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by adwf 11y ago
It's true that you can't get 100% uptime. And yes 99.999% is more of an SLA agreement/goal than a generally achievable metric. But Github aren't even managing two nines - they only have 98% uptime over the past month.
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by adwf 11y ago
This particular incident? No. It's the fact that they're doing this kind of thing at all is the problem. People have been worrying for years about the filter bubble that Google put you in; could you imagine if they tried to skew
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by adwf 11y ago
Not to mention, I'm sure once Xach has a look at this it'll be in a main quicklisp update soon.
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by adwf 11y ago
Contracting pays far better in the UK than salary. I remember being offered £1k/day just to travel round the country installing servers. I didn't take it, as I work on the data science side of things, but was still very tempted t
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by adwf 11y ago
Well it was taken down because it was representative of an atrocity, not because it was stolen. Although, arguing down that route, war spoils are a tricky thing to discuss historically. "Stolen" is very different from "appro
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by adwf 11y ago
Actually, not really. I was disappointed with the recent controversy over the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford. I thought it was incredibly narrowminded and a poor reflection of the entire purpose of academic freedom. Quite glad when they k
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of variables to consider. Sadly the great expense of implementing it means that experiments to verify these issues are hard to come by. Another interesting feature that I can see happening is that "undesirable&qu
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by adwf 11y ago
Oh I know. There's always many sides to these stories. I don't feel bad about it other than in an abstract modern moral way, it's history. But the number of times something from the 18th-20th centuries like this comes up an
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by adwf 11y ago
I wonder whether there should be a word for the feeling you get when reading something like this and thinking "Please don't be the British again..." Dammit :(
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by adwf 11y ago
While that's possible, it's actually far more likely that the 15k job will over time plummet to only 5k as employers will still be squeezing unskilled workers as always. So no inflation. The difference is that because as you say
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by adwf 11y ago
Oh I agree with that a little, but that's another misunderstanding on his part. Basic income is meant as a minimum upon which you then build your own career. It's not really meant as welfare for the unemployed, that's just
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by adwf 11y ago
Yes, the author seems remarkably conflicted over UBI, I'm not sure he entirely understands what it entails. This is aptly demonstrated by his final paragraph where he asks the reader how we can redistribute the wealth from successful c
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by adwf 11y ago
The annoying thing is that Glass would've still been a great product without the camera. All they needed to do was release a cameraless version first, then evolve from there. But instead they came across as some sort of weird surveil
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by adwf 11y ago
Simpson's Paradox frequently arises because of cherry picking though. Marrs is specifically looking at an upwards slope over 3-4 data points after 1998. Whereas the overall slope of the chart from 1996-2009 is downwards. Clearly fall
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by adwf 11y ago
You seem to be falling prey to Simpsons's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox The chart is very clearly downward, with a couple of upward slopes in the middle. If you cherry pick the evi
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, sorry. Work guns are the exception. They're the exception in the UK also. However, the vast majority of firearms sold are not for farming purposes. Agricultural jobs make up ~1% of the US workforce, yet there's over 1 gun
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by adwf 11y ago
You must be wearing some funny glasses, I see a very clear downward trend from left to right over all those charts. And that chart you just linked is the very same one that was completely debunked earlier in the thread and still shows a co
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah that's an excellent sketch. I think he really does touch on an important point, the only good reason to have guns is because they're fun. Self defense is nonsense and protection from government is even more nonsense nowad
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by adwf 11y ago
Nope, quite the opposite, gun deaths of all sorts are down substantially. Less than half what they used to be. And Dunblane wasn't a freak incident here's one from 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerfor
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by adwf 11y ago
Ha, I knew there was something off about that spike. Well spotted. My point still stands below, despite that spike, the overall trend is still very much downwards. People just don't read charts very well.
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by adwf 11y ago
Terribly cherry-picked charts there. The UK had a spike in homicides in 2003, so what? The overall trend is clearly downwards. The 2009 firearm homicide rate is less than half the avg. rate for the 90's and I believe it has only gone
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by adwf 11y ago
Well there are modern games that can consume whole days of my time. Crusader Kings 2, CS:GO, Cities: Skylines, Factorio, Pillars of Eternity etc. So I don't think it's about having less time to play. My comment about the graphic
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by adwf 11y ago
Try playing Pillars of Eternity. It's a modern take on some of the old RPGs, by the guys who made the old classics. Then there's Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate 2. Between those you have some of the best western RPGs e
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by adwf 11y ago
An astronaut's lavatorial endeavours are never easy. The 2nd challenge is even easier, you just need good timing :)
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by adwf 11y ago
> Then you have full text search, built in columnstore, in memory tables, native procedures. Err, Postgres has full text search, columnstores and native procedures. Memory tables is slightly different, but doable. It's an open sour
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by adwf 11y ago
Well the theory behind plea bargaining is that it's really only for guilty people; which is a tricky concept in itself pre-trial. The idea is that with open-and-shut cases where the prosecution has so much evidence it's pretty cl
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by adwf 11y ago
That's a good point. I always tend to forget about loop because I don't use it all that much, prefer using the Iterate library. Loop is a whole extra language all on its own.
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, I use Alexandria by default in every project now. I remember when I first started coding in Lisp, I wrote a ton of obvious functions/macros like the missing hash table traversals that are in Alexandria but are rather bizarrely m
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, that's a great example of the power of Lisp! Of course it now also leads to one of Lisp's other problems; namely that after a while everyone ends up programming in their own private language of accumulated hacks :D
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by adwf 11y ago
Rather damning indictment that plea bargaining is an improvement to the system for innocent people.

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