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by antod 8y ago
> "The world's scientists" are in fact a small cadre of self-described climatologists whose academic careers depend on this being a real issue. Really? I think a lot of countries have scientific agencies whose job it is
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by antod 8y ago
> There's just no way that's true. Their roadmap in 1996 was moving everyone to ia64/itanium. That was an unmitigated disaster and they were forced to license x64 from AMD. Yup, and their x86 backup plan (Netburst scalin
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by antod 8y ago
> Jira was designed for agile software development like Scrum,... Alternative view: when agile software development features finally turned up for Jira, they still took a while to graduate from paid plugin (Greenhopper) to core feature
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by antod 8y ago
I've heard English described as "fault tolerant". Sure it's hard to get completely correct, but people can still communicate usefully even while messing it up quite badly. Which helps makes it useful as a de facto standa
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by antod 8y ago
Aren't some of those GDPR fines based on the parent companies revenue too?
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by antod 8y ago
It makes sense to me - public privacy backlash tends to be limited to what they can understand is happening, and for the most part that is only really concerned with what you are actually sharing rather than what they can link to you via me
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by antod 8y ago
I see what you meant about hiding the U2 now, ie by not refuting the missile gap 'lie' rather than by creating/spreading it. Makes sense. Cheers
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by antod 8y ago
> And we really needed to let the government sell the lie that there was a 'missile gap' to the US population? Or was that lie in order to hide that there were U-2 overflights? Who were we hiding the knowledge of U-2s from? Th
729.
by antod 8y ago
I grew up with a Golden Lab, your story doesn't surprise me :)
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by antod 8y ago
You are completely right, but it does highlight the incongruity of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_i... Based on the above phrase you could almost be forgiven for thinking somethings "p
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by antod 8y ago
> I don't find gravity or physics to be culturally relative. But isn't relativity all about your frame of reference? (sorry)
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by antod 8y ago
I agree. Even if ignored by the distro, I've had other users do a better job than I could tracking down the source of bug reports I've posted and either offering work arounds or what new upstream release is likely to fix it. And I
733.
by antod 8y ago
I seem to remember that Ruby was already replacing Python pretty heavily 10 years ago. Rails was gaining momentum at a huge rate and Python web frameworks were dying, tools like Puppet were on the rise etc. The full history of Perl 6 still
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by antod 8y ago
Thinking back it was probably due to currency swings for NZD <-> USD. There was a period of few years back then when the exchange rate could be anywhere between $0.40 USD and $0.75 USD. So $1000 USD could mean very different amounts i
735.
by antod 8y ago
As an aside, was a gigabyte of memory only $1000 back in 2000? I seem to remember it being higher than that.
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by antod 8y ago
It seems pretty rational (even if quite cynical) to me. The covering your ass liability for a similar repeat of a black swan event must be way higher than it was the first time around. You can't claim surprise or lack of precedent for
737.
by antod 8y ago
This was about Iraq though. Apart from the UK, NATO pretty much stayed out of that. And despite having less to justify it, the consequences (direct and indirect) of invading Iraq were worse than invading Afghanistan.
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by antod 8y ago
I shoulda said 'research data' instead of 'academic data'. Fits better with the discussion topic and TBL's purpose.
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by antod 8y ago
Ruby yes, but not in Python right?
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by antod 8y ago
In fairness they did also mention the www as well as the internet. Tim Berners Lee definitely had sharing academic data in mind with the web. So they were half right.
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by antod 8y ago
I don't think you're wishing for a Usenet killer. We've already had plenty of those, we're just wishing for one that didn't suck.
742.
by antod 8y ago
Exactly my experience, but I find my tolerance threshold more like 100 lines these days.
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by antod 8y ago
Possibly referring to a different f word than you might be thinking of. Eg I assumed it wasn't fuck.
744.
by antod 8y ago
Assuming it worked the same in India, magazine sellers 'returned' unsold copies by sending back just the cover titles to the distributor instead of the whole thing. You were buying the unsold 'returns'.
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by antod 8y ago
I can understand the feeling though. Even though I don't commute by car any more, I see the same thing in how I treat my mountain bike vs how I treat my commuter bike. My mountain bike is for fun and gets cleaned/maintained etc af
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by antod 8y ago
I feel that since I started commuting to work by bike about 10yrs ago, I became a much better driver. I'm more patient/tolerant of others on the road, and I pay more attention to what I'm doing and what's happening aroun
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by antod 8y ago
And in that time Enlightenment magically transformed from a resource heavy desktop full of eye candy effects to one of the lighter weight options out there. All it took was waiting years for the other popular desktops to overtake it in reso
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by antod 8y ago
You can't see other reasons for running more servers than just system load? We are a bit smaller than uSwitch (no Kubernetes though), but we maybe a thousand VMs spread a couple of dozen physical servers and some cloud stuff. We have m
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by antod 8y ago
Not only that, "period" is the American English word for the very same punctuation mark the other side of the English speaking world calls a "full stop".
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by antod 8y ago
So, in a discussion where most complaints about Python are that it is dynamically typed (vs statically typed eg Java, Go, Rust etc) you're complaining that it is strongly typed (eg vs weakly typed eg Javascript)? I don't have a pr

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