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by Jupe 3y ago
I would have said "more than 90%", but from ChatGPT: Prompt: "What does vast majority mean?" Answer: "The term "vast majority" refers to a very large portion or segment of a given group or quantity, often
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360° SPINNING guitar neck [video](youtube.com)
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Bernoulli Box(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Third Wave (Experiment)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Jupe 3y ago
Agreed. I'm no macro-economist; I was trying to relate the dependency tree aspect back to my are of work. But, you appear correct, the decoupling does appear to be an illusion.
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by Jupe 3y ago
Awesome - good to know. Thanks! I'll read this later: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/multi-cloud-deployment/
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by Jupe 3y ago
> This will take time. Decoupling is not an instantaneous process. China spent two decades becoming the workshop of the world; the rest of the developing world isn’t going to mirror that accomplishment in one or two years. It is all abou
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by Jupe 3y ago
I recall, back when Windows 95 was released, a joke going around that went something like this: "Yes, Windows 95 is awesome and popular. So awesome and popular there are ~450 books written about how to use it!"
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Detroit by Drone: Michigan Central Station Nears Completion(axios.com)
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Michigan Central Station – Old Photos(historicdetroit.org)
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by Jupe 3y ago
Since the post said "cluster", I assumed it was a set of instances with replicas and the like. I've never experienced AWS killing nodes forever; at least not DB instances.
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by Jupe 3y ago
Restoring from backup doesn't mean you actually have to use it - just prepare it in case you need it. Since this can take time, starting such a restore early would be an insurance policy, if needed. If there are snapshots to apply afte
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by Jupe 3y ago
Ouch? The bad news is that I'd be out of a job if I chose your service in this instance. 47 hours is two full days. For an entire cluster to be down for that long is just unacceptable. Rebuilding a cluster from the last-known-good back
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by Jupe 3y ago
Agreed, but the same can be said for any creative output by another human, can it not? Watching movies, reading books, listening to music... even reading articles and comments on Hacker News would be "worthless luxuries" if one is
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by Jupe 3y ago
Agreed. (And thanks; never came across this before... ever. in 20 years) I guess some projects need to randomly select a few rows from a table? I was thinking of the wikipedia random topic, but that's only one-at-a-time, not a set of r
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by Jupe 3y ago
Wait, what? order by random() Does that even make sense? Why would anyone ever need this? Better to order by a stored value and randomize the presentation order, IMO. Seems completely dependent on when random() gets evaluated. If it
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by Jupe 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. This deserves a submission of it's own.
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Fake image of Pentagon explosion jitters market(seattletimes.com)
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by Jupe 3y ago
Very much reminds me of Deluxe Paint on the Amiga from 25+ years ago. Set the number of animation frames, press the Alt key (?) and start drawing with the mouse. Every 1/2 second or so the page would flip automatically, but your drawin
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by Jupe 3y ago
> LCX and Lead ID were responsible for many of these fake comments, letters, and petition signatures. Across four advocacy campaigns in 2017 and 2018, LCX fabricated consumer responses used in approximately 900,000 public comments submit
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by Jupe 3y ago
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/net-neutrality-fcc-fake-comm...
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by Jupe 3y ago
Are "gig" workers considered independent enterprises themselves? Do they need to pay self-employment taxes?
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by Jupe 3y ago
"Four weeks after its vow to "vigorously defend" itself, PSSI settled with the government. It did not dispute the finding that it hired children. PSSI promised not to do so in the future and agreed to regular audits. The comp
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by Jupe 3y ago
Relevant: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/10/1162531885/arkansas-child-lab... If parents aren't involved then there is even more "plausible deniability", pegging the responsibility on the indi
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by Jupe 3y ago
Thank you for sharing. Basically: "Move fast and break things" is a mindset that could destroy the future of humanity. When the fast movement is unbridled and little-understood AI advancement, the "things" could be human
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by Jupe 3y ago
Some time ago I had this thought: The original (single) continent was round, and about the diameter of the moon. Since the moon was much closer to the earth, it's gravitational pull would give rise to a bulge (an earth "tide"
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by Jupe 3y ago
I believe its purpose is to reduce sinusoidal repleneration, but usually limited to situations which need forescent skor motion. About one minute in I had a "Turbo Encabulator" feeling. So much so I'm not sure the original ar
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by Jupe 3y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/05/what-is-bluesky-everything...
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by Jupe 3y ago
According to the blog's author, $212B dollar bank lost $100B in customer deposits in a single quarter, and there's "no reason to panic over First Republic’s collapse" because "folks aren’t paying enough attention to
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by Jupe 3y ago
I don't think a single individual who chooses to "bow out" of AI-generated content will have any impact in the long run. Apologies if my meaning was confused.

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