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yuliyp
2y ago
Of all the reasons my travel might get interrupted, overbooking is among the least likely. It sucks when it happens, but so does anything (flight delay/cancellation, missed connection, etc.) that means I don't get where I wanted t
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Something is very wrong about that 2 kWh / $ price: that seems closer to the cost of electricity rather than the cost of battery capacity.
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2y ago
Airlines don't need a pretense to raise fares. They can, and do, adjust rates all the time to charge people as much as they can get away with. Unlike regulated industries such as insurance or utilities, there's nobody they have to
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3y ago
Take a look at the TikTok video attached. The brake pedal has plenty of clearance around it on all sides, making the odds of this or anything else getting lodged preventing it from moving fairly low. That's not the case for the acceler
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3y ago
I'm kind of alarmed by them blaming QC when the problem is the shape of the open space around the pedal allowing for such an opportunity. Even if the pedal itself didn't lodge itself there, a sandal or other shoe could similarly g
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3y ago
Sure you can run things off a ramdisk, but the way you lay out data to achieve high performance from disk vs from RAM is different (disk assumes that you read pages of data at once, and tries to avoid reading extra pages, while RAM assumes
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3y ago
You're trying to get redis to be what it isn't. Use a thing that has the properties you want: a document or relational database. If you insist on this then running a system that allows a ton of swap onto a reasonably fast disk mi
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Sharding doesn't help here at all. They'd still need the same amount of RAM to house all the data in redis.
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I think that comment is just an allusion to their fights with Australia and Canada over doing the same thing.
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3y ago
At least for undergraduate studies, most universities have the same tuition regardless of major (outside of lab fees for courses which need lab materials). The tuition of a particular university is more related to its prestige level than th
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3y ago
This is the classic "oh I was only borrowing it / gonna give that back" excuse of thieves who got caught with new window dressing.
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> I suspect that is what these were. This is not the case. They did this without anyone else's knowledge or approval. They were used only by the conspirators.
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3y ago
TTL is a general term standing for "time to live". In the context of an IP packet it's a number of hops. In the context of a cache, it's a time until expiration.
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3y ago
A recursive resolver is not a database. They're under no obligation to cache for a day.
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3y ago
This sub-thread came from someone specifically questioning a comment acdha had made about non-tailpipe emissions. To bring tailpipe emissions back up here is a bit of a non-sequitur.
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3y ago
The prompt literally says > Via its incr and decr commands, memcached provides a built-in way to atomically add to a number. But it doesn’t provide other arithmetic operations; in particular, there is no “atomic multiply by ” operation.
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That's part (not the only) of the signal thing being evaluated: can you efficiently familiarize yourself with a codebase. I'd encourage you to try it. It's not that big a codebase: 140 files, 80k lines of code. Given that sim
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Understanding the forms is also a necessary part of being able to write a good essay. Someone writing down a stream of consciousness of the best ideas about a topic isn't going to do as good a job at conveying those as someone who'
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3y ago
That's a weird comparison. The GPU is only a part of the capex: there's the rest of the servers and racks, the networking, as well as the buildings/cooling systems to support that.
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3y ago
That was yesterday.
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It makes that history harder to read. The same piece of logic can move across files and modules and functions over the years. While it's possible to go past each of them and trace that code past those moves, it takes time and effort to
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Libraries in a single process are tricky because so many things are dependent on messages. So a piece of code running inside another process has to rely on the "hosting" process to deliver all of the messages it needs. So if it mo
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The restaurant is (or should be able to be) capable of setting prices for delivery vs carryout vs dine in to keep their kitchen busy without falling behind.
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Failure to yield is a separate question from should they be required to stop if nobody is present.
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The rest of this thread is some anecdotal evidence of a backlash, if nothing else.
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Most people have negligible assets beyond where they live and stuff like clothes. Legal settlements can't generally force people out of their homes.
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Yes I was referring those rounds of layoffs. A generous severance isn't a job. Nor does it allow those on work-visas to remain.
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> we anticipate growth in payroll expenses as we work down our current hiring underrun and add incremental talent to support priority areas in 2024, which we expect will further shift our workforce composition toward higher-cost technica
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I think you completely missed the point of the post you replied to (a reference to the plot of the movie Office Space).
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Most of the pressure of the door should be supported by the stop pads, rather than the bolts. The force on the bolts should generally be from vibrations, not from pressure differential pushing the door out.
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