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by tlb 4y ago
I'm not up to date, but when I knew about this stuff the cost of memory for routing tables was only a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of a network. Most of the cost is burying and maintaining fiber. So unless something big has changed,
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by tlb 4y ago
Yes, that's the point. People who respond to surveys are different from people who don't. The challenge is: when you ask some question that might be correlated to responsiveness, like "how many hours per week do you work?&quo
603.
by tlb 4y ago
My survey shows that 100% of people answer unsolicited phone calls. Before running with missing data, you need to make the case that there's no plausible reason why non-respondents would have different answers from respondents.
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by tlb 4y ago
Yes, I got a meter that shows the number and beeps when it hits 1000 ppm, which it does sometimes in my office after a few hours with the windows closed. A good investment in productivity.
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by tlb 4y ago
Maximizing research time helps over a much longer time horizon than getting lawyers to bill more hours. The principal-agent problem gets a lot worse when the time horizon goes beyond 10 years, as decision makers probably won’t even be aroun
606.
by tlb 4y ago
One common failure mode is that two people start typing at the beginning of the same line, and rather than getting two lines, it alternates characters. At least, Etherpad did this.
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by tlb 4y ago
Not the same obviously, but they have a lot in common. It's not accidental, as those meats are all the muscles of vertebrates. Other organs like livers, brain, or lung from various vertebrates also taste similar, but different from mus
608.
by tlb 4y ago
If it's all digital logic, you can do this now with FPGAs. Modern ones would have no trouble implementing something like a 68030, and the tools can synthesize it from Verilog. The great thing about FPGAs is that if you have a bug (whic
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by tlb 4y ago
OK, there's a super-high limit 100x greater than what phone hardware is capable of putting out. But that's not what carriers are testing -- they want to see that it only uses say 0.5 mW, not 1 mW, when close to the base station.
610.
by tlb 4y ago
Modern phones don't even get close to that limit at full power. Still, it seems prudent to minimize transmit power for safety.
611.
by tlb 4y ago
Emission levels are complicated. There isn't a particular threshold they have to be under. Rather, phones negotiate with the tower to use the minimum power needed to get their signal through, depending on their distance from the tower
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by tlb 4y ago
In fact, stress may hardly vary between being CEO of a $100k and a $1B (annual revenue) company. Above $1B, you can’t avoid having your name in the press, so that may increase stress on both you and your family.
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by tlb 4y ago
I installed a 240V NEMA 6-15 socket in my kitchen in California. It's similar to a regular US/Canada plug but the blades are sideways [0]. It's allowed by the code, but not very common. Then I took a European electric kettle
614.
by tlb 4y ago
Assange's original theory was that WL would create a "secrecy tax", making life difficult for evil orgs that had to keep secrets. But as far as I can tell, WL ended up damaging regular orgs more than evil ones. Because: - min
615.
by tlb 4y ago
Empirically that's true, though. Consumers don't seem to care if their machine glitches a few times a year due to memory, especially when their software crashes more often.
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by tlb 4y ago
Wars are won by convincing the opposing government and its citizens that they have been defeated and must surrender. When there are a dozen F-35s flying patterns over your capital city, everyone has to admit defeat. Drones or missiles would
617.
by tlb 4y ago
I just converted something from libuv to asio and, while it has some advantages, it's definitely a huge dependency. And asio, perhaps in order to be standards-compliant, doesn't even do DNS asynchronously. I'd love a cleaner
618.
by tlb 4y ago
You can spend many hours at Heathrow waiting for someone to show up. And that's if they are arriving on a flight. FWIW, the UK is full of disused airports. Like if you search Google Maps for the nearest airport thinking "I'll
619.
by tlb 4y ago
As an individual, your social isolation and your physical activity are both independently under your control. So it's useful to know their relative impacts on mental health. Suppose it turned out that, when controlling for physical act
620.
by tlb 4y ago
Programming languages need to be unambiguous, but voice interfaces to them don't have to be. With a voice interface, you can say something vague, see what it gets translated into, and either click Run or edit it.
621.
by tlb 4y ago
Sorry, I misread it as wanting a different mechanism. Which I don't think is needed. Some compilers used #pragma for it, but that was ugly and ill-specified, and made it hard to work around missing features by defining your own version
622.
by tlb 4y ago
Directives are attached to functions, like abort() has the [[noreturn]] attribute, so compilers don't have to emit any code that would run after it returns, or save anything on the stack. std::unreachable() goes a step further, and tel
623.
by tlb 4y ago
Fewer and fewer. A major goal of engineering is to design systems that can be maintained with the least possible training. For instance, modern auto mechanics don't need to know that much about car systems because they can read out fau
624.
by tlb 4y ago
What physical limit do you mean? There are lots of things that are deployed by the billions on short time scales. Seasonal foods or fresh flowers are an example of how feasible it can be to deliver billions of Xs around the world in weeks.
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by tlb 4y ago
In the paper, they’re counting mosquitoes that fly into a chamber containing odor collected from skin. They calibrated that against people sticking their arms in a mosquito box and counting bites as they happened. So bite response shouldn’t
626.
by tlb 4y ago
I don’t think bad speech pushes out good speech directly. Rather, it pushes out the audience, and the good speakers follow. The end result is the same, but it’s important to understand exactly where the mechanism is failing if you want to f
627.
by tlb 4y ago
A platform that hosted both objectionable speech and regular speech together might be tolerable to read. But the most of the regular speech ends up on popular platforms than ban objectionable speech, so the free-speech sites are left with m
628.
by tlb 4y ago
I make simple uses of regexes many times a day, but complex uses only a few times a year. So I know the simple stuff, but have to look at the man page for complex stuff. That seems like the right level of mental burden for a tool. I would s
629.
by tlb 4y ago
Wikimedia is based in Silicon Valley (San Francisco, really), so they're competing with other employers in the region for talent. The reason they shouldn't move their HQ somewhere cheap is the same reason Apple or Google shouldn&#
630.
by tlb 4y ago
Those salaries are at or below market for high-level execs in Silicon Valley, especially considering they can't offer stock options. The people capable of managing the large software projects Wikimedia needs can make more at other tech

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