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by eek04_ 2y ago
I like plastic in that I prefer the lower cost and lower pollution and lower weight and lower breakability compared to glass.
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by eek04_ 2y ago
Back in the day, my father worked as a researcher for a large, old dairy company. He was tasked with finding out what was environmentally friendly for packaging milk; whether they should start offering milk in washable glass bottles instea
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by eek04_ 2y ago
> A huge company is using unpaid artist's labour to create tools that will reduce the potential for these and all future artists to get any paid work at all in the future. "Will" is a strong claim. If the Jevons Paradox (
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by eek04_ 2y ago
While I've not played with k8, I did run stuff in Google's Borg for a very long while, and that has a similar architecture. My team was petabyte scale and we were far from the team with the largest footprint. So it is clearly po
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by eek04_ 2y ago
> Random perturbations are a parsimonious explanation, but a deeply unsatisfying one. Why? I've always found it satisfying - it matches with how a lot of other things in biology has happened.
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by eek04_ 2y ago
> So, this is just number rearranging. The public pays either way. "The public" isn't one person. Denmark has progressive taxes; getting rid of subsidies so prices of food increases changes who among the public pays. >
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by eek04_ 2y ago
> programs are written much less frequently than they are run, so surely developer keystrokes are laughably unimportant compared to runtime performance and other user-facing concerns. Taking this to its logical conclusion all programs sh
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by eek04_ 2y ago
If we can, and it works out to less harm vs benefit than otherwise: Yes. But it turns out we can't for alcohol and cigarettes (except regulation). We fairly much can for workaholics - Norway has laws that stop working overtime except
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by eek04_ 2y ago
There's at least one bit that's missing here, even if the claim is entirely accurate: Both the total pie and the total number of creators has increased. Hollywood feature film production is [estimated](h https://www.quo
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by eek04_ 3y ago
Scientific libraries categorise into *several categories*. They effectively use hierarchical tags, with the set of tags very carefully curated.
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by eek04_ 5y ago
The better candidate is spending more on the evaluation. E.g, for my company's twice-yearly evaluation, everybody writes up a short report on the most impactful stuff they've done including evidence, this is evaluated by their man
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by eek04_ 5y ago
I've lived in Norway (>30 years), Ireland (>10 years) and in California (3.5 years). There's extreme differences in culture around dog ownership in different areas. In the time I lived in Norway, nobody I knew had abandone
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by eek04_ 5y ago
An A3 (11-3/4" x 16-1/2") poster here in Ireland starts at around 7 euro ($7.50). 80 euros is presumably for the aluminium dibond print - which sounds like an extreme quality print material, and those gets expensive fas
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by eek04_ 5y ago
I spent a decade or so of my life writing assembly, and a few years as a performance specialist for a programming team. What you're describing is a specialist skill. There's nothing wrong with it - it's a good skill to have
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by eek04_ 5y ago
I have a problem with the leadership. OpenBSD does good technical work, but I don't want to deal with deraadt again.
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by eek04_ 5y ago
Back in the 1990s, I was a FreeBSD guy, and at some point I looked over the code for a few of the popular Linux ISA networking drivers for some reason and was shocked at the low quality. The code quality of the core Linux kernel is general
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by eek04_ 5y ago
> If this loophole exists it probably goes against the intention of the lawmakers and would be struck down by supreme court. It's Common law not French/European law. The intent of the lawmakers is, in common law, more or less
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by eek04_ 5y ago
You can dual-license if you own the full copyright ownership but if you include GPLed stuff (and don't have the full copyright ownership) you'll have to GPL the result. As for "at least as permissive" - it requires no fu
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by eek04_ 5y ago
For speed-architected C compilers/linkers lexing time is typically a very significant part of compilation time. The Unix compilers typically hasn't been speed-architected, instead having a focus on simplicity and ease of porting.
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by eek04_ 5y ago
Where did Linux enter into it? I just don't typically use GUIs much, and I use the Mac GUI much more than I use Linux GUIs. But I've used command lines since I started with computers (before GUIs were common.)
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by eek04_ 5y ago
It actually wouldn't be the same music. DJs typically adapt their set to how the crowd reacts. See e.g. https://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/05/dj-getting-people-to-d...
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Let's not presume the development would happen if the code was copylefted.
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by eek04_ 6y ago
As somebody that used program on the Amiga, using SAS C: GCC is/was terrible, speed-wise. We're talking 10-20x slowdown. Sounds like ack is on the same level as SAS C, and clang is on the same speed as GCC. This had NOTHING to d
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by eek04_ 6y ago
MacOS has been a pain for me with this; in some of the later revisions it's always a pain to get around to the right place. I don't spend time learning Mac in depth; I'm mostly a Unix person, using a Mac as just a terminal
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by eek04_ 6y ago
> If the authors of software X or Y chose the GPLv3 as license I imagine they were completely aware and agreed to the terms of the license they used, including the limitations it enforces. That is certainly not universally true. It is c
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by eek04_ 6y ago
There is a certain total of income for salary available in a country; e.g, the US is spending about 44% of GDP on salaries/compensation[1]. The difference in income for software engineers is partially (and possible mainly) because the
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by eek04_ 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure most people are in agreement that racist caricatures are bad. I'm pretty sure most people are in agreement that wiping out history and culture is bad. The question is what is the appropriate tradeoff. Should
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by eek04_ 6y ago
You're right - $18/1000 is 1.8, I was just copying the number from the article. So that's off by me. However, as far as I understand, Google pays out the ads for premium customers, so you shouldn't count just the "
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by eek04_ 6y ago
I don't, but I collaborate with people that work in search, and regularly hear detailed presentations about aspects of it.
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by eek04_ 6y ago
> Also, never use Google’s CDN for loading fonts or icons — always self-host them. The CDNs are used to track your users. Any evidence of this claim? Also, given that the Google CDNs allow caching for 24h, it seems extremely ineffective

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