Balinares

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by Balinares 2y ago
Ah, Apple -- I had that happen to me with them too. Had to contact their support to get the account closed. Infuriatingly, they were adamant that I must have approved the sign up email. Obviously I never received such an email. To this day
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by Balinares 2y ago
Apparently, and if I'm getting that right, that there are many other ways in which societies can organize themselves to produce riches and the arguably undesirable one we've got right now is not unavoidable despite being sold as s
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by Balinares 2y ago
The pathogen affected all of Europe but only Ireland suffered a famine. So, blaming the pathogen on its own is not convincing. British policy did play a central role. As a matter of law, the Irish were not allowed to own land. They could on
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by Balinares 2y ago
It's pretty much a no-brainer. Do masks reduce emissions of airborne infectants? Yup. Can you tell, at any point in time, if you are asymptomatic but contagious and emitting infectants? Not without testing frequently, which I'll v
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by Balinares 2y ago
We must be living in slightly different universes. (I'm in the Berenstain one. Things are not amazing here TBH.) I'll grant you that libmamba is faster, but we're still talking "tragicomic, leaning tragic" which is
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by Balinares 2y ago
Bookmarking. Thanks for sharing the link, looks like a great overview of that particular tragic landscape. :) Also crossing fingers that uv ends up being the last one standing when the comprehensive amounts of dust here settle. But until th
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by Balinares 2y ago
> Personally, I use Conda not for reproducibility, but so all of my projects have independent environments without having to mess with containers A perfectly reasonable goal, yup! Thankfully not one that, in fact, requires conda. Automat
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by Balinares 2y ago
If we're doing anecdotal evidence, then mine is that conda is by far the worst of the main Python packaging solutions in use. The absurd slowness and incompatibility with the entire rest of the Python world are only the visible tip of
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by Balinares 2y ago
I knew what this was going to link to even before I clicked. :) That movie messed me up as a kid. Fantastic OST, though!
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by Balinares 2y ago
> I just don't understand why this is not exposed in their cloud offering. Probably because the mental model for the underlying implementation that you are basing this idea on does not accurately reflect the actual reality of the im
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by Balinares 2y ago
Nope, this is in fact synchronous. It just degrades gracefully when one of the disaster domains is impacted. The main purpose here AIUI is availability, rather than durability. For durability, you'll indeed want something like 3-way re
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by Balinares 2y ago
It wasn't "Google", it was Larry, apparently on a whim of the moment. It wasn't managers in general, it was project managers. And as I understand it, the project managers were called right back in, so Google was actually
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by Balinares 2y ago
Holy crap hi! :) Hello from another PD SRE of 9 years. It's been great working with you. Stay awesome!
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by Balinares 2y ago
Yes, absolutely. The privacy enforcement infrastructure at Google is superlative.