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smachiz··on NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed
It's a bit funny, but it's really a question of distance more than medium.

For in-rack, DAC/Twinax is just copper and good for 400G, and cheaper than separate optics and fiber.

smachiz··on Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
Really? They specifically don't allow distribution of anything but games, which would preclude a storefront, presumably.
smachiz··on Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
I mean... working fine, in that the only people who buy them are pretty techy.

It's not so easy to get Win 10 working right, it requires a fair bit of effort, and the experience sucks.

I'm not so sure Steam would be super happy if Epic started distributing a new frontend and store through their marketplace. I'm quite sure they wouldn't let them.

smachiz··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
It is interesting re: copyright, but rarely are software IP rights enforced via copyright. Patents are more likely.

Copyright for software is a very low bar to hurdle.

smachiz··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
I mean, LVT or not, that is probably true. If the price increase affects the entire market, landlords will exit the market until equilibrium is restored (or renters will increase their willingness to pay a higher rate).

If market price < cost + desired margin, some sellers will exit, reducing supply and increasing market price.

LVT also only applies to commodities, of which software isn’t really.

smachiz··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
There’s a big gap between $5 and $21… for now. That I have no doubt they’ll spend all their time building features so they can increase prices to close that gap.
smachiz··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
Since when does anyone set or scale their price on their costs?
smachiz··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
This definitely seems like something that's more about development priority that they're trying to sell as a feature....

Realistically, since they just autoescalate if the incident isn't acknowledged it appears, one would think any/all notification methods would be a positive. Let the user (or their manager...) sort out what method(s) works best for them.

smachiz··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
I think the design is you use the automatic escalation if the page isn't acknowledged.
smachiz··on De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)
isn't that why it's good? You can't control infinite variables, the only ones here are A/B and you're keeping a subset of them as a control group?
smachiz··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
That's people that live in Manhattan. That is not the day time (or night time) population of a large business and finance hub, commuter and tourist city.

I can't reply to your comment below, but that wasn't the point I was making. The stats are probably bad for both, and I don't think I trust anything that neighborhood scout is putting out for anywhere, was my point.

But to your suggestion, it _is_ measured by folks. It's called the Commuter Adjusted Day Time Population.

https://www.6sqft.com/see-nycs-population-pulse-over-24-hour...

https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/rudincenter/dynamic_pop_manhatt...

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-pa...

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-pa...

smachiz··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
These stats for NYC are heavily skewed, I don't see an easy link to the source data for neighborhoodscout, but I think their methodology is _very_ flawed for popular cities. They list the population of Manhattan as 1.6M, but there's probably closer to 3-4M people there during the average day.
smachiz··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
That's not just tech. It's everywhere.

It's _really_ hard to hire good people consistently.

smachiz··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
I would be glad it was out there if it was aggressively marketed as a drivers assistant feature, not as a self-driving capability.
smachiz··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
I wouldn't describe it as trivial. My Tesla would phantom brake consistently in a lot of spots - overpasses were a very big trigger.

Also anytime I'd pass an exit I wasn't taking in the right lane it would veer and slow down aggressively, same with trying to speed match a car rapidly accelerating on an on ramp.

Bottom line, there's absolutely nothing that isn't driver assist; everything requires a significant amount of vigilance when you aren't driving in a straight line, in the left lane, on an empty highway with no one entering and exiting.

smachiz··on American drivers have a blinding headlight problem
I think that's already what they cost on a Porsche or BMW...
smachiz··on American drivers have a blinding headlight problem
The adaptive headlights can solve that by altering the projected shape in real time. It's neat to see what some of the EU cars do, I think they're standard on newer Teslas, and just require the right software in the US.
smachiz··on Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand
All about BATNA.
smachiz··on Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT
They're also very very rarely the first mover.

Apple comes in and innovates against something that existed but was user hostile.

It actually did happen to Apple over a long enough horizon, they cornered the paid digital music market by perfecting it, and upended it, and didn't innovate/upend again, and along came Spotify to upend it for them.

smachiz··on Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT
Yes, basically, when you stop innovating and are only doing incremental improvement, someone is going to come and eat your lunch.
smachiz··on ESPP Calculator
Ahh... probably good to clarify that.

My company limits us to a maximum of 15% of your total compensation in addition to IRS limits. I set it to 15% and let them sort out the IRS math.

smachiz··on ESPP Calculator
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

I did get it to load something once - it's not super clear. Based on the dates you enter, and the stock ticker, it'd be nice if it looked up the offering price.

I'm not actually sure how useful of a tool it really is... is it for convincing people who aren't maxing out their ESPP that they should?

smachiz··on We ship the most code on Friday
Almost all software is used by customers - they might just not be paying you.

Not understanding that your internal users are your customers is a mistake.

smachiz··on Netflix's New Chapter
along with maybe a broader return to serialization and longer seasons again - but this only really is valuable for shows that capture the zeitgeist, otherwise most people will just wait until the season ends and subscribe for a month to binge and move on.
smachiz··on Ask HN: How to Invest $700k USD?
Yes, you’re right, thank you.
smachiz··on Ask HN: How to Invest $700k USD?
If it was an inheritance, unless he's in one of the six unlucky states, he probably won't have any tax to pay.

Or he's been given a shit ton of money by that same relative already.

smachiz··on Supermicro throws its weight behind Arm servers
You're comparing apples and oranges to an extent - the M1/M2 delivery like.... 5x the performance per watt of x86 designs.

Even the E-cores draw more power than the M1/M2 cores.

smachiz··on Bra size calculator
I think that is generally regarded as very bad advice, unless you're at a specialty bra store that probably isn't in a mall.

The "professional fitter" will helpfully fit you into whatever sizes they carry, and not all brands are the same. Cup size and shape vary a lot.

As the more upvoted comments above, the subreddit /r/abrathatfits is the place to start - most horror stories start as "I went to Random Department Store/Victoria Secret/etc. and they told me X"

Moreover, if you do any sort of clothes shopping, the individual variance between items of the exact same size/style/color is very wide.

For pants, inseam and waist sizes that are literally two of the same pants grabbed off the shelf, have more than a 1" disparity between them.

Also true for bras, even if the size is the same.

And even worse than that is comparing sizes across brands - 34x30 is not the same with every brand, or every pair of pants, and a 36B isn't a 36B everywhere.

smachiz··on Bra size calculator
Recalling my junior high and high school days, it absolutely came up a lot - and was definitely internalized young.

But sure, the women with very large breasts are probably far more concerned with not being painfully uncomfortable constantly.

smachiz··on Bra size calculator
Well, as is being discussed, the band size matters a lot when discussing cup sizes.

A 36DD is pretty large, a 28DD is not in absolute terms. But in terms of appearance, a true 28DD will look quite large on a small frame.

I would bet a lot of money that many folks would prefer to think of themselves as a 34B vs a 36A for both reasons - you might feel like you're more ideally proportioned with a smaller band size and you have a bigger cup size to boot.

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