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There will be sheaves and sheaves of people using this thing incorrectly and in mind-boggling hilarious ways, because they haven't figured it out. I have traveled extensively in Japan, and encountered the Toto toilet in practically ev
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I don't think my point is that we're not prepared for an alien invasion - obviously a ridiculous example. Someone was saying this experience is comforting, someone else said that's a great perspective. I on the other hand a
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I take the dimmer view: this is not even a real emergency, and we're not doing very well. I'm not down-playing the seriousness of the pandemic, by "real" I mean it's not a dirty nuke, a large-scale bio-chemical a
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I could never get structured logging to work, syslog receiver for structured logs is a nightmare to set up. Also, when I start writing logs, I just want to quickly set up something to check my error state and move on. The onus of setting
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No! Terrible advice. Good luck trying to figure out why component X has stopped working without logs of any kind, not even a timestamp of when it stopped working. Logging does not make any sense? That's just polemical. His example
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This is a log output message. The problem with logs is that they are first and primarily written for the developer. I'm writing the alert for the condition I need to know about. It's only as an afterthought that they are
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Who is the counterparty to these trades? When the market sentiment is negative, the number of these counterparties are narrow and dwindling, surely it's not that easy to find people who will buy a thing for $5? Maybe they would buy a
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This aphorism that HR is there to protect the company -- I hear it all the time and it's terribly cynical, while also probably true. Why must it be this way; asked another way, why do we accept that it must be this way, that every tim
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But worse, now you're at the mercy of inclement weather. Near where I live there's a movie theatre at the center of one of these outdoors shopping mall. You line up outside the building to buy tickets. It's a nod to the ol
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> Because I for one and sick and tired of wealth worship in this country. Amen brother! As I was leaving the house this morning I caught a snippet of something about Oprah being on a tour; top tickets are in the thousands of dollars. N
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I'm not a huge carnivore so those guys will never get my money, heh. SO MUCH MEAT!! All in one meal! Today I split a 6 oz. steak with another person and it felt like a lot of meat. This thread! All-you-can-eat as a hedging strategy i
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The "better" all-you-can-eats are priced accordingly. The Bellagio in Las Vegas had a seafood thing that cost north of $40, if I remember correctly. The crab legs get constantly refilled, they also had giant prawns. This was ye
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> in my perfect imaginary utopia, products on shelves would have minimalistic (and standardized) packaging with no branding crap In the recent production of The Handmaid's Tale , the handmaids do their shopping at grocery store (m
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>conflict is the most engaging kind of engagement This doesn't feel right. I ask myself, do I go places to look for people to fight with? Emphatically no. Do you? Probably not. I just read this great|hateful book|movie|thing.
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I like the list, but don't like the adversarial tone. I don't think it's me vs. men all the time. Some men are jerks, most are not. More actionables: * Remove "just" from your vocabulary, emails, talks, everythin
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Amen! But don't say it so loud lest they call us poseurs. :) My favorite is one is called Resin, made by SixPoint Brewery out of Brooklyn. Just like the name, the nose is floral like pine sap, it's lovely. My other favorite is m
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> usually, it's the bride's family who has to pony up all this largesse, in what's called a "dowry". Pedant here. Hello everybody! There is a difference between dowry and bride price. Traditionally the dowry in
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by devchix 7y ago
Splunk kool-aid drinker here; pardon my ignorant question, but why not just use Splunk? Actually I think my real question is, why are there such a proliferation of these monitoring/logging/visualization -AAS startups? Who are the
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I'm sorry, I'm missing something between > Me: <gives member number> (that number, by itself, is useless). and > Once I gave my member number, the attacker used the password reset flow to trigger a text message from th
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People built one out of Lego. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk
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I say this so often: "I can't believe it's $year and we're still using regex!" So when I see "new pattern matching language" my eyes light up and I run over there -- but there's no example, no docs,
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For people asking why is there even such a thing as negative interest rate (lend $100, get back $99), NPR Planet Money has a good explainer. TL;DR: There's a lot of cash in search of investment. While waiting for opportunity, you coul
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Wage garnishments! Nobody mentioned anything about wage garnishments! :washes hands: Heh, I beg your indulgence for my cheeky comment, I of course know nothing of this matter, it seems easy, as all those task you mentioned can be converted
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I love it this part: "The guy with a button that says “Steal $30 Million of Paychecks” doesn’t press it the first chance he gets. That would be stealing! He is a moral human being, he has standards, he stays well away from that button
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I, too, love a blackboard. A door in my house is covered with a cheap chalkboard-like material, not real slate, so it curves and pops with changing season and humidity. I have 10 sticks of Hagoromo chalks and a couple of those fiddly chal
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This NPR podcast/article argues different. "...found that major nonviolent campaigns are successful 53% of the time, while violent campaigns are successful only 26% of the time." The Protest Tipping Point (podcast): https:
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Not so weird, its use is governed by convention. Country names derived from geographical feature take a definite article. Country Names and 'The': The Ukraine or Ukraine https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educati
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You are exactly right. An episode of The Secret History of the Future , From Zero to Selfie has a snippet interview with Hany Farid of Dartmouth, talking about the fake photo of John Kerry and Jane Fonda, in context of the 2004 US Presid
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99% Invisible made the argument that it also changed the US electoral map. "And the ubiquity of AC has had a serious impact on how and maybe most profoundly where we live. Hot places like Arizona and Florida saw huge influxes of resi
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Agreed! I originally did the comparison to better understand what wealth stratum Valjean eventually attained, was 600,000 francs crazy money back then? Marius' grandfather sent him 60 pistoles monthly (600 gold francs!) was that an ex

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