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by swingline-747 8y ago
Orwellian as some other companies' business models, but worse in some respects.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Yet another opportunity for yet another Sparrow or Inbox app. Thanks, Alphabet!
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by swingline-747 8y ago
ProTip for casino-robbers in and out of movies: If you absolutely had to build a (directional) NNEMP impulse generator, an EPFCG would be the easiest, but loudest, way to power it... of course, it's obvious: don't anyone be anywhe
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by swingline-747 8y ago
On the plus-side, that money has bought him the choice to build whatever, whenever, almost never having to beg for financing ever again and the choice to not sell. DHH often talks like bootstrapping and not selling is The One True Way™
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Read the spec sheet... 6 channels per socket (2 controllers with 3 lanes each), 8 sockets, and 64 GB LR DIMMs. 128 DIMMs are $2-3k a pop. 192 sockets, 8 way, up to 24TB of ram w 128GB or 12TB with 64GB sticks: https://www.super
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Isn't most vanillin created as a byproduct of the paper industry? Also, I hope the prices of the real stuff goes down, at least for a few months.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Artificial sweetener anyone? How about some hair dye? (still allowed today in the US but not in Canada) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate Sodium Pyrophosphate is also a "fun," somewhat toxic addi
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Retail price of the server components (no racks, PDUs, busbars, fibre drop, network switch, KVM, circuit-breaker, rack&stack, rack anti-tip bracing, artistic cabling, tech support): CPU 8176M: $11,805.00 USD x 8 = $94,440.00 RAM 64GB
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by swingline-747 8y ago
No, that's an misinformed, all-or-nothing, gross-mischaracterization. Data management systems are a toolbox. The core tenent, distilling ACID, of RDBMSes is referential integrity: that what a foreign key points to can't simply dis
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by swingline-747 8y ago
This is bureaucratic nonsense. For 50 years, RC planes have been fine. This is a knee-jerk overreaction to take out their frustrations on convenient bystanders, eg hobbyists, when they can't defend against terrorists with flying bombs
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by swingline-747 8y ago
IANAL but I would ping WSGR, F&W, Orrick... and be sure first that they're not representing your current employer. Definitely build things on your own equipment, using different technologies, on your own time and nowhere near said
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Been There, Done That, Bought The T-Shirt. Solid core is generally for premise wiring (PVC jacketed in walls, PTFE-jacketed through ducts); stranded is typically for patch cables. If you try like the first place I worked at in the mid-90&#x
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by swingline-747 8y ago
That's a good problem to have, but be sure it's necessary to solve customer pain rather than to impress anyone or follow a "grand plan." Talk to Triplebyte, get on Github jobs, go to related tech meetups... make it your
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Tax dodge with a bigger endowment than Stanford(siliconvalleycf.org)
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by swingline-747 8y ago
It's cool but he probably got pinched for theft of service (ToS) by now, much like wiring up an extension cord to a street light.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
To me, it comes across like a skewed, disproportionately-negative cognitive distortion, of what I won't speculate because I won't armchair/keyboard psychoanalyze.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Back the fatalism FUD truck up from going off the cliff with baseless, whiny negativity... DDG is so good that I use GOOG maybe once a year as a secondary search engine. And I started with GS since it had a comically-terrible interface in
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Bing? Smh. No, no and hell no. DuckDuckGo all the way.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Firefox is a lot faster on startup and browsing than it used to be. It's now damn usable. I'll keep Chrome around, like Opera, for browser testing.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Why is this person playing the victim here? Too bad if his fragile ego couldn't handle rejection, like that millions of others face everyday with grace. Giant ego, couldn't sell himself on what was useful or relevant, and instead
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by swingline-747 8y ago
I would wager fewer hours coding and more doing exercise, yoga, meditation, getting massages, sauna, etc. would lead to greater productivity per calendar unit time.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Virtue signaling... while accomplishing little-to-nothing. Fire the Workaholics IIRC was a 37signals blog article that brings some sanity to unreasonable, unproductive patterns.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Is this Atwood's law Gravity Probe B?
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Almost the plot of "The Fountain." Sadly, the tree didn't fly in space.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Btw, XOR swap... probably slower than register-aliased swap, but it swaps two registers without using a third: void swap(char *s, int a, int b) { s[b] ^= s[a]; s[a] ^= s[b]; s[b] ^= s[a]; }
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by swingline-747 8y ago
It seems anti-competitive in historical Microsoft monopoly-regulated way with Google using GMail to give Chrome data.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Yeap. I left Firefox because it was slow. Now, Google wants everything. Plus, Chrome hogs all of CPU on relaunch now. With Quantum's Servo, I'm going to give FF another bite at the proverbial apple.
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Also, as mentioned, here's a C to Rust transpiler funded by DARPA to help with migrations https://c2rust.com/ RustConf video https://youtu.be/WEsR0Vv7jhg it uses clang and bindgen under the hood
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by swingline-747 8y ago
Also a recent RustConf video on the topic https://youtu.be/x9acx2zgx4Q
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by swingline-747 8y ago
The root causes are: 0. There's no affordance in the regular UI/UX indicating 3D Touch is available. 1. It's awkward. 2. It's too much like long press when a longer press would've done the same without adding more h

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