wuunderbar

3 years agodiscuss

Guessed wrong, they definitely found it to be an issue: "After a grueling 304-lap test, Acerbis found they needed to use sponges to combat the sloshing inside the tank at the expense of losing some volume. The final tank weighed 15.2 kg (33.5 lbs) and could hold 108 liters."

wuunderbar

5 years agodiscuss

The Cherno's C++ guides were absolutely crucial in helping me get up to speed with C++ quickly. And a good reference for things I came across which I did not understand well.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98dudnM48yfG...

wuunderbar

5 years agodiscuss

There's two components to a Zoom call:

- Encoding: your own camera input.

- Decoding: decoding multiple streams of video.

Your CPU needs to do work on each on these, and depending on what codecs are used (and whether your CPU supports it) hardware acceleration may or may not be supported.

wuunderbar

5 years agodiscuss

> Many elderly people die of loneliness.

How does this work exactly? Medically speaking.

wuunderbar

5 years agodiscuss

What's to say this isn't an automated email?

wuunderbar

5 years agodiscuss

> Earth lifetime is nothing on the grand scale of things.

Nit: Isn't the estimated age of the universe 14 billion and earth 4.5 billion? I wouldn't call that nothing.

wuunderbar

6 years agodiscuss

Sounds great. Only thing really holding me back is no Safari for Windows. I use Windows for about 20% of my screentime, and I'd like for my browser to be synced across every single device I use.

wuunderbar

6 years agodiscuss

> I am super disappointed by some of the comments here that show a total lack of empathy for people who aren't like you.

I've noticed as of late HN has been riddled with comments such as: here is my extremely strong thoughts on X with my personal anecdotal experience Y, and therefore this is how the world should work.

> I believe it will be especially bad for those early in their careers

Agreed. I think it can be equally has bad for someone midway into their career who is thinking about taking on more leadership opportunities.

wuunderbar

6 years agodiscuss

Don't all cloud providers have these for their compute VMs? (e.g,. AWS security groups)