learnfromstory

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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Once I rented a car in Seattle one way to Vancouver. Apparently there is some shitburg nobody has ever heard of called Vancouver, WA but I was going to the more famous Canadian city. The flunkie at the counter booked the domestic trip and I
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
These are great but toward the end of the charge cycle they make a lot of high-pitched sounds.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Does 12000 windmills sound like a lot? Consider that we have 1.7 million oil wells in the USA alone.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
The problem is that we need it to just barely break even and then a little bit more. Having a tremendously energetic fusion device is both useless and a solved problem: we already know how to light one off, but it only lasts a millisecond a
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Can you elaborate? How are pointers to floats problematic? Or is it something else?
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
The steam cycle has to be up and running before sunrise so they can meet their generating obligations, so they have to ramp up with natural gas while it is still dark. The facility is also capable of operating as a dispatchable "peake
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Note that they _do_ heat the plant with natural gas overnight, so there is a huge fire in there somewhere.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Just looks like high pressure sodium lights to me.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Which is a good reason to hedge and replicate but NOT a reason to alert on high CPU usage of single computers.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Could you mention which FAANG so I can avoid applying or a job there? Large-scale software systems _must_ be designed to serve through local resource exhaustion. If you are paging on resource exhaustion of single host you are just paying
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
If you have "the database" then you're fucked anyway and probably your thing isn't on the scale that we are discussing.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Don't really agree that this list could have come about through discussions with engineers at Google, Facebook, etc. The more computers you have the less important it becomes to monitor junk like CPU and memory utilization of individu
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
5G is too new for that but there was a decade-long study in which they blasted mice and rats with ridiculous EM fields similar to 2G/3G technology but at much higher power, and the results were equivocal. https://www.realcl
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Just FYI the completion results in the omnibox have little to do with the search engine results. Clearly the search engine produces millions of hits for “Hillary Clinton emails”. The completions are a completely separate system based on wha
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Uh no. Google has hundreds of billions of dollars invested in real non-virtual assets, majority of which are in the USA.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Sometimes sites get dropped from the results because they are malware hosts. It’s more likely to happen to small independent sites. They are also more likely to just pack it up and shut down their sites.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
I recall being told at one time that the great majority of youtube uploads are never watched even by the person who uploaded them. This fact figures prominently into how they decide to transcode, store, and distribute uploads.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Isn't there something extremely wrong about the math in this blerg? Surely 12 million hectares produces a lot more than 20 tonnes of grain annually. Did they mean 20 tonnes per hectare ? Otherwise it's low by a factor of ten mill
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Most of California agriculture is engaged in extracting fossil fertility that came from the ocean. Salmon runs -> bear poop -> soil for thousands of years. We killed all the bears and all the fish so this cycle is now unidirectional.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Interesting! Terminator 2 used the Atari Portfolio as the portable computer with hackerly qualities.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
I see tiny has been redefined. Doesn’t anyone remember when there were 6” subnotebooks in the vaio catalog?
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Zen 1 (Naples) had all kinds of problems including that frequency scaling would hang the machine. It seems wise to not buy the VERY first Zen 2 rig.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
That is literally xterms on phones. That is not amazing to me.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Strava presents a derivation of data provided by Garmin. They don't just use it raw. It is snapped to roads and the elevation data is cleaned up and so forth.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Strava is the only social network from which I derive any real value. I don't need them to constantly mutate the product.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Doesn't it work in the opposite direction, with Garmin pushing data to Strava? Also I value having Strava segments on my Garmin bike head unit, so I'm sure the value is going in both directions here.
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by learnfromstory 7y ago
Just shockingly ugly. If you're going to do a pixels-under-glass UI, you really have to start with a toolkit that isn't awful, or you end up with the openmoko which looked exactly like these demos but 12 years ago. You end up with