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Roadmap for CoreOS Integration with Red Hat OpenShift(redhat.com)
159 points by davidmr 8y ago|75 comments
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by davidmr 8y ago
I’m so unused to seeing a corporation act in the interests of their customers explicitly counter to the wishes of law enforcement and the intelligence community that I’m racking my brain trying to think of ulterior motives that explain why
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by davidmr 9y ago
This isn’t even top 20 in this thread, but here’s mine: maybe 17 years ago, we upgraded our department server from a big old Sun 4/690 running sunos to a shiny new Ultra80 running Solaris. Among the many functions this server has was t
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by davidmr 9y ago
Regarding your first point, that's not what I meant and you know it. Dark matter is the current theory explaining many different astronomical observations. It explains quite a lot of observations, so something pretty conclusive will ne
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by davidmr 9y ago
I think you might have missed my point. I'm not saying that dark matter skeptics are crackpots because they don't believe in dark matter. I'm saying that if people think they can disprove the existence of dark matter because
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by davidmr 9y ago
I used to work in a well-regarded Astronomy and Astrophysics department at a research university. Every few months, I would go through the department "crackpot folder" when I was especially bored. Every couple days the department
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by davidmr 9y ago
I’m sorry, but without some sort of citation from a reputable source, I just don’t buy this as a contributing factor at all and call BS. I spent years as a student and working at a large research University and let’s be very, very generous
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by davidmr 9y ago
Thanks for your commentary too. I’m starting to learn Haskell, and the nature of the language seems to lead to less “best practices” articles out there. Seeing knowledgeable people comment on things written by other knowledgeable people see
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by davidmr 9y ago
The current “alcohol is the strongest risk factor for dementia” title is not in the text, nor is it accurate. A more accurate title would be “alcohol use disorders are...” or “alcohol abuse is...”
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by davidmr 9y ago
Just to be clear, I didn't mean to imply that it was okay. My text does read that way and I appreciate the opportunity to elaborate. I too would like the world more if there were less of that. I can't think of a lot of philanthrop
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by davidmr 9y ago
I’m afraid I fail to see the relevance of this post to the matter at hand. Did his company do some despicable things, and did he have anything to do with it? Yes. I think most corporations of a certain size do. The good he has done the worl
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by davidmr 9y ago
I did say that there were edge cases. Is encoding no regional information in local time better than encoding some that works pretty well in many common cases?
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by davidmr 9y ago
This wasn't the first time someone tried to make something better than time zones and our silly days-weeks-months-years system, and I doubt it will be the last. It probably goes back much further, but I know that the French tried to de
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by davidmr 9y ago
Thanks; I have, but I thought I might as well try to do it right. If after another month or so, I still have "Emacs pinkie", I might just bite the bullet and go to evil mode.
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by davidmr 9y ago
Of all the things that make me wish I were smarter, being able to do something with public policy about heroin addiction is very near the top of the list. I grew up in the nineties and my set of friends and I were all self-medicating our wa
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by davidmr 9y ago
It's easier said than done. I decided to switch about a month ago, and after playing around with evil mode for a week, I gave it up in favor of emacs-std bindings. The core editor evil emulation was flawless. All my 20-year muscle memo
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by davidmr 9y ago
That's a statement I hear a lot. A good friend wrote his physics dissertation entirely in org mode because of the TeX integration. You can even bring in the custom TeX templates every University's thesis publishing offices unaccou
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by davidmr 9y ago
This has actually been declassified for quite a while[0]. Coincidentally, I started reading Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernández last week, and although the writing is a bit scattershot, it’s quite an
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by davidmr 9y ago
I’m glad someone else felt the need to ask. I did work on a computer with 480V into the rack and the electrical training they made us sit through scared the bejesus out of all of us. It was basically 4 hours of watching people get electrocu
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by davidmr 9y ago
A lot of the Manhattan Project scientists were naturalized citizens, including many of the greats: Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Hans Bethe, James Franck, etc.
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by davidmr 9y ago
Have you read any of the other Odyssey translations? I'm very curious Wilson's translation. I read the Fagles, Latimore, and Fitzgerald translations in college and did a few weeks of translation myself in our Greek class (I went t
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by davidmr 9y ago
Do you think that missile batteries on eight ships are what’s stopping Russia from invading Germany?
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by davidmr 9y ago
Okay, I get that the computers don’t work right and there are some other engineering-specific problems of varying severity, but the primary objection from the WSJ’s point seems to be that it isn’t designed to hold its own in a shooting war
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by davidmr 9y ago
I worked with probably a dozen or so scientists and engineers who were building the SDSS telescope and the associated data analysis infrastructure (full disclosure: my role was very nearly entirely nothing compared to everyone else). It&#x2
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by davidmr 9y ago
I’m very glad they have such a good support network. A close friend of mine got a job out of law school prosecuting child sex crimes, and there was absolutely no support. After a year, he couldn’t take it any more and left public service al
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by davidmr 9y ago
I don’t believe this page has been updated to note that it won’t be released in F27 as hoped due to systemic problems in the beta: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/modularity-dead-long... I’m looking forward to seein
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by davidmr 9y ago
It’s pretty rare, but it does happen every now and then. Arthur Andersen was convicted of criminal obstruction of justice. Because their entire business model was predicated on being trustworthy, they imploded really quickly. (Ironically th
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by davidmr 9y ago
Is there any currency or commodity or derivative for which that statement is not true? It seems self-evident that if you own a lot of something like gold, dollars, BTC, sterling, etc. and you sell it, its value relative to what you're
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by davidmr 9y ago
When’s the last time anyone died of smallpox? As a species, we seem demonstrably better off for having arrogantly removed it from the planet.
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by davidmr 9y ago
The cities included in the study are Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco/Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. I haven't really spent huge amounts of time in a couple of these cities, but I wonder how uniformly

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