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by tlb 4y ago
Gitlab went public last year, so VCs no longer have much power over it.
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by tlb 4y ago
How hard is it to integrate the key into phones? If it uses a separate UWB radio it must add some cost and power drain.
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by tlb 4y ago
It’s frustrating how the courts can take 4 years to decide such an apparently straightforward question. During which time people had to make important decisions under uncertainty.
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by tlb 4y ago
I agree it might turn out to be worthwhile, but don't underestimate the difficulty. Building a system where all user data is encrypted with keys only the users have is an order of magnitude harder than the regular way. You can't d
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by tlb 4y ago
Is it not fair to call an society where writing existed but we can't read it prehistoric? From our perspective, we have no written history. Or is the distinction that they themselves could read it and therefore acted with historical aw
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by tlb 4y ago
Please downvote or flag them.
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by tlb 4y ago
LLVM (in ORC mode) is very powerful. I wrote a JIT compiler for a DSL with it. It takes a fair bit of poring over the IR manual to figure out basic things. The optimization is as good as for C, including automatic unrolling of loops to gene
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by tlb 4y ago
HN is a strongly self-selected group of people, with rules against bad-faith arguments. But you can find groups like that in real life too. The special thing about online is that when an obscure topic comes up, someone from the 0.0001% of p
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by tlb 4y ago
Calling WebAssembly from Javascript, sort of? In the early Python 2 era there was an option to build an interpreter binary with statically linked C stubs, and it was noticeably faster and let you access Python data structures from C. I used
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by tlb 4y ago
The issue is that they don't know what caused the ship to sink, because the data recorder is at the bottom of the ocean. If they'd streamed the data continuously, we'd have useful information to prevent future sinkings.
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by tlb 4y ago
Can ships not afford a satellite uplink for continuous telemetry? Compared to the $1000s/hr of diesel they burn, the data can't cost much.
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by tlb 4y ago
Power of a wind turbine is proportional to the cube of windspeed. So if 28 mph gets you 40 W, 19.4 mph gets you 13 W.
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by tlb 4y ago
I've been living on the edge using only #pragma once for several years and haven't regretted it. According to this support table, it's pretty widely supported these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pra
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by tlb 4y ago
Command-option-shift-V in Safari. A real finger-twister.
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by tlb 4y ago
> the etymological note we have describes the linking of ass and hat as “seemingly nonsensical” What? It's obviously a reference to having your head up your ass, thus turning your ass into a hat.
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by tlb 4y ago
There isn't 240V to ground, which is the usual path for shocks. To get 240V through your body, you'd need to touch two hot wires at the same time. And you feel it when you touch the first one, so I think this is rare. You should b
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by tlb 4y ago
That's the core problem with OZs: you'd have to spend days jumping through hoops to qualify. For me, even though I could save quite a few bucks, life's too short.
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by tlb 4y ago
"How to take money from society whose elected representative set up a specific program to hand out" Which I also refuse to take, myself, but for different reasons than refusing to steal.
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by tlb 4y ago
There's a huge demand for low-end processing, but it's less clear if there's a huge demand for less-power-efficient processing. Anything with batteries will have to spend more on batteries. It could be good for automotive if
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by tlb 4y ago
The immediate effect is that money is transferred from people who are bad at predicting the future to people who are good at predicting the future. Not in every case, of course, but in aggregate. This is probably good for society, as it put
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by tlb 4y ago
It's normal (and HN does something similar, working from in-process data) for systems that don't have to scale beyond one server. If you need multiple servers you have to do something, such as Litestream.
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by tlb 4y ago
The strategies for the first steps out of poverty are different from strategies to rise within the middle class. So they're mostly not known by people who aren't poor. For example, many government aid programs are (intentionally)
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by tlb 4y ago
Yes, like many things it's a hassle for the rule-abiding without being much of an obstacle for fraudsters.
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by tlb 4y ago
It could be most beneficial to people currently in poverty, to try out strategies for escaping it.
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by tlb 4y ago
For context: UK businesses are more serious about requiring an official address than the US. In the US, you can just fill in any plausible address. Your parent's house or a friend's house is fine. It used to be important to be abl
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by tlb 4y ago
The schematic in the article shows trimpots controlling the 2 frequencies, so it was probably adjustable with a screwdriver.
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by tlb 4y ago
It's not black & white. You want to use the cheapest actuators you can get away with. If clever software lets you use less precise actuators, it's a big win.
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by tlb 4y ago
Maybe. Just remember that an extra 1% of efficiency is worth 1% of the billion-dollar project cost, so there’s pressure not to have sensors blocking even a tiny part of the view.
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by tlb 4y ago
It’s hard to adjust one mirror at a time, because 1000 other mirrors are reflecting at the same spot. And you can’t put a camera on the target to look back at the mirrors, because it would get melted. And some errors are harmless, like aimi
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by tlb 4y ago
What editors does this work in?

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