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Comment · 7 years ago
That’s not really the problem we face, though. Our problem is you ask how much it costs to give birth at a hospital and then everything goes according to plan and later you get endless bills for much more than they said, often from providers who weren’t even in attendance, for materials that weren’t even used, and so forth.
Comment · 7 years ago
We are building a pretty long BRT in Oakland and San Leandro, California. Yeah it’s costing a billion dollars. It does not have a true dedicated right of way since cars can theoretically block the box in front of the bus. But it does have all-door boarding, proof-of-payment with off-vehicle fare terminals, and signal priority.
Comment · 7 years ago
Even if you ask for the price and even if you get it in writing up front you will still get a different bill later.
Comment · 7 years ago
They have literally no limitations. The reason that an advil at the hospital costs $200 is because they were afraid if they made it cost $20000 people would burn down the hospital.
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Comment · 7 years ago
There is no thermodynamically possible way to generate power from burning coal while also removing the primary product of the reaction from the effluent. Clean coal is, necessarily, 100% bullshit.
Comment · 7 years ago
GRPC offers server reflection so your tools can interrogate the protocol at runtime, so your tool doesn’t need to compile in all the protocol descriptions.
Comment · 7 years ago
I just checked my OnHub. It is the original, now over 3 years old. It got five updates this year, none of which I noticed. It's too bad that it's nearly guaranteed that they will kill this product line at some point in the future.
Comment · 7 years ago
It wasn't ever an acronym. It was an initialism.
Comment · 8 years ago
For employees this is a real roller coaster ride. If you had a industry-standard $500k RSU component over four years, four years ago, you were recently walking around with 7 million dollars, depending on your sell or hold preferences. Whereas now you merely have 4 million. On the other hand if you started a month ago with the same deal, now you have much less than the industry standard deal.
Comment · 8 years ago
Their last album was the #1 best-selling album on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop chart and they sold out every venue on their tour. I think they're reasonably well-known.
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't think anyone has an incentive to release findings because that will just sour their future work with AMD and counteract any pricing concessions they are getting for waving the AMD platform around under Intel's noses. Same for POWER, for what that's worth.
Comment · 8 years ago
Anybody with the number can join your Zoom meeting and since there's very little indication of their presence you might not even notice. You can also command other people's rooms to join your meeting, if you can figure out how to contact them, and you can force their microphones to turn on, which in my opinion is pretty disturbing.
Comment · 8 years ago
I have not met anyone who deployed the new AMD stuff at scale and is happy with the outcome. The new architecture shines on small codes like SPEC and then falls apart in large, branchy, pointer-chasing codes that everyone runs in production. I would not say AMD is “in a great place” with their current product. They are putting slight pressure on Intel on the very low end and filling some very specialized niches but that’s about it.

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