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by dublin 4y ago
OK, I'll whack the hornets' nest here: Base 10 Arithmetic should be the standard, with others being available only when wise programmers explicitly choose it because they have a good reason. Every tangle I've ever had with
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by dublin 4y ago
With very few exceptions (Gab, et al), the Internet cannot handle Free Speech in 2022. Especially speech that contravenes the official government narratives - that gets brutally shut down. This will not end well.
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by dublin 4y ago
BTW, EB (Elastic Beanstalk) is generally viewed as just for those getting started, but I've seen companies build really serious stuff (and at significant scale) on it, including an extremely high performance distributed IoT time series
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by dublin 4y ago
Yeah, but that's a real problem for those of us who don't watch a lot of movies. Many people aren't capable of figuring out "where to look" at all anyway. I am, to some degree, but it's just not worth spendin
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by dublin 4y ago
Of course, the SRECs and other subsidies are the only reason that there is actually a solar industry anyway. The economics of solar simply don't work and would not attract any investment at all if it were not for huge crony-ready subs
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by dublin 4y ago
Of the top-tier best CTOs and Product Visionaries I've worked with, exactly NONE of them are competent coders. They know enough about coding to discuss implementation architecture, but actually writing code is not something they do,
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by dublin 4y ago
Google hits reflect popular usage, not proper usage. In many cases (like this one, and the even weirder "snuck") there is a big difference between those two...
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by dublin 4y ago
One great feature for offshore wind operators is that the hundreds of birds killed by each turbine every year just fall into the water where they drift away as biomass flotsam that can't be counted to hold the operator accountable...
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by dublin 4y ago
Cloudflare isn't bad. As a matter of fact, Cloudflare is the best and most viable alternative to AWS - they are offering basic cloud services like alternatives to Lambda, S3, and KV DBs, but distributed across their own CDN rather tha
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by dublin 4y ago
Masks aren't the concern so much as privacy. (Who the hell has even worn a mask in the past year and a half? I literally haven't worn one since mid 2021 - I don't even know where our masks are...) I'm really opposed to
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by dublin 4y ago
I like small phones and still use a late 1st gen SE. When the battery died and the screen broke a little over a year ago, I spent $220 at the Apple store getting both replaced rather than upgrade - even ignoring the price of new phones, I
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by dublin 4y ago
I really don't get the food delivery thing. It's expensive as hell, slow, and mostly delivers a bunch of highly processed food you'd be better off not eating anyway, unless you're really starving. I've got far bet
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by dublin 4y ago
With the rise of automated license plate readers and tracking databases, we MUST recognize this truth: License Plates Considered Harmful (to privacy and 4th Amendment rights). No, I'm not joking. If we're not going to put serio
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by dublin 4y ago
Bravo! Bravo!! Now if we can just make base10 math the default in modern languages and only let the very few propeller headed weenies that really need it ever pay attention to floating point math and IEEE-754 Hell, we can join the 21st ce
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by dublin 4y ago
We already live in a tyrannical "Utopia" - this particular stomping of rights is actually a scene in this short film, which was a joke when it was filmed just a few years ago - BTW, it's worth spending a few minutes to watch
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by dublin 4y ago
In addition to the usual cut/paste/sort/awk stuff, we've had really powerful "stream-operator" databases based on flat text data files for decades. They used to be somewhat slow. Not anymore, esp when running
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by dublin 4y ago
Ephimerides really throws them. (And thank God for PyEphem, which makes all that otherwise quite fiddly stuff really easy...)
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by dublin 4y ago
Not sure what you're asking - within AWS or outside? You may be able to use external storage - there are hundreds of S3-compatible storage providers on the net, in addition to those offering filesystems, DB services, etc. Some of th
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by dublin 4y ago
Sure you can write your own QR and other bar code processing code, but it makes as much sense as rolling your own crypto, and for many of the same reasons.
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FWIW, QR isn't the best option for the real world - it's extremely fragile and susceptible to damage compared to DataMatrix, the other commonly used 2D symbology. DoD uses DataMatrix for marking all aircraft and other components
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by dublin 4y ago
Best advice: Be very aware of what you are paying for, how much you're using it, and WHY. I used to sell for the largest AWS services provider, and most companies with out-of-control cloud spending slipped into the slough of cloud d
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by dublin 4y ago
This is done in tech, too: Scott McNealy famously raised the already-high prices of the new UltraSPARC powered Suns in the 90s because CPU production capacity was limited, and the products were wildly more popular than the company's e
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by dublin 4y ago
Thanks for this. It is perhaps the clearest explanation ever of the musical scale, and why it is the way it is. I've literally watched dozens of YouTube videos on this topic in the past week, and none of them are as clear and insight
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by dublin 4y ago
A tip (probably best anonymous, but accompanied with some actual, real, confirmable data/documentation) to the IRS would go much further than one to either the investors or the SEC. That goes double if your managment is even slightly
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by dublin 4y ago
I use Alexa in limited areas of the house just as a voice control for radio, lights, and timers. After playing the timer reminder alert today, I got the scariest message I've ever heard, something very like: "I can remind you to t
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by dublin 4y ago
We shouldn't be quite so smug. Most of what developers and other tech people do is not really needed. Nice, yeah. Required? Hell, no. Look at Facebook - they're currently the 8th most valuable company on the planet, but very f
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by dublin 4y ago
FWIW, Xerox inkjets were what drove me to Oki's color lasers. They erfectly good printer that they stopped selling ink for after only about a year. Knockoff ink cartridges are just money flushed away. I'm done with Xerox. Broth
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by dublin 4y ago
Methylene blue works both as a nootropic and a cyan urine ink source! (Dosing is often roughly "keep going until you pee blue all the time"...)
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by dublin 4y ago
OKI has absolutely the best color laser (really micro LED strip) printers, and they work flawlessly with PCs, Macs, or Linux, PCL, PS, or native, and wired or wireless (depending on model). I swore off all inkjet printing after buying my
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by dublin 4y ago
If the deployment environment is too complex for the developers to manage and understand, it's too complex to accept as an option in the first place. As Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus cars famously said, "Simplify, and add li

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