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Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (2012)

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1 points·by scraptor·năm ngoái·1 comments

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scraptor
·26 ngày trước·discuss
The specific proposal is not great but changing the rules is in fact the correct solution of the current rules lead to systematically bad outcomes.
scraptor
·28 ngày trước·discuss
This time it has a major impact on the possible RNG outcomes even for a player who doesn't know about the bug, and it was caught much earlier in development before the permanent stability of existing seeds was guaranteed.
scraptor
·3 tháng trước·discuss
So what's your excuse for why New York has equally bad internet?
scraptor
·5 tháng trước·discuss
The idea was to transition from coal to natural gas while using solar and wind to reduce fuel consumption, thereby significantly reducing CO2 emissions. Any claims of hydrogen being burned were either lies to the public to get the gas plants built despite the non-green optics or lies to investors as part of a fraud scheme.
scraptor
·6 tháng trước·discuss
More efficient to spend the same amount of money on shoreside panels with lower installation costs.
scraptor
·7 tháng trước·discuss
Servers with ECC generally report zero recoverable memory errors until the chip starts failing, at which point there are increasingly many. Therefore the average server experiences zero cosmic ray related memory errors during its lifetime, despite having many times more memory than 256MB.
scraptor
·7 tháng trước·discuss
So how are the special interest groups keeping their enemies out?
scraptor
·8 tháng trước·discuss
The government will keep changing the rules until VW wins. Using tariffs, price floors, subsidies, whatever it takes.
scraptor
·8 tháng trước·discuss
This only applies to steam keys sold off site, which is why the original comment specified non-steam keys.
scraptor
·12 tháng trước·discuss
Interesting to see the definition of moat change from keeping other companies out to keeping your customers in.
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
I don't hate journald because it's not plaintext, I hate it because it's worse than plaintext. Somehow journald manages to provide a database which is 40x slower to query than running grep on a compressed text file. I'm all in favour of storing logs in an indexed structured format but journald ain't it.
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
sqlite resolves lock contention between processes with exponential backoff. When the WAL reaches 4MB it stops all writes while it gets compacted into the database. Once the compaction is over all the waiting processes probably have retry intervals in the hundred millisecond range, and as they exit they are immediately replaced with new processes with shorter initial retry intervals. I don't know enough queuing theory to state this nicely or prove it, but I imagine the tail latency for the existing processes goes up quickly as the throughput of new processes approaches the limit of the database.
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
Subsidies is too technocratic, trump style is to just order utilities to keep the plants operational at negative profit https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/06/climate/michigan-coal-pla...
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
But enough about trump, let's talk about iran
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
When's the last time you made a motherboard purchase decision on the basis of firmware quality? Or rather, when's the last time a corporate purchasing manager got fired for buying motherboards with low quality firmware?
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
The client side toggle might be new since 2024 but the volume normalisation has been a thing for a long time.
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
I certainly don't see much value in AI generated papers myself, I just object to the claim that the mere act of reading a large number of existing papers before writing yours is inherently plagiarism.
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
Plagiarism is not an issue of copyright law, it's an entirely separate system of rules maintained by academia. The US Copyright Office has no business having opinions about it. If a AI^W human reads 100 papers and then churns out a new one this is usually called research.
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
The linux tools can't get it wrong, the kernel checks that the files submitted for deduplication are actually identical.
scraptor
·năm ngoái·discuss
Relevant to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138190