9y ago
The graduate students in question here already pay income taxes on their stipend, which is used to cover housing, food, and commute. The only thing they get "tax free" is tuition, which they shouldn't be paying because in mos
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by stu2010 9y ago
Just to be clear, the majority of PhD students that are getting free tuition take either a very light courseload, or none. They are paying tuition, but not receiving any classes and in fact likely helping teach several classes. They also al
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by stu2010 9y ago
This is the perfect solution if they really want to tax illiquid assets.
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by stu2010 9y ago
I had a Nexus 5X die within the warranty period, and had a similar experience. LG's support was utterly awful, it took them 3 weeks to replace the phone. They originally told me I could get a replacement 5X, then they told me I could g
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by stu2010 9y ago
I'd bet that the cloud-scale customers like AWS negotiate pricing that has very little to do with the published list price of these CPUs.
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by stu2010 9y ago
Now that major cloud vendors are selling VMs with guaranteed AVX512 support, how are they going to deal with the "noisy neighbor" problem?
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by stu2010 10y ago
Who's your vendor? I'd like to get the same deal you're getting.
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by stu2010 10y ago
Interesting. That's way cheaper than I was expecting, most higher than 4-core Xeon-D configurations are more like $1000/node. I'm seeing a 24 node 3U server for $16k. http://www.wiredzone.com/supermicro-multi-
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by stu2010 10y ago
So you're using IE or Edge? Netflix explicitly only supports 1080p or higher in Microsoft or Apple browsers, Chrome and Firefox get 720p at best. If you want 5.1 audio, no browser is an option and the Windows store app the only solutio

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