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by baobob 4y ago
The entire chip is probably just one giant fully utilized vector unit by now
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by baobob 4y ago
I had exactly the same reaction to the early Facebook "Zuckerbot" theme, and something ineffable absolutely died in the transition. The failure of the front end industry to recapture it and sell it at a profit is interesting in it
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by baobob 4y ago
The beatings will continue until the yield curve improves
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by baobob 4y ago
This hasn't been true in the UK for at least a few years now
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by baobob 4y ago
You have to install a browser extension to use email? Who had this bright idea?
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by baobob 4y ago
About 10 years ago it was possible to observe non-RFC behaviour from (IIRC) google.com doing exactly this. I don't know if they still do it
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by baobob 4y ago
There is a lot to be said for just having 100% Terraform defs for everything, sure you rewrite the file from scratch to move to a different cloud, but you know what needs to be in the file
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by baobob 4y ago
Folk talking about austerity as a tory thing are going to be in for a monster shock if energy prices persist through the next elections, and when they realize the size of the Covid bill vs the GFC bill. It may very well be Labour sitting as
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by baobob 4y ago
Would OP please consider updating this thread with the outcome of the email exchange. Seems too easy to pop into every complaint thread and act busy. Would love to know if your problem is actually resolved
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by baobob 4y ago
I've worked formal 3 and 4 day week arrangements. Net experience: it's pointless, if you're working 4 day weeks and you're feeling behind, you may well end up working that 5th day without anyone asking. Similarly in a 5
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by baobob 4y ago
Confused by their claim to be the 'first' vector database. These things have been around forever? For example FLANN (not a DB server, but example lib) is from 2009
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by baobob 4y ago
Curious what the perf tradeoffs are of multiple EBSes vs. a single large EBS? I know of their fixed IOPs-per-100Gb ratio or whatnot, maybe there is some benefit to splitting that up across devices. Is it about the ability to dynamically add
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Crypto-Laundering Suspect Arrested as Dutch Cite Link to Tornado(bloomberg.com)
2 points by baobob 4y ago|0 comments
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by baobob 4y ago
Just a little feedback (worth a dime or a damn, you decide), but I come here for the comments first to judge whether clicking the link is worthwhile. The problem discussed in the parent comments would completely rule me out as a user: solvi
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by baobob 4y ago
If a technology makes money laundering a prerequisite to privacy, the technology itself is bullshit. There's no need to spend words to justify this further. In no other industry would you find for example, "we made a better hammer
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Wildfires are destroying California's forest carbon credit reserves, study says(reuters.com)
72 points by baobob 4y ago|58 comments
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by baobob 4y ago
I love how you blew through my reply from 15 minutes earlier clarifying the obvious concept of the balance of societal benefit to post a me too comment. Do better
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by baobob 4y ago
If Linux were a focal point for enabling North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons, then yes, sanction the hell out of it. But sanctioning Linux would have such dramatically negative societal effects that it would outweigh any benefit
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by baobob 4y ago
You should be able to achieve this without also enabling terrorism, child pornography and extortion. Because of this Tornado Cash was never the right solution - it requires you to permit these things just in order to have privacy. In other
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by baobob 4y ago
> What did they do wrong? They wilfully contributed to the upkeep of a money laundering service. They should be thankful losing their GitHub account is the extent of the fallout, take it as a lesson that code can cause real harm, and act
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by baobob 4y ago
No knowledge of Apple's code here, but looks like they simply gave up trying to reformat decompiler/disassembler output in that Garble class. Humans don't write code like that, optimizers do
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by baobob 4y ago
Slides for the intellectually sloven https://yale.app.box.com/s/7f6agg5ezscj234kahx35lil04udqgeo
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by baobob 4y ago
Germany will not build any new LNG terminals when in a few short years they can just resume buying from the cheapest seller, before the first new terminal has even finished being constructed. Simultaneously Russia is not stupid enough to c
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by baobob 4y ago
I feel like this definitely needs to be expanded. What makes you think that? Their currency is stronger than before the war (despite internal fragility) They have the entire continent of Europe by the balls on oil/gas They've made
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by baobob 4y ago
It's not really how the work is split in bigger commercial teams. The folk fixing the layout bugs aren't the folk who designed the page aren't the folk who designed the flow. I like to avoid big teams but even for me UI/
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by baobob 4y ago
There is, it's not even hard to find out how.
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by baobob 4y ago
Don't know the guts of the optimization, but 128 64bit pointers is 1024, which is a round number. Could be to avoid memory or cache blowup, or maybe they're using that 8th bit for something internally
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by baobob 4y ago
In case there was any doubt, the parent comment was advocating most readers here find themselves unemployed in time for Christmas.
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by baobob 4y ago
> Anyone who thinks the FED will lower rates next year is delusional. That's quite a take based on a single lagged data point. Does this NFP number even fully capture the effect of their last 75bps hike?
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by baobob 4y ago
The subtext is that Google's excessive emphasis on engineering over pretty much any other discpline is what led them into this mess. The parent comment was a joke

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