Growth is plateauing looking at earnings and guidance, so their market cap will reflect fair market value. Growth stocks need to accelerate to maintain high valuations. That and the market is extra sensitive right now IMO. Their numbers are staggering, but earnings and guidance isn’t.
You can always do it the hard way and have an inspector tell you what is wrong, fix it, repeat. The whole point of inspection is to get it right. This method isn’t cost efficient for starting. Find friends to ask questions before starting to reduce inspection failures.
Back pressure is often useful. Slow down the pipeline from the bottleneck to the source. At some point it’s important to cause failures, informing the source. Those failures can also be intentionally delayed. These techniques are used by networking systems to keep services from falling over. Tuning the knobs for when to fail, when to delay, etc is a hard problem. That is probably why there are so many congestion control algorithms for TCP.
I would say espresso making at home is an expensive hobby unless you are willing to tolerate variability in the output. A decent stable machine is going to be close to 1k and the really nice home machines starting at 3k. A good grinder is also expensive. I got all the gear (buying stuff used where I could) and I have spent maybe $1500 on components. I love it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone who isn’t willing to put in time to learn and money for decent tools.
Yup, two stroke engines are phasing out. Some places have banned them years ago, like Lake Tahoe. I grew up with dirt bikes, and two strokes were the most powerful and fun.
Nice work! One bug/feature I noticed: Once focused on the image tab, if I revise my search, the image tab loses focus and the primary search results tab gains focus. It wasn’t the expected behavior for me.
That is true, but, there are applications where the majority of the power budget goes to the radio, such as a wireless sensor. I worked with battery powered wifi sensors in the past, and very infrequent transmissions (15 minutes) still accounted for 90+% of the power budget. Average current for a 2-3 second transmission was something like 60-80 mA, with a huge in-rush current on boot. I see this and think it's probably too good to be true in practice for something like that.
Maybe a little off topic: AWS also has savings plans now, which gives a discount based on a commitment of hourly spend on compute. A bit easier to manage than RIs.
Yeah, I suspect a good chunk of the performance improvement is related to GC performance improvement. The netty benchmark with pooled buffers compared to unpooled buffers hints at that (although I don't know for sure).
I agree it is "pretty much standard" but the ISPs and other network providers are not doing this with TLS traffic. They are only injecting the scripts in HTTP requests without TLS, at least in my experience.
Cox does this as well. I was recently staying a hotel and they were doing something similar prompting me to rate my experience. I started thinking about standards to make this kind of thing impossible... Ultimately TLS solves this issue. We should be bullish on making TLS standard.
If coding coffee is hard, coding espresso is really hard. More steps, more precision required... just like making espresso in reality. I like the theme of the article.
This is a good point. What is utility here? I think the primary utility is highly available electricity. How is that maximized? I don't know how to do that tactically, so I should stop talking... but strategically it's about minimizing risk. I suppose that involves having a highly connected grid to many power sources (solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc) to mitigate a SPOF. It should also involve low risk transmission (underground where possible, multipath, etc). This all comes at a great cost... but if profit is important (or required for the CEO to keep his job), not all money goes to improving the system, but to lining pockets of investors. So yeah, there needs to be a plan, but the current plan is keep things working and yield dividends to shareholders.
San Diego (SDGE) has a plan to bury most lines in the next 50 years. I feel like this would happen faster if they were not beholden to shareholders (NYSE:SRE). Distribution and the charges associated with it are government aided monopolies... Should a publicly traded company have a gov granted monopoly?
I agree that distribution should be gov regulated, and it is. I also agree that generation should be open market (it is, and those companies are still regulated by NERC, etc). That said, the distribution companies in CA are publicly traded... and that is a problem IMO.
Public utilities should not be for profit companies, especially public listed companies. They shouldn’t aim to maximize profits. If they were to instead maximize utility, they may re-invest in infrastructure more heavily and put power lines under ground. Maybe I am missing something and someone can offer a counter argument.
"Elasticsearch crashed after 921 indices" ... Shards: "20 for the multi-tenant benchmark".. 921 * 20 = 18420. Shards have state; they have overhead. Why wouldn't they pick one shard for that benchmark? It's either intentional misconfiguration, or poor understanding of sharding.
I also use and prefer safe navigation over the standard alternative. However, Maybe/Option monads are also nice. Perhaps that is what the author has in mind.
Vaisala makes good probes, acceptable for use in life science applications. They are expensive and you need an rs485 adapter for the ones I used. The serial protocol is nice and simple though.
I appreciate the minimalism of the game. It has the concept of progression down well. More captured blocks increases the speed of the red block, making the game more challenging as you progress. The friction of the movement makes the controls just the right amount of challenging.
I've thought the same thing for a long time (10+ years, I must be wrong). It makes sense from a business perspective as well. I still think it will happen, but not sure when. The addition of Ubuntu shell was a pretty interesting move.
I recently ported a fairly simple ruby project to crystal, and am happy with the result. I'm now writing another smallish project in crystal, and finding it quite productive. I like the syntax and language features of ruby, but I prefer static typing... so it's a nice addition. I'm glad to see crystal has momentum.