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Comment · 1 year ago
What about questioning the purpose of the taxes you pay?
Comment · 1 year ago
100%.

The given situation is solvable only by the humans involved. They want different things. Either one of them has authority over the other, or they talk it over.

Comment · 1 year ago
The obvious answer is a relational structure. In the given example, host, status, path and target should be separate relations. They'll all be tiny ones, a few rows each.

Of course, performance etc are a separate story but as far as the shape of the data goes, that's what the solution is

Comment · 1 year ago
Media people obviously thought that kill switch meant something that can kill the driver and rushed to reassure the public that no that was not the case.

They're good people at heart. Don't misunderstand them.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's not as if they don't know that this is a false comparison, specially because generations of Intel CPUs used in Macs also did frequency throttling.

"Unlike traditional Intel CPUs, CPU cores in Apple silicon chips can be run at a wide range of frequencies, as set by macOS."

The use of the word 'traditional' here is essentially gaslighting.

Comment · 2 years ago
The slowness would be inevitable because the architecture combines the weak point of Redis (network stack) with the weak point of sqlite (disk access).

It abandons Redis' in-memory data and sqlite's in-process speed... for what?

Comment · 2 years ago
Early in this article, there's this sentence: Google’s results are really good.

Reminds me of the comedian who, when asked, "How's your wife," would say, "Compared to what?"

Comment · 2 years ago
Even without writing code, on personal projects it's worth it for the three things I'm always lazy about:

1. Good, detailed commits 2. Tests 3. Docstrings

Comment · 2 years ago
100%.

The HN crowd has come a long way from practically hero-worshipping Snowden to automatically assuming that 'state actor' must mean the countries marked evil by the US.

Comment · 2 years ago
My Yahoo mail account was created as a Rocketmail account, likely in 1996 or 97, when Rocketmail launched and became the biggest Hotmail rival.

Yahoo acquired it and it became Yahoo mail.

So 27 or 28 years

Comment · 2 years ago
"will continue" can't really be said about anything Google with any degree of confidence.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's amusing that NYT spends so much verbiage in the complaint speaking so highly of itself as doing some great service to humanity and then stating a legal argument that is equally applicable to a trash-rag dishing out celebrity gossip.
Comment · 2 years ago
So this is not about railway trains?
Comment · 2 years ago
Also, there's that other country, which cannot be named, which can do this rocket shit reasonably well.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Mission control on Earth receives that data in binary code, or a series of ones and zeroes."

That's a relief.

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