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by devchix 5y ago
We've had 3 greyhounds, all died of cancer, two of bone cancer. Seems to be the curse of the greyhounds. It's lovely that you'll be adopting again. Tracks in the US have mostly closed, the waiting list for retired racers a
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by devchix 5y ago
Perhaps there's a net good application to this, more yield so a plant can produce more, feed more hungry people, survive storage and shipping -- but I see 4lbs packs of Driscoll strawberries at my store, year round. The fruits are gig
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by devchix 5y ago
You are here, lat=x, long=y, bearing N 45 E at 5km/h, the air temp is -12C, it is 45min to sunset. You don't know where you should be. You are lost. Who's fault is it? Yours, or the dash?
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by devchix 5y ago
I've always wondered why desert nomads dress like they do. Given modern fabrics and constructions, would you chose to dress like this to go to the desert? I understand it is an area of extreme heat in the day and extreme cold when th
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by devchix 5y ago
That's why good dashboards come with Title, subtitle, legend, the X and Y axis, and units. Count of packets denied from source IP, source port, last 4 hours. Average number of requests forwarded to proxy farm, distributed by server,
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by devchix 5y ago
1. Set up some strawmen about dashboards 1a. Define dashboards in a way that suits your argument 2. Knock em down! 3. Profit? This, https://status.cloud.google.com/ , is a static dashboard. One can make up one's mind a
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by devchix 5y ago
I was looking for an old video of Tom Brokaw interviewing Gates and Schmidt, and found this. For a little laugh and innocent nostalgia: Flashback! The Internet In 1995 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A I watched
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by devchix 5y ago
I was going to mention this. Here's The Atlantic write-up on the project: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/hi-seas-... The podcast was pretty entertaining and enlightening, and n
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by devchix 5y ago
Don't ditch your phone. Divide and compartment its functions. I went to Europe without a phone once. Things were fine but there was a layer of friction over everything. When does that restaurant/shop open, how to get reservati
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by devchix 5y ago
But I don't have 2 or 3 hours to listen in to conversations of strangers and then decide if they are worthwhile or not.
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by devchix 5y ago
You're right, thanks for the nuanced view. I guess my impression here is that modern Korea, with its own cultural identity: dress, food, language, literature, history ... would not have been if the US hadn't entered WWII. I don&
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by devchix 5y ago
The thing is super complicated! The US under SecDef William Howard Taft backed the Japanese annexation of Korea (tacitly, as it didn't do anything in protest) in return for Japan not raising a row over the US acquiring The Phillipin
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by devchix 5y ago
> South Korea’s rise to a middle power status comes without much historical baggage The kingdom of Joseon was annexed entirely by Japan in 1905. Modern Korea (nevermind the North/South prefix) would not exist had the US not enter W
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by devchix 5y ago
Columbia is 22 miles south of Baltimore, home to an entity sometimes known as The Fort. 40 miles south is DC if you want to work GovTech. TRowePrice has/had a datacenter in Owings Mills, 20-some miles northwest of Baltimore. Capital
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by devchix 5y ago
If it's like pulling teeth to motivate your users to use dashboards, you're building useless dashboards. Dashboards are great for at-a-glance metrics roll-up. Build small, single-page, targeted dash that answers questions your us
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by devchix 5y ago
A reasonable question. But, it's very hard to watch a "serious" movie or read a "serious" book while at the beach. There's a reason why there exists a genre called "beach reads". I am not going to
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by devchix 5y ago
> I can hardly sit through an entire two-hour movie or play a video game without feeling like I should be doing something else. One summer we rented a beach house, I had delusions of lazing on the beach under a big umbrella, drinks, boo
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by devchix 5y ago
And the cargo-culting of "everything should be API no exception" was due to Yegge's colorful writing which endorsed it (relative to how things were done at Google at the time he was there) in his original piece. I sometime w
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by devchix 5y ago
I remember now! It is called the XY problem. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
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> the problem of "Why do you want to do that? You should do this instead IIR, there's a word or idiom that describes this kind of solution, I can't think of it and now it's going to bother me until I do. It's a
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by devchix 5y ago
> It was written by an ambitious 20-something with a lot of dreams, idealism, and smarts A generous assessment, I would describe the mindset as exploitative with the self-knowledge that he didn't have any of his own talent worth exp
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by devchix 5y ago
Not irrational at all. I've often wondered at some ascetic values of the very rich: cold showers, building a cabin with your own hands, short duration of rough wilderness living, and in your quoted case, abstemious diet. Humanity spe
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by devchix 5y ago
Have you worked with setfacl(1), getfacl(1) recently? The agony they inflict makes me want to die. Do you need log dirs read by a non-root logreader? Are there nested subdirs? What are the defaults? Extra crispy boss-mode: is SELinux on
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I appreciate this. I think one of the more valuable advice I was given re:conditionals is to make sure the positive path is the non-branching path. Branch your exception, let your expected path fall through. if ( unexpected = true )
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by devchix 5y ago
I remember reading that the reason for long shifts at hospitals, for doctors or nurses, is that most mistakes are made during hand-over. The thing had a study cited, I'm sorry I cannot find the source, so the hospitals optimize for mi
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by devchix 5y ago
I've finished my 2nd viewing of Blade Runner:2049 ; the replicant K buys an AI(-ish) holographic program that presents itself as a beautiful, loving wife, her name is Joi. Think about that, robots buying robot love (I know it's
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by devchix 5y ago
> encapsulated as JSON structs, adds so much complexity to the process Or XML, you need to have written a parser (or pay Splunk to do it for you), you have to know how deeply nested your param of interest is. AFAIU Splunk has problems w
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by devchix 5y ago
At some point in my organization's press toward Ansible, I came to the realization that Ansible the product is yet another layer of abstraction that is there for its own sake, and of dubious value. I converted a simple script to patch
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by devchix 5y ago
The review page and discussion thread is hideous and painful to navigate. If a site is to be able to recommend $nextbook it has to curate inputs, either as ratings or text reviews. There are huge bookclub memberships but hardly anybody wr
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Even your email? I feel like in this one domain, we have pretty much won the war against spam. Gmail does a great job of spam filtering, and I expend some effort to guard my email address against 1) other people's mistakes, and 2) re

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