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by bshipp 3y ago
It amazes me that reading PC vs Mac vs Linux arguments sound the exact same today as they did 20 years ago. PC is too bloated and intrusive, Mac is too expensive with limited software options, Linux is user-unfriendly but great for servers.
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by bshipp 3y ago
My personal server is a 9900K with 64GB ram and normally around 35 various docker containers running on it. It's very rare to see it ever above 10% CPU utilization. For example, I host between 5-10 minecraft servers for my kids, but th
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by bshipp 3y ago
I'm not certain, but looking at that site it appears that the 2nd edition is the R version, whereas there is only one edition of the Python version.
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by bshipp 3y ago
It has nothing to do with me supporting those actions two centuries ago. I'm just describing history. Were the same tribes in charge of the same land for the past 10000 years, or did borders fluctuate depending on intertribal wars for
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by bshipp 3y ago
Go back far enough and you'll discover that, at some point in the past, all land was one taken through force without compensation by one conqueror or another.
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by bshipp 3y ago
Excellent post. I'd also argue that the Excel team would do the data analysis world a huge favor by eliminating the "General" datatype interpolation guesswork Excel does when pasting data or opening a CSV file. I'm convi
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by bshipp 3y ago
I enjoy using SQL but the idea of using it instead of Excel to visually explore and manipulate data makes me wince. I can do without Word or PowerPoint but Excel, despite all its data handling warts, remains an exceptionally powerful tool f
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by bshipp 3y ago
This rural/urban divide is probably a dynamic worth exploring regardless of region. The relative anonymity of large urban areas provides very different incentives toward maintaining personal integrity than in a small rural town where r
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by bshipp 3y ago
Medicine, biology, and even quantum physics could be argued to not be science by your standard because they often aren't explicitly deterministic. The authors are using the scientific method to evaluate population differences. How else
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by bshipp 3y ago
The emoji is certainly problematic, but it wasn't the sole piece of evidence regarding the contract. "The buyer, Kent Mickleborough, later spoke with Swift Current farmer Chris Achter on the phone and texted a picture of a contrac
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by bshipp 3y ago
I've worked in agriculture all my life and a case like this doesn't surprise me in the least, nor does the inevitable responses in social media that infantalize farmers as dumb hicks who have to be protected from themselves. If yo
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by bshipp 3y ago
If this is the first time you've interacted with a buyer/seller, absolutely you'd need clarification. But if they've been dealing together for years and the farmer has previously responded--and delivered--on a text messa
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by bshipp 3y ago
Precisely. The use of the emoji was tangential to the evidence that contracts between these two parties had previously been negotiated via text messages. > "The Court of King's Bench decision said a grain buyer with South West
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by bshipp 3y ago
I've worked in agriculture all my life and a case like this doesn't surprise me in the least, nor does the inevitable responses in social media that infantalize farmers as dumb hicks who have to be protected from themselves. If yo
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by bshipp 3y ago
SQLite can be awesome for huge data sets as I've rarely found anything that can ingest data as rapidly but, as with any database, it requires some specific tweaking to get the most out of it. The biggest headache is the single write li
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by bshipp 3y ago
It'd be cathartic if our kids referred to a gigantic financial blunder in the billions of dollars as pulling an "Elon".
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by bshipp 3y ago
> Why is this true? If someone is making $200k and leaving to make $350k, an employer may well be able to afford the $100k for 6 months to prevent them from immediately handing over IP, but not be able to match the $350k their new employ
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by bshipp 3y ago
If companies actually paid employees not to compete they would be able to keep them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but--at least where I live--non-competes lack legal authority (even before they were outlawed) because most companies don&#x2
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by bshipp 3y ago
I agree, but if we are incorporating the opportunity cost of free-riding 3rd-party users than Reddit also needs to incorporate the opportunity cost of losing thousands of unpaid moderators who keep the site running. I can't imagine the
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by bshipp 3y ago
> i can fork half of github and it wont mean much without maintenance Well....yeah? open source doesn't mean you don't have to do anything to make it work. Many times I've forked a project, cleaned up maintenance issues so
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by bshipp 3y ago
For sure, and I haven't moderated in a few years so perhaps the internal reddit tools have improved since I last used them. They used to be pretty basic and cruddy. The moderation team I was a part of relied pretty heavily on the moder
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by bshipp 3y ago
> the free API never enabled a moderation tool that automatically detected and removed gore or child porn I have no idea what subreddits are using these days, but I'm familiar with spambot, that compared any submitted image against
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by bshipp 3y ago
I'm not an aggrieved moderator, but I am someone who has moderated in the past and used the third-party tools and bots that allowed a subreddit to remain focused on a specific topic. I don't think you recognize how much random spa
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by bshipp 3y ago
Apologies, I likely clicked the wrong comment to reply. I agree with you, it's impossible for Reddit to provide that missing functionality. The moderation teams on some popular subreddits are almost the size of the entire paid Reddit a
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by bshipp 3y ago
Pushshift.io used to host a complete repository for Reddit. I think there were archives on the internet archive as well. There are numerous torrents with terabytes of text content for training AIs. Perhaps they might lock it down going forw
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by bshipp 3y ago
I've only moderated small subreddits and even I know the chaos that results from not having bot-driven subreddit management tools. You may hate Automoderator when it deletes your carefully crafted post for whatever reason, but I guaran
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by bshipp 3y ago
If they're broke than they should have first stopped self-hosting videos and images. I can't believe their API call cost is more excessive than their video and image hosting costs.
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by bshipp 3y ago
Reddit management already did this when they began self-hosting all images and videos. It's pretty disingenuous to complain about excessive API call costs when you voluntarily decided to pay for hosting and streaming Petabytes of video
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by bshipp 3y ago
Reddit was not a clear alternative to Digg, but it only took a short while for the transition to occur. it's not the consuming user base that needs to transition, but the moderators who are willing to manage subreddits and users who sp
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by bshipp 3y ago
The bots enabled by the free api was what allowed Reddit to transition from a small hangout into "the front page of the internet". Without the bots and tools enabled by the free api the site will rapidly devolve into a cesspool l

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