dangerbird2

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by dangerbird2 5y ago
This is why "quit rate" is a sign of economic strength. If workers are confident enough that resigning will result in both speedy re-employment and a better job than before, there is probably good overall confidence in the markets
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And potentially near-zero emissions with hydrogen/liquid oxygen rockets. Of course, methane rockets probably ends up having lower emissions in practice due to hydrogen typically being produced in methods that emit CO2. Ultimately, even
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
> using the "I'm being cancelled" argument I love it when people find the most ridiculous things to blame on "cancel culture". This goes toe to toe with Bob Baffert blaming it for being banned from horse racing
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
It's all up for debate now, but the wildlife hypothesis gains its plausibility from the similarity of SARS-CoV2's similarity to coronaviruses in pangolins sold in China's wildlife trade. The wild animal/bushmeat trade is
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
Word of warning that Day at the Races has a "minstrel show" scene that's pretty offensive even by 30s standards. Other than that, the Marx Brothers are easily the greatest comedy troupe in American history, and their films
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
Working for a small startup that uses both k8s and more traditional infrastructure, I've found the yaml soup that comprises a reliable k8s system is not much worse than the yaml/hcl soup of our ansible/terraform provisioning
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
If that were true, he should just shut up and wait for the NTSB results to speak for itself
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
Yep. If you listen to "hillbilly music" and "blues" from the 20s and 30s, or "rock" and "r&b" from the 50s or 60s, they are musically indistinguishable. The difference almost always solely lies in
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
It seems like this is a consequence of the Long March 5 using a variation on the "stage and a half" design where the main engine fires from liftoff to orbit, with side boosters being discarded in a suborbital trajectory. The Atlas
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by dangerbird2 5y ago
Plot twist: the article is a stealth PSA about firearm safety
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Not much other than reflecting the reality that BigCos are using rust in production, and as a result, have a vested interest in the project's governance. This is true for pretty much every popular language of software with an open gove
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KSP does indeed use tessellated spheres. This solves texture mapping issues. however, there are still some weird camera and physics bugs due to certain systems using a longitude/latitude system for planets.
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To be fair, most robinhood-esque folk heroes had no qualms about robbing the poor along with the rich, e.g. depression-era bank robbers.
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
Asafoetida is probably the closest substitute, as it's made from the same plant genus that silphium belonged to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida
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I like the suggestion "Capon": a neutered rooster
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
You'll still have to configure gunicorn or another production-ready (w|a)sgi server to serve the app out of the container, but it's much easier to manage dependencies for django in a containerized environment. It's even easie
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
As someone maintaining a bunch of django services in need of TLC, this could be a lifesaver for me. Thank you!
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HN hug of death
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It appears to be more of a homage to "goto statement considered harmful" paper than it is a statement on the "harmfulness" of the `go` statement, as the author comparing `go` with `goto` and talking about Dijkstra's
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
Yep. There are very few countries that have a huge land area with extremely remote population and a postal service with a universal service mandate for all its citizens (going so far as to run daily mule trains down the Grand Canyon to serv
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
Mail trucks have pretty drastically different requirements than a parcel delivery truck. Mail trucks are designed for a right sided driver and lots of stops on every block, so good visibility to avoid crashing into oncoming traffic or hitti
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
Better for all of us. The new vehicle clearly has really good visibility with the giant windshield, meaning we’re much less likely to get run over by Newman
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
Now you have to deal with Pascal vulnerabilities \s
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It's not really complacency: it's that the standard library is intentionally minimalistic to maintain portability and backwards compatibility. If you want sensible string handling, it's usually best to use a high level utilit
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
c standard library doesn't really relate directly to system calls (at least in modern os'es). In particular, the stdio.h functions are buffered by default, while their system call analogues are not. For unixes, system call wrapper
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
Aside from being all but unenforcable, Restricting short selling like that will almost certainly cause stocks to become overvalued. Short selling is an important balance on overvalued stocks, and there are cases like the Enron scandal where
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by dangerbird2 6y ago
> Do you mean, this is legal for market makers Yes. They need to be able to make naked shorts, as this is what allows traders to buy a share without having a willing seller at any given moment and vice versa. > Is there any other way
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To clarify, People incorrectly assumed that because the short interest to float percentage was over 100%, the hedge funds had to be naked shorting. This is not true at all: because of how short selling works, there can be more than one shor
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One thing that doesn't help jquery's case is that it and its plugin ecosystem isn't modular, making it impossible to trim the code size below the minified size via dead code elimination or even es6 partial imports. It would b
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When slime molds are in the plasmodial life stage (when they become macroscopic and "smart" according to the paper), it is not a collection of cells, but a single cytoplasm sharing multiple nuclei, making it a technically single-c

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