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minitoar··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
What is a storage-based billing story?
minitoar··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Usually there is a 300 Mbps - 10 Gbps range of offerings.
minitoar··on The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"
This is a slightly modified version of the serenity prayer of AA fame.
minitoar··on OpenRA
I was using ipx over hamachi for multiplayer c&c as recently as 15 years ago!
minitoar··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
It can also mean damage (blow up, tear up) or completeness (clean up, drink up).
minitoar··on Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Yes, my grid-tied system is like this. The panels are ~410W and each one has a microinverter with ~390W maximum or something. The more expensive inverters were not worth capturing the peak. You’re better off putting that money into more panels.
minitoar··on Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
Scuba could handle 100,000 columns, probably more. But yes, the model is that you have one table and you can only do self-joins and it’s more or less append only and you were only accessing maybe dozens of columns in a single query.

Feel free to email if you want to chat more.

minitoar··on Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
ClickHouse and Scuba address this. The core idea is the data layout on disk only requires the scan to open files or otherwise access data for the columns referenced in that query.
minitoar··on GPT-5.2
In Google Photos shared albums there is a tab that I can only describe as a chatroom.
minitoar··on Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
We flew too close to the sun
minitoar··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
idk but I’ve definitely experienced this. Presumably it’s a bug.
minitoar··on California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
UL has a standard, this article goes into some details https://www.ul.com/news/manufacturers-say-hail-yes-solar-pan...
minitoar··on Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
I think it’s medicalized because often this set of symptoms is associated with inability to function and it can be treated medically with eg therapy.
minitoar··on All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers
Iron Tail Cafe iirc
minitoar··on All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers
There was a cafeteria as recently as 2018
minitoar··on FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video]
iCloud uses both.
minitoar··on Dépanneurs
bodegas usually have bigger selection & hot food
minitoar··on JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet
Or just keep launching more so there’s always a usable one
minitoar··on The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe
Yeah I think I was downvoted because that’s fairly well known in cosmology and is a refutation of the parent comment.
minitoar··on The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe
Are primordial black holes supermassive?
minitoar··on NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise
Surprised at all the dead humor comments. Is humor against the guidelines?
minitoar··on NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise
I would absolutely demolish a Venus Crust Surprise
minitoar··on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
No. The price insensitive shoppers will buy everything and the shelves will be empty.
minitoar··on Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)
Great pictures. lol @ khosla.
minitoar··on My 16-month theanine self-experiment
Yes this sort of tolerance building is the norm. There’s somewhat reduced cross-tolerance so you might alternate lsd and psilocybin.
minitoar··on How many ants live on Earth? (2022)
Interesting. I didn’t read the study. I wonder if that favors smaller animals? Are large mammals a larger fraction water?
minitoar··on How many ants live on Earth? (2022)
They specify wild mammals. Humans are like 600 megatons I think.
minitoar··on Tech takes the Pareto principle too far
Seems analogous to me. “20% of the functionality (in a product) is 80% of the work (to implement it)”
minitoar··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Alternatively one can press the lock button 5 times quickly.
minitoar··on A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
I still think hot tub desk is the future
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