Zach_the_Lizard

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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
What about dnotify? I think that predated inotify. If so, I think it has the ability to notify a process when a file was accessed, so could fill a similar role.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
I've heard "females" primarily in certain African American accents. So it's "weird" to me in the sense of "I wouldn't use it and most people around me wouldn't use it" but that's about
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
Churning out boilerplate is a large part of the job. The quality of that boilerplate is part of what makes great engineers great engineers. Knowing when and how to use dependency injection, making code testable, what to instrument with logs
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
Writing code quickly may not help the mythical 10x engineer, but it might help a 1x engineer become a 5x engineer. In relative terms, the unaided 10x engineer is now only a 2x engineer as his peers are now vastly more productive. That'
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
Some sectors may have decent competition, but external factors may be choking supply. For example, if there's a sudden spike in demand for, I don't know, remodeling homes, even perfectly competitive suppliers will take time to inc
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
And if driving a classic vehicle with a manual choke, engaging the choke tells you about vim commands
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
It's pretty common in rural areas to have buried propane tanks that are refilled by trucks. Depending on the climate and size of the tank, these might last all winter. If you call that stockpiling, it's pretty easy, I'd say.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
In my part of Texas, it gets below freezing on 12 days a year on average, but within the last two years it's been as low as 7F / -14C. I guess that's the value of having a big heat sink, the Pacific Ocean, at your doorstep: t
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
While the hardware and software budgets are not the same, some companies do have tricks to make the software team care about hardware at least in theory. I have never ordered any server hardware, but there's a dashboard where I can see
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
I did something like this, also on Windows 2000, when I was in high school. It definitely surprised some teachers.... I also discovered that our student IDs and PINs were based on our birthdays, though I was not creative enough to come up w
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
Google "helpfully" ignores the quotes sometimes too. They're not the hard and fast rule they used to be. I preached the Gospel of Google when the competition was composed of web rings and Altavista, but Google in its infinite
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
In my experience, the panic is most likely because someone accessed a nil field when adapting some data. Nothing is corrupt, we just threw an exception in a mundane way. The reality is this is far more common than something truly fatal. Mis
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
In the old days, the New York subway systems were mostly built by cut and cover, where they more or less dig up the street, build the tunnels and stations,throw dirt back on top, and pave the road again. Is that always possible? No. But whe
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
The problem is that infrastructure has a fixed cost, even with no usage, so in some ways it's arguable that the high fixed cost is making it so that big users aren't subsidizing everyone else.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
I lived on a US military base that regularly received typhoons. Damage never exceeded $5 million, and was typically much lower. Much of the housing was built in the 50s. It was definitely low quality, including such issues as bad electrical
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
Is someone who rudely suggests support for the monarchy going to be arrested? I suspect not.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
Corners, particularly those with roads that are banked, make for some interesting side to side rollover fodder. There's that famous Ford Explorer tire issue in 2001 or so that makes for some (dated) examples of SUV rollover accidents.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
> When gas cars were first around, people carried extra gas around with them. There are still isolated places where this is useful. I've done it when offroading.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
Ok. What about Derry vs. Londonderry? Not being Irish, it seems both refer to the same place, but there is an Irish nationalist or unionist political statement being made when choosing one or the other, so one could be looking for one of th
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4y ago
"Peking" approximates how it may have been pronounced at one point, but the pronunciation has changed, making that approximation even worse than it started with. For the record, not all languages use "Beijing" either: pe
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
If you're at the scale where a data center going down is a problem and thus you need to run in multiple coasts for disaster recovery, you're going to have to be able to handle the kinds of distributed computing issues that'll
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
Indeed. There are even some vaccines for diseases that our bodies do not defeat. I'm perhaps misremembering, but I seem to recall that the HPV vaccine is one of those.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
Depends on the region. Out West it was mostly Chinese workers. Back East it was the Irish.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
The US actually has this. It's called the Auto Train: https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train Runs from just outside of DC to Florida. In the Northeast, Amtrak has pretty much captured the NYC <-> DC market for busines
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
This. I live in Queens and it's not hard to get to Penn Station, but it's also not hard for me to get to LaGuardia, either. I can get to LaGuardia in a little less time than it takes to get to Penn Station, especially if I don&#x2
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
A lot of the high tax states have high taxes in multiple categories. Moving to a high sales tax, low income tax state might actually "reduce* your sales tax. NYC, where I live, has an 8.875% combined sales tax. And a high income tax. T
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
As an American, I'd say "If I were rich" rather than "If I was rich." Though in the Southern accents I've been around for much of my life, "If I was" was more common.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
I wonder if this is a good way to support projects like Microsoft's Git VFS without requiring specific kernel drivers. Mounting a special Git NFS drive + having all the magic hidden behind NFS seems like it could be interesting.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
Indeed. We have had message boards, subreddits, newspapers, TV news shows, radio shows, etc. dedicated to (or at least slanted towards) specific policial views for quite some time. Possibly centuries in the case of pamphlets and newspapers,

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