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by thedance 7y ago
This can’t be true. Taxis often run with zero passengers, whereas a private car never does.
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by thedance 7y ago
Throughput doesn’t change with speed, just like with cars the rate is the same at 5 or 75MPH because the spacing in terms of time stays constant. What improves is the latency for individual riders, and the reliability of the bus arriving on
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by thedance 7y ago
My understanding is one of the reasons that the virtual time stuff in clouds doesn't work in a straightforward way is that your VM can migrate to another host, where reading TSC could give the appearance of discontinuous time, includin
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by thedance 7y ago
It's a fun fact that on cloud VMs (AWS, etc) vDSO gettime doesn't exist, so if you rely on vDSO to make time measurement free, it's not.
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by thedance 7y ago
What's the threat model being addressed here? If someone is trying to act maliciously there must be a thousand ways around calling exec (for example just mapping a program and jumping to its main function accomplishes the same thing).
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by thedance 7y ago
If anyone from Esri ever reads these comments, please for the love of maps stop using scroll wheel and pinch to move maps north-south. Nobody, literally nobody, has ever wanted that, literally never.
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by thedance 7y ago
The comments of this article are where the meat lies. There’s no way anyone is flipping rice in a 1200-degree steel wok.
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by thedance 7y ago
In 1990's I worked on the software for an automated NASBA amp. These were mostly sold into the market for HIV testing. They are a lot more productive than 25/day/tech. Is PCR the only way to test for this virus? Are patents s
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by thedance 7y ago
I meant in the kernel. Like if I hooked up a fuzzer and just started swinging the pipe size around.
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by thedance 7y ago
Have a look at the crontabs that ship with Ubuntu.
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by thedance 7y ago
I wonder how much stuff breaks if you actually change the pipe size. I bet there’s a lot of assumptions kicking around.
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by thedance 7y ago
I mean, sure, but looking at the last five years they are getting destroyed by clouds. Amazon, Google, and long-time nemesis Microsoft are all dramatically outperforming Oracle. Nobody wants Oracle's cloud products. The companies tha
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by thedance 7y ago
Sure, if what you mean by standard is it physically fits together but you can’t tell what the heck it’s doing.
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by thedance 7y ago
The idea that google web apps are frequently released, and the fact that there is high latency between identification of a defect and it being fixed 100% in production, are not conflicting facts. Disclosure: xoogler with my name carved in s
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by thedance 7y ago
I think there's a practical difference between a folder full of data and a wheelbarrow full of data.
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by thedance 7y ago
I don't why people bother with claims like these are are trivially disproven. Anybody reading this can open up Firefox and go to Gmail and see for themselves that it works perfectly well (FF 73, Gmail frontend gmail_fe_200213.13_p5). S
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by thedance 7y ago
This skewers the notion that old programmers were honed and refined by their resource constraints. Whoever wrote these files was using a slow, expensive physical format and wasting virtually all of it on padding.
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by thedance 7y ago
My kids' expensive school uses Chromebooks, not iPads, because they're much more useful. Apple isn't offering collaborative editing on par with Google Docs. Apple authentication isn't hooked up to apps that kids use like
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by thedance 7y ago
The article relies to a large extent on the blogs of cranks, if you click through to any of the sources, none of which are primary, you get derangement such as: https://missourieducationwatchdog.com/why-pokemon-is-not-a-g...
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by thedance 7y ago
People who get bad ratings can't move as freely.
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by thedance 7y ago
You must have been before me. NN and MSIE 4 both had what we now call DOM Level 1, in 1997.
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by thedance 7y ago
The only problem with total transparency is the American public is not ready to face its own driving record. A really large fraction of drivers _should_ _be_ uninsurable, including the 20% of American adults with a history of DUIs, anyone o
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by thedance 7y ago
MSIE scripting did and does support Tcl.
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by thedance 7y ago
Microsoft did a really great job of making MSIE a platform, too, with active scripting you could write browser programs in REXX or Tcl. It was really wide open.
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by thedance 7y ago
Yeah, gmail was different than other webmail products but its innovation was really on the backend, giving everyone 1000x more quota than Yahoo was giving them. On the other hand the google maps frontend was what really sold it. Up to the
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by thedance 7y ago
What did you need plugins for? Netscape and MSIE both were able to add a script tag to the DOM dynamically, and that was all you needed to build the rest of it.
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by thedance 7y ago
The odds of anyone at the top of the hiring funnel getting an offer are really poor, but the odds for people with referrals are much higher.
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by thedance 7y ago
I said it would be huge, didn’t I? The other poster said it might not kill most people, my point is even massive disasters don’t come anywhere near killing most people.
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by thedance 7y ago
The best way to get a job at google is to get some high ranking insiders to refer you and then show up at the interview and do your best. The yammering about how to ace the coding interview overlooks that without a referral you are at a sev
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by thedance 7y ago
It can be a major pandemic and still almost everyone will survive it. If it kills 1% that would be huge, but 99% of you will still be here.

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