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by cbsmith 3y ago
It depends on the magazine (and the newspaper), but I'd generally agree with that perspective.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I was more reflecting on newspapers not being mentioned at all as a news source. ABC World News Tonight, This Week, and Frontline are all TV sources, and Time Magazine is a pretty different beast. Back in the day newspapers and radio were p
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That is, oddly, precisely the reason I've pushed for Kafka in certain environments... and the push back was that "Kafka isn't enterprise". ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I always find the "it's enterprise" statement so humourous, given how much time I've had to invest in convincing enterprises that Kafka wasn't some weird fly-by-night technology that couldn't provide for the de
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Right. Kafka is a database. ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It was both, and none of them completely addressed the problem. They did need new hardware for that.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Not newspapers?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Oh, that goes way back before CNN and cable, or even TV. As an aside, 99% invisible had a pretty good podcast on how radio (which delivers news to more Americans -and is trusted more- than TV) content has changed over the years. https:&#x2
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> But we'd be way better off if "the news" was something you could watch from 7 PM - 8 PM if you were interested, or something you could read in a printed newspaper if you were really interested, and otherwise the general
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That's basically my experience, except in my case my Chromebook is from Framework. ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The impression I have is that they have deliberately removed a lot of the knobs, so I'd speculate that you can't tweak the buffer/flush rate. However, that's just my speculation.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I'm running it from the Linux environment. Works like a charm.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
This is continuing the trend of cloud pricing driving system designs more than the underlying hardware. AWS overcharges for inter-AZ traffic between EC2 instances, but undercharges for inter-AZ traffic between EC2 instances and S3. It makes
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The way Kafka works, it naturally buffers & coalesces messages even before they get to the brokers, so yes, of course the messages are being coalesced. There is no problem with "just" running a Kafka cluster in each AZ and onl
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by cbsmith 3y ago
"Linkedin built Kafka for massive-scale problems that 99% of us don't have." What a tool is built for is not the same as what it is good for is not the same as what it is used for... and just like people spend an inordinate a
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by cbsmith 3y ago
This is an interesting article to read on a Firefox browser running on ChromeOS... that has been installed since I first got the machine.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The marketing piece explains why you might want them to let them have these rights. The TOS are what you're giving up in exchange.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
With a microkernel model, most of those drivers would run in user space, not kernel space. So it's possible for the device drivers to be large but the GNU HURD kernel itself to be much smaller than the Linux kernel.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Or, you know, use ephemeral data storage with your brokers like the good folks intended...
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I've never heard of EXWM. That looks great.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I remember Sawfish!
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Everyone remember ol' GWM? https://tronche.com/gui/x/gwm/html-manual/overview.html
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I remember these. I used to sell computers back in the day, and the DLC3's were notoriously "different" and therefore "buggy" with certain software. Not as bad as the later Blue Lightning chips that were based on Cy
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by cbsmith 3y ago
This is a classic example of where "Shibboleet" would avoid problems.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> And tragically, I don't remember this ever being reported in the US at the time. It was reported. It's just those facts didn't get in the way of portraying her as a vapid attention-seeker.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Picking it up doesn't mean it's your career path. You learn a lot from your parents, including bits about their careers, but I'd say such learnings add to your career choices rather than dictate them.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I'm sorry, I didn't intend it to be. I was genuinely confused and was concerned I was missing something (which turned out to be the case).
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I think I understand the nature of your thinking. You're presuming a fixed demand for labour, regardless of how much value it provides. Imagine if, for a moment, productivity increased to the point where one person could do all current
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I am shocked, shocked! that a headline comparing data from a seemingly arbitrary date with today might be cherry picking data.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
So if employees are more productive, you would naturally expect all of the benefits of that increased productivity to go to their employers? I'm curious as to your reasoning about why people do anything other than the absolute minimum

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