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Comment · 3 months ago
Lots of people asking here for this clear definition.

If you understand this well, please lay it out here in a straightforward manner.

Comment · 3 months ago
To me, Alexithymia alone proves this.
Comment · 3 months ago
Hand-waving assumptions drawn from narrow subjective experience without awareness of the profound and contradictory results that have come from scientific study of consciousness and causality.
Comment · 3 months ago
Increasing latency can also reduce TCP throughput ceiling, increase in-flight concurrency, and increase server memory consumption.
Comment · 3 months ago
Wire protocol applies to external interaction with the db.

Internal ABI/API is used by extensions to directly interact with core subsystems and depends on internal models for things like storage.

It might be analogous to HTTP versus an nginx plugin.

Comment · 4 months ago
Of course market participants agree?

Exchanges have calculation rules for every type of mark and payment and will always specify rounding.

Comment · 4 months ago
Paris would need significant infrastructure work across the distribution system to handle AC at NYC’s rate of 90% on summer heat wave days.
Comment · 4 months ago
Sure he does.

It's not handwaving to complain that shipped features are never completed and a functional CLI for fundamental and critical tasks is never delivered.

Comment · 4 months ago
The same way you get value out of a dev container.
Comment · 4 months ago
Regulators don’t want to provide arbitrarily detail into their interpretation or likely judgements on issues that may come up for many reasons, good and bad.

One good one is that providing concrete razors for compliant and non-compliant behavior accelerates the gaming of the rules.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
How are resource and territorial pressures not environmental pressures?
Comment · 6 months ago
If you take Pliny’s word for truth, they did achieve 10% of the scale of the largest currently operating gold mine using hydraulics at Las Medulas.

Modern geological estimates are radically lower.

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago

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