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by theamk 7mo ago
That's the result of Proposition 13, which holds property tax values very low. Without it, the rising cost of house would increase property tax payments accordingly, and financially, it would be better to sell rather than hold. One sol
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by theamk 7mo ago
neat! > the machine could be calibrated to an accuracy of 2%. I always wondered how precise those "physical computers" were - this one apparently had error of 1/50, or about 6 bits of precision.
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by theamk 7mo ago
I don't have full-text access, but from the photo alone, this is far from the complete wifi solution. If you look at wifi receiver diagram [0], the photo seems to contain "mixer" and "VCO" blocks, maybe LNA and filt
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by theamk 7mo ago
"confines the student to the software and provides interactive lessons and example" - this already exists. It is also useless without continuous supervision, as students will simply take a 2nd device (cell phone or tablet), start
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by theamk 7mo ago
wrong link? that's AWS front page, and it has no references to space for me
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by theamk 7mo ago
> Unless this are enterprise disks with capacitors anything can happen when it suddenly looses power. Not the FSes fault. Most filesystems just get a few files/directories damaged though. ZFS is famous for handling totally crazy thi
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by theamk 7mo ago
What kind of "education overhaul" you have in mind? Some things can be easily verified in class (run a mile), but some require effort (write exam in class / testing center), and some require too much effort to be practical (m
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by theamk 7mo ago
Another example of AI Psychosis[0]? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027072
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by theamk 7mo ago
Original source of their troubles: "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444319
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by theamk 7mo ago
Maybe on the high-end machines in some fancy lab somewhere? All I saw were 386's and 486's, and I am pretty sure every piece of software I ever used was either C or Turbo Pascal or direct assembly. In the mid-90s, Java appeared an
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by theamk 7mo ago
I don't see what's "red herring" about it - for a reasonable format, any parsing will normally be O(n) complexity, so all we can do is to decrease constant factor. So _today_ I write parsers in a very different way as we
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by theamk 7mo ago
As long as you clearly document that the incoming data is going to be modified, it's not a problem. And in a lot of cases, the data either comes from the network or is read from the file - so the buffer is going to be discarded at the
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by theamk 7mo ago
x86 had 6 general-purpose working registers total. Using length + pointers would have caused a lot of extra spills.
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by theamk 7mo ago
First common 32 bit system was Win 95, which required 4MB of RAM (not GB!). The 4-byte prefix would be considered extremely wasteful in those times - maybe not for a single string, but anytime when there is a list of strings involved, such
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by theamk 7mo ago
GNU Parallel's citations was always weird - the author IMHO goes too far, in requiring each user to type "will cite" first time they use the app, even if context is entirely non-academic. Of course the author has the right to
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by theamk 7mo ago
There is a a lot of wishful thinking here that I do not believe to be true. For Amazon retail, the the intent is not to "return what someone paid to show you" - but rather to "maximize amount of income for Amazon". I a
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by theamk 7mo ago
I suspect it's because the point of those things is to be a show-case, so large size is OK. If you want a small music player/recorder, there are many SD-card based models, and some of them are absolutely tiny, while providing much
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by theamk 7mo ago
It was not nearly as bad... I remember our company migrating to github.com, and believe it or not, it was significant performance/uptime benefit over our self-hosted instance. (And the first thing to go was occasional 500's on git
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by theamk 7mo ago
There is some irony that a local AWS emulator now requires remote servers, and cannot run fully locally anymore.
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by theamk 7mo ago
It's a very nice write-up, but this part makes me uneasy: > So long as all the computation in the loop finishes before the next quantum, the timing requirements [...] are met. Seems like we are back to cycle counting then? but inste
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by theamk 7mo ago
Related: "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444319
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Blackbird (Wind-Powered Vehicle)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by theamk 7mo ago
Author makes a point that since (rather complex) firewall configuration parsing is all in userland, we can't say that the firewall lives in the kernel. Disagree - practically every single kernel feature is configured from userland. Ker
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by theamk 7mo ago
You got any source for this? The symphony story might be a legend, but it's pretty well known that the original design was somewhere in 10-11cm range, but this was eventually increased to 12 cm. The "diagonal cassette size" s
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by theamk 7mo ago
nah, it's plain AI stupidity, last paragraph tells it all. > Is this a fork or slop-fork? > Originally, I thought it's a proper fork using the original code-base. But given that the reasons for the fork seem to be largely LL
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by theamk 7mo ago
Not always, for example original CD disks had capacity of 74 minutes to accommodate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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by theamk 7mo ago
Well-known 2FA-using services (Google, Paypal, Github) etc.. offer some way to recover your account, so losing your 2FA device does not mean you lose all access. Pretty sure that the only people who use un-recoverable private keys are crypt
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by theamk 8mo ago
AI slop with no personal touch is really not the best way to say "I really want this job".
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by theamk 8mo ago
It's all about money. > The law centers on raising additional funds to combat invasive mussels getting into Oregon rivers and lakes by funding boat checkpoints. One way it does that is by requiring non-motorized boats under 10 feet
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by theamk 8mo ago
That's "CGI Sverige AB", "Swedish subsidiary of global IT services giant CGI Group" It's not Common Gateway Interface, and Swedish E-gov platform is not running CGI Perl scripts.

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