cjenkins

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by cjenkins 21d ago
In the US debit card fees are capped ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-... ). The cap is low enough that there isn't enough to fund rewards like we see on credit cards. IIRC there were
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by cjenkins 4mo ago
Perhaps far too optimistic, but if AI search gets pushed heavily and traditional search becomes less relevant, could we see SEO fade for traditional search and it become less polluted over time? Or will search engines just stop caring abou
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by cjenkins 11mo ago
Total side note, it's interesting seeing "Move fast and break things" become the dominant phrase vs what I remember initially as the "MIT vs New Jersey methods". Both describe the same thing where fast and sloppy w
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by cjenkins 1y ago
I agree. Super excited to see what people are going to be able to make as the number of people/resources needed per piece of work keeps going down. Are we about to hit a printing press/word processor moment for TV/film? Go
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by cjenkins 2y ago
Looking back on history I think this will lead to meaningful art (and tons and tons of absolute garbage!). The printing press led to publishing works being reachable by more people so we got tons of garbage but we also got those few individ
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by cjenkins 2y ago
Homeowners are typically going to be leveraged with a mortgage on their homes. This amplifies prices going up or down. IE: I buy a house for 100 by using 20 of my own money and 80 of the bank's with a mortgage. If the house prices go
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by cjenkins 2y ago
Bit of a tangent, but you might have better luck with hardwood vs. plywood. The glue in plywood makes it more difficult for CO2 lasers to cut through. I was super surprised when someone at work mentioned they were able to blow through som
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by cjenkins 3y ago
https://www.plugoutpower.com/ makes a kit for the Prius (and others) to do just that!
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by cjenkins 4y ago
My understanding is as interest rates go up prices need to come down as people only have $X/month to allocate towards housing. EX: If you have $100 to put towards housing per month you can put $90 towards the house itself and $10 towa
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by cjenkins 5y ago
How much does the cost of labor really factor into a 20B factory? Assume 200k fully loaded at 3000 people is 600M a year on labor. That's not nothing but it seems pretty insignificant if you can save enough on the actual buildout of
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by cjenkins 5y ago
Just a note, we're getting close to fiscal year end (9/30) for a lot of companies. Maybe totally anecdotal but I've noticed in the past that I see a lot of these kinds of announcements this time of year presumably to get the
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by cjenkins 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that's the one! Takes a bit to get to the punchline but the idea that you want to look for tests that are unhackable is the big idea (and making a good product to get lots of users is the exemplar for an unhackabl
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by cjenkins 6y ago
Since we're commenting on a pg essay, IIRC startups are said to be the place where you CAN play it straight and get rewarded justly. The core idea being you can't fake or politic your way into making something users want. I wish
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by cjenkins 6y ago
I'll second that. The lack of humidity really helps keep things comfortable outside when it is cold. That specific heat of water is killer in a Midwest winter. Low humidity is also why we get the really powdery snow that is great for
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by cjenkins 6y ago
There has been controversy around them paying third party developers to release their game exclusively through Epic Games Store. From what I recall these are timed exclusives so the games do eventually end up on other store fronts but peop
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by cjenkins 8y ago
The specs seem fairly detailed (at least to a non-HVAC person) on their website [IE: 1]. Cost on the other hand doesn't seem to be readily available (my guess is expensive since they seem to be targeting businesses vs consumers). [1]
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by cjenkins 8y ago
Evaporative cooler owner here. Thought I would add a few data points in case people were curious. We live in Denver, CO (arid climate, typically mid 90Fs in the summer but can reach over 100F. We tied the all time record of 105 in June
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by cjenkins 14y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of Phil Fish? That seems much more likely to me.
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by cjenkins 14y ago
That's an impressive die shrink as well. Seems like Intel can make the 4 core Ivy in about the same die area as the 2 core Sandy. Considering the 4 cores are going to sell for quite a bit more that has to be great for margins.
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by cjenkins 15y ago
I haven't looked at it in a while, but you might check out Robert Virding's Lisp Flavored Erlang at https://github.com/rvirding/lfe . He's definitely familiar with Erlang as IIRC he was one of the original authors.
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by cjenkins 15y ago
I've always thought it strange to think that ARM (or any other CPU design) company could take out Intel. Worst case in the ARM scenario, Intel buys a company with an ARM license and is still a step ahead on process and fab technology. To bo
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by cjenkins 15y ago
I can't say for sure, but possibly fiscal quarter/year ends?
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by cjenkins 15y ago
One cool thing is that the Google Android App Inventor is built out of Kawa. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Inventor ) I believe Kawa is also currently a bit friendlier on Android as Clojure has some overhead. (More at http://d
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by cjenkins 16y ago
I like it for screen real estate purposes. The shorter stuff is, the more text I can view in a single window. I wish monitor real estate progressed at the rate of Moore's law, but I suppose we'd need bigger rooms to put them in before too
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by cjenkins 16y ago
I'm always curious how Magic Online ( http://www.mtgonline.com ) gets left out of these virtual goods conversations. It had an 8 year celebration this past July and by a rough calculation ( http://robowarp.com/2010/10/29/another-revenue-da
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by cjenkins 16y ago
I'm not sure how the API compares to FFTW, but if you're on Nvidia hardware the toolkit comes with the CUFFT library http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_3_2_toolkit_rc.html which is tuned for their hardware. I seem to recall needing t
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by cjenkins 16y ago
This comment resonates with me especially well today. I've been attempting to work with GWT and the serialization issues are entertaining (did you implement IsSerializable? is there a no-arg constructor? Do all of the classes your class de
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by cjenkins 16y ago
Depending on what you like from Ruby, you could also check out Lisp Flavored Erlang at http://github.com/rvirding/lfe . IIRC Virding was one of the original creators of Erlang.
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by cjenkins 17y ago
I believe the reference to unified address space is in reference to #6 in the PDF linked below and caches #4. I agree that the unified memory address space will be wonderful as managing all the various hierarchies by hand is a pain. http:
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by cjenkins 17y ago
In a similar theme, virtual reality has been tested to relieve phantom limb pain from missing limbs. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/29102443.html It's amazing how adaptable the human body/mind is sometimes.

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