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by seriesf 7y ago
https://insideevs.com/news/343998/monthly-plug-in-ev-sales-s...
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by seriesf 7y ago
The EV market has already hit a plateau, suggesting that it has exhausted the customer base for very expensive cars with short ranges. September 2019 sales were down (US and global) vs 2018, and 2019 Q3 sales were down vs Q3 2018 as well (
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by seriesf 7y ago
It does have a lot of features but my beef with it is how its integration into Debian still leaves all the misleading old cruft laying about. Take the MySQL server package. Suppose you want to change the limit of how much shared memory it c
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by seriesf 7y ago
That isn't accurate. Sonos works perfectly well on an isolated network, reading your music from a local SMB share or getting it from the line-level input of any Sonos on the network.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Happy Entrez user for many years. Please don't break it :-)
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by seriesf 7y ago
The C++ proto implementation is just already tuned to an absurd degree and it is hard to beat. Any place where copying was an important problem has already been eradicated with aliasing (ctype declarations) so flatbuffers' supposed ad
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by seriesf 7y ago
I worked on trying to make flatbuffers work at google and it just never was as fast as proto2/c++. I guess the author of this piece would describe me as an amateur because like the authors of protocol buffers I only have about thirty y
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by seriesf 7y ago
They are the same size as UTF-8 numbers but much slower to decode. I think the more-bit format is the only glaring mistake in proto that can never be fixed.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Yes but proto 3 was also a mistake. Throwing away presence entirely was wrong and not preserving unknowns was also wrong. Proto 2 forever, imho.
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by seriesf 7y ago
You can just skip messages, strings, and byte arrays you don’t need or can’t decode. They are length-prefixed. Also there’s nothing about proto that prevents it from being aliased to its network buffers (zero copy). The GPs complaint stems
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by seriesf 7y ago
I’ve seen applications that need more than 256MB just for compiled code cache.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The fact that many large and lucrative code bases are written in c++ should disabuse you of the idea that c++ is suicidal.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Sacramento is majority-renter according to the Census, and is the fifth most competitive (ie worst, from buyer’s perspective) housing market in America according to Redfin. I can’t imagine why you think there is “plenty” here.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Housing is so expensive that you'd have to pay ~$50k/year even for those jobs. That's the big problem: anything you do on the demand side, like paying people higher wages, or giving them housing vouchers, goes directly into
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by seriesf 7y ago
The last available vacancy rate in Sacramento was 2.9%, the lowest ever reported. They don’t have “lots of supply”.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Well you are very wrong there. The inefficiency is in the permit process. In San Francisco it takes years to get your project approved, and that time is money. Many projects also just don’t get approved, and the carrying costs and fees of t
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by seriesf 7y ago
Why? Vacancy rates are near all-time lows in California’s major cities. Most cities are around 2-4% vacancy whereas you need about 10% vacancy to operate a healthy market.
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by seriesf 7y ago
This is a problem of supply. “An unprecedented $1 billion” will buy you at most three thousand new dwellings, probably fewer given high cost and inefficiency of housing construction in California. California has been under-building housing
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by seriesf 7y ago
The corollary of my complaint is there will always be someone who pops up on HN with no idea how many lines of code are in a "large project" like Dropbox or YouTube.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Numerous large projects and companies have publicly stated that they are stuck on Python 2 and it's easier to migrate languages, even to ones that they have to invent (Go) than to migrate to python 3. At least one of these companies h
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by seriesf 7y ago
This book is about motorcycles in the same way that Blue Highways is about vans.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Yeah the problem is you want more lanes than thunderbolt brings. Two nvme devices, even cheap ones, can swamp an x4 pci slot. There are various connectors designed to bring faster PCI buses out of the box, but no real standard.
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by seriesf 7y ago
I wish there was a more robust market for external nvme-in-box peripherals. Having to deal with vendor brain damage is never fun, and nvme devices are so small and draw little enough power that they’re really the perfect external peripheral
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by seriesf 7y ago
We have a whole generation of programmers who believe that developer productivity is the most important thing, but this ceases to be true as soon as you have any users at all.
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by seriesf 7y ago
You wouldn’t have to actually decode it, just receive it all and buffer everything after the last key frame. That eliminates waiting for the next key frame.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The president of the United States engages in insider trading regularly, right in front of the whole world, on Twitter. We just don’t know who is getting the payoff.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Permits for single and multi-unit buildings are reported separately. The report I cited above is all UNITS i.e. the sum of all apartments in all buildings. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LOSA106BP1FH The breakdown
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by seriesf 7y ago
You're right; Google is the only big tech that takes insider risk seriously.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Literally anything that comes from a vendor in a package? Percona server/toolkit? Every binary package in Ubuntu? The Linux kernel as built and distributed by Red Hat?
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by seriesf 7y ago
Stadia runs on the edge, not in their cloud.

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