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by gerbilly 8y ago
>The problem is that there's just too much out there--too many books, movies, TV shows, news articles, blog posts. No one has time to keep up with it, so some sort of cultural selection process is necessary. I understand, but it’s m
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I find there is a worrying lack of thorough quantitative analysis with these types of bans Maybe monetary cost isn't the most important thing to factor in. How about an ecological analysis?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Man I used to have jobs where I'd come in at 10:30 and leave by two, and I mean in a normal company that 'expected' 9 to 5. I've never owned or used an alarm clock. I did however manage to save the project on more than o
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Should we stop calling it burnout and just say depression ? No, burnout is a completely different thing from depression. While the two can often overlap, they are not the same. See: https://www.mind-body-health.net/inde
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NYTimes: The Dangerous Flaws in Boeing's Automated System(nytimes.com)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
If you don't like job burnout, then: 1) Take on as little debt as you can. This means you'll have more control over what job situations you will be forced to tolerate. Don't fall into the trap of 'rewarding' yoursel
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Yan says there may be some solution—a mix of remedies, new laws, purpose-built rental housing, tax adjustments and so on—that does not mean a collapse in Metro Vancouver’s real estate prices. There never will be a solution because no o
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I’m ashamed that so many of my people support such a stupid bill. (I’m French Canadian) As far as I’m concerned people can wear whatever they want: hallowe'en costumes, huge onesies with bunny ears, headscarves whatever... Ironically,
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Simple, suicides or drownings. People die in the water wearing running shoes. Then most of the body decomposes, but the feet stay in the shoes, which float on the surface due to the buoyant cushy soles (often containing air bladder cushions
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Just curious, are you working as an employee or a freelance contractor?
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So You Want to Be a Research Scientist: What They Don’t Tell You in Grad School(medium.com)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I don't think it would be that much effort for facebook to stop tracking Belgium or German users. If that's the case, and facebook complies, then I think I'll start doing all my browsing through a VPN that exits in Belgi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Sometimes I hallucinate cats, or other small animals like squirrels. I see them from the corner of my eye, and then when I go to look at them, they aren't there. They usually show up when I'm under stress. I kind of like them, bec
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> By his 19th birthday, he had helped save the lives of thousands of people by making false documents to get them into hiding or out of the country. What an immense privilege it must have been to be in a position to help so many people.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> are willing to tolerate downtime during deploys and during OS upgrades. Yeah, that's not a big deal for us. We don't have customers, and this environment is for internal use at the company. You could say it's a 's
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Ansible does not watch and maintain the infrastructure and services state Yeah, but what I've done is that i've deployed a tiny go binary on each cloud instance that is run every few minutes. Instances take turns checking on
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> log aggregation Graylog, with applications using various GELF libraries to send logs to it. > metrics graphite/grafana > And how do you deploy new versions with zero downtime? I don't deploy with zero downtime, but wi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I currently use Ansible to provision and configure about 50 instances with various home grown services deployed on them, and I'm quite happy with that. I don't use Docker, or Kubernetes. What am I missing here? This is an honest
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yes legalise all of them like Portugal did, but spend all of the enforcement budget on rehabilitation and re-integrating addicts into society.[1] What makes a drug addictive is not the substance itself, but the environment which surrounds
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yes, I could have been clearer that I was talking about 'talk therapy' not medication. Does the argument work as well for shamans? Maybe,except that I was kind of implying a materialist point of view behind psychology, which migh
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Genomic studies suggest that the ancestor of the Polynesian people were from a combination of New Guinea and ancient Taiwan.
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Also this is a great resource: https://www.amazon.ca/Vaka-Moana-Voyages-Ancestors-Settlemen...
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I think it's very easy to be dismissive of counseling. Of course it isn't an exact science, maybe not even a science at all. I like to think of it this way. Think of your mind like an iterative non-linear system with thousands upo
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Verily I say unto you, if your left had should prevent your right hand from clinking on this headline, then you should cut off your left hand, and cast it away..."
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by gerbilly 8y ago
If he spent nine years building it, he started at sixteen: hence as a kid.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Like most selective political actions in a market, I suspect this has good intent but will produce predictably counter-productive outcomes. The status quo seems like a given, but it's maintained by actions too. We choose everyday
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't overestimate how good our immune systems is at protecting us from contaminated water.[1] Where I grew up, at the start of the 20th century many children died in infancy from contaminated water and milk. Also the gut is
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Of course, the question answers itself: It's cheaper.[1] I guess there's no price you can put on health! (It certainly doesn't seem to count for much in this case.) [1] The Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The tank with the missing roof means people in that building are drinking what amounts to surface water. Why on earth are they still using wood? By now I would have expected them to have steel tanks with a steel roof on them, you know some
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If you want to build systems at scale you want to use a lot of commodity boxes, not a few huge or 'special' machines. I don't drool over the raw horsepower of each of my individual boxes.[1] All I care about is that I can co

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