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by chousuke 7y ago
"Everyone says so" is not sufficient justification to accept something as true. It does indicate that there may be something to be investigated, but I personally can't even begin to believe stuff like this on someone's w
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by chousuke 7y ago
I wouldn't call the skill to ride a bike "knowledge" even though English does conflate that which you know with that which you can do. The reason I want to make the distinction explicit is that the conflation makes it easier
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by chousuke 7y ago
I'm having a bit of a hard time relating to the notion of a "voice in my head" being "vicious". I tend to think by "talking" to myself in my head, but it's more to formulate my thoughts in a format th
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by chousuke 7y ago
That last point brings to mind an idiom in Finnish. When you don't understand something, you can say "En tajua hölkäsen pöläystä". Now, the funny thing about this is that I don't think most Finns could tell you what &quo
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by chousuke 7y ago
To me, the mere act of calling the fundamental structure of the universe "fine-tuned" sounds fallacious; it seems to assume that there's any sort of tuning involved. It seems equally valid to assume that a random process exis
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by chousuke 7y ago
It depends on your workload, does it not? Generally you'll want swap to be mostly unused, so you don't need a lot, but if you want to eg. hibernate a laptop, you'll need at least as much as you have RAM to do it. Also If you
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by chousuke 7y ago
If you're just setting up a prototype environment then yes, sure, set up a VPC and go with the defaults and don't worry overmuch about what you're doing. However, when you start setting up a production environment, the story
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by chousuke 7y ago
What part of VPC networking is challenging to you? I'm genuinely interested, because I find the basics of internet (IP) routing and addressing to be very straightforward. Not trivial, certainly, but it's not black magic, and I don
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by chousuke 7y ago
In situations where using full-blown configuration management has too much overhead I often do something like this by just copying the commands I run into a script to begin with. It allows me to easily generalize a sequence of actions into
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by chousuke 7y ago
I'm vaguely aware of that, but I was thinking about life even earlier. That is, instead of having a single universal common ancestor to all life that currently exists, would it have been possible to have a set of separate strands of li
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by chousuke 7y ago
Makes me wonder, was it actually a literal "single ancestor" at any point, or are we be the result of several completely unrelated populations doing horizontal gene transfers (or whatever it would've been before actual genes
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by chousuke 7y ago
Humans are animals. This distinction is silly and I hope that kind of thinking will just die out at some point. I think it leads to hubris. In fact, if you subscribe to the (well-supported) idea that any living being can be hierarchically c
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by chousuke 7y ago
That doesn't always work. There are migration scenarios where you have to use the correct domain to be able to test everything properly.
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by chousuke 7y ago
If you're angry at the universe, try to channel that anger into action in however small a way you can think to improve the world. Emotions are a powerful motivator. The universe does not and is under no obligation to care about any of
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by chousuke 7y ago
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, not the Linux kernel. It's from a completely different lineage of operating systems.
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by chousuke 7y ago
Perhaps because it's obvious enough that the drones are being used for something useful (research) and also that the amount is so small they don't even register compared to the sheer amount of actual waste that is being constantly
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by chousuke 7y ago
This is a bit off-ropic, but I'll answer anyway. Out of curiosity, why would you associate it with atheism? Since many (most?) Christian denominations believe it's forbidden to curse in God's name, it's actually more lik
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by chousuke 7y ago
Do you actually have benchmarks and evidence showing that Wayland introduces latency over X11, or is it just a guess based on how you think Wayland works? I mean, sure it might in some cases where you can use X11 to "directly" dra
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by chousuke 7y ago
I'm a proponent of cloth rolls. Toilets need regular maintenance anyway. Perhaps an air blower would function as a backup, but I'd honestly prefer drying my hands on my clothes, since in my experience air dryers are either ineffec
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by chousuke 7y ago
I hate air dryers perhaps slightly too vehemently. I think it would be a net positive even if they were simply removed from everywhere without replacement. I'm not sure why they're so common given that they seem to only make thing
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by chousuke 7y ago
84% with no false positives. I missed mostly medical lingo, one legal term and "stitchwort" which I did suspect was a plant but I had no idea which one. This is pretty much what I expected, since as a non-native speaker; though ev
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by chousuke 7y ago
When it comes to learning, "better" is always relative to yourself only. Comparing yourself to other people is pointless, especially on a metric as non-informative as examination scores, because scoring higher than someone else do
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by chousuke 7y ago
At my workplace we run VMware over NFS served by Netapp clusters. It's very stable, performs well, is easy to manage and has functioning HA. We used to have a SAN but Netapp worked well enough that it was decommissioned. My favourite m
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by chousuke 7y ago
I've been playing around with RHEL 8 a bit at work. I like the direction. Definitely looking forward to CentOS 8. Work on eradicating old stuff continues. The "system python" setup also feels like an inspired choice which sho
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by chousuke 7y ago
Plant a new one? You can maintain a cemetery forest just like a regular one; the dead people aren't going to care, and so long as the forest maintenance is not completely neglected, why would the survivors complain either? It's no
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by chousuke 7y ago
I found it a bit puzzling too. Does someone actually bother memorizing iptables syntax? Sure, if you use it daily for a long time, some of it will stick, but it seems completely pointless to waste time explicitly learning it. I find it&#x27
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by chousuke 7y ago
I switched my desktop to Arch recently. It's decent, but I'd really only recommend it for people who want a minimal system that works just the way they want it to work, and won't mind spending time on it. There are a lot of
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by chousuke 7y ago
To me, it seems like vocabulary definitely has an effect. My native tongue is Finnish, but I find it easier to discuss (and think) some things in English because English has more specific vocabulary in certain areas. It's not that is i
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by chousuke 7y ago
Personally, I dislike air driers enough that I'd often rather dry my hands on my clothes than use one. There's something about the physical act of drying your hands on cloth that the air blowing devices are missing. I prefer the r
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by chousuke 7y ago
I run OpenBSD on my router. t's very compact and simple and you don't need Google to solve problems because the base system is thoroughly documented. It has everything I need, and nothing more. OpenBSD isn't suitable for ev

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