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by crznp 8y ago
The NTSB investigation for the 1999 sinking of a duck boat has concluded [0]: > Until reserve buoyancy retrofits are completed the Board recommended immediate actions to mitigate the danger for vessels without adequate reserve buoyancy i
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by crznp 9y ago
If you want to hear the story in song form (and French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAlnL8JHetY
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by crznp 9y ago
Hmm... I'm tempted to say you should be looking at the number of squares uncovered, M. If you got a good first click, you wouldn't want to waste it on unnecessary risk. If you got a bad first click, you'd want to keep guessin
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by crznp 9y ago
> First, that I'd have to manually scan through all the articles anyway, just in case the classifier made a mistake and maybe dumped an article I found intensely interesting in the uninteresting pile. But I'm sure there are int
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by crznp 9y ago
Mainly network, as others have said. But there are also scientific applications that are more appropriate for distributed computing (don't need the fast interconnect), but get run on supercomputers anyway because of data locality (post
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by crznp 10y ago
It seems like a carrot and a stick because it also reinforces the "SpaceX is special" narrative.
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by crznp 10y ago
Cars are designed so that you stop the car by pressing the brake pedal, so that is generally the better way to do it. * 4-wheel braking, even if it is a 2wd car. * ABS/Traction control systems are designed around brakes, not engine bra
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by crznp 10y ago
Cray invests a lot in their interconnect; if you aren't using it, there is little reason to be on a Cray. Which just emphasizes the point that most applications would be better served by cheaper, more resilient hardware.
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by crznp 11y ago
It sounds like you are thinking of this being a tool for testing deployment configuration, but I could also see using it for internal test environments. The qc person adds the test CA to their browser, if they see "untrusted connection
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by crznp 11y ago
I see a rock star dev as the guy that seems the best from the outside: most likely because he completes tasks fast at the expense of being maintainable, documented, or understood by the rest of the team. The rock star must be smart because
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by crznp 11y ago
In my experience, the easiest method is to wrap a heated blanket around a pot.
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by crznp 11y ago
The St Petersburg Paradox [1] has numerous solutions. While D. Bernoulli's solution is interesting in that it introduces the concept of Utility, it isn't the most satisfying to me. The simplest solution is to recognize that a real
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by crznp 11y ago
That blade cuts both ways: the keepassx archives would be lost in the noise of all the other files on Google Drive/Dropbox/etc. On Lastpass, you know you're getting password archives. To me: advantage KeePass.
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by crznp 11y ago
Your link supports the assertion that systemd doesn't play well with the community -- Linus goes on to say: It does become a problem when you have a system service developer [Kay] who thinks the universe revolves around him,
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by crznp 12y ago
Why not limit anonymous accounts? For instance: a time limit on anonymously created URLs. If I'm just trying out the service or running a demo remotely, changing the URL after an hour isn't a big deal. If I'm sending out phis