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by PLenz 9y ago
Excerpted from Eric S. Raymond's The Unix Hater’s Handbook, Reconsidered (2008)[ http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=538 ]: This chapter begins unfortunately, with complaints about X’s performance and memory usage that seem rather
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by PLenz 9y ago
I can't help but feel that this is noise multiplied by noise. Regression to the mean ought to he coming up real soon.
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by PLenz 9y ago
The fact that a backlash against self-evidently disgusting behavior needs to 'build' is disturbing.
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Fata Morgana (mirage)(en.wikipedia.org)
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I don't know, 21PBs seems like a lot to me....
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Nice, and perfectly timed for SpaceApps this weekend. See you all at SpaceApps NY.
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500 Internal Server Error nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu)
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by PLenz 10y ago
Graph notebooks, the real, dead tree kind. I also like sharpie pens.
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Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
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That's the fundamental difference between infrastructure folks - inherently conservative, keep it running, 9 9s of uptime - and developers - restless, ohhhhh shiny, seekers of the new and novel.
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by PLenz 10y ago
So here are some better and real secret of GCT. 1) The tunnel from the 456 to the Time Square Shuttle is the original tunnel of the first subway line. It ran from City Hall on the 456 track along the shuttle tunnel to what is now the north
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by PLenz 10y ago
And the vaunted 'secret car' on that track is not Roosevelt's car - it's the old wreck crane support car from New York Central days. It's used to store track work equipment now.
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Sexless in Silicon Valley: why nobody's getting laid in America's tech hub(theguardian.com)
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Originally published in the NSA's in-house and top-secret classified journal Cryptologic Quarterly and later declassified with redactions.
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NSA Culture, 1980s to the 21st Century (2011) [Declassified 2012] [pdf](nsa.gov)
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Lawyer sues Chicago police, claims they used stingray on him(arstechnica.com)
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I've been working in DS role for a few years now in NYC - and I definately feel the role is more valued on the east coast over SV. SV has a focus on consumer facing applications that are in many ways fancy CRUD. DS roles have thier pla
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by PLenz 10y ago
10ths (and hundredths of an inch) are completely standard in US surveying. For example: https://www.amazon.com/Lufkin-FE200D-Engineers-Fiberglass-Me...
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by PLenz 10y ago
I've been posting on total.fark.com for over a decade at this point for a certain definition of 'civil'.
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LA was designed for mass transit - Pacific Electric was the largest trolley/interurban system in the U.S. It was dismantled in the 1950's in favor of the car-centric design that exists today (largely at the behest of the automobil
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by PLenz 10y ago
They'll of course be allowed to do the research - the question is who is going to pay for it as much of the funding comes from the EU.
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In the U.S. that would the train's rear conductor or a brakeman, basically the conductor's assistants. In the days before vacuum brakes the rear conductor would have the job of reading lantern messages from the front conductor (in
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Email, Maps, Android - those are all in existence to feed data to Google's core product - ads.
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I'm beginning to think that Alphabet (read: Google) just isn't very good at things that aren't related to advertising. There have just been so many failures (Verily, Nest, Glasses, etc.) as they have tried to get away from th
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by PLenz 10y ago
Dstillery, a New York-based ad-tech firm that utilizes sophisticated data science and analytics to help advertisers realize the potential opportunities arising with the growth of digital media in all its forms. We are leaders in connecting
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The Taliban app’s publication points to holes in Google’s app review process(techcrunch.com)
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While SF might be loath to acknowledge it New York has been a high-tech center for a long time - Fulton invented the steamboat, Tesla and Edison were both working here, later we had Bell Labs, IBM. The Manhattan Project had the named that b
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by PLenz 11y ago
This seems as good a place as any for a HN model railroader roll call.
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Google Used Tiny Cameras to Street View the World’s Largest Model Railway(gizmodo.com)
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Teaching analysts to think differently(medium.com)
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