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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I apologize for the misunderstanding, I was clumsy. Would it be accurate to say that you're looking for a clarification that "the Jews" and "the state of Israel" aren't synonyms?
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I don't want to get involved in the actual argument, but I find the dynamics of it fascinating. On one side, vogon_laureate appears to want phkemp to acknowledge that he understands that the Venn diagram of Jews and Zionists is not a c
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
> Population level studies on the effectiveness of the AZ vaccine everywhere but the UK would seem to show it is barely effective or ineffective. This is blatantly untrue. Here is a US study: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
The EU was slow off the mark when it came to ordering vaccines and as a result it did not get priority for deliveries. The EU can't change that now, but it can send the manufacturers a message warning of the dangers of not showing feal
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
> Don't subsidize drugs/vaccines that don't work. Both AZ and J&J have been proven effective. They clearly work. It might not be politically expedient for the EU Commission to emphasize that fact, but it is true nevert
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
> is very obviously made from a point of bias Why do you believe that? It seems to me that the reputational damage caused by the U of C centre putting out bad slides is going to be stronger than any benefit they might get from being &quo
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
At the moment we're shitting on the younger generation even harder than usual, by denying them the opportunity to go out, meet people and generally enjoy their youth. Doing that for a year was maybe justified, but it is just totally un
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I'm not qualified to comment on whether or not that is a valid concern, but the vaccine we're discussing here (J&J) uses a modified viral vector, as do the AstraZeneca and Gamaleya vaccines.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
For AstraZeneca and not J&J, but these slides from the University of Cambridge do a better job of communicating the balance of risks than I possibly could: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
OK, either I'm getting pretty screwed somewhere or EU prices are well above the US. Probably the former. Thanks for the pointer. https://he.net/cgi-bin/ip_transit_quote is where I'm seeing the $200 number.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
That's sounds like a great deal: you're paying less than half of Hurricane's advertised minimum price. And I had understood HE were a mid/low price carrier. Can I ask, are you in a data center? US or Europe?
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
IP transit costs something like $350-$700/mo for a Gbit. Amazon are certainly getting better rates, so even with equipment costs I doubt they're spending much more than $0.005/GiB. Their pricing starts at $0.15/GiB. (Not
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
Have you considered looking for data engineering jobs? Many data-focused companies seem to be looking for people to either set up pipelines and then babysit them, or to babysit pipelines designed by another engineer who has since moved on.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
Alternate take: child exploitation has been a pervasive and damaging disease in society "since the sky is blue", and in more recent decades law enforcement has begun seriously attempting to counter it.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
400IU of Vitamin D per day in winter is an official NHS recommendation for _all_ adults: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-... . For darker skinned people, the recommendation is year-round
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
If rain attenuation was a significant issue for Ionica, then won't it be a significant issue for the UK's 5G roll-out? Both system appear to run at about 3.5GHz.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
Don't miss https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) , which is at least as interesting.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
True, but if you regularly have 1000 runnable goroutines then could you not reconfigure your app to have, say, 64 runnable goroutines, and get better throughput? Large numbers of goroutines do seem to be a good fit for problems which are mo
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
The underlying problem as I see it is that SQL is itself a black box, in the sense that the database execution plan does not always trivially follow from the SQL as written. That is a very powerful property for an ad-hoc query language be
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I would bet a small amount of money that the process is (1) put the fob very close to the car's receiver and try again, followed by (2) disassemble the fob and look for a mechanical key.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
addr.host, e.g. https://209.216.230.240.addr.host/
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
The article says that Google is committing funding to the ISRG ( https://abetterinternet.org ). It isn't really clear whether that is one-off funding, or the start of an ongoing relationship. The ISRG seems to have two projec
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
> After all that I think I'm ready if I ever get that dream SRE job at PornHub. O Canada! You know what they say about not letting your dreams just be dreams: https://www.mindgeek.com/careers/?gh_jid=4564518002
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
It is true that it is theoretically O(n) in the worst case, but in my own production deployments I have tended to find a huge skew towards selecting the most recently inserted couple of items. Here the obvious ocular caching optimization le
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
Volume 1 of TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens is a good one. If you're very pressed for time, start with the picture of the TCP state machine and work outwards.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I read the page, and I'm still not clear what they want me to do. Do they want me to buy something from one of their partners? If so, what do they want me to buy, and why is it better (either for me or the developers) than just using t
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
They are, and I apologize for starting one. It wasn't my intent. For what it is worth, I found quite a few of the replies enlightening as to why others choose to use the platform. But: I take your point that it derailed the conversatio
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I do, and I should have said so. I forget that macOS actually has a large consumer following, because I usually encounter it with startups who have chosen it as their standard fit for developers.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
You know, this is about the one thing I do like about macOS. Cmd+C/V should indeed be the universal sequence for copy/paste. I particularly hate the way GNOME terminal uses Shift+Ctrl+C/V for this, because if you accidental
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I see your point on the sandbox, and I agree that Windows is in many ways even worse as a consumer platform. I wasn't aware that things had gotten so bad there. My complaint with MacOS is less about the existence of SIP (though I can&#

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