ars_technician

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by ars_technician 13y ago
Paying for Heroku is a little much.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
I think the name is just a correlation, not a causation. To put it bluntly, you won't fail because your name is "London", you will probably fail because you grew up with a parent that thought London was a good name for a pers
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by ars_technician 13y ago
If you don't have anything to say, why even reply?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
If nginx caches for 300s and that's the only reason you are installing pdns-recursor, that's unnecessary technical debt in your production pipeline.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>Jewelry - maybe, but isn't it so desired for jewelry because it is scarce? You could make jewelry out of less noble metals. You're right, people want it because it's shiny and rare. That makes demand for it. People can an
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Why does it matter where the operator is? How about a ban on killing unquantifiable targets? Modern fighter pilots can be just as overworked and have about the same risk of dying from being shot at.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Almost, but not quite. The difference would be that the US isn't killing civilians just for the sake of killing civilians to cause terror.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Fighter pilots now have very little risk of being shot down. The only real difference is the cost like you mentioned.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Why let stats get in the way of a feel-good rant?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
In other news, pumpers in a pump and dump scheme continue to pump. I can't believe this is even on the front page. What's next? A note from Tim Cook bullish on Apple?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
I don't know about calling it a piece of crap. Seems a little harsh. :-)
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by ars_technician 13y ago
I agree; however, the Air France incident you are referring to is when the airspeed indicator was locked due to a frozen pitot tube, wasn't it? That seems like a much less blatant failure on the part of the pilots.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>Internal matching; orders aren't being routed to exchanges but if are internally matchable, just reconcile the books internally and they collect the bid/ask spread on both side of the trade. Doesn't that violate national
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Yeah, it seems like there should be a big red light on the air speed indicator that says it's under the pilot's control.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
It brings up an interesting conundrum. The more that pilots use autopilot for approach, the less feel they have for what the controls should feel like at the correct airspeed. However, if we just outright ban auto-pilot for approach, there
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by ars_technician 13y ago
It's a good thing that icky, conservative Baskin Robbins is banned from blue states. Oh wait: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=baskin+robbins,+san+jose,+ca
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Not being sarcastic, but isn't that just reddit?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Awesome. What kind of permits were required to divert the stream and dig up land like this?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Do you think it's a valid criticism then to complain about Ayn Rand's ideas when you haven't been able to comprehend them?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
I'm tired of this same old implication. My parents made ~25k. They did not buy my first computer, and they did not pay for me to go to college. Is that what you are looking for?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
That's not what self-relaince is. Nobody is self-reliant by that definition because even people trained for wilderness survival will die from some mundane thing without modern medicine. Self-reliance is when you can contribute enough t
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Without their genitalia exposed would be a start and preferably without spitting.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>It's really the objectivism and the worship of Ayn Rand in privileged and powerful economic/political circles that makes me worry about the future. Be honest. How much Ayn Rand have you actually read? It's a very common s
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by ars_technician 13y ago
So? Corporations aren't pitching their stock as a currency. A currency isn't something that's meant to be hoarded by a few people. That causes deflation and deflationary currencies are poisonous to the economies because they
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by ars_technician 13y ago
You do realize your same logic applies to looking at a roulette wheel? You can see that it hit a black number 20 times in and feel remorse for not letting 10 dollars ride all of the way up to 10 million for that run. -25 happiness. You are
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by ars_technician 13y ago
The crappy part about this is that people can do this to sink competitors. Why bother lowering your prices? Just spend a few hundred dollars to have spammers plaster links to competitors on hacked sites... :(
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Yeah, I can't stand to eat food that came from a dented can...
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by ars_technician 13y ago
You are wrong. Developers should use random if it's for something security sensitive like generating keys. random will block when entropy is too low, urandom will just continue recycling entropy, which is cryptographically dangerous.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Do you realize how much of a performance hit modern desktops would take if a processor that had to freeze the operating system while it wandered through memory first identifying the operating system and then finding the entropy pool and mo
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>but be sure not to dismiss Firefox based on historical issues. It's incredible how much inertia there is with that. The majority of the people I know that switched to chrome did it back when firefox was blatantly slower and that&#x

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