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by variaga 6y ago
The reason nations were willing to sign a treaty agreeing not to colonize the antarctic is that none of them wanted to do it anyway. Prior to the treaty, humans had already colonized every other continent, and had the means to travel to Ant
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by variaga 6y ago
Right? At least pre-covid, I would say I spent at least an hour (sometimes many hours) every working day "explaining things on a whiteboard in front of an audience". It's a huge part of my job. (Post Covid, I do the same thi
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by variaga 6y ago
Previously on Hacker News: 4 years ago, 72 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11516215 5 years ago, 59 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788088
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by variaga 6y ago
AMZN employee here - In my case, it's (3)
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by variaga 6y ago
"Something like this" is one of the competing theories for what dark matter is, although I think the current consensus is that it cannot explain _all_ the dark matter effects, so there must be something else too. see: https:&#x2
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by variaga 6y ago
I'm sure it makes sense to someone well-versed in Rust syntax, but to an outsider like me that code looks like the kind of "line noise" that made me switch from perl to python. The procedural 'if x.len == 3 and x[0] == x
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by variaga 6y ago
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/01/21/25-most-dang... Being a police officer is less dangerous than logging, fishing, flying an airplane, collecting trash, being an electrician, delivery driv
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by variaga 6y ago
This is not a catch-22. He's responsible because he was the CEO; that's what being CEO means. Don't want the responsibility? Don't become the CEO.
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by variaga 6y ago
And apparently the founders of grubhub made the choice to form a grossly immoral business that _also_ loses money hand over fist
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by variaga 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13250949
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by variaga 6y ago
Can confirm. The only time I've ever been quoted list price for an FPGA from a distributor (other than digikey) was when our purchasing agent managed to personally enrage the sales guy. We still didn't end up _paying_ list price
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by variaga 6y ago
For a given distance to the target, there is a minimum required lens size to focus the laser so (most of) it hits the target. The required size is proportional to the target distance. When the distance to the target is interstellar-scale,
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by variaga 6y ago
Correct. Coax is nice and quiet in both directions. In home power wiring is basically a giant, poorly tuned antenna. I can tell you MOCA 1.0 can be made to work over powerline (at reduced bandwidth, if you rip out the RF frontend and run a
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by variaga 6y ago
The 4ms of latency is a product of the MOCA protocol. As a fully scheduled network, each packet must wait for a timeslot to send a reservation packet, wait for the schedule to be updated (map packet), and then wait for the actual scheduled
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by variaga 6y ago
<normal disclaimer about this just being my opinion> I think there were a couple of contributing factors: - WiFi is still easier to install (where you can get a good signal), and built into phones/laptops/etc. so mostly all
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by variaga 6y ago
The main difference is that MoCA is designed to run over coaxial cable, and G.hn is meant for use over power lines. They have similar use cases ("route data over wires that already exist in your homes"), but different problems (Mo
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by variaga 6y ago
I'm running a MoCA 1.4 network at home with a mixed set of ActionTec ECB2500C and Netgear MCA1001 Ethernet-Coax bridges. The interoperated w/ no problems. You can get newer versions that support MoCA 2.5, but I haven't tried
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by variaga 6y ago
Happy to see MoCA get a shout- out. I spent most of 2003-2015 working on the design of MoCA chips, starting before the v1.0 spec release up through v2.5. AMA
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by variaga 6y ago
I would expect that filesystems do not integrate conventional FEC (e.g. block codes), because FEC is poorly suited to the kind of errors that affect filesystems. FEC works against errors that have a predictable expected error rate, where er
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by variaga 6y ago
My experience is that MIPS and ARM licensing are equally bad. As an anecdote, I have personally switched a MIPS core to an ARM core in an SoC revision specifically because ARM gave us better licensing terms than MIPS. It was a pain because
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by variaga 6y ago
The article says Zinc-Oxide
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by variaga 6y ago
Let's say the latent demand is there - once I've found a dog walker through Wag, why wouldn't the walker and I cut out Wag and spilt that 10% between the two of us?
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by variaga 6y ago
The pins don't physically wiggle. "pins wiggling" is a common metaphor for "the voltage level on a pin is changing". As a signal driver is toggled at increasing frequencies ('cranking up the clock'), the
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by variaga 7y ago
If you're interested in Wolf conservation and re-introduction and live in or are visiting southern California, I can recommend (once the whole current mess is over) visiting the California Wolf Center in Julian, CA: https://
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by variaga 7y ago
If you must have analogies... - DNA: code in your repo - RNA: code in your working directory - transcriptase: 'git fetch' - ribosome: compiler - proteins: executable object code (ribosomes are also proteins, mostly) - epigenetics:
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by variaga 7y ago
It was only 12 years later when Neil Gaiman wrote: "The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel." -"Neverwhere" (1996)
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by variaga 7y ago
Details and a link to the actual order here: https://covid19.ca.gov
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by variaga 7y ago
For security, the cost of the hashing needs to be greater than the value of being able to subvert the bitcoin network with 51% attacks. If the cost of the hashing power is less than the value, then the incentive is to just buy the hashing p
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by variaga 7y ago
Briefly, the state of Alaska owns the oilfields in Alaska and makes money from selling the oil. That money is then partially disbursed to people living in the state. The actual payment has varied over time (with oil prices, mostly), peakin
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by variaga 7y ago
Indeed. Many years ago, I took a poetry class and on the first day the instructor said (roughly): When E.E. Cummings did not capitalize the word 'I', it was creative and original. You are not E. E. Cummings. If you do not ca

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