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by crgwbr 7y ago
> The very first episode of the original Battlestar Galactica had the character Starbucks using the “turbos” in his spacecraft. Those unaware might not know that turbines compress air, which outer space is sorely lacking. It’s pedantic,
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by crgwbr 7y ago
I’m personally a fan of the New World Translation [1]. It was first released in English, but has since been released in about 160 other languages as well. [1]: https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible&#
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by crgwbr 7y ago
Sigh. This is going to break a lot of sites—especially the less than clearly documented behavior of SameSite=Lax with iframe content. If I understand it correctly, iframe’d content, even from the same domain as the parent frame, won’t recei
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by crgwbr 7y ago
I run a low traffic, but fairly mission-critical web app for ~100 active users. Backend is Python 3, Django, Django Channels, Django Rest Framework. Postgres for DB, Redis as a cache and message queue. Front end is React and Typescript. Eve
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by crgwbr 7y ago
A better option would be to use aircraft or marine grade plywood—somethings that’s guaranteed not to have voids. It’ll be a lot stronger than making the teeth individually and attaching them to a round core.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
But many of the non-Turbo variants also had turbochargers. Thus, in Porsche-land turbo no longer means turbocharged.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
Interesting; things are a bit different in the US. I bought my first car at 18. It was small, a Honda Civic Si, but had 198bhp. That wasn’t a slow car by any means, but wasn’t considered especially fast either.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
“Hazmat” was the same excuse they gave me. Ridiculous considering that they shipped it to me in a normal UPS box and never warned me during checkout that it was un-returnable.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
I’ve run into this too. Earlier this summer I dropped $500 on a new LG air conditioner on Amazon. Out of the box it was covered in a layer of oil, probably from the compressor. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Despite that, Amazon refused t
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by crgwbr 7y ago
Is terraforming the moon even possible? I was under the impression it had too little gravity to ever hold onto an atmosphere. Mars, OTOH, at least already has a thin atmosphere to work with.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
It’s because us-east-1 is the oldest and by far the largest of any AWS region. Issues get caught and fixed there before they show up at other regions.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
You don’t even need a bespoke tool. Just make each container run 4–8 processes by means on something like PM2. That cuts your CI container count down to 500. No reason a container should mean 1 process.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
Calling someone who regularly risks their own life for no benefit other than thrill a lunatic is hardly “ableist”. It’s accurate.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
I’ve spent a good bit of time reading PCI requirements and I can’t think of anything that’d prevent using TOTP or Yubikey type devices. My guess is that they don’t implement it because they don’t think anyone would use it. Honestly I can’t
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by crgwbr 7y ago
I got started with programming as a teen in the 00’s. Tried to start with C++, but couldn’t make any sense of it. But then I tried BASIC running on a micro-controller doing simple stuff like blinking an LED. I think it was the perfect intro
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by crgwbr 7y ago
SPAs are often buggy, but you can’t honestly blame React/Angular for that. I’ve built and actively maintain a number of SPAs in React. With some care JS size and speed is very manageable even in mobile devices. The thing that consisten
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by crgwbr 7y ago
Uber and Lyft are far from free here. My commute home on the Subway is 1h15m and costs $2.75. By Uber/Lyft it’s 45m and costs between $38 and $80, depending on the time of day.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
Unfortunately, from what I understand, it’s more like MCD bought Boeing with Boeing’s money. Officially, Boeing bought MCD, but MCD executives, leadership, and design process replaced a lot of their Boeing redundancies.
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by crgwbr 7y ago
Because despite our best efforts, emotion is a far stronger motivator for people than reason. A cartoon like this can deeply ingrained the fear of global warming into a kid in a way that will subconsciously motivate future decisions, way mo
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by crgwbr 8y ago
> And buying a traitor always costs a lot of money. Even Judas got 30 pieces of silver. 30 silver pieces actually wasn’t much money. These are commonly thought to refer to a silver shekel. If so, it’d be 30x11.4g or 342g of silver total,
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by crgwbr 8y ago
By discussing it rationally and coming to a consensus. No one has a universal definition of ethics—such a thing is impossible for limited, innately selfish humans (which we all are). And no two people will likely ever agree on every single
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by crgwbr 8y ago
I assume you mean how null has to be compared with the IS operator instead of equality? I’ve wondered the same thing, but would making Null==Null have some strange consequences for left join operations? You could pretty easily and unintenti
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by crgwbr 8y ago
Absolutely. I’m in the midst of a project like this right now. PMs and Devs suggested a launch date of August/September but the Execs arbitrarily mandated mid-April. So, design gets rushed, Devs have to work overtime and half bake ever
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by crgwbr 8y ago
What parts of Kube did you find yourself reinventing with ECS? It’s not the most complex microservice setup, but I run around 60 services over 3 ECS clusters and have found it pretty easy and solid at this point. Only real pain point we’ve
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by crgwbr 8y ago
iMessage is popular, but that has less to do with anything Apple has done and more to do with how badly Google has failed with a messaging strategy. iMessage is popular because it works ok-enough, is the default, and is consistent. Would yo
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by crgwbr 8y ago
Agreed. A few places I’ve worked have tended to call them cycles, at least partly for that reason.
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by crgwbr 8y ago
It amazes me how many systems ( cough Heroku) leave database access open to the Internet. Is that actually acceptable in most people’s threat model? There’s no way I’d let my team deploy something like that to production.
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by crgwbr 8y ago
I guess theoretically a Lagrange point is a single point in space, but in practice, how large are they? Assuming a station with the mass of the ISS, how far from the ideal Lagrange point can you be while still maintaining a reasonably stabl
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by crgwbr 8y ago
What was the motivation for building it this way, instead of by more directly exposing PCIe? There must be some upside to they way it’s designed, no?
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by crgwbr 8y ago
USB has more more limited bandwidth constraints and, IIRC, has much higher CPU overhead and overall higher latency.

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