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by User23 3y ago
So far as I know there is no theoretical alternative to load shedding or increasing handling capacity if your average request arrival rate is greater than your average request handling rate. At least, not if you want to handle every accepte
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by User23 3y ago
There are clearly unwritten rules around this issue. For example San Diego has homeless encampments everywhere and Coronado has none. And while being an island doesn’t hurt, Coronado also vigorously enforces its vagrancy laws, mainly by dum
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by User23 3y ago
That's not true. Some machines are faster for some workloads when virtualizing. This has been known for decades. I recall first reading about it around 20 years ago, but I can't find the reference I'm thinking of. Nevertheles
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by User23 3y ago
Reading this, one concept just keeps ringing in my ears: learned helplessness[1]. As it happens you really do have a fair bit of control over your life. How you choose to live it, what you buy and what you don't, and whether you submit
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by User23 3y ago
This happened with Pantelligent, except it just went dark because of a patent lawsuit. The app stopped working and the device became useless.
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by User23 3y ago
This is the kind of thing Kickstarter is for. It gives you a way to both raise funds and reliably establish that demand exists. And if the campaign fails then no harm no foul.
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by User23 3y ago
The burden of proof lies on them that claim it’s a “real” science.
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by User23 3y ago
The alternative to domesticated animal use isn’t happy cows prancing through the prairies, it’s the extinction of those species. Yes, factory farming is awful. But a pasture raised cow has a pretty nice cow life all things considered. Sure
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by User23 3y ago
If that were true then Los Angeles would be an uninhabitable wasteland. Jokes aside, it’s clearly not true.
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by User23 3y ago
Russia’s arms industry is largely domestic. They can always pay for domestic labor and materials in Rubles so money, by which you presumably mean dollars, isn’t a constraint. If you doubt me just look how little the sanctions have actually
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by User23 3y ago
Oh it’s definitely racial discrimination against Han Chinese, which is to say “racism.” The question is whether racial discrimination is justified in this case. Many people don’t know this since they think the the USA’s late imperial citize
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by User23 3y ago
> Also, just because two integers sum to 0 doesn't mean they're both equal to 0, so replacing (x == 0 && y == 0) with (x + y == 0) wouldn't be valid Indeed, I forgot to specify unsigned.
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by User23 3y ago
> "parents are involved" The most fundamental way in which parents are involved in the life of their children is through their gametes. Unsurprisingly smart kids almost always have smart parents, which is a double advantage.
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by User23 3y ago
I think equivalence and equality should different operators. 2==x should be a syntax error, because equivalence compares Boolean expressions (and possibly their extensions depending on the language). Equality should be checked with the cust
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by User23 3y ago
Off the top of my head I can’t think of anything that should bind more weakly than the equivalence.
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by User23 3y ago
You’re in good company[1]: Do not introduce priority rules that destroy symmetry. I remember how much more pleasant the predicate calculus became to work with after we had decided to give con- and disjunction the same binding power and
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by User23 3y ago
Those people who lawfully risk violence to serve the public are why you get to have your fantasy that a world without violence is possible.
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by User23 3y ago
The reflog is not always there. By default git gc only keeps the last 90 days.
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by User23 3y ago
> Most adults consume pornography, and for the vast majority of them it isn't a problem. Got a source for this? Because everything I look at suggests that much like alcohol, a relatively small number of habitual users account for th
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by User23 3y ago
I’m entirely agnostic on the existence of pre-ancient advanced civilizations. I do think however that, at least in the works that reach a general audience, archeologist, anthropologists, and so on might be getting a little too much mileage
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by User23 3y ago
> A simple prominent disclaimer can fix that. Disney can and will allege that the disclaimer fails to prevent confusion and take you to court regardless. And then you have a legal battle to prove that it does “fix that.” A legal battle t
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by User23 3y ago
Parody has a much lower bar to hop over. Disney isn’t suing people over mouse rule 34 either (at least not that I’m aware of).
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by User23 3y ago
However if you advertise it in any way using Disney’s trademark expect to be sued and spend millions defending, even if you wouldn’t eventually be found to be infringing (which you won’t because you’ll run out of money long before that ques
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by User23 3y ago
The legal metagame around intellectual property has little to do with law as written and much to do with burying your opponent in spurious motions until they run out of money to defend. Odds are good Disney wins that fight against most come
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by User23 3y ago
It depends is usually a kind of lame answer, but... it depends. Yes, generally speaking since I tend to work with a fairly low level of supervision, my manager wants to know what I've been up to. And what I'd like to do, and what
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by User23 3y ago
I don't keep a brag document, but I do keep a daily journal of what I've done. It certainly makes 1:1s considerably less stressful. And it does make it easier to pad out a promo packet too.
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by User23 3y ago
For a long time Amazon’s unique ID for accounts was email + password. So people that forgot their password would end up with two separate accounts using the same login name and which one they got depended on the password.
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by User23 3y ago
It’s fascinating living in a country whose legal system treats vowing before God to stay with someone exclusives until death as absolutely meaningless but will treat a smiley face picture as a legally binding statement.
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by User23 3y ago
It depends on the variance of their production line. Indeed if the variance is low enough safety testing is a waste of time and money. Just test a handful of random cars off the line and call it good. Of course that sounds shocking, but it
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by User23 3y ago
One of the real eye openers for me along that journey was realizing that Eclipse refactors were (mostly, except for some rough edges) automated semantic invariant preserving code transformations, which is to say a kind of simplified equatio

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