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by cdumler 7y ago
> It's bullshit anyway, we're seeing "a very large acceleration in cases in the U.S" because there was a very large increase in testing This is bullshit. I can tell you that here in Kansas and Missouri they have give
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by cdumler 7y ago
> I am in no way defending PornHub, but how exactly should it be [self] moderated? Bad question. Moderation isn't a solution. It's in direct conflict with its bottom line. As with anything that has serious consequences it sho
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by cdumler 7y ago
Anyone who says that there was nothing before is spouting nonsense. Any honest scientist will tell you that we don't know what happened at the Big Bag, much less before it. The math of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces wor
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by cdumler 7y ago
There is a difference between energy density and power density. Energy density is how much charge is stored in the battery. Power density is how much electricity can be delivered per period of time at a point of charge. A battery may hav
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by cdumler 7y ago
It is not an issue of "do this to fix it." It's an open secret that it is very intentional. You just have to look at the demographics with any sense of integrity. The issue is that there are people who fundamentally believ
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by cdumler 7y ago
While true the hospitals cannot turn away patients who are sick, it pretty much guarantees anyone who has any form of assets will never do so. U.S. is based on percentages, ie. company may be allowed by law to make only 20% profit. So, th
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by cdumler 7y ago
Not if the browser has been specifically given the cert. It is typical on corporate networks send all HTTP traffic to a router that acts on behalf of the outside world. If your browser (and browsers these days relying on OS installed cert
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by cdumler 7y ago
> This is true for all pioneers He wasn't a pioneer, though. It's one thing when people say it can't be physically done, and the people talking have no theoretical basis to support it. People said it would never be possib
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by cdumler 7y ago
> Good on him for being an explorer and pushing the limits. NO. Just, no. This guy willfully ignored the knowledge and expertise that came before him; both, in how to accomplish the task and the demonstratively provable physics that sh
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by cdumler 7y ago
Power and capability. Custom silicon means they can build the chip with all of the chip's surface being used for things their software needs (ie. extra surface for parallel computing and zero surface for unneeded features). They can
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by cdumler 7y ago
As they say, the first step is recognizing that you have a problem. It's wonderfully adult of you to consider it. The cool thing is that you're going to find out that not only do you have this problem, you likely have more than
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by cdumler 7y ago
Consent requires no coercion, meaning that both parties are fully informed of all relevant information and both are in a legal capacity to do so. It is guaranteed that employees are not in a position to be fully informed because they will
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by cdumler 7y ago
You are thinking of Wrong Warping. Super Mario Bros has, in essence, only one idea for warping out of the level: a table of destinations based on the screen's X location. When you pass an entry, the next entry becomes hot. If an exi
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by cdumler 7y ago
> the only reason that anyone is giving you a paycheck is because they are getting value in excess of the amount they're paying you If by value you mean political value, yes. If by value you mean return to the company for the compe
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by cdumler 7y ago
It's called aquihire: you buy the company to redirect the talent and bury the product.
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by cdumler 7y ago
I cannot not stress this enough. One of the things I do to mentor talent is to affirm two things: First, the relationship is a merely a meeting of minds. If it's useful for you to be around and they find you useful to be around then
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by cdumler 7y ago
A language that truly supports null has monadic types, meaning that typed value (scalar, string, object, etc) or something else is specifically tracked (null, undefined, etc). Languages that do not natively support that often have develope
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by cdumler 7y ago
In my opinion, it's just a consequence of the culture of stack ranking. The only thing that promotes you is if you deliver something. Not supporting something well. Not having an established, loyal customer base. Or, even if you pr
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by cdumler 7y ago
The reason why normal matter forms disks is because of electromagnetic repulsion: electromagnetic atoms naturally resist being in the same place as another atom. There becomes a tension between the repulsion to not stack up and gravity to
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by cdumler 7y ago
Whatever you _can_ do. Consider your footprint and ask yourself what can you reduce in fuel, energy and water usage. An immediate contributor is eating meat, which is crazy energy intensive.
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by cdumler 7y ago
We don't _have_ journalism in the Unite States any more. We have a product to generate clicks and eyeballs so that ads can be sold.
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by cdumler 7y ago
Generally speaking, empires are negative entities. The work because they took advantage of being first (or first to be successful) and used that advantage to absorb the wealth of those they conquer. While a lot of productive things can co
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by cdumler 7y ago
It's well known in business that ads are generally dubious at best and likely mostly a fraud. Unfortunately, there isn't an alternative than doing all the work in-house. And, if you're good enough to do it in-house to make
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by cdumler 7y ago
What's the emergency? Climate change, animal cruelty, piss-poor management of resources for the production of our food. Good grief, we're _well_ behind the curve for getting things changed in our society and world. I agree with
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by cdumler 7y ago
How else do you think I keep my reputation as a miracle worker? -- Scotty
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by cdumler 7y ago
I bought a DCP-8085DN years ago and it's been zero maintenance. What you really want to consider is getting a business class printer laser printer. They're expected to handle a real load, so they last. Look at the software conn
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by cdumler 7y ago
Reminds me of the time locally when group of people tried to change a local river's name from "Fishkill" to "Fishsave." The name Fishkill is Dutch for creek/river of fish.
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by cdumler 7y ago
I will at my two cents: I've been very happily using Restic and B2 for a long time. It's cheaper than the unlimited service given I have ~600GB stored. Plus, it's a "real" backup: on-going series of snapshots, old
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by cdumler 7y ago
> If I don't do this, when I come back to the code an hour later Good coding means two things, in general: * There is no more understandable comment than no comment needed. The code should explain _what_ it is doing as close as poss
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by cdumler 7y ago
You are asking a very generic question without really stating what environment you are using. The ability to "rollback" is really a statement of how you have defined your deployments. A good environment really should have a few

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