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by fleitz 11y ago
There's maintenance standards for a reason if you put X hours on a plane you have to do the required maintence for X hours. Commercial licenses are much more about making sure the maintenance is actually done because people might skip
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by fleitz 11y ago
There is unpredictablilty in SSDs however, its most like whether an IOP will take 1 ns or 1 ms, instead of 10 ms, or 100 ms with an HD. The variability is an order of magnitude greater but the worst case is an is several orders of magnitude
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by fleitz 11y ago
Given the number of IOPS SSDs produce they are a win even if you have to chuck them every 6 months.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Other than the words he's using he's basically correct. Agencies request more than they need so they can say their budget is being cut. That's like negotiations 101.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Funny if you ask someone on the other side they say the exact same thing, science/God is on their side and the others are just a bunch of lobbyists / frauds making up data.
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by fleitz 11y ago
I find it very hard to believe that 99% of scientists are credible experts on GW. Consensus is a political term not a scientific one, no one disproves the null consensus. In science we cite experts, papers and a refutable hypothesis, in pol
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by fleitz 11y ago
It's fairly well understood that most organizations exist to perpetuate themselves. If GW doesn't exist a whole tonne of organization cease to exist, just as if GW does exist a whole tonne of organizations cease to exist. Oddly, y
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by fleitz 11y ago
Fuck tell me about it, I had some servers flaking out on 2K3, it took months of windbg to find out it was the SCSI controller driver borking the whole thing. It took especially long since I had rewritten most of System.IO to support 32K pat
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by fleitz 11y ago
Yup, I worked tech support at an ISP back when NIC drivers could be a PITA. There was a phenomenon I called 'first blamer advantage', whoever the customer called first whether it be the NIC maker, Microsoft, their ISP would blame
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by fleitz 11y ago
Yup, this is how I do it too, generally there's an implementation that needs an API and a new implementation. I've generally found that do the smallest possible thing that results in an improvement to be the best way forward.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Funny, I don't see any articles in the papers about whale oil shortages... Did you know it's virtually impossible to get whale oil these days? Do you care? Or do you just use a whale oil substitute? The ironic thing is increasing
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by fleitz 11y ago
That doesn't mean we'll face shortages... Oil will increase in price until we stop using it.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Hydro, mostly dams some run of river
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by fleitz 11y ago
85% of my energy is renewable and has been in my area since the 60s, there's no nuclear involved at all.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Barriers to entry, that said if I had the capital to construct power plants I'd probably invest in other more profitable enterprises.
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by fleitz 11y ago
I don't see a free market situation in which we'd ever have a shortage of petroleum... I mean we're well past 'peak oil' and we have the cheapest oil in a decade Solving AGW doesn't solve the next ice age...
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by fleitz 11y ago
The driver is presumably the owner of the vehicle therefore it should act in the interests of whom it is serving
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by fleitz 11y ago
Why? We have plenty of better energy technologies than what we have, but we don't implement those, so why bother building an even better technology that we also likely won't build. It's like the dev team that won't refac
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by fleitz 11y ago
I recall once importing code from mozilla to solve just this problem, charset detection. I wonder if it has similar problems.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Smart people are outliers, hence their ideas are also outliers. Also, never underestimate the intelligence required to tailor a message to its audience.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Starting point for international relations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
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by fleitz 11y ago
This is actually a huge improvement over the $5 wrench they used to use to decrypt personal communications.
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by fleitz 11y ago
When you replace Certificate with Letter we understand how dedicated our governments are to our well being.
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by fleitz 11y ago
Exactly it seems like you could replace all this code with: send("#{group.type}_notification") or its python equivalent. Maybe a hash table with strings as keys and functions as values for a less 'scripty' language. Perh
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by fleitz 11y ago
Typical case of code providing policy instead of mechanism, the solution of course being to provide policy over numerous classes, rules engines, etc instead of writing a few methods that provide mechanism. eg. Why is this method concerned w
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by fleitz 11y ago
Model your threat and then mitigate it, for example if you are worried about China buy an Intel CPU made in the US, if you are worried about the US buy Huawei gear. Lets just leave it at you don't posses the budget to make any reasonab
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by fleitz 11y ago
Having grown up in a Mennonite community I'm sadly very well aware of how uninformed most Christians are about what the bible says. My favorite was catching shit in a passive aggressive manner about my tongue piercing and then thanking
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by fleitz 11y ago
Calling? It's a pretty well established 'fact' covered by Islamic sacred text, Its an assertion held by 1.8 billion Muslims. The books could well be works of fiction, the vast majority of people who assert the truth of the bo
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by fleitz 11y ago
I think that's the key there, it's not income inequality per se, but whether what meager income they have is enough to buy food.
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by fleitz 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory

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