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by romed 8y ago
Why would a farmer own a combine? Aren't they owned by specialized harvest outfits? I don't have any experience in the business but when I was a kid and we needed the hay cut and baled we called the guy who brought in the hay ba
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by romed 8y ago
Perhaps, but the impression is reinforced when the police organize themselves to break the law in an organized fashion. For example, consider the police of Oakland, California. Every one of their patrol motorcycles is modified with a loud,
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by romed 8y ago
There should be some kind of cooling-off period between when these can hit the front page and when the comments begin, proportional to the length of the document. This one is 200 pages, so the first useful comment on this report will appea
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by romed 8y ago
I buy all of my laptops here and the UX seems adequate. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=thinkpad&sort=...
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by romed 8y ago
Linux network maintainers have repeatedly rejected attempts by Eric Dumazet and others to expose delack_min and other parameters to userspace. This is the kernel tyranny to which I refer. Notably many of the people whose proposals have bee
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by romed 8y ago
Yep, but it would be inadvisable to set it lower than the peer’s delayed ACK timeout, unless you want to just always resend every packet.
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by romed 8y ago
Those do not affect TCP state machine parameters like RTO(min), ATO, and TLP timeout. These are internal to the kernel and are either static, or can only be set systemwide. For example the minimum delayed ack timeout in Linux is just 40ms
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by romed 8y ago
This post groks QUIC. The most important thing about QUIC is it frees applications from the tyranny of the kernel TCP state machine. Today all TCP sockets (at least, on Linux) are subject to the same system-wide parameters of the TCP stat
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by romed 8y ago
Yeah, it is amazing. Maps only recently stopped working on my ancient BlackBerry.
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by romed 8y ago
This is backwards. Google rescued Deja’s archives which were going to be deleted and then expanded the archives back to 1981. Without Google’s interventions you’d all be left wondering what was in Usenet.
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by romed 8y ago
A lot of these are pretty silly. 100% of Songza features were rolled into Google Music. Listing every phone they no longer market doesn’t make a lot of sense either. You might as well list Maps for Series 60 phones if you wanted to get down
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by romed 8y ago
That’s not the reason. Vic Gundotra, the mastermind/moron behind Google+ would not tolerate any other Google properties with social features. Since you could share feeds and articles on Reader, and because it had followers and comments
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by romed 8y ago
In the US you may exclude up to half a million dollars of gains from your taxable income if you owned and lived in a property for at least two years. Otherwise gains on the sale of real property are taxed as ordinary income.
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by romed 8y ago
Unions are definitely the primary driver. Construction unions in New York are using current contracts to pay for their pension liabilities. In other words, taxpayers today are paying for work that was done 30 years ago. This guy is sort
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by romed 8y ago
It is pretty hard to burn 100000 acres of California without hitting a toxic waste cleanup site of some kind or other, unfortunately.
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by romed 8y ago
The upgrade instructions are firmly in the lolwut category. The database is just not available during the transition. I think they should focus on fixing their protocol such that multiple versions can run at the same time, and rollbacks are
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by romed 8y ago
The numbers really are crazy wrong. My total comp as a new grad in SF tech industry was $170k, in 1998. A “senior software engineer” at Google, which is the median grade of engineers at that company, makes around $500k/yr in total comp
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by romed 8y ago
And VMWare is a fine product, but VMWare Cloud is kinda not.
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by romed 8y ago
Those engineers shop themselves around and maybe move offices. Google often destaffs launched, current products so this is not too weird of a situation for a Googler to be in. It’s not something that happens only to canceled products.
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by romed 8y ago
Borg can’t be a public product. Look at the way people complain how hard it is to use EC2 then multiply by a large factor. No isolation, sudden death, zero local I/O resources. It’s technically marvelous and dirt cheap but the masses a
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by romed 8y ago
Google App Engine is the OG serverless cloud product. Ten years old.
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by romed 8y ago
How can it be worse than a leader from VMWare? Have you ever seen VMWare's cloud product? It literally has little pictures of pretend computers that you click the reset buttons of with your mouse.
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by romed 8y ago
I guess I assumed all data at AWS was encrypted at rest. Disturbing if not. Compare: https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/default...
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by romed 8y ago
sizeof(double) is 1 if you're using Analog's compiler. You have to use --double-size-64 to get the bigger one.
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by romed 8y ago
DSPs are pretty good discriminators for supposed-portable code. On SHARC for example everything is 32-bits wide (except long double, which is 64). Chars are 32 bits. Bytes are 32 bits. That is, int is 32 bits and sizeof(int) == 1. I ima
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by romed 8y ago
That’s good to hear. I went to OSSM in the 90s and the legislature tried to defund it.
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by romed 8y ago
You left off teen fertility rate.
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by romed 8y ago
Oklahoma public schools have gone downhill so rapidly that past experience is unfortunately no guide to the present.
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by romed 8y ago
A: Because we don't have a lot of experience in distributed systems.
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by romed 8y ago
Weather in the Mono basin is irrelevant to conditions in the Feather River canyon. California, it turns out, is a large state with multiple distinct climate zones. As you note, it is the length of the summer drought which is increasing.

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