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by aij 2y ago
Ack, yes, I meant 1935. I'm on mobile and typoed that in a way the spell checker couldn't catch... Even now in the US I have yet to see Disney selling rice under the Mickey Mouse brand in a way that could be at all confused with t
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by aij 2y ago
Mickey was selling foods under that trademark in Paraguay since 1835. When did Disney start competing in that market segment with their Mickey Mouse brand?
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by aij 5y ago
> Step one, double the limit to alleviate immediate customer pain. I've been oncall for systems where that would not work. Doubling the memory means you need twice as many machines. Depending on the service, that could require signi
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by aij 5y ago
> I've seen plenty of really scalable systems being built by a small core team of people who know what they are doing. There is huge difference between building a system that could theoretically be scaled up and actually scaling it
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by aij 5y ago
It's kind of like how an implicit side effect in "normal" FP languages is that memory is being allocated. The nix garbage collector will even free up disk space by deleting unreferenced packages just like a garbage collector
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by aij 5y ago
I never thought of it as backwards. Defining functions before calling them makes as much sense as defining terms before using them or assigning variables before reading them.
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by aij 5y ago
Is that having GCed all but the current generation of packages? Or filtering for a single nixpkgs version some other way? Even then, I would expect NixOS to do some unsharing of shared libraries, so it would probably be best to use the full
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by aij 5y ago
Static linking does not preclude separate compilation though. Go and Rust both use separate compilation with static linking by default (at least last I used them... it's been a while). I know Rust at least used to support dynamic linki
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by aij 6y ago
Google does hire SREs actually. It doesn't mean dev teams aren't on call also. But dev teams do get paged much less frequently.
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by aij 6y ago
You mean it's Newspeak for "running under a supervisor, but without the supervisor running under a hypervisor".
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by aij 6y ago
The [Pew Research article they linked to]( https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america... ) uses this definition: > In our analysis, “middle-income” Americans are adults whose annual ho
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by aij 6y ago
Of course it's better marketing wise to market your products/offerings/capabilities as better than they actually are. Even if 90% of users don't notice the difference, it really shouldn't be surprising that some sma
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by aij 7y ago
NY does the same. But a $0.05 deposit for a can to be returned and melted down as scrap is quite different from a $1.50 deposit for a glass bottle to be returned where it can be sanitized and reused. If small dairy farms can do the later, w
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by aij 7y ago
I had heard about tin whiskers, but always in relation to NASA. I had assumed it was only a problem in space, somehow related to lack of gravity and/or atmosphere. Apparently it's just that NASA cares about reliability more than m
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by aij 7y ago
Good luck using a regular semi-automatic pistol as a machete!
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by aij 7y ago
That reminds me of when my university kept sending me a $0 bill every month after I graduated. They kept sending them, so eventually I wrote a $0 check and sent it back in the business-reply envelope. I guess they were happy I had paid my b
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by aij 7y ago
I've found that being able to think in one programming language even affects the thoughts you have when working in other programming languages. For example, after learning ML, I started writing much more functional code even when writi
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by aij 7y ago
It's been a quarter for at least the last 18 years. You'd think with all the inflation that's happened over the years they'd have to increase the deposit at some point.
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by aij 7y ago
So, the main problem is that they are harvesting at night, when the birds are going to be super docile. Birds really don't like to move during their resting period. (I can confirm, at least for chickens. Even super skittish chickens wi
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by aij 7y ago
I'm not sure how adding more noise would help if "The loud noise and dazzling illumination of the lights is thought to disorientate the birds" according to the article.
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by aij 8y ago
That question seems closely tied to > WHAT'S THE "CHICKEN-EGG PROBLEM" WITH DELIVERING JAVASCRIPT CRYPTOGRAPHY? If you don't trust the network to deliver a password, or, worse, don't trust the server not to keep
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by aij 8y ago
> where gathered data has to be processed and analyzed to count as 'collected' I thought even then they didn't count it as "collected" until a human sees the result. So they could ~~collect~~ record all your co
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by aij 8y ago
I don't think the CFM56 is a good analogy here. It does not appear to have been designed to fit the bolt pattern of a Cesna 172. The main thing the x86 instruction set has going for it, is backwards compatibility. (Including the fact t
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by aij 8y ago
I remember they acquired StrongARM. Why did they sell it?
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by aij 8y ago
> For the sake of collaboration, we agree on structure and semantics, and agree to disagree on syntax. `FooError on line 111` suddenly becomes a lot less meaningful... I suppose that's what the canonical representation is for, but h
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by aij 8y ago
How does yarn pnp compare to nix? (node2nix) I've been thinking about unifying our current ivy+yarn+bower setup, but haven't yet gotten much past thinking about it...
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by aij 8y ago
I live in the countryside but work in the city. This is in the US, so there is no bus I could take for my daily commute, though I've lived in countries where a similar arrangement would have a bus route within walking/biking dista
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by aij 9y ago
> Help me understand why displaying the tweet that included the image should not be infringement when displaying the image directly is. I don't think anyone is saying that. I think the main point of disagreement is over whether link
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by aij 9y ago
Perhaps it helps to think about the physical equivalent... Suppose your neighbor "hosts" some copyrighted material in their yard, either on a projection screen or a large poster. If you decide your visitors may be interested in sa
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by aij 9y ago
Driving Ferraris... vs. Writing distributed file systems... One of these sounds much more fun than the other. Hint: It is not driving Ferraris. ;)

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