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by eric_h 11y ago
I think a lot of folks feel that it's a useless endeavor, so they don't bother. Amazon's been operating this way for years, and they're quite a large company; it seems unlikely to me that fundamental change can happen in
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by eric_h 11y ago
day to day i mostly write software, but I also help manage our infrastructure (we're a small company - 9 people total, 4 engineers, I'm one of the 2 that understands managing servers well enough to support it). We were on linode u
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by eric_h 11y ago
As I said in another comment, the fact that they found an 8 minute delay from outage to status page update to be unacceptable speaks volumes to how much they value their relationship with their customers. as an aside I feel that I'm qu
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by eric_h 11y ago
> One of the biggest customer-facing effects of this delay was that status.github.com wasn't set to status red until 00:32am UTC, eight minutes after the site became inaccessible. We consider this to be an unacceptably long delay, a
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by eric_h 11y ago
> People hate ads (pretty much everyone). And yet the percentage of people who watch the Super Bowl explicitly to see the ads is a non-trivial percentage of the viewing population (obviously anecdata, but I know many people who throw sup
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by eric_h 11y ago
Interesting quote: "he noted that there is a 12KB block of code that is used to ensure the tachometer always shows 780 RPM when the car is idling. Even though the engine is not that steady, car owners want to see that value hold steady
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by eric_h 11y ago
Agreed. I've been a big fan of billiards for 20 years and I think a part of the reason is that playing well basically requires very short bursts of absolute focus, something that I'm good at. Pool is hands down the only game I ca
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by eric_h 11y ago
The worst part of the "few bad apples" deflection is that when used, everyone is dropping the second part of that idiom. It's "a few bad apples spoil the bunch|barrel"
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by eric_h 11y ago
My dad who's a year or two short of 70 has wisdom teeth that never "erupted". Personally mine did at the age of ~20, but my orthodontist at the time thought they needed to be removed a couple of years before because they were
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by eric_h 11y ago
It is tremendously unfortunate that that needs to be said at all.
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by eric_h 11y ago
and static analyzers would yell at you for one or two of them, too
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by eric_h 11y ago
thank goodness for expiring patents.
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by eric_h 11y ago
Thanks for teaching me a new word (monopsony)! It's been a long while since my vocabulary has been increased with something that's not a millennial invention.
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by eric_h 11y ago
especially since it seems to have hit the bullseye on the center of the barge (maybe missed dead center by a few inches).
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by eric_h 11y ago
https://abc.xyz
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by eric_h 11y ago
At least he responded, and promptly. Let's not jump to conclusions just yet.
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by eric_h 11y ago
re: point #2 - that's basically why I stopped using it, I found myself annoyed by it too much, so I just turned it off.
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by eric_h 11y ago
> Is it a DHCP thing That threw me for a second. "What would DHCP have to do with HDMI?". Clearly you must have meant HDCP, which I suspect is what the GP was referring to.
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by eric_h 11y ago
My first intuitive reaction was "How many other cities is Citi Bike operating in, I thought they only operated in New York?"
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by eric_h 11y ago
my cursive (in the rare event that i write it these days) is really a hybrid of standard american cursive and print. I avoid the weird capitals in favor of the print versions that I then just join up with the cursive lowercase letters.
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by eric_h 11y ago
That's precisely why you should always let the computer pick your numbers for you - your expected value is (slightly) higher because the odds of a shared jackpot go (slightly) down.
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by eric_h 11y ago
That's certainly the reason the major sports leagues have invested in DFS.
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by eric_h 11y ago
> with a pay-as-you-go plan from a UK provider not sure why you would use a PAYG plan from a UK provider in the US, but I'm sure it would be quite a bit more expensive than a PAYG plan from a US provider
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by eric_h 11y ago
this is a good follow up to previous discussions of this case
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Why the ‘wet tea leaves’ drug raid was outrageous(washingtonpost.com)
65 points by eric_h 11y ago|41 comments
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by eric_h 11y ago
Thanks for that link - there are some absolutely fantastic images in there.
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by eric_h 11y ago
In NYC, mere possession of less than 25g of marijuana is just a ticket (first offense, anyway). Displaying it in public can get you actually arrested versus just being issued a summons. While again, for a first offense, one can avoid any re
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by eric_h 11y ago
Yeah. This article seems really to just be saying that the reality was more nuanced than the headline of the original article (which I stumbled upon and posted here on Monday). But of course had you continued reading past the headline of th
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by eric_h 11y ago
Agreed. I think it can be fairly argued that the officers in question did not, in fact, know how shitty their field test was. Unfortunately it could just as fairly be argued that they did know and would gleefully make use of an investigativ
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by eric_h 11y ago
this thread has some info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10814560

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