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by cranekam 6y ago
In general the UK government websites are excellent. They have a largely consistent UI, good use of links, and straightforward prose. An example picked at random: https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns
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by cranekam 6y ago
I wasn’t talking about Kubernetes being capitalised. I know that’s a proper noun and deserves capitalisation. I didn’t intend to confuse on this point. Although & means “and” they are generally used differently. & is used in place
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by cranekam 6y ago
> Note: If you are comfortable with Kubernetes and scaling out clusters for big data jobs & the parallel workloads described below, godspeed! Probably my pedantic side showing through but I find reading text where ampersand is used i
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by cranekam 6y ago
Great explanations! It’s really silly that seat tube length is used as the single measure of frame size. Much more important is reach and standover height, since those can’t easily be changed. A longer or shorter stem will adjust reach at t
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by cranekam 6y ago
I have no actual information about this migration but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the databases that are being consolidated are for some minor role or are separate instances with duplicate data for analytics or whatever. It sounds
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by cranekam 6y ago
Ugh right you are. I misread the whois output and didn't stop to consider how realistic a /12 was. This is embarrassing.
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by cranekam 6y ago
Ah, well if that’s the case then I apologise. My bad!
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by cranekam 6y ago
FB has 2a00::/12 (and probably other blocks?) and can make something that looks like its company name from [0-9a-f]. Why wouldn't it do something harmless and fun like this? It's not as if it requires special dispensation or
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by cranekam 6y ago
More than 50% of people drive to work in NYC? That is completely bonkers.
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by cranekam 6y ago
It doesn't have AC. The network is over 100 years old and built to a small loading gauge, which limits the size of the trains and ancillary like AC units. This is unlikely to change without absolutely vast sums of money being thrown at
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by cranekam 6y ago
> combustion engines fumes make up for a tiny fraction of carbon emissions Not true. Transport (road/sea/air) accounts for 29% of US emissions. That’s hardly “tiny”. Of that, 59% is from light duty road transport. Burning fossi
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by cranekam 6y ago
Not really "already" since the attack became known in January, before Covid-19 decimated the industry. Were you suggesting that they were already struggling? They made a profit of over £400M in 2019 so it doesn't sound like t
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by cranekam 6y ago
Just curious: what kind of anomaly detection are you looking for? Can you describe the kind of thing you'd want this system to detect?
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by cranekam 6y ago
> Somehow we've ended up with privately owned and founded rocket companies, which are higher entry in cost than airplanes. Are you sure? There's a big difference between building single-purpose, unmanned rockets and commercial
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by cranekam 6y ago
Over time, perhaps. But we don't have time. Where are the low-methane cows? The low-carbon flights? When will cement pollute less? Why are we still generating 61% of power with coal and gas [0]? Part of the answer to all of these thing
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by cranekam 6y ago
No. Political will is the only way out. Technology alone is not going to help when politics is geared to subsidize dirty fuel, permit polluting industry and avoid economic interventions that would help, like carbon taxes.
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by cranekam 6y ago
Okay, so let's imagine I want to send you an email using SMTP, which runs over TCP, and we have to cross this cable. TCP has a lot of state: first we need to agree on terms like window size and sequence numbers, and then you and I need
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by cranekam 6y ago
> On the backbone nothing uses TCP, not even IP. It's all BGP or other proprietary formats. Do what? "The backbone" usually refers to the core networks internet service providers and so on use. They carry whatever higher-l
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by cranekam 6y ago
Firstly, where did you get 0.1-0.2 degrees (did you mean C or F?) from? We are currently 0.98C above 1951-1980 averages [0], and presumably a bit more above pre-industrial times. Secondly, as for measurably different: there are a million ar
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by cranekam 6y ago
David Wallace-Well's "The Uninhabitable Earth" covers some of these points, though they're exaggerated here (don't get me wrong: the unexaggerated versions in the book are still fucking terrifying). Guardian review
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by cranekam 6y ago
This is so depressing. Covid is obviously terrible (and I’m one of the fortunate ones for whom it has barely touched) and but at least it has temporarily distracted me from dwelling on the unfolding climate disaster. When is humanity going
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by cranekam 6y ago
> Evolution [..] has a bad data loss bug. It sometimes deletes the email body text in the compose window after changing the signature [..] it has bitten me about twice a month for the last two years. and > I might have been able to pa
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by cranekam 6y ago
No, I think it's more part of how to run a complex system with a lot of people changing stuff at once. Having good monitoring, kill switches, staged rollout, continuous deployment, and so on are all things that contribute more making a
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by cranekam 7y ago
Yeah, I know this one is incorrect. I wasn’t sure whether to include it or not but decided to because I think people generally say it for the same reason as the others: to sound fancy.
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by cranekam 7y ago
Definitely agree here. In addition, I am reasonably literate and understand all the uncommon words people use instead of everyday ones but I find reading windy prose is tiring . "I purchased a house", "we utilized the spoon&
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by cranekam 7y ago
The UK bank Monzo has a great page about tone of voice with many of the same ideas: https://monzo.com/tone-of-voice/ Also, The Economist has really great English. Despite being quite well-known for using very obscure w
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by cranekam 7y ago
I worked at a FAANG and every now and then someone proposed or tried to make an anomaly detection system. They never worked well. It’s an extremely difficult thing to get right. Better to just have good monitoring of whether your system is
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by cranekam 7y ago
Because with tens or hundreds of thousands of racks it would be a full-time job to go through such alerts. Some are likely real (hi broken wheels) and some almost certainly aren't (hi someone training a ML model). And users don't
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by cranekam 7y ago
> * why do the racks have wheels at all? Doesn't seem like a standard build, and turns out the be risky They probably aren't "standard" in any kind of common sense. Google and the other big tech firms design their own
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by cranekam 7y ago
Then you should wash them at the first chance and avoid touching your face. The only way to be safe here is to seal yourself into a room and avoid all exposure. Since that’s probably not possible the next best thing is to just do the best y

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