wtracy

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by wtracy 2mo ago
Location: Santa Rosa, CA (north of San Francisco) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: For the right salary Technologies: C/C++, Python, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, some JavaScript + React, and some mobile (Android, React
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by wtracy 2y ago
In addition to the other comments: Military aircraft are subject to failure from being shot at. Aircraft in combat will fail much, much more often than properly maintained civilian aircraft. Civilian aircraft don't have election seats
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Ask HN: Moving from the "tech industry" to LOB/internal software
2 points by wtracy 2y ago|1 comments
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Heimdall "Magic Ball" Increases Transmission Line Capacity(cleantechnica.com)
1 points by wtracy 2y ago|0 comments
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by wtracy 3y ago
It looks like improved yield, but also there's the possibility of producing a product that has different properties than that produced on earth. If, for example, the larger ritonavir crystals they can produce in space produce a dramati
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by wtracy 3y ago
I feel like there's a story here.
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Here Come the AI Worms(wired.com)
3 points by wtracy 3y ago|0 comments
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by wtracy 3y ago
The last time I had to replace four tires at once, the mechanic could no longer source the model of tire that my car had, and refused to mix tire models on my car.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I thought that was what the article would be about. All those freezers are pumping out heat 24/7. I could see climate control being a huge issue for these facilities.
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by wtracy 3y ago
To elaborate: In the USA at least, to use the name "ice cream", there needs to be a certain density of cream. If the product isn't dense enough, you need to use another name, like "frozen dessert." The products call
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by wtracy 3y ago
In case anyone else was wondering why this would even exist, it's for education in rehabilitation programs: https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2022/08/18/secure-laptops... "The laptops contain
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by wtracy 3y ago
Now you have my curiosity piqued. Is the report from the inquiry available to read online?
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by wtracy 3y ago
Stranger things have been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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by wtracy 3y ago
Anyone care to summarize why it's more profitable to operate on FM, and why the FCC cares about incentivizing them to operate on AM?
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by wtracy 3y ago
I thought the MIT license required attribution, but on rereading the requirement is pretty weak: You're only required to keep the original copyright notice.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I remember Chet making delightful blog posts all the way back when he was at Sun. I wish him well on his new career, but hope that he doesn't give up technical writing completely.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I would say this post makes more sense to me as a call for self-awareness among potential founders than as an argument for avoiding this route entirely. Sometimes internal tools exist because the incentives are there for a company to build
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by wtracy 3y ago
That sounds like wonderful news!
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by wtracy 3y ago
Look at Tesla and Nvidia in recent years. Exciting innovations can cause stock prices to soar completely independently of the company's fundamentals.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I know a lot of investors are excited about Waymo, so I assume the executives are as well. I don't have any insight into what the experience is like on the actual engineering team, though.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I can't find it now, but several years ago a dev posted his experiences here dealing with VAT when selling software across the EU. He had to comply with a completely different set of tax laws for each EU member state that he received a
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by wtracy 3y ago
My understanding was that GPU instruction level parallelism is quite limited compared to CPUs (since multiple "threads" are running on each hardware core) and I wasn't aware that GPUs had any meaningful OOO execution. If I&#x
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by wtracy 3y ago
Shopify is a sponsor! I wonder how that came about.
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by wtracy 3y ago
Current reactor designs cannot get that hot without melting. I bet we could design a molten salt reactor that could safely get there, especially if electricity production is not a design goal.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I remember seeing a Java game engine that included a container that you were supposed to dump unused objects into to prevent GC from running in the middle of a level. At the end of the level, you could empty the container, and let the GC ru
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by wtracy 3y ago
ReiserFS and BTRFS always seemed like the two big "performance over reliability" Linux file systems.
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by wtracy 3y ago
Reminds me of one of my project ideas that will probably never happen: Build a mini bare-metal Minecraft clone and then build a CPU inside it capable of self-hosting the whole thing.
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by wtracy 3y ago
I could see some people being interested in building compute clusters where the individual nodes are cheap, low-memory devices. (Think Raspberry Pi clusters.) That does sound like a pretty niche thing, though.
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by wtracy 3y ago
When I last lived in an apartment, I saw people bringing in their own trainers to the complex's gym. There's also services like Copilot that let you work with coaches through video chat.
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by wtracy 3y ago
There's kind of a technicality here. There's several very specific and very rare traits that are present in some kohaku (they're not genetic, so we can't just breed for them) that are highly prized. Fish that meet those

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