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by cmckn 5y ago
Yikes, so much for that; getting it running is like building a model airplane: https://docs.pixelfed.org/running-pixelfed/prerequisites.htm...
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by cmckn 5y ago
Seems really cool, I'm going to spin up an instance. Their homepage is a bit odd though; very low density and you have to scroll alllll the way down to find the "Run your own server, or join one" links.
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by cmckn 5y ago
For what it’s worth, I did have a candidate in the primary that I liked a lot. I think all of my friends did too. They didn’t get elected, but I also did nothing outside of casting the ballot to help get them elected. (And, part of caring a
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by cmckn 5y ago
A ton of Americans think of it as a lesser of two evils; because many (most?) Americans have the luxury of being comfortable. They don’t really think about politics, they don’t really have policy wants/needs. It’s just sensationalism
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by cmckn 5y ago
I think this stems from the perception that the US federal government is monolithic, secretive, and imperceptible. The reality is that it's wildly diverse, staffed by "everyday" Americans, takes place almost entirely in the o
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by cmckn 5y ago
> Why can't they just have a .dropboxignore file? Seriously though, this can't possibly be THAT much more difficult than fragile attributes on a filesystem node. If someone at Dropbox is reading: please, I beg of you.
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by cmckn 5y ago
Oh no, my point was just that I’d be wary of getting in a small plane, and Cirrus was the craft mentioned in the article. I remember seeing a lot of them at this airport (though they’re probably outnumbered by Cesna’s, lots of small-time fl
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by cmckn 5y ago
I've spent a decent amount of time at Centennial; it's one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country. There's a great restaurant on site that you can watch the runways from. After this incident, the restaurant i
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by cmckn 5y ago
"years ago" as in 2008, when the whitepaper was released. Wasting energy, but make it competitive. And the grift is simply astounding.
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by cmckn 5y ago
> months away This is optimistic, to say the least. I think ETH2 is a great idea, and is headed in a great direction; but if you take a look at any of the client implementations (Prysm being the most popular), it's not exactly rock-
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by cmckn 5y ago
The worst part of renting is moving into a new place and having to start the journey of cancelling the Penny Saver subscription of a tenant that lived there a decade ago. Most of these subscriptions can't even be truly cancelled; they
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by cmckn 5y ago
I totally take your point, but frankly, I’m not interested in convincing someone who would avoid the vax because of the (minor, very manageable) side effects. I’ll let the public health folks tackle that one ;) I honestly hoped I had more s
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by cmckn 5y ago
The vaccines target specific (and multiple) regions of the spike protein, so a given mutation of the protein is not likely to make a vaccine null and void (hence the current success of the vaccines against variants). A "natural"
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by cmckn 5y ago
Well said, thanks. I get squeamish when statistics are used on “the sexes” because no one is “average” and outliers exist in huge numbers when you’ve got billions of us walking around. Socially, shifting away from assumptions based on pheno
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by cmckn 5y ago
You could think of it that way, but funds such as those created by the lottery are less discretionary than the general fund -- so isn't this a good thing?
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by cmckn 5y ago
Depends on your state, but I guarantee the information is available to you. You can ask your state representative for more information if you're curious. Here's the 2020 financial report for WA's lottery: https://w
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by cmckn 6y ago
The clinical trial in question: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04756531 The related intravenous antiviral: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04535167
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by cmckn 6y ago
This SARS-CoV-2 protease inhibitor is the latest scientific overlap of COVID and HIV -- I am so hopeful that cross pollination will (continue to) lead to breakthroughs for both diseases.
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by cmckn 6y ago
I grew up in Alabama, and remember a few times a summer seeing the "mosquito truck" drive by, spraying pesticide as I played in the yard. I guess it works!
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by cmckn 6y ago
I still have a couple of the cheat sheets my study group compiled -- they're so fun to look back on. One for Computer Organization is almost unintelligible to me now; we were so proud of the density of that sucker.
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by cmckn 6y ago
I wouldn't say that, they just didn't provide open access to their feature branches before they were merged (or "production-ready", however you want to put it).
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by cmckn 6y ago
Eh, I don't think open source necessarily implies open development. Being able to look at and modify the source code of the software I use is the bar for "open source" for me; I don't expect every organization to do all
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by cmckn 6y ago
Needing to pee while on the road isn’t totally unique to Amazon drivers; and decades of anti-homeless policies mean there are very few places in many cities where you can just run in to use the bathroom. Many of these drivers operate in the
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by cmckn 6y ago
Funny you should ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661223
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by cmckn 6y ago
If my program needs more than a couple arguments, I prefer a YAML configuration file. I usually try to enable environment variable substitution in that file. This makes configuration more natural when/if the program is run in a contain
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by cmckn 6y ago
I'm aware, I was referring to the core binary, `nats-server`. NATS streaming server seems to be still receiving attention, but the client library (for Java) hasn't been committed to since 2019, so I'm not sure I'd build
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by cmckn 6y ago
I haven't assumed anything of the sort, I said I loved the software and wished it was easier to use in what is considered a "modern" environment.
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by cmckn 6y ago
I"m not sure I understand your question; NATS streaming server (built on top of NATS) supports persistence to disk, a raft group, a SQL table, etc. and it appears the various storage implementations have mechanisms [0] to delete or com
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by cmckn 6y ago
Not the same guarantees, no: > messages from a given single publisher will be delivered to all eligible subscribers in the order in which they were originally published. There are no guarantees of message delivery order amongst multiple
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by cmckn 6y ago
Hadoop launched in 2006, the same year as AWS' cloud portfolio. HBase showed up in 2008. Many of the hiccups with running Hadoop and friends in containers or on cloud VM's boils down to how hostnames are resolved and advertised; n

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