cranekam

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by cranekam 5y ago
I don’t understand how people are conflating recycling and climate change. I have seen more and more of this recently. Of course, virgin plastics mean consuming more fossil fuels but beyond that the two are largely separate in my mind. Recy
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by cranekam 5y ago
Fair enough. My job involved a lot of text crunching and simple ad-hoc analysis that suited awk well. “Use it or lose it” is certainly true.
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by cranekam 5y ago
Yeah, like I said: I can see how it could be useful for someone who knows only Ruby. > I never really learned awk properly myself either It's really worth it. It's simple — pattern matches and block, BEGIN/END, hashes, mat
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by cranekam 5y ago
I don't want to be That Guy who says his way is best but I can only really see this being useful for someone who knows no shell tools at all. > ps -A | grep ruby | grep fsevent | ruby-each-line "puts l.split.first" | xargs
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by cranekam 5y ago
Not running out of addresses is the primary (and significant) offering.
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by cranekam 5y ago
It's a stretch to claim this is a "migration". Facebook has used MySQL since its very early days — certainly since before Oracle acquired Sun and thus MySQL AB.
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by cranekam 5y ago
Can you explain what "energy availability" means in this context? My family lives in the UK and the lights work and the gad flows. Prices increase over time (above inflation, IIRC) but it still works, so I assume you're refer
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by cranekam 5y ago
I use chamois cream for every "serious" ride (which means anything but popping to the shops in my jeans) now. My butt used to be tougher but now I get saddle sores much more easily, particularly when riding indoors with worse vent
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by cranekam 5y ago
IMO the focus on plastics is a distraction. We'd be much better served by building buildings that last longer (I live in Switzerland and I'm surrounded by 50 year old concrete buildings being knocked down and replaced with concret
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by cranekam 5y ago
Once you need concurrency or have anything but the most basic logic almost anything trumps bash. It’s possible to implement basically anything in bash, of course, but that doesn’t make it sensible. Its error handling is poor, there are too
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by cranekam 5y ago
Deep learning/AI isn’t the solution to everything. It’s probably a lot cheaper and more reliable to pay a couple of guys to turn knobs into butterflies for 3 weeks than mess about trying to get a computers to do it effectively.
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by cranekam 5y ago
I saw a great quote recently (perhaps on HN?): "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." -- Gustavo Petro This is, for me, very true. I lived in the US and w
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by cranekam 5y ago
Honestly I'm pretty glad that Reddit's UI is so terrible. I don't need more places to waste time on the internet.
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by cranekam 5y ago
No, because that’s ridiculous. There are humans that can be cruel but I’m not saying humanity should mimic this. I’m saying that humans are much more developed than animals and can do better. Just because there are outliers that doesn’t mea
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by cranekam 5y ago
Just because other animals don’t consider the suffering of their prey isn’t an excuse for humans to do the same. Animals do what is instinctive. Humans (should) have empathy for others, including animals, and are able to make choices about
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by cranekam 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but the SNMP retransmit counters are just that: a count of retransmits the host sent. Raw retransmit counts are often just a vague indication that something's up — the host is retransmiting, either because
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by cranekam 5y ago
Facebook has a similar system, unsurprisingly. An agent runs on every host to sample 1 in N packets, accumulating counts by source/dest host/cluster/service/container/port and so on before sending the aggregate data
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by cranekam 5y ago
The difference in what’s called “light” in the US and Europe is huge. The F-150 is, to me (a European), a very substantial vehicle. Its front end is the height of a medium-sized family car!
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by cranekam 6y ago
I think the obits are all written by one person, Ann Wroe. I heard a really good interview with her a few years ago but I can't find it now. https://medium.economist.com/the-art-of-writing-an-obituary-... is reasonab
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by cranekam 6y ago
You don't need to be a Swiss citizen to work in Switzerland. EU citizens are entitled to move to CH and work there — all that's needed is a job offer. Of course, there may be issues like language to overcome (many jobs will use th
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by cranekam 6y ago
These companies build for redundancy. Not in the sense of "we need 10 servers, let's have 10 more for redundancy" (that gets expensive when you have millions of hosts) but by scaling out across multiple regions/DCs/
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by cranekam 6y ago
40 out of 17 million is 0.0002%. Surely 0.0002% of any cohort go on to develop blood clots? I'd certainly pick those odds over being unvaccinated.
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by cranekam 6y ago
> Let's not forget that approximately 20% of all UK COVID cases were caught in hospital. Not exactly the envy of the world. Do you have a source for this? How does it stack up against other countries? Is it possible a greater share
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by cranekam 6y ago
Wow, that sounds unpleasant, though as you note it’s hard to definitively attribute your condition to RC use. I agree with your last paragraph.
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by cranekam 6y ago
Most complicated writing of the kind PG is complaining about isn't beautiful, though. It's verbose and clumsy and full of less good replacements for common words, like "purchase" instead of "buy", "utilize
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by cranekam 6y ago
Can you expand on what you took and what you're experiencing now?
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by cranekam 6y ago
The extra grunt is impressive. On my old 2018 MBA playing Zwift on medium quality graphics would cause the fans to howl. My new M1 MBA will run Zwift on high quality graphics, at 2-3x the frame rate, and be 70% idle. Of course, the fans are
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by cranekam 6y ago
In that comment you assert 777s “break in half”. Where did you get this from? There has been 8 hull losses and only one “broke in half” (Asiana) after it was basically flown into the ground. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by cranekam 6y ago
How would a website know you use a password manager?
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by cranekam 6y ago
My memory is fuzzy now but this dates back to when there were only two datacenter regions and one of them held all the primary DBs (2011 or so). All write endpoints were served in that region, so if a user routed to the secondary region did

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