brian_cunnie

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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
My notion is that life is a long, drawn-out amphetamine withdrawal, and this study supports that notion. ("amphetamine" loosely meaning energy level, not meaning the actual drug family)
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
My worst injury wasn't from the rugby or the skiing or the swimming; it was from the mouse: frozen shoulder. There are health risks.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> I have no intention to stop programming... because that's what I truly like to do I'm 57, and I completely agree.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
My old roommate, a NASA chemist (Max Bernstein, Ph.D.) once said to me, "I don't worry so much about chemicals; they break down. I worry about heavy metals because they never break down."
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> every woman ... has vitriolic harassment faced (and/or sexual harassment). I experienced being treated differently when I was playing a very attractive Blood Elf Warrior in World of Warcraft ten years ago: a fellow adventurer woul
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
This. I'm keenly aware of how time-consuming self-hosting is. - A FreeBSD firewall (requires continuous patching) - 6 DNS/NTP servers (don't ask!), most of which are in the cloud - 2 VMware ESXi hosts - 3 ethernet switches (a
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I’ve only seen one burst pipe bring down a computer (Pitney Bowes, 1995), but I’ve witnessed several S3 outages.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I worked at IBM, '91 - '93, in the PC Business, in the sales channel. We had a couple of problems that IBM's competitors didn't have. For one thing, we couldn't make too powerful a PC that might cannibalize the mini
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
ten hour days are hard for me—I start fading at the 7th hour I do love a four-day work week, but with 8-hour days, and I've been lucky enough to pull that off for the last 15 years. There's a downside though: it makes switching jo
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> A lot of historical figures contradict the prevailing narrative [that trauma never makes you stronger]. I'd argue that the key word here is "trauma"; I think _adversity_ can make you stronger (more disciplined, and more
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I asked a psychologist (Dr. Judith Bernstein) if it's true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and she answered unequivocally, "Trauma never makes you stronger." In a similar vein, with respect to "there
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
Since we're adding to the wishlist: AMIs are a pain to publish: you need one for each region, and AWS keeps adding regions, and publishing is a challenge (you need to be a citizen to publish to the Gov regions, and you won't belie
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> many uses of containers are ... statically linked binaries in a more complicated form I have found that to be true in at least one case—I had built a custom DNS server in Go (statically linked), and originally planned to run it in a co
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
Agreed: Sometimes the thing causing insomnia falls outside the realm of that simple advice (sleep hygiene, exercise, caffeine). Two weeks after being put on Lipitor I began to suffer chronic insomnia for the first time in my life: I had goo
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'm going to follow suit, and replace my donations. I feel there's merit to a singleness-of-purpose within an organization, and ACLU's attempt to juggle "12 or 15 different values" detracts from
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I don't know how large the generational divide is _within_ the ACLU, but I know that there is a generational divide. I'm 57, and a firm believer in free speech, but my younger friends have a different viewpoint.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
This reminds me of the advent of television, when vaudevillians such as Milton Berle made the transition to TV. A few became famous; most didn't.
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I doubt that pre-diabetes caused my craving because I always loved sweets. As a kid I would sometimes eat raw sugar. I was only diagnosed pre-diabetic (fasting glucose > 100) the last year before I blossomed into a full-blown diabetic. M
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by brian_cunnie 5y ago
I ate more sugar than anyone I knew, and in 2011 I was diagnosed with type II diabetes. I had no family history of diabetes, I was never overweight, and was always athletic. Admittedly, this is a sample set of 1, but I remain convinced that
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
And there's a great PBS spacetime video exclusively covering the creation of heavy elements, and why they no longer think it's solely the result of supernovae [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmgMboWunkI
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
> What about freebsd makes it a better choice as compared to Linux based systems I wouldn't say "better" (I don't know want a flame war); I'd say "different". I like FreeBSD, and use it for my firewall
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
Yes, I remember IBM had its own email system back in the early 80's when I worked there, AT&T had its own in the later 80's. Even Prodigy/Compuserve/AOL had proprietary email systems (IIRC) with internet email bolted
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
I didn't put a key in an electrical outlet, but in Paris when I was a kid I was having trouble sticking the plug in the 220V outlet so I held it tight by the prongs & plugged it in & boy did that feel weird. I never did that ag
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
Thanks for the tip. It wasn't quite the solution I was looking for. I wanted my DNS server to "just work" for people who downloaded it—I didn't want to force them to re-configure systemd to accommodate my software. Tweak
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
I noticed that, too: the author doesn't mention the many-splendored versions of *BSD. My personal favorite is FreeBSD. I like Linux, but I have mixed feelings about systemd, especially when I discovered that systemd runs its own DNS se
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
Personal experience allowed me to bridge the gun-control divide. I was a strong advocate of gun control, and was dating a rancher's daughter, and she said, "my dad keeps a pistol in the glove compartment because there are rattlesn
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
> The single biggest difference between Japanese and American diet is the amount of food What about sugar? There's a big difference there, too. Americans put sugar in everything, even things you'd think wouldn't need it, l
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
I agree: instead of laughing, I found myself cringing. In fact, I stopped reading it because it made me so uncomfortable.
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
Agreed: well-run startups can still compete by making smart, focused decisions. I've worked at 3 startups (5th employee, 16th employee, 2nd employee). The first one had 80 hour weeks and burned me out after a year. The company had enou
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by brian_cunnie 6y ago
> 5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. Yes, Intel chips aren't much faster now than they were 5 years ago. I vaguely remember reading on Anandtech that Haswell was the last generation that Intel wa

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