NyxWulf

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by NyxWulf 5y ago
Uuids are bulky if you store them in text form, but in binary form they are only 128 bits. The main feature of a uuid is it allows distributed generation. 32-bit or 64-bit integers are almost always sequential numbers. The sequential natu
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by NyxWulf 5y ago
I found that confusing as well. If the machine id is before the unixts, the primary advantage of using this is lost for me. Scanning an index for a 24 hour period is only fast if you can easily find the start and stop, and they have locali
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by NyxWulf 6y ago
spacemacs has a very complete vim layer. By far it's the most complete implementation outside of actual vim I've seen.
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by NyxWulf 6y ago
I agree that Hitler was evil on a scale unlike any other. I also think comparisons should be carefully thought out and not tossed out carelessly. I do disagree with the notion that we should never compare to Hitler and the Nazis. To comp
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by NyxWulf 6y ago
This scenario isn't as far fetched as people think. I was running a global deployment in 2012 when hurricane Sandy hit the east cost. The entire eastern seaboard went offline and was off for several days. Some data centers were down
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by NyxWulf 6y ago
If it's all dead, there is only one thing you can do.
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by NyxWulf 6y ago
Thank you, that is handy, the audio in one channel happens often enough that it's nice to have a fix.
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by NyxWulf 7y ago
I did read through your entire proposal, this is a legitimate question, and is not address in your proposal. It is definitely not the problem your proposal is aimed at solving. The question posed is would an attenuated virus create a much
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by NyxWulf 7y ago
I think the point is that you have to sequence people in the hospital as well, otherwise you won't know if that particular strain is safe or not. If it is a rare strain, how will you know if it's safe? Seems like it would have to
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by NyxWulf 7y ago
Without sources and specific primary citations, I find it hard not to read this comment as spewing hatred and toxic lies.
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by NyxWulf 7y ago
> I'm not aware of any organization that promotes "true freedom of speech" to that extreme. I don't want the government shutting ESR down, but I would never hire someone who has said what he says about race, gender, o
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by NyxWulf 7y ago
Reading the quote from Kick https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539826 doesn't say that. It seems a bit off base to me, but so what? People aren't all good or all bad. They aren't an authority on everyth
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by NyxWulf 7y ago
In addition to the compiler there is a verifier that imposes some strict limits on programs. One example is it must prove the program will halt. It would be foolish to say there couldn't be a vector there, but they have done really s
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by NyxWulf 8y ago
I would argue that's counter to your intended point though. If you go into the E.R. or the hospital, one of the vitals they measure is in fact the number of breaths taken per unit of time. In a normally functioning human we don'
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by NyxWulf 8y ago
Generally I think the problem isn't in goals and measures, but in poor goals and measures. Deming said "The aim defines the system". So if you focus on short sighted metrics you will define a poor system. Metrics and rewar
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by NyxWulf 8y ago
I've used the Kindle app ever since it launched, and have followed this fiasco. The trouble for someone like me is I would rather purchase my content from Amazon since I can read it on any device, not just an apple device. p.s. Do you
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by NyxWulf 8y ago
I was picturing villain with an implied evil laughter.
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by NyxWulf 8y ago
seems to be back up now.
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GitHub is returning 502(github.com)
43 points by NyxWulf 8y ago|10 comments
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by NyxWulf 9y ago
I agree with the premise, these reports seem to focus on the act of passing your genetic material to a child as the final act. Anyone who has had kids knows that passing on your genes is the easy part, raising them to be productive members
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by NyxWulf 10y ago
Thanks for that article. It also links to this study from 2005 showing a correlation between accute cooling of the feet and the onset of cold symptoms in humans. The studies on cell apoptosis were attempting to show why (according to the
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by NyxWulf 10y ago
This made me picture one of the old school nintendo games where your character starts sprouting flames when on a hot streak. There are times I would like to see flames flying off tabs that are pegging my cpu.
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by NyxWulf 11y ago
One approach is to store numeric timestamps in UTC format. Then if you do have data stored in a different timezone you have to include the timezone with it. That is the default mode of operation for many of the standard date formats. If y
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by NyxWulf 11y ago
They are difficult to read for humans. Without using a computer can you tell me when this timestamp was taken? 1453383978 Ultimately that was the point of the article, but the tone of the article about how they got it right and everyone e
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by NyxWulf 11y ago
Impressive, I can't think of another time I've seen someone just acknowledge a response like that on the interwebs. Most Impressive.
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by NyxWulf 11y ago
I learned this from my doctor (who is a diabetic specialist), some years ago we were talking about how to form good habits for kids and my wife and I were avoiding caffeine beverages for the kids, but letting them have apple juice etc. His
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by NyxWulf 11y ago
For me the take away is that non-trivial independent replication of results still stands as the gold standard for experimentation. P-hacking shows up clearly when the experiment is replicated. P-values in my experience are only a starting
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by NyxWulf 12y ago
This also isn't a straight either or proposition. I build local command line pipelines and do testing and/or processing. When either the amount of data needed to be processed passes into the range where memory or network bandwidt
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by NyxWulf 13y ago
You can use Amazon Elastic MapReduce to provision your own cluster. I'm guessing the value prop they bring is the ease of handling that part for you.
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by NyxWulf 13y ago
You are loading the JavaScript library from the CDN into a browser. The data also goes to the browser, not to their CDN. So if sending your data to them is the show stopper for you, that shouldn't stop the show since that's not

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