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by greggyb 8y ago
No it's not. Some form of prejudice, certainly, but not racism.
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by greggyb 8y ago
> Spending $1 to make $2 is always the right decision. Unless you have an opportunity to spend $1 and make $3. Your supply of dollar bills is still limited. It's hard to spend huge amounts of money. You've always got to conside
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by greggyb 8y ago
Meet yourself some good recruiters. I get well-paying contracts aligned with my interests in just a couple weeks if not days. Rates are lower than independent consulting, but still very lucrative. Good recruiters are rare, but they're
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by greggyb 8y ago
From my perspective, columnar storage is an enormous win. One of the best things I've been able to do for clients on MSSQL has been to tell them simply to create a clustered columnstore index on their large tables for analytical worklo
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by greggyb 8y ago
We are agreeing. To expand: What happened to all the women in tech fields? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers (who are modern additions to organizations) salivate, because current workplaces do not look like this slide
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by greggyb 8y ago
What happened to all the women? This office would make diversity/inclusion officers salivate.
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by greggyb 8y ago
I've run Debian testing and unstable on WSL lately and it's a fine experience. I don't know about Ubuntu, but for Debian, it's a matter of changing your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to your desired versi
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by greggyb 8y ago
I've noticed the same and posted an Ask HN about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19476673
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by greggyb 8y ago
Based on comments below I realize I did not give much other useful information. I run uBlock on Firefox on latest Android. This has happened occasionally in my memory for quite a while. It seems to only be on news sites, though memory may b
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Ask HN: Why do many sites ask for recording permissions on Android?
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by greggyb 8y ago
Hearsay from a winery in Cali I recently visited: I liked the wine I was tasting and the guy pouring mentioned that Costco has purchased the entire stock of the previous year's vintage which had won some international competition. It w
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by greggyb 8y ago
I appreciate the article and the fact that it is certainly an example of "today's 10,000"[0]. I don't appreciate the title making it sound like this is a new discovery that we used to have wooden water infrastructure. Th
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by greggyb 8y ago
Depending on how you organize your relationships, the diagram can make shared dependencies more clear. If you have multiple levels of inputs and outputs, you might define a set of relationships together that are all related to a single outp
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by greggyb 8y ago
That extra key is o in vim's visual mode. It moves the cursor to the other end of the selection With the text below, your cursor is the pipe character. From the cursor position, in normal mode, press 'vjok' line1 l
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by greggyb 8y ago
Guile's VM already supports this.
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by greggyb 8y ago
You're right. The reservation ratio doesn't matter - we agree on this and have both stated it's irrelevant. We're talking about average internet performance in a nation. This entire thread was kicked off by a comment abo
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by greggyb 8y ago
When an ISP leases bandwidth to a customer, they must reserve some amount out of their total available. They may reserve the full amount they have leased, or they may reserve some portion of it. Either way, the reserve is finite and proport
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by greggyb 8y ago
I guess we'll have to disagree on the interpretation of, "Yes I have better (maybe 1.5 to 2 times as fast) Internet than my parents who are in Europe, but I also pay 3 times what they pay for it." To me, the most charitable i
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by greggyb 8y ago
> Now, for fun, let's integrate the price dimension to this report. Yes I have better (maybe 1.5 to 2 times as fast) Internet than my parents who are in Europe, but I also pay 3 times what they pay for it. "Yes..., but" is
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by greggyb 8y ago
Depends on where you live. My total bill for internet service is approximately $110. Of that $110 total, approximately $1.50 is tax/fee.
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by greggyb 8y ago
Well now we're two people on the internet arguing about what a third meant. This couldn't possibly end badly (: So I have two questions. 1: I read the original parent comment's second point as indicating that a 2x in performa
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by greggyb 8y ago
Your second point assumes that scaling some attribute of value by a factor of two should be associated with an exact doubling of price. These were literally the first three things I could think of, but I'm sure we could braistorm many
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by greggyb 8y ago
Regarding 2), that seems like an un-justified expectation that 2x in some category should be 2x price. I can buy a Chevrolet Spark for $14K. Top speed is listed at 110mph. Here's a list of cars that can go 200mph https://www
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by greggyb 8y ago
No worries. It's the internet. I was hardly snark free, either. So, I have a couple priors. One of these priors is that it is, in general, a good thing to place as few restrictions on actors in society as possible. Not anarchy. Not min
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by greggyb 8y ago
Where is the nightmare? Before formal net neutrality laws were enacted and since repeal, the vast majority of ISP contracts are unlimited and unmetered. There are instances of violations, and these have pretty much uniformly been handled by
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by greggyb 8y ago
You carve out a hole slightly larger than the sausage. You hold the roll at approximately a 45 degree angle, while spinning it. Thus the hole remains in place, while the bread moves around it. As you are spinning it, you put the toppings in
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by greggyb 8y ago
I can pay Comcast $30 for "basic cable". This brings every piece of equipment and signal into my home necessary to watch any programming that Comcast has to offer. There are no technical limitations, but there is some flag in Comc
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by greggyb 8y ago
> Irrelevant, you already pay Netflix and your ISP. What did I pay my ISP for? I can pay for cable television. I can pay extra for HBO, or not. I can only get NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. Where is the outrage? Why is the coax that comes
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by greggyb 8y ago
I paid for my car. I still have to pay for gas on a regular basis. I still have to pay tolls on many roads and highways. I paid for a CD once, a long time ago. I still had to pay for electricity for the stereo. And that damn greedy electric
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by greggyb 8y ago
Sure, I'll bite. Is Netflix "prevented" or "not preferred". Let's pick our battle before we fight it. But there is some useful grounding here. I use the term consenting adults, but perhaps we should refer to &q

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