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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The dome of St Paul's Cathedral is inspired heavily by the design of Michaelangelo's dome for St Paul's Basilica. Some of Lichtenstein's artworks are almost direct plagiarisms of comic books. Some of Shakespeare's p
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
He said two more things.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I see your point, and it's a good one. I wonder if it's possible that there was a transcription error, or perhaps something introduced by the editor of the journal where the speech was first published [1]. If there was, then it&#x
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> The biggest problem the Young dead-end poses is that having failed to find any trace in it, one must begin to assume that Feynman got the year, surname, or both wrong. Alternative hypothesis: Feynman knew who the individual was but,
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Concrete, bricks and granite can also work pretty well... as the Pantheon in Rome proves.
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I think it's quite unlikely that they will kill off GCP entirely. It's too established, and it is still growing at a rate of around 30-40% year-on-year [1]. What seems more likely is that they shut down an increasing number of ind
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Chinese Room(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I'm currently renting around 40 x AX-line machines from them. The random reboots are a real thing, but not painfully so. I would say I see around 5-10 a year on average across all my boxes, so (very roughly) that's one random rebo
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I think the relevant issue is that the national regulators are independent. SVBUK was (is!) regulated by the UK FCA, so on insolvency the FCA is the regulator in charge of resolving issues.
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I'll ask the obvious question, because I have no clue about this stuff. The early failures in 2008 seem to have been followed by a cascade of smaller failures. Is that going to happen again?
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
That's not acceptable, and I would consider complaining to the trade body of whichever electrician provided the EICR for the property. NICEIC and the like regularly check the standards of work of their members, and it sounds like this
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Yup. If you're a regular BQ user and you have VC funding, buy reserved slots. If you're a regular BQ user and you're bootstrapped, then get into the habit of checking the top right of the console screen before you press the q
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I read your comment on latency and thought "eh, can't be so bad, most of the applications for this will be near-real-time alerting for equipment failure and physical intrusion, and those applications can cope with a few seconds ex
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Well, they don't call it Chief Incident Scapegoat Officer for nothing.
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Try installing a pi-hole in your home network. I set one up more for curiosity than anything else, but an unexpected side effect was that these local news websites, which were previously completely unusable on mobile, suddenly became just a
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
> the bug was missed because it only presented when many aircraft at the same time were using the system. How the heck do you end up with a concurrency bug in a system where the calculations appear to be logically independent?
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
The "accounting gimmick" that footnote 7 refers to is the use of the sign bit to add an extra instruction in a specific case, giving a total of 33 instructions. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Homegrown isn't necessarily cheaper at the bottom end of the scale: Grafana Cloud includes 100GB/month of logs (a few million records a day, depending on your average log size) at $29/mo [1]. You also get 20k Prometheus met
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
pg_stat_statements is useful, but it isn't completely free, e.g. [1] (admittedly from pg12, which is three major versions ago). Most people should probably leave it enabled, but if you have a database with a very defined and understood
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
That's true, but those uses of the word are pretty obscure. I would say the most common meaning of "toot" in the UK is the noise a horn makes, especially a bicycle/car/train horn. It's much more of a friendly w
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
His brother died, and he decided to spend less of his time creating clickbait: https://web.archive.org/web/20120712014548/http://teddziuba....
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
A few years back, the KLF (as CALLENDER, PHILLIPS, CAUTY & DRUMMOND UNDERTAKERS) were attempting to build a giant pyramid in central Liverpool. The pyramid was/is to be constructed of bricks each containing 23g of cremated human re
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Oh, so what I had assumed was some kind of page table fragmentation was in fact due to the number of postgres clients increasing, meaning that the number of page table entries increased due to duplication between processes? That would make
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I gave a more detailed response on the post by 'menaerus, but to answer your question on config directly, you first need to enable the appropriate number of hugepages with a kernel boot parameter, e.g. hugepagesz=1G hugepages=940
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
This is a machine which is dedicated to postgres. For the particular workload (heavy update) and filesystem (ZFS), it appears from experimentation that optimal performance is achieved by dedicating most of the RAM to postgres' shared b
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Transparent hugepages seem mostly useless, but standard hugepages can be a lifesaver. I have a postgres server with 1TB RAM, and without using hugepages the machine would regularly fill the page table causing an OOM. With a suitable number
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
You're assuming malice, but in this case there's a much more simple explanation: indifference. VMware want to keep bad stuff off of their customers' machines, and they want to do so without pissing off their customers too m
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I would guess he means that they use AI algorithms to perform some of the tasks that are performed manually at most companies. If so, most of Google's customers wouldn't really consider this to be a win. ML-driven account suspensi
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
It is true that the FBI found the person they were looking for, and that person was the terminus of their investigation. It is not true that the article author was investigated by the FBI . He was nothing more than a MacGuffin in the overa
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Test 3 is really unfair. People get very different starts in life, and asking about formative experiences is massively biased towards those people who got off the blocks quickly and easily. The interviewer should be thinking about who you a

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