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Comment · 4 years ago
That 65.8% seems high to me using benchmarks of UC and Stuyvesant, but it is true Asians would be “grossly over represented” at top schools if not for affirmative action. Thus the current push to enforce affirmative action on the UC system. Turns out minorities are only minorities if they underperform.
Comment · 4 years ago
The territory is relatively easy to overrun with speed - the defensible choke point is on the wrong side of Ukraine (for the Ukrainians). It is only occupation that can prove to be difficult, or even intractable.
Comment · 4 years ago
I believe the person you are replying to is saying “discover” relatively rather than Euro-centrically, as they mention a hypothetical Aztecs “discovering” Europe and Africa.
Comment · 4 years ago
Aren’t fibers designed from the perspective of usage in underlying libraries, rather than something for everyday end users in the fashion of async/await?
Comment · 4 years ago
What makes the lan port so critical that the M1 max macs are out of the question despite their surpassing performance in your other listed metrics?
Comment · 4 years ago
I sometimes get the feeling that all my coding is actually a class of mathematical transforms that I have no idea how to define but feel very strongly that it is definable and AI-able.

Well it’d a curious day when an AlphaGo moment hits coding. Would be funny if it happened at the same time as Fed rate increases and destabilizing world events this year (the path from median human to top human is shallow). Mass firing of a few million highly paid redundancies out of the blue? Would be quite a sight.

Or maybe it wouldn’t happen that way, but rather it would pave the way for a leaner set of startups that were built with the power to do the same thing at the same or better velocity with an order of magnitude or fewer people.

Comment · 4 years ago
I will have to stop by Oxnard and check it out. I’d been thinking that I must have an atypical experience since FSD is quite wonderful for me. But if a few dozen miles over and you get a city where FSD becomes awful…
Comment · 4 years ago
That is entirely not true - no one remembers every detail of their life. As for the ones who do, you can do a fairly good impression thereof by simulating reliable synesthetic associations.
Comment · 4 years ago
Measurable but insignificant. It would take about 10^29 joules to speed Venus up to a 24h day.

The Chicxulub impact is estimated at 10^24-10^25 joules. So we need 10k-100k Chicxulub impacts in such a way that the energy is perfectly translated into Venus’s rotational energy.

That’s what, a billion tons of antimatter-matter reacting?

I don’t think we’re going to have a 24 hour day on Venus anytime soon.

Comment · 4 years ago
The MVP wasn’t scalable.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ah weird. I was on some AWS page that said the cost was $0.01/gB, which threw me off as seeking ridiculous compared to what I remembered. Not sure what page it was, but clearly that is not the actual pricing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Interestingly, Troy says that egress is expensive on Azure at $0.014 AUD/gB (~$0.010 USD/gB), but that is the same price as additional egress for Linode and DO, and Linode egress has never struck me as expensive. In fact, I’m kind of shocked (as an AWS user) that Azure egress is the same price as Linode.

Actually, wow it seems AWS is also the same price as Linode and DO for egress. While Linodes and DO do come with decent free bandwidth, this is a surprise to me.

Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you Igor for Nginx. Love using it!
Comment · 4 years ago
This, I think, is a general result of trials/evidence-based medicine in combination with the combinatorics of the human body in combination with decentralized, unsearchable, overly-privatized health data.

I don’t think the medical community is where the disappointment should lie, in the sense that I would find it difficult to fault any average individual practitioner.

Comment · 4 years ago
One-click buy was a patent so…

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