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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
> If they know they will get the reward then they know the exact opportunity cost and can weigh that against performing the behavior. So you need to to randomize the value of the treat. Otherwise the dog knows the upper bound of the oppo
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
In my experience there is not much to know about the ACD parts of ACID, because they're just guaranties that are obvious to want and which will naturally make your life easier. The I (Isolation) part is the one you'll need to unde
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
> calculating the monthly average This abstracts away a fundamental property of skill improvement that is true for any game, but intensively true at chess: any ELO you win during a gaming session will be lost soon by a new gaming session
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
"Don't say HN is turning into Reddit, because it has consistently been so from the start"?
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
> a meltdown could not happen Gen III reactors have a core catcher[1] to handle a meltdown, in addition to many features making a meltdown even less likely to happen. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
The article explicitly tells that he did not die.
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
HTTP is an application protocol and most of this article doesn't make any sense.
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
It literally explains why this show is not as good as the original.
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
Which can't be proven by E2E either, and which you don't need to prove.
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
- Computers have more CPU than mobile phones. - Standard and easy installation process of Apps. - Apps born with modern UI.
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
How do I block Plausible?
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
Do people use OkCupid on the browser?
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
The problem is that sitting in front of a computer gives no indication of business. You wouldn't interrupt a surgeon during an operation, or a pilot landing a plane, or a crane operator moving some load on a construction site, or a car
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
I agree with the general sentiment, although the author seems to miss the point that many people trying to monetize their hobby aren't trying to win more money, but simply to replace the time working in a pay-the-bill job with time spe
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by NewEntryHN 5y ago
> Second, everyone needs to be using unique passwords. You don’t have to use a password manager to do that, whatever system works for you is fine. If you want to use a notebook in a desk drawer, that’s totally acceptable. You don't
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
This a a loss distributed over many businesses.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
You seem to ask the question about the absolute number of outages, whereas uptime is about the number of outages per units of time.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Slack does progressive roll-outs. The broken release hypothesis seems very unlikely.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Another common cause is resource exhaustion as a result of poorly monitored resources (or bugged monitoring). For example Google's authentication was down because their system reported (wrongly) available quota of 0. The last two incid
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Sample size is 30,000.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Is the trick here that the driver is responsible in case of accident? That would be evil genius.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
You could call inertia a force then.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
> everyone has to get out of the house and making actual friends in life. According to what "law"? Introverted lonely people having most of their social interactions at work is a fact of life mate.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Driving is not necessarily a good example for your point because if people actually focused on behaving remarkably behind the wheel (that would be the "constricting way to live a life"), road accidents would be much less frequent
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
> But if you recognize that somebody is talking you about something that is, really, a defect in your software, don’t do the error of reducing the interaction to a vile matter of money. If an open-source project grows to the point where
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
First law of the Internet: you cannot delete something from the Internet. Second law of the Internet: you cannot keep track of where something is on the Internet.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Why are we talking about checking return values (which are generated by a function according to its interface and should not be checked) when we should be talking about checking configuration values (which are generated by humans according
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Except extraordinary is correlated with excellent because this premise: > We can all achieve excellence is false in practice.
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
Out of curiosity I wondered what was the biggest Sqlite databse in my filesystem: find / -name *.sqlite -printf '%s %p\n' 2>/dev/null | sort -nr | head -n 1 The winner is `favicons.sqlite` from Firefox profile di
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by NewEntryHN 6y ago
You made an optimization for the future when enough bottlenecks have been fixed such that this one part becomes the bottleneck.

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