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by barumi 6y ago
> GR is all around us. ...and it's critical for GPS accuracy, right? You're being needlessly contrarían, and generating noise in an otherwise interesting discussion.
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by barumi 6y ago
Stating that residential buildings should not allow fire to spread is literally one of the most basic targets of building code legislation. There are more building code legislation focused directly or indirectly on avoiding or mitigating re
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by barumi 6y ago
> Afterwards, white people in power tried to pass more stringent building codes nominally on the theory that "They burned to the ground because they weren't built very well." There is no theory. That's literally how t
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by barumi 6y ago
> I'm mildly amused. When I was an undergrad TA, there was no shortage of disdain for undergrad 'vermin'. It's no secret that graduates tend to suffer from a false sense of entitlement. However, that sentiment quickly
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by barumi 6y ago
> (...) and it is supprising to me how many future doctorate students don't understand the difference until it is too late. Oh don't be confused. I assure you each and every single one of the understands the difference very wel
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by barumi 6y ago
> For a PDF? No way! For a whole set of PDFs sharing the same template, some containing auto-generated data and with builds triggered by external events? Oh yeah! You do not need a full blown CICD pipeline or git or anything at all to do
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by barumi 6y ago
> Pedigrees are dumb. "Pedigree", and other terms used to refer to the same concept, are nothing more than the reflection of the track record of an institution regarding scientific quality and training. "Pedigree" als
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by barumi 6y ago
I would interpret these values with care. My experience leads me to suspect that these numbers might be a textbook example of correlation does not imply causality. Just because you are employed it doesn't mean you are not underemployed
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by barumi 6y ago
Let's put things in perspective: tenure positions are seen as a kin of retirement: you do what you love and at your own pace, and are paid generously for the privilege. The only impact of retirement is that you cease to be paid generou
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by barumi 6y ago
Smart people don't take out loans to finance a lifestyle that's not compatible with their income.
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by barumi 6y ago
> Most of them ended up with postdocs at equally or more prestigious institutions than the one we graduated from. Postdocs are not a tenured position. They are just another step in the temp job/contract work level of the food chain.
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by barumi 6y ago
> As long as a grad student doesn’t insist on making faculty, they’re not necessarily constrained to a zero-sum field. This assertion doesn't play out in the real world. A graduate student does not have exclusive access to these non
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by barumi 6y ago
> You do understand right, that the faculty system relies on a pyramid of people entering and leaving the system? And only a certain fraction getting to the top, and people having to vacate the top of the pyramid for anyone else to get t
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by barumi 6y ago
> I'd love to see "github for non-developers", that is little more than a markdown-app, with a thin wrapper around some git server and pandoc. Aren't you describing a wiki?
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by barumi 6y ago
> One of the prouder moments in life was convincing a legal team to convert a folder of Word docs to Markdown, check them into GitHub, and set up a CI/CD pipeline to convert them to PDFs to sharing. Why would you want to do that? I
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by barumi 6y ago
> Is it even feasible cycling on some roads where SUVs abound, along with trucks? It's feasible to cycle on any urban road where SUVs abound, provided that they have an urban speed limit. And by the way, it's not comfortable fo
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by barumi 6y ago
> The problem is that it will move teenagers out of bicycles, scooters, and public transport, thus making roads busier. These kids are not zipping around in bicycles or scooters. They are either being driven around by their parents or Ub
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by barumi 6y ago
> I know people are building these the questions is for what, CI/CD for ARM like others mentioned is plausible but only if you are targeting the Pi or something very similar just due to how “fragmented” the ARM ecosystem is with its
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by barumi 6y ago
Your comment is rather disingenuois and naive. If you have any experience whatsoever with AWS you wouldbe fully aware that AWS quite vocally advertises that reliability is the responsibility of the customer,not theirs. Theygo even further b
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by barumi 6y ago
Anyone can buy a brand new raspberry pi 4 with 4GB of RAM for around 50€, which fits on the palm of your hand. You can even get them delivered to your doorstep with a few mouse clicks. The same can't really be said for 10 year old lapt
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by barumi 6y ago
>>Besides academic uses to perhaps teach distributed systems on these are there any real world use cases for these clusters? A considerable amount of people is already assembling and running clusters of raspberry pis, including hostin
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by barumi 6y ago
You'd be hard pressed to find an old laptop with 32GB of RAM, and a laptop doesn't provide the same operational conditions experienced by a cluster of 4 computers communicating over a network connection. Scaling horizontally prese
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by barumi 6y ago
> (...) they're all particle board and, yes, bad quality. That's not true. The Billy line is a mix of particleboard and a MDF backboard/diaphragm, but the Kalax/Lack lines are composite panels built from fiberboard, p
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by barumi 6y ago
Technically, Ikea furtinure is usually comprised of composite elements formed by a mix of cardboard, MFD, fiberboards, and plywood. Perhaps the epitome of Ikea's engineered lumber prowess is either their Kalax line or their Lack tables
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by barumi 6y ago
Assembling a Billy involves nailing a MDF backboard to the fiberboard panels. I'm rather skeptical about the possibility of reassembling anything from the Billy line with any success.
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by barumi 6y ago
> There are many different lines of products from IKEA. Came here to say just that. Some products are virtually bullet-proof, while others start to show their age after a few months of regular use. For example, cheap melltorp tables can
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by barumi 6y ago
> The EU just needs an investor climate similar to the US. What leads you to believe that europe's problem is the investor climate? I mean, this policy is clearly devoted to ensure that europe is able to control and manage critical
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by barumi 6y ago
If you're referring to AWS's "serverless" offering, they are mostly managed instances of FLOSS offerings with the exception of dynamodb, and arguably are far from justifying the colossal premium they charge for using the
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by barumi 6y ago
> Hetzner doesn't compete with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. This assertion makes no sense at all. I mean, if you're in the business of getting an online business up and running, it seems to me that both do provide the infrastru
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by barumi 6y ago
> Scaleway looked closer to an AWS competitor but I haven't used it enough to know how good it is. I've tried out Scaleway a while ago , and unfortunately they double-charged my CC just because. I'm not sure how widesprea

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