cagenut

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by cagenut 8y ago
growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell
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by cagenut 8y ago
> (assuming a US-style 30 year mortgage) this is a highly biased assumption (historically speaking) and we should be hard reversing the trend of longer and greater indebtedness not blindly normalizing it.
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by cagenut 8y ago
As much as I appreciate this type of content/story, its really starting to get old to read multi-paragraph descriptions with the very occasional drawing trying to tell me what the chamber looks like, when in 30 seconds of text-on-video
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by cagenut 8y ago
I've been using my Samsung Chromebook Plus for about a year now, and the answer is a fairly clear: no. Everything about it is just sluggish and laggy. The opposite of snappy. This is compounded by the fact that the AWS and GCP web in
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by cagenut 8y ago
easy for you (or I) to say
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by cagenut 9y ago
here's a good 2m30s youtube that shows 15kW one in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY3p2e1-kN4 its amazing how little there is to it, and how relatively quiet it is.
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by cagenut 9y ago
the cars are a product demo. selling batteries by the gigawatt is the real biz. GE not GM.
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by cagenut 9y ago
> The expectation was to follow this ridiculously verbose chain of command > whereby response to even a simple question could take days or even weeks. oh so they already did SOA
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by cagenut 9y ago
This article's tone and framing is negative and about failure, but imho this is just a weird capitalist winner-take-all notion of success. The numbers in the article show that millions of units were shipped and you can pretty clearly
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by cagenut 9y ago
If you're interested in the electrification of flight check out this episode of Fully Charged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1g1JrRRkY Its kindof like a "roadster" for the sky. I was really impressed by t
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by cagenut 9y ago
Mentally you need to add a big asterisk to tests of CDNs, and by extension "dns done like a cdn" from VPS provider networks (content networks). That's not where users come from (eyeball networks), and therefore not where the
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by cagenut 9y ago
to me thats almost the exception that proves the rule. if someone tells me they have a 100% SLA I write them off as a liar, but tell me you have a 99.995% SLA and have only ever had this one exception and here's why, that builds much m
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by cagenut 9y ago
more parts = more things that can go wrong
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by cagenut 9y ago
because thats not how progress is made. I want self driving car accidents to evolve like airline crash investigations not traffic fatality ones.
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by cagenut 9y ago
not a doc but a good writeup with pictures of failure testing the 'powerpack' product: https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf... I sure as shit would not want 1/10th of th
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by cagenut 9y ago
I'm a shareholder and I just voted against for basically this reason. I don't think the difference between owning 20 billion in equity and owning 25 billion in equity (or whatever) will mater to musk at all. he's fine. and
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by cagenut 9y ago
By any chance to you have any good links or books on this kind of thing? So much of continuous deployment winds up sounding remarkably like things industrial automation already has language and studies for.
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by cagenut 9y ago
"I have 5-6 weekly 1:1s with different people with no agenda." Wow, five meetings a week not even counting project or departmental recurring status meetings or random crop up ones? That would totally annihilate any hope of the uni
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by cagenut 9y ago
I paid rent as a linux sysadmin for a ~dozen years so of course I have opinions about distros, but in the years since amazon linux has been out I've almost completely left spending any mental energy at that layer behind. And now wit
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by cagenut 9y ago
its just impossible to address this question straight on, as it can only be engaged from the context of being deep in some finance-is-truth ideological rabbithole.
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by cagenut 9y ago
this is true, and why fastly is kindof like a globally distributed nearly-cache-coherent key value store that people use as a CDN. there's a great talk on how its done with a custom gossip protocol implementation: https://
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by cagenut 9y ago
dead center, first row of their home page: Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves. So 1 USD₮ is always equivalent to 1 USD.
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by cagenut 9y ago
I happen to be working on this and since there's a thread why not ask... Has anyone gotten "multi-tenant" (default-restricted) overlay network(s) working on ECS in a way that they like?
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by cagenut 9y ago
> I don’t care how many downvotes this get but how lazy can one person be. I downvoted but just to answer your question: INFINITY. INFINITY LAZY is the goal. Absolutely zero milliseconds worth of mindless toils would be my ideal number
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by cagenut 9y ago
Personal/political opinions about this aside (helllll yeaaa!) its odd that she'd file and then just be silent on social media all day. Did she/her-team not expect this public record to get noticed till next week? Where is t
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by cagenut 9y ago
I'd love to pay taxes for universal healthcare.
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by cagenut 9y ago
Meat is a big one, but its the #3 - #5ish big one depending on how you look at things (at an individual westerner vs. other lenses). Roughly in order it goes - having more kids than adults (population growth) - living in a single-fami
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by cagenut 9y ago
"Director of Operations" is valley speak for office manager
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by cagenut 9y ago
Could you elaborate? I often considered that setup but never put anything live.
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by cagenut 9y ago
The fees are "sanely" high for ICE cars in Norway. Whats "insane" is our refusal to price the pollution externalities elsewhere.

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