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Ack, yes, I meant 1935. I'm on mobile and typoed that in a way the spell checker couldn't catch... Even now in the US I have yet to see Disney selling rice under the Mickey Mouse b…

Mickey was selling foods under that trademark in Paraguay since 1835. When did Disney start competing in that market segment with their Mickey Mouse brand?

> Step one, double the limit to alleviate immediate customer pain. I've been oncall for systems where that would not work. Doubling the memory means you need twice as many machines…

> I've seen plenty of really scalable systems being built by a small core team of people who know what they are doing. There is huge difference between building a system that could…

It's kind of like how an implicit side effect in "normal" FP languages is that memory is being allocated. The nix garbage collector will even free up disk space by deleting unrefer…

I never thought of it as backwards. Defining functions before calling them makes as much sense as defining terms before using them or assigning variables before reading them.

Is that having GCed all but the current generation of packages? Or filtering for a single nixpkgs version some other way? Even then, I would expect NixOS to do some unsharing of sh…

Static linking does not preclude separate compilation though. Go and Rust both use separate compilation with static linking by default (at least last I used them... it's been a whi…

Google does hire SREs actually. It doesn't mean dev teams aren't on call also. But dev teams do get paged much less frequently.

You mean it's Newspeak for "running under a supervisor, but without the supervisor running under a hypervisor".

The [Pew Research article they linked to]( https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america... ) uses this definition: > In our analysis, “middle-income” Americans are …

Of course it's better marketing wise to market your products/offerings/capabilities as better than they actually are. Even if 90% of users don't notice the difference, it really sh…

NY does the same. But a $0.05 deposit for a can to be returned and melted down as scrap is quite different from a $1.50 deposit for a glass bottle to be returned where it can be sa…

I had heard about tin whiskers, but always in relation to NASA. I had assumed it was only a problem in space, somehow related to lack of gravity and/or atmosphere. Apparently it's …

Good luck using a regular semi-automatic pistol as a machete!

That reminds me of when my university kept sending me a $0 bill every month after I graduated. They kept sending them, so eventually I wrote a $0 check and sent it back in the busi…

I've found that being able to think in one programming language even affects the thoughts you have when working in other programming languages. For example, after learning ML, I st…

It's been a quarter for at least the last 18 years. You'd think with all the inflation that's happened over the years they'd have to increase the deposit at some point.

So, the main problem is that they are harvesting at night, when the birds are going to be super docile. Birds really don't like to move during their resting period. (I can confirm,…

I'm not sure how adding more noise would help if "The loud noise and dazzling illumination of the lights is thought to disorientate the birds" according to the article.

That question seems closely tied to > WHAT'S THE "CHICKEN-EGG PROBLEM" WITH DELIVERING JAVASCRIPT CRYPTOGRAPHY? If you don't trust the network to deliver a password, or, worse, don…

> where gathered data has to be processed and analyzed to count as 'collected' I thought even then they didn't count it as "collected" until a human sees the result. So they could …

I don't think the CFM56 is a good analogy here. It does not appear to have been designed to fit the bolt pattern of a Cesna 172. The main thing the x86 instruction set has going fo…

I remember they acquired StrongARM. Why did they sell it?