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by yrb 3y ago
I don't know where on earth you got those numbers for Houston from... that would be a world record by an amazing margin. Very few places to date have recorded wet bulb temps above 35 degrees. I can only assume you are putting incorrect
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by yrb 6y ago
The mismatch is expectations about what would be known from sequencing DNA doesn't speak to the validity of the analogy but to the poor mental models about the reality of code, computation and systems we have. Though I agree that the a
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by yrb 6y ago
Software engineering isn't special in this regard. It happens in a lot of other domains. Software often doesn't have a lot of the constraints of other disciplines so effects like these are more pronounced. I would characterize all
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by yrb 8y ago
Even without the code differences just the connecting those services between panels is hard. Your service life is also going to take a hit due to having a lot more of the most unreliable aspects in construction - a joint.
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by yrb 8y ago
What do you think bathtubs, showers, sinks, taps, doors and most fittings are? There is a ton of prefabrication in construction already. There are also large libraries of shared details. Most of the bits that are not already prefabricated a
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by yrb 8y ago
I would say the biggest factor is that it is a very repetitive rectangular box. Overall design and how it is detailed is the dominant factor in time it takes to build things. Do I have lots of joints that have to be perfect or can they be r
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by yrb 8y ago
It can actually be very problematic and difficult, depending how how easy the new slab location is to access now that you have a building in the way and presumably landscaping you want to preserve. This can end up adding a considerable amou
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by yrb 8y ago
Depending on how you measure a lot of prefab construction you don't save time overall (design to finished) or end up with better quality. You also tend to up with buildings that will fail earlier due to having a lot more of the most ri
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by yrb 9y ago
For sure. I don't know how you overcome the inertia of our societies structure to head towards something that would likely be better for the majority of citizens. Which is a problem in many more domains that just civil works auctions.
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by yrb 9y ago
Oh for sure, I should probably add a non-profit driven caveat to the actors in the system. I am not sure if you can implement a system that would work well when your actors are profit driven work that needs to be done can only be done exclu
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by yrb 9y ago
It is most definitely a fair discussion to have, and the bidding/financing/contractual system for these projects really does need to change to have better incentives. I just don't think your incentives would produce better ou
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by yrb 9y ago
The problem as I see it is you don't have to actively run it over budget in bad faith. Even as an ethical actor you can only price what is specified. However, you can then use your knowledge about likely the real variances that will be
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by yrb 9y ago
That just wouldn't work for large civil projects for so many reasons. It also seems like you are only trying to address the problem of people introducing needless variances as a way increasing profit. Which is not the case being discus
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by yrb 9y ago
How do you specify the contract so the unknown unknowns can be priced into the bid and compared to each other. Given that resolving those unknowns costs about as much as the just doing the actual work.
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by yrb 9y ago
It is definitely a system issue. Our contractual/financial system just doesn't work well when confronted with large complex projects that have enough variance and unknown unknowns. Since they really push to have everything committ
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by yrb 15y ago
Interestingly enough, the part number is not listed in the MX series datasheet. What is the PCB layout like, would you be able to splice in SMD diodes where they are needed :) [1] http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Cherry%20PDFs/MX
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by yrb 15y ago
Have you tried digikey? They don't seem to have the exact part number you are seeking. But they do have MX1A-E1NW which is a similar part but without the internal diode. Not sure what impact this will have with the Kinesis keyboard however
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by yrb 16y ago
You could also arge that adopters 'sql style RDBMS' end up building a NoSQL datastore. If you find you are using a lot of EAV, polymorphic associations, multicolumn attributes, trees, graphs it might be a better option to go down one the on
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by yrb 16y ago
I don't think breakdowns would be much of an issue, for one they aren't complicated mechanical devices in the slightest, they seem to be even more minimal than a bicycle. The difference between waiting a couple of hours for a crane one day
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by yrb 16y ago
Depends how subversive he was trying to be I guess. I was thinking more around the query layer for bigtable etc. He probably would have known the stack top to bottom. I am not sure this is a 'solvable' problem. You can mitigate by always wo
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by yrb 16y ago
I got the impression that SRE basically have low level access to the storage stack. So wouldn't be subject to most of the normal application level logging that I would assume would red flag this behaviour pretty fast. The only way to get ar
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by yrb 16y ago
If you have a good bank, they should be limiting it to y wrong tries every x minutes, and have good fraud detection mechanisms in place. So the viability of brute forcing bank passwords should be rather low. So the risk looks rather minimal
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by yrb 16y ago
I don't think we are in the target demographic for these 'features'. If you know how to structure queries, and can touch type the usefulness is greatly diminished. However there are a lot of people out there that can't touch type and have t
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by yrb 16y ago
I wonder if they didn't want to do a Buzz in terms of making all your private information suddenly public, and might ease into features such as scrobbling over time. The amount of spam on there is probably their biggest problem at the momen
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by yrb 16y ago
I wouldn't say everyone does that. I would just say that it is a artifact of the incremental nature of building a .emacs over many years, and isn't really worth refactoring.
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by yrb 16y ago
Does not seem to provide any credible research that either position have an effect on innovation. Basically seems to be trying to argue that because open source advocates that software developers don't read patents that we are incapable of
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by yrb 17y ago
The thing is that perfect anonymization implies that the dataset would be useless since by definition it would contain no information. If you can begin correlating data points with enough outside information you will be able to extract at l
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by yrb 17y ago
Sort of the uncanny valley for intelligence. It astounds me how many people don't trust programs/automations when it is almost provably better at performing a given task. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by yrb 17y ago
I don't think that moving servers is at all realistic option for google. I am much more worried about traffic logging at the isp than I am of what google records. However I will concede that because of the shear volume of data that google c
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by yrb 17y ago
That doesn't sound like something that couldn't be bypassed already with just a tiny bit of hardware hacking.

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