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by yason 11y ago
Many times there one big thread running that can't scale to multiple cores. Thus, at least one core needs to be clocked high, and the higher the clocks the higher voltage is generally required. This correlates with power consumption an
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by yason 11y ago
Reputation only works if you effectively can't disappear. One reason why good reputation can be trusted somewhat is that you can guess how likely the person enjoying it will go protect it for the future.
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by yason 11y ago
In other words, the canal pricing is just about right. As a canal owner you will want some of the ships to take a detour because if all ships used your canal you wouldn't necessarily know if you're actually charging too little. In
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by yason 11y ago
A bit of gaming history: this is apparently a clone of a game called SkyRoads which Wikipedia claims to be a clone of "Kosmonauts", but that is obviously a clone of a hypnotic space-themed game Trailblazer from the 80's. See
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by yason 11y ago
WHAT? I would argue the opposite, if you aren't doing similar things together, why are they your friends? Just grew up together or what? Most of my real/true/close/best friends (i.e. the people who I consider "fri
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by yason 11y ago
Like someone pointed out, it is highly subjective obviously but the scale of friendship has to start somewhere, and "friend" is generally a person at the very end of that axis. If there was a better word for a friend, which I unde
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by yason 11y ago
If a friendship revolves around being able to do some similar thing together, it's probably not a friendship. In a friendship it's about the other person and it doesn't matter if you can't climb/surf/jam togeth
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by yason 11y ago
London and New York are built for people, not cars. It makes sense to use public transit where the city is dense, walkable, and well connected with transit lines. Commuting by car in London is lunacy whereas in Bay Area it's the only s
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by yason 11y ago
AFAIK, the point of Vulkan is to get to modelling the hardware as possible. It's not even supposed to be a high-level API but allow efficient access to today's GPUs. OpenGL is an abstract state machine and it requires a great deal
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by yason 11y ago
Property value goes up if you build a bigger, better building on your lot so you might as well stick with the old one. That promotes stagnation and under-use: it might not make sense for an individual or a business to give the lot to better
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by yason 11y ago
The taxes should indeed go up to optimize land use in general. If you have a house built in 1902 in the middle of a big city, you're paying minimal taxes and find yourself surrounded by high-rises, it's very inefficient land use.
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by yason 11y ago
I just assume the simplest explanation: there were at least a few good candidates and they had to pick one so obviously the rest got rejected by the very decision to hire one. Companies hiring employees don't explicitly spend time thin
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by yason 11y ago
Is there a tarball of the data somewhere that one could download, redistribute and host somewhere (on the darknet, assumedly)?
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by yason 11y ago
It makes me sad to think that first a group of engineers spend time writings this complex system of checksums, partially encrypted firmware images, proprietary challenge-response handshake and communications with the battery so that another
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by yason 11y ago
Which makes me want to imagine historians 2000 years from now debating whether 9/11 really occurred on 9/11 or closer to 12/11. What might be a useful reason for that, except academic exercise? Even being able to tell the e
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by yason 11y ago
The best thing about old first-time programs is the naming. It can be quite revealing and unexpected when you remember where the name came from (or might have come). I liked the "psycho" program with its graphical glory. By name o
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by yason 11y ago
I've never given much thought to what the airlines might claim to be the breakdown of the sum I pay for the flight because the fixed costs don't really define the lump sum price anyway. Competition is fierce enough to drive down t
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by yason 11y ago
What is safe for the motorist is generally unsafe for bicycles and pedestrians. Like well-marked wide lanes where you can mindlessly zoom forward with no disruptions. That's the traffic engineer's definition of "road safety&q
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by yason 11y ago
So much for owning something you thought you owned. This has happened again and again, and will increasingly happen in the future under whatever disguise, security-wise or not.
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by yason 11y ago
I agree on everything else but (a). Street parking actually makes streets better. It slows down traffic by reducing the available width (everybody keeps a safe margin to parked cars) and by causing disruptions (motorists entering or exiting
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by yason 11y ago
Working as a programmer, very happy. Working, not necessarily that happy. Programming is a manifestation of curiosity. Therefore, programming is a spark that, once ignited, probably never really dies. You can suffocate it and pretend it&#x2
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by yason 11y ago
You should never model your life based on others' expectations. You should certainly model it based on your own wants and preferences, but after giving it some thought first because what you think you want and why isn't necessaril
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by yason 11y ago
To quote: "What is left unsaid is that if the broad market declines 50%, index funds also plummet 50%." The article is just stupid. If someone doesn't realize that the index funds will go up and down based on the very marke
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by yason 11y ago
Even if there's no trading and no price for stocks, if all shares of all publicly owned companies were owned by one big index fund the profits from all those companies would eventually be, one way or another, channelled and attributed
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by yason 11y ago
I've also disabled all notifications except texts and calls. I can look up for messages myself if I have time and I want to. A silent phone means a happy user. Further, I've used the weirdly named "Wifi/Data Auto Off&#x2
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by yason 11y ago
Been doing all repairs on my cars all my life――if only practical and doable in a parking spot. Learned from repair manuals and mostly by disassembling and reassembling myself. Using outdoors space is a bit limited with fluids, when working
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by yason 11y ago
It sounds to me that Bitcoin is a lousy medium for money laundering. It's unclear to me whether they laundered money by supposedly buying and selling bitcoins or converted shadowy assets into BTC and then back to physical currency, but
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by yason 11y ago
Definitely so. For the half(?) of people who are like this, more time off from work would be valuable. It would mean more time for being alone and doing your own things. It's hard to take hours and hours of alone time if you're ma
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by yason 11y ago
But the size of the software is also one. An Android image is easily hundreds of megabytes. And to go through all that code in reasonable time, you need a fast processor and fast memory. But as you crank up the frequencies you also need hig
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by yason 11y ago
It entirely depends on what kind of mileage and what kind of time. 100tkm in city traffic only could easily be more devastating than 500tkm on highway. (Or some similar-ish proportion.) Conversely, time spent in controlled storage, with app

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