cranekam

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by cranekam 6y ago
Yes, Strava's main mistake IMO was not differentiating enough between free and premium versions. I am a long time subscriber because I like the social aspects of Strava but I almost never use the premium features. The basic free plan d
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by cranekam 6y ago
If this was a concern other fast-response helicopter services wouldn’t work. As well as the common helicopter air ambulance services used in many countries, helicopters are used on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to drop lifeguards next to pe
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by cranekam 6y ago
Facebook operates a vast global network connecting its datacenters and points of presence (POPs). When you connect to Facebook from, say, Tokyo your HTTPS connection is terminated in a local point of presence (likely in Tokyo or somewhere i
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by cranekam 6y ago
None of those will compare to climate change. All of those events, bad as they were, were over in the relatively short term. Climate change is going to be all of that, a hundred times worse, and whatever anyone does at the time isn't g
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by cranekam 6y ago
The whole piece has a slightly annoying flippant tone to it. We were drunk! Computers just.. do this stuff sometimes! Better to sound contrite and boring in such a situation IMO. Also I agree with other comments: doing some work after a gla
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by cranekam 6y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by cranekam 6y ago
What in particular makes them ugly for you? I have a pair of second generation AirPods and find them neither ugly nor particularly beautiful. I like them because they work really well. They sound good, they’re compact, and the integration w
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by cranekam 6y ago
A bunch of people have said it already but I have to add my voice in the hope the message is heard: humans don't need tons of protein. Most sources list less than a gram per kilo of bodyweight per day, e.g.: https://www.nutr
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by cranekam 6y ago
Switzerland is perhaps an example of this. There's no president — the head of the federal government is a 7-member Federal Council elected by the parliament, with representation proportional to parliament. This means that politics is g
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by cranekam 6y ago
OP might have been referring to the hours of police/officials/advertising caravan that precede the riders. You can’t just show up 10 minutes before the race passes. On a typical mountain stage the roads are closed mid-morning so a
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by cranekam 6y ago
Highly unlikely. Firstly, the last flat stage is a procession and the leader is accepted as winner by convention. Secondly, it’s highly unlikely that the second place rider on the general classification could even get time on the leader. Th
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by cranekam 6y ago
We need political will and regulation. A carbon tax will dissuade emitting carbon and steer investment into low carbon technology. Unfortunately, given our short-term political landscape, this looks highly unlikely to happen. Nuclear: yes,
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by cranekam 6y ago
Well, so much the worse then. This stuff is happening right in front of us and we’re still doing ~nothing about it.
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by cranekam 6y ago
Move along, nothing to see here. How many more scary warning signs will we need to see before taking climate change seriously?
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by cranekam 6y ago
1) Banking secrecy in Switzerland isn't what it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Switzerland#Banking... 2) The Swiss wealth tax is only charged on Swiss tax residents, so corrupt politicians who stash
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by cranekam 6y ago
“We gotta go to space!” is an impractical and frustrating response to climate change. Getting the human population off this planet and finding somewhere else for us to live is orders of mangnitude harder than fixing things on the planet for
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by cranekam 6y ago
Replacing the cassette and chainrings every time you replace the chain is excessive. Chains wear most quickly so have the shortest lifespan. I generally replace the chain when it’s worn by 1/16th of an inch over 24 links (see https:&#
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by cranekam 6y ago
Sharing an internet connection isn’t enough for ads tracking, otherwise everyone behind the same NAT would get the same ads.
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by cranekam 6y ago
Are you sure you haven’t previously searched for window gates? Searching for things is so second nature by now that half the time we don’t even know we’re doing it. Also, WhatsApp is definitely e2e encrypted. I worked there and saw the impl
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by cranekam 6y ago
I think the point here is that it's not as trivial as having an offline copy of your SQL DB or whatever. If the ransomware has encrypted a huge chunk of your infra the chances are that you no longer have anything to restore the backup
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by cranekam 6y ago
Each capsule contains 5-7g of coffee ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nespresso ), so that's roughly 35-50 capsules per 250g bag of ground coffee. Even if the recycling scheme was used by all consumers (highly unlike
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by cranekam 6y ago
> “a woman’s place is [in] the home raising the kids” This is something that is commonly said here but I don’t have any data on whether people believe it or not. There are, however, some structural reasons why women may stay at home to r
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by cranekam 6y ago
Well, we can't reverse that now. We need to find other ways to deal with it because what we're doing now is failing everyone.
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by cranekam 6y ago
All fallout from the war on drugs. I wish lawmakers would see that prohibition does nothing to curb drug production and use. It just pushes everything underground where a vast market is controlled by ruthless gangs who think nothing of tort
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by cranekam 6y ago
Maybe, though again I would expect an alert for the process being dead would also not uncover this particular issue. It's possible someone would notice that there was insufficient alerting then go back to add something which would have
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by cranekam 6y ago
But how, exactly? Sure, the chaos monkey could kill haproxy-server-state-management but that wouldn't uncover the bug in question — it'd just demonstrate that without it running HA proxy's view of the world goes stale, which
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by cranekam 6y ago
Why? Because this stuff is in the kernel and thus harder to see? I don’t expect moving it to userspace to reduce overall complexity —- just move it elsewhere.
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by cranekam 6y ago
It’s often not as easy as deploy -> immediate problem -> rollback. Problems can take a while to diagnose, or may cause some kind of poisoning that needs to be fixed (eg rebuild a lost or corrupt cache), or be in some part of the syste
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by cranekam 6y ago
> My understanding is that the bulk of the US's arable land (i.e., the Midwest) won't be much affected by climate change. It might move sideways, but it won't turn into desert. From David Wallace-Wells's "The Uni
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by cranekam 6y ago
Another +1 for Selenium. I used it to bag tickets for a show I wanted to see. The seller’s site was terrible and apparently had no protection against ticket spinners so all 5,000 tickets sold out in minutes. Fortunately their resale site al

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