calinet6

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by calinet6 11y ago
I'll just re-post the same comment I posted on the original posting of this... I take offense to idea of speed as a priority, though not necessarily to the whole article. > All else being equal, the fastest company in any market wil
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by calinet6 11y ago
Also, looking for proof in a complex system will often lead you down the path of least resistance (the path for which it's easiest to find supporting proof; not necessarily the best path). So asking for proof is just evidence of a lack
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by calinet6 11y ago
Synology DSM has great auto-update systems :) But, absolutely correct.
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Both systems have their downsides. The simpler system generally has fewer, and that makes it preferable in many ways. But there could also be a different simple system that has fewer downsides. It's important to first think of the acti
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by calinet6 11y ago
Shrug. I've got about 1.5 TB from the last ten or twelve years, and I do often go back through the organized albums and events. Often it's to find something specific, often just looking for something good, often just for nostalgia
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by calinet6 11y ago
Just a +1 for the Synology NAS products. I'm frequently amazed every time I use it how clean the UI is and how they basically implemented a full window manager for the underlying Linux system in a web app. It's exactly what a NAS
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by calinet6 11y ago
There's also a significant unknown cost from the level of uncertainty surrounding the effect of climate change. It could be drastic, or it could be mild. We don't know, but we're rolling the dice anyway due to inaction.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Given the general rate of change and the impact even half this effect could have on climate, with a huge amount of hand waving, I'm inclined to fully support this assumption just so we have a slim chance of getting it 12% handled befor
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by calinet6 11y ago
The complexity of climate patterns doesn't preclude both happening at once.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Wow. Flagged out. This site really is humor antagonistic, to its great detriment.
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by calinet6 11y ago
I take offense to idea of speed as a priority, though not necessarily to the whole article. > All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win. All else is never equal when speed is the driving factor. I have never se
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by calinet6 11y ago
Sometime in the future, in a book... "And thus it was learnt that on the twentieth repetition, company-wide emails cease their function, having been seen and imprinted many times, as it was with the boy who cried wolf. But with the exp
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by calinet6 11y ago
I've experienced slow admin/internal UIs that were so slow and inefficient they brought down the consumer site... and yes, I'm talking algorithmically. Processing data in triple nested loops because it was "quick and eas
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by calinet6 11y ago
For sure. But that's a far more nuanced argument than "twice as fast." :)
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Neither are strictly correct in isolation. Of course the complexity matters, and of course the coefficient and reality factors matter. Often focusing on a core algorithm that's far too complex will save you time, money, and grief down
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by calinet6 11y ago
> Naturally, if you can look at a program which is now twice as fast and be unimpressed you are looking at the wrong metric. Or, a computer scientist would say, the right one. The actual speed doesn't matter as much as the complexit
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by calinet6 11y ago
Agree, this is an awful long article for a bug report. Sure, it's a bad bug, but it's still a bug. Treating Apple like they wronged us morally isn't exactly the most effective path to a timely solution.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Sadly, I think there are some confounding factors to the lack of success in this story. If this is the same manner in which the author communicates a scientific theory to the community, it's not exactly surprising it hasn't been r
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by calinet6 11y ago
This is exactly the reason. Properly exposed with a camera, you cannot see stars near the moon. This is exactly the same effect. There are probably not any stars of high enough magnitude to be visible on the same exposure with such a bright
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by calinet6 11y ago
I think of this like local vs. global maxima. Competition is one local maxima, but personally I believe cooperative systems are the global maxima. However, cooperation is more complex, more difficult, and perhaps contrary to human nature. D
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by calinet6 11y ago
Putting something else in orbit is the hard part.
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by calinet6 11y ago
When/if superchargers are as common as gas stations (which, to be fair, is a completely realistic expectation for a point where electric cars are common) this will be a non-issue. Early adopters have early adopter difficulties. This ar
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Unsurprisingly, such a person exists; though it probably differs by region and various other factors.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Six Sigma and Agile are indeed at pretty opposite sides of the spectrum. Deming -- W. Edwards Deming, that is -- is somewhere in the middle, around the right balance. He advocated for spreading a philosophy of systems thinking, scientific m
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by calinet6 11y ago
Systemic quality focus would be a good start. Deming-based management philosophy driving a systems-oriented model. This actually applies to all businesses; speed improves, market fit improves (quality is just "what is good and valuable
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There it is. Clear.
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One of the best classes I took in college CS was the database class, where we dove into the internals of Postgres and learned how the core CS concepts we had learned the year prior applied in real life. It was a great lightbulb moment that
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You surely would, if it was appropriate. And if it is to be a system font, it will be used for body text as well. Not too different from Myriad in that context anyway.
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It enables the lyricism of the song! Even more beautiful. That actually makes a lot of sense, thanks for pointing it out.
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Never have I read more love between the lines of such an intelligent, thorough, and obtuse criticism. Nowhere will you find more humanity than the impossibility of perfection, and what is poetry but the shared search for that humanity? Impe

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