TheSmiddy

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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
I think these trolley problems are a waste of everybody's time. Building redundant reliable braking systems will be orders of magnitudes easier than creating a system to fairly and accurately assess who is the best set of people to kil
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
I leave massive gaps constantly now, it lets me see farther ahead so I can switch lanes when I see a problem coming and my average trip time is definitely shorter because of this. I really like this video for describing some of the advantag
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
They are paid, just not by the journal, they're paid a salary by their university and one of their responsibilities is peer reviewing papers.
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
I don't think individuals require deep change in order to solve climate change. Most sources of emissions when broken down by industry ultimately just point back to the energy generation. The only deep change that an individual can do
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
how would npm install nginx be different from [yum|apt] install nginx?
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
Exactly, end users do not care but people making their purchasing decisions might.
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
$2 an hour is incredibly cheap for CBD parking without the added electricity, that doesn't seem expensive to me at all.
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
The entire world could easily be on 100% renewable by 2060. The average lifetime of a coal fired power plant is 40 years so if we don't build another one the last one built will expire around then. In the meantime every time new capaci
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
An ISP I worked for blocked port 25 in 2009, but it was easily reenabled by the customer checking a box in their online portal. Considering how easily it is to setup authenticated SMTP and how effective it is at reducng spam for the ISP, I&
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
Once the link shortening service knows it's a scam they can redirect you to a "saved you from being scammed" page. (although evidence of this happening in practice hasn't crossed my radar, but it's probably because
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
Yes Apple regularly advertise for helpdesk employees, they get to work from home though. The problems haven't changed, helpdesk is 75% assisting customers with reading comprehension, 25% actually solving legitimate problems.
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
My solution to this for a video streaming service is to have a master network that you control that feeds the data needed to cover the next 30 seconds of video playback, with future segments coming in via torrents. If any segment is still d
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
At 100% power draw the charger I use to power my pi uses 5 watts so you're pretty safe on the power.
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
This argument is the equivalent of a climate change denier stating "the climate is always changing". Anecdotally the percentage of my friends who I would describe as unhappy has been increasing over time. In my early 20's at
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
and how do you propose a server in Australia is going to achieve 10ms to a server in the US? Why is the server to server latency going to be less than the ISP's natural routes?
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
The latency from the player to the server still exists though so I dont see how this is going to solve any problems.
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
I think you need to add way more context to this if you want anybody to care. What product are you selling? Who are your customers? Have you had issues with payments in the past? Is it possible that your product could be used in fraudulent
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
They'd probably make a hell of a lot more if they didn't aggressively demonetize known safe content from their flagship creators.
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
Whenever I feel like I'm not being understood I always ask the same question twice, but phrased so that yes to the second question means no to the first. This way if they're just 'yes'ing their way through the conversati
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by TheSmiddy 8y ago
I've worked at a few ISPs in Australia. There are still huge efficiency gains to be made, especially on the customer service side of the business which accounts for 70+% of the labour cost.
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
most imap clients wouldn't even notice. Once that message is downloaded there's no reason to download it again.
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
the problem is that the job is titled "entry level" and then asks for 3 years experience. It's a bait'n'switch that wastes everybody's time. If they only wanted a few summers worth of internships etc they shoul
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
I've been using MeWe recently, it's basically like classic facebook (chronological, not full of crap you didn't sign up for) but sadly doesn't have a critical mass of users yet.
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
If you follow any billionaires and read their comments they are full of crypto scams. Things like @elommusk replying to @elonmusk saying "to celebrate this awesome news I'm going to hand out some free bitcoins!, just send 0.1BTC t
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
Pretty sure the biggest mistake was the same as Google Plus': the invite system that artificially hampers growth. Since these platforms need to capture an entire network of people at the same time if there is something preventing someo
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
I achieve the same thing by just accepting wildcard addresses at my domain and using sitename@mydomain.com whenever I sign up for things.
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
On the consumption side of wikipedia there are other options for getting it into bandwidth poor areas. for example there is endless OS ( https://endlessos.com/ ) which is essentially an offline linux distro aimed at school ki
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
Yes, however other countries don't have as strict net neutrality laws as the US once did. For example in Australia back when a 40GB monthly quota was the highest you could reasonably get data within most of Australia (actually a group
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
sorry I took the number from another comment and not the article. At 1325km it's an extra 18ms so still well within the realms of usability. given that they're aiming for 4425 satellites in total that would give them 66 loops of 6
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by TheSmiddy 9y ago
Assuming the satellites also talk to each other as backhaul then you're not actually going to be adding that much latency. 340km up + 340 km down = 680km / 299km/ms (c) x2 = 4.5ms added to round trip time. Considering you&#x2

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