ahelwer

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by ahelwer 6y ago
Nothing wrong with having different learning priorities. Just be honest about it instead of putting yourself down & normalizing learned helplessness.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I was at the talk where that assertion was made. It ticked me off. This sort of thing is learned helplessness, no different from people saying "they aren't very good with computers".
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you lose connectivity then the non-majority pool will just continually try to reconnect to the larger pool, which will happily continue on as it has a majority. The non-majority pool will not change membership to itself. Membership chang
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not to call you out specifically but there's a weird pavlovian response on this site where people have to say the word "raft" when they see the word "paxos". It happens in every comment section without fail. The con
695.
by ahelwer 6y ago
All the supposed "simpler" consensus protocols I've seen just hide all the complexity somewhere (like raft with its leader election). Where does streamlet hide its complexity?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Cluster membership is specified before initialization. It's possible to change membership but this requires achieving consensus on the membership set by running paxos. As to your question, it really depends what you mean by "survi
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by ahelwer 6y ago
At least for paxos this is more or less the standard method of explaining it, see: https://youtu.be/JEpsBg0AO6o In paxos's case the logic is very, very simple - it's just the reasons for the logic are difficult to
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This is, basically, naive and your view of the world would likely be greatly expanded by reading Manufacturing Consent or Inventing Reality .
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by ahelwer 6y ago
"No longer" is doing a lot of work here, because by its nature none of this stuff comes out for a number of years after it occurs. We might also ask whether the "rebel" groups the US arms in e.g. Syria are terrorist orga
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Even a cursory Wikipedia-level glance at the US's actions in Iran over the past century should bring understanding of why people might feel that way toward us. The solution is not to punish such sentiments but address our historical mi
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The only thing Iran is guilty of is insufficient deference to US hegemony. Any other charge you levy can have its equal found in our so-called allies in the region, or even the US itself.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Them looking older is probably just the gaunter look associated with endurance sports (low muscle mass, low body fat). It's especially noticeable in the face, where cheek & jaw bones will stand out. I happen to like the look; gives
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Ahahahaha no absolutely not. Unless they clearly enjoy solving those types of puzzles for their own personal enjoyment, anyone chasing status through leetcode comes off as just kinda pathetic. What an incredible waste of time, like competin
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by ahelwer 6y ago
TLA+ is an example. What I really like about this notation is you can use alignment to indicate precedence: \/ /\ A /\ B \/ /\ C /\ D Which represents (A & B) || (C & D). It helps qui
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I've personally seen my (and others') negative google reviews removed. I reposted mine since I'd saved it; we'll see how long it stays up.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
.com and .net hardly seem as though they should be subject to US ownership & authority. .us sure, knock yourself out. It would still be weird even if it were the .us TLD though. State censorship is state censorship.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well it got rid of insurers denying coverage or charging more for pre-existing conditions, which is obviously the morally right thing to do, but is roughly like being able to buy fire insurance while your house is already half burned down.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you're single and willing to pay over $500/month you can get some pretty okay health insurance. Families throw a huge wrench in that plan though. Currently I'm just using COBRA. Nothing crystalizes support for medicare-for
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The really interesting thing here is the possibility of part-time work. I recently switched from full-time work to independent contracting, and have a single part-time contract while looking for a second. Honestly, part-time contracting wor
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Software seems to be doing okay, jobs-wise. The number of recruiters showing up in my inbox hasn't changed. I think health insurance is included in the severance.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yeah. This happens everywhere. Five years back I bought an expensive and sturdily-built couch. Liked it so much I bought a second (after a series of moves during which the first one was given/long-term-loaned to a friend). Same brand,
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I don't know... look at ATP Synthase, it's basically an electric motor made out of crazy nanotech from the future. Seems pretty efficient to me.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You could use a keyboard tray with an articulating arm, assuming you find some way to mount it to your bike. Humanscale makes nice ones, which can often be found at steep discount on ebay.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If the reality of what we are doing to our citizens tarnishes our reputation, then we shouldn't be doing it.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If we want to be very reductive about it there is not a great reason to believe we can use formal logic to inform the chosen(?) actions of huge aggregates of molecules jiggling around. All ethical systems that have withstood the test of tim
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Ladies and gentlemen - in one corner we have a handful of citizens concerned enough about an issue to occasionally write an email to their congressperson, which if they're extraordinarily lucky will be digested by an intern and show up
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by ahelwer 6y ago
That's an interesting trade-off. I guess static sites are small enough that downloading an extra script wouldn't be terrible, by modern heavyweight website standards. Still, maybe I should look into what cloudflare CDN actually do
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Ahhh thank you, looks like that's used to render MathML, which I do use. Perhaps I can add katex.js to the git repo and serve it from wherever it is gitlab hosts their websites.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
No disrespect intended, I've just never enjoyed all the tinkering that comes with managing this stuff myself. I just want to write & publish my posts somehow; used to use medium but then they added all these popups and annoying thi
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by ahelwer 6y ago
My blog (ahelwer.ca) uses Hugo hosted on gitlab pages; I notice that privacy badger flags two trackers on it, cloudflare CDN and google fonts. I'm assuming gfonts is because the Hugo theme I'm using uses a google-provided font and

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