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by darkr 10y ago
They would also need access to the data set the the neural network was trained with.
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Depop | London | Full Time | ONSITE # Description Depop is an exciting new mobile marketplace where you can sell things by simply taking a picture, as well as follow your friends and buy unique things. Depop has already been received with
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by darkr 10y ago
I'm actually a fan of rabbitMQ generally, but I'm not sure I'd put it in the category of notoriously reliable software. It can throw away acknowledged writes (afaik https://aphyr.com/posts/315-jepsen-rabb
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> Boris Johnson? A very charismatic idiot. His persona is that of a charismatic bumbling idiot, but idiot he is not. Underneath this persona lies a highly intelligent, disingenuous, manipulative and calculating operator. I genuinely thin
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> Would be insane if Scotland and Northern Ireland now want to leave the UK. One of the larger vote swingers for Scotland staying part of the UK was that they would have had to renegotiate their membership with the EU from a weak positio
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Google and Facebook may well be headquartered there, but I suspect it's more for tax reasons than the Guinness.
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by darkr 10y ago
I heard a quote the other day along the lines of "not all those that are voting leave are racists, but all racists are voting leave". Subjectively speaking, I've largely found this to be true.
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by darkr 10y ago
Nice xenophobia dude.
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by darkr 10y ago
I think some people feel disgruntled because the development of clustering started as open source and was some way down the road to being production ready, then it was removed and moved to the enterprise version only. I was planning a metri
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MX records were designed and implemented waay back when it was assumed that every new service would implement it's own super-specific (and probably binary) layer 4 protocol rather than just defaulting to JSON over HTTP(S). In Internet
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by darkr 10y ago
Expensive (nearly £1k/agent/year) and afaik only works on Windows (for the agent viewer)
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It implements OpenID Connect , which basically an opinionated OAuth2 implementation, and a different thing to OpenID.
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by darkr 10y ago
Parent was referring to the fact that VDSL/VDSL2 is more sensitive to loop attenuation that ADSLx. Yes, you can get 100MB symmetric over a copper pair, but only for 300M or so. Hence VDSLx is usually rolled out only as part of an FTTC
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..or tell them if they want a car then go get a part time job and buy one. My first car cost my £50 (and £1100 to insure..). As it was 20 year old heap of junk, every other month something would break, and I'd have to look up how to fi
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> A currency where a single individual owns 4.7% of all currency isn't going to end well It's not that far off from real world USD (if you limit it to the US, and extrapolate for number of users) where 16,000 families making up
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by darkr 11y ago
I was given this book for Christmas year before last. A very good read.
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> British Prime Minister David Cameron, a leader in the push for tax-haven reform There was a load of rhetoric in 2011 about offshore/tax reform, but very little in the way of action since then. As with tradition in Cameron's b
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by darkr 11y ago
To be more specific, darwin was originally based on BSD4.4-lite2 and FreeBSD with the Mach hybrid microkernel. It has diverged significantly since with lots of new APIs in userland, but all major BSD apis are still there - it is still a POS
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Eniw?
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> A true salt should not be reused at all. I agree with the practice of salt non-reuse, but it's not a part of the definition of. A nonce on the other hand does mandate non-reuse.
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by darkr 11y ago
Depends on the city I suppose. In London, most tech jobs tend to be clustered within Hammersmith-ish, Soho, and City/Shoreditch, all of which are in cycling distance of East London.
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by darkr 11y ago
Sure, I mean if you want a WALL-E vision of the future. Personally I'd prefer a Netherlands/Denmark present day kind of future, where people live within 5-10 miles of their place of work and cycle or walk. Less apathetic fat peopl
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by darkr 11y ago
Not just supercomputer vendors - Chipkill has been a standard option on IBM X-Series (their standard server range) for years now. I remember deploying a whole bunch of servers back 2011 or so that had it.
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by darkr 11y ago
AWS launched spot blocks last year that does just this. It's not as cheap as regular spot instances, but you do get a guarantee that your instance will be around for a configurable period between 1 and six hours (you pay more as you ap
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by darkr 11y ago
Same with AWS, I've been using that since 2008 or so. At that time, many of the services, or functionality within certain services were either not usable (as in couldn't be accessed) via the web interface, only via the APIs.
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by darkr 11y ago
You can, you just need to implement it yourself in EC2 (other compute platforms are available) with trigger-based replication, using something like bucardo or londiste. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres
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citation needed?
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Yeah, I find that an odd titbit. The implication is that the accepted normal reaction for "a giant", when asked for directions by someone is something along the lines of "WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE, A FUCKING TOURIST INFORMATION CEN
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This is going back a bit, but from memory that was just for "advanced logging", which was enabled on a default install. You could either not configure advanced logging, or you could use a remote SQL server.
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by darkr 11y ago
I was actually looking at getting a C2750 (the 8 core avoton) a while back for a small low-power home server, and came across someone who'd already done some decent benchmarking: http://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c

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