xrikcus

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by xrikcus 5mo ago
The pitch is "just change one line and it works". It is not "just change one line and you will get peak performance on the TPU". From the text of the blog post: "Portability doesn't eliminate hardware realities
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by xrikcus 2y ago
Don't worry, this year they'll get to it. Honest! https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/here-we-go-again-el-cami...
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by xrikcus 3y ago
Once you download it does anything actually work beyond viewing? Can you search? Can you ask for directions? I do download maps, and pay for roaming data, but I still would never completely rely on it in a new place because I'm bound t
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by xrikcus 3y ago
Yes, which means downsizing. Need to downsize will put people off selling. People being put off selling reduces supply. Small supply keeps prices high.
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by xrikcus 3y ago
In the SF bay area people are throwing $4, 5, 6 million at houses in cash all over the place. No contingencies, 7 day closing. The high end of the market has slowed a lot, though, and houses are having to repeatedly lower prices to get bids
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by xrikcus 3y ago
The problem with that argument is that in places that are setup for it, it clearly works because people do it. So we have to ask whether there is something unusual about the people in those places, or the infrastructure. It apparently isn&#
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by xrikcus 3y ago
The taxes are skewed towards the rich, but also towards people who want to move for work. It's a wealth transfer towards the asset rich and immobile from the workers and the mobile. It's the economic distortion that's the pro
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by xrikcus 3y ago
It is bizarre. Here in California you didn't used you buy a car with plates at all. Then they started to require paper temporary ones. Why they don't just have plates fitted on the lot I don't know. I can't see how it sa
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by xrikcus 3y ago
Does Singapore make more sense? Papua New Guinea? Alaska, for that matter? All borders seem pretty arbitrary when you get down to it, but it's hardly alone in being a weird bit at the end of a bigger bit where one or other is part of a
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by xrikcus 4y ago
> It's hard to see how anyone has thought FB/Meta would be a great place to work for a long time. Largely because much of the company is a great place to work. Actually working there, I don't find this hard to see at all.
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by xrikcus 4y ago
and because transcribing a password from a piece of paper encourages short passwords.
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by xrikcus 4y ago
That's still a hidden charge that makes the menu pricing mildly dishonest. Adding X% to all the prices is clearly the right solution. The problem is that all restaurants need to do it to make it work.
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by xrikcus 4y ago
To be fair, here in Menlo Park, CA, children of this age bike or walk half a mile to school all the time as well. It's not very different from when I lived in the London suburbs and walked myself 30 years ago. This isn't really a
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by xrikcus 4y ago
Data has to be stored somewhere. You can end-to-end encrypt it, but that has constraints and adds clunkiness for the user so it's not even obviously a feature. The easy access to the web interface for messenger over whatsapp or signal
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by xrikcus 4y ago
We have a Roomba, though I think it's back in its box in a cupboard now. In the end it needed so much babysitting that I gave up and bought a cordless stick vacuum. That is the best home appliance purchase I've ever made. The lowe
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by xrikcus 4y ago
Clearly one can write web services in C++. Meta does not really, though. It is Hack code that talks to most web clients (and python for Instagram). The C++ code sits behind that. All of the databases, the caches, the indexing services, the
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by xrikcus 4y ago
Yes, because getting to the right answer is not the point of the interview. Apart from anything else, getting to the right answer may mean you memorised it and are incapable of doing anything else. Always show your working and thought proce
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by xrikcus 4y ago
As stop signs? Usually as yields or as green lights, surely?
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by xrikcus 4y ago
I'm in favour of cyclists occupying a lane, especially on narrow roads to take full control and I do that myself often. What I dislike is when they have their own lane and then ride 2 or 3 abreast so they don't fit and stray a foo
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by xrikcus 4y ago
I did just that to a cyclist who role through a stop sign, causing a car that I had stopped for to have to stop mid turn to avoid the cyclist. Sure, stopping completely randomly isn't necessary, but a lot of cyclists take the cycle-thr
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by xrikcus 4y ago
That's an interesting reaction. My read of the post was that he wants to help his wife do what she wants to do. Your read appears to be that he is forcing her to do something when she really wants to stay at home. Do you naturally assu
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by xrikcus 4y ago
Not quite, but almost.
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by xrikcus 5y ago
Adding to that once exceptions start being thrown, that ratio changes because the cost is so high. It's not hard for a service to reach a failure rate just high enough that it overwhelms the system.
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by xrikcus 5y ago
The problem is that because of the tax burden shift, the cost of keeping those people in their homes is paid by people who are trying to buy homes. It's a form of redistribution to people who already have assets from people who have in
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by xrikcus 5y ago
Coming from Menlo Park even, Cupertino feels a bit too dull and suburban, but it is astonishingly well maintained in comparison to anywhere else in the bay area. No doubt that the city is doing a great job.
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by xrikcus 5y ago
It works pretty reliable with discoverbank cards, but that's because they are unionpay compatible. It was a complete mess getting the app to the point where it would let me use it for payments at all, though.
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by xrikcus 5y ago
It's not really a contradiction to take credit for the effort behind something, but also make an effort to allow that thing to be independent once started, is it?
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by xrikcus 6y ago
It isn't just a matter of education. It's a matter of setting incentives as well. If the downside of getting tested when asymptomatic, and getting a positive result, is having to quarantine and losing two weeks of work then no lev
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by xrikcus 6y ago
I was confused about this for a long time. In the UK liability coverage seems to be intended to pay for the harm, so my last UK insurance had 12M GBP of cover if I remember correctly (and after that limits were removed I believe). In the US
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by xrikcus 6y ago
Many of us who do use laptops do the builds elsewhere.

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