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by greggyb 4y ago
The comment I am responding to stated, "The article downplayed the seriousness of a tail strike." I am saying that the article said things that sound severe, as a direct response to the claim that the article downplayed the seriou
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by greggyb 4y ago
As a layperson, "they landed immediately and required inspection before being allowed to fly again" (not a direct quote, but it represents what the article said), seems pretty severe to me.
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by greggyb 4y ago
When I was singing, I could hiss for 90 seconds without specific practice. For definitional purposes, a hiss was an unbroken, continuous, audible, 'sss' sound. This was an exercise our chorus director sometimes did with us. I get
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by greggyb 4y ago
I have ~always been able to hold my breath for multiple minutes. I am very un-fit and have been for most of my adult life. Am I secretly the paragon of health?
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by greggyb 4y ago
One challenge with the chosen example language, Python, is that functions are truthy. So if you forget to call the function that computes your boolean test, you end up with a default true. Taking the last top-level statement, the `if`:
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by greggyb 4y ago
It is not a direct implementation, and may end up being clunky, but I expect a fairly small library of helper functions could improve ergonomics quite a bit: Define your booleans as functions of no args. A sample in Python: var = &#x2
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by greggyb 4y ago
If you are already buying a used NIC, why would you not buy a used transceiver as well? I see SFP+ transceivers for $6-$15 with a quick search.
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by greggyb 4y ago
AIOs do not significantly outperform tower coolers. Their benefit is flexibility of placement. Tower coolers require room for ... a tower. And that placement is both inflexible and in need of airflow through most of the case.
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by greggyb 4y ago
If you use Outlook to restrict an email and send that to me at a non-Microsoft-affiliated account (that I access from a non Microsoft OS), I have to imagine the restriction is worthless.
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by greggyb 4y ago
32 cores and 128GB RAM are now desktop-class specs. Latest generation commodity servers can supply you with hundreds of cores and TBs of RAM. Note: "commodity" != "cheap", at least not necessarily. Ninja edit before anyo
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by greggyb 4y ago
I mean, you can almost fit all that data on one SSD. Micron's latest are 30TB. Commodity servers are available with 24 NVMe drive bays. At 7 GB/s read, across 24 drives, you can scan 40 TB in 240 seconds. Such a server could readi
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by greggyb 4y ago
The Arch wiki is also sometimes useful when working in other OSes. I daily drive FreeBSD, and the Arch wiki is still a valuable resource, though not as often as when I was using more Linux.
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by greggyb 4y ago
Yes. Why wouldn't you?
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by greggyb 4y ago
It's made up but does provide rough tiers within a product generation. Also, modern CPUs and GPUs pretty effectively throttle to the capacity of their cooling solution. I would not necessarily recommend it, but you could probably get b
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by greggyb 4y ago
Having used McMaster Carr several times with not a clue as to the correct search terms, I must disagree with your assertion that the site only caters to those who know what they are looking for. Vague search terms will give you results more
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by greggyb 4y ago
We agree.
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by greggyb 4y ago
Ethernet (at least oveR twisted pairs) is a full duplex transmission medium, so two devices should be able to more than saturate the MOCA broadcast network. Additionally, >1Gbps is starting to become common on consumer hardware. Again, i
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by greggyb 4y ago
If you want a Pi (or alike) for specific reasons, go for it! But, if you are looking for cheap and relatively low-power compute, I strongly recommend looking at used ultra small form factor PCs. You can get much more computational power and
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by greggyb 4y ago
For home use, this is likely to be fine. MOCA operates as a broadcast network, though, so all bandwidth is shared among all connected nodes. The performance characteristics are closer to an old hub than to a switched network.
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by greggyb 4y ago
And Tridactyl as well for Firefox, not to mention qutebrowser, from which I write this very reply. The annoying thing with such solutions for webapps is when there is a more fluent implementation of navigation in the context of the applicat
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by greggyb 4y ago
I like Inoreader[0]. The web app is plenty snappy for me, and supports basic vim nav keys, which is a lovely plus. The free plan's 150 feeds are sufficient for my use case. The mobile app also performs well. Mostly it just gets out of
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by greggyb 4y ago
Adding a top-level comment as a brief summary: In this talk, Dr. Hermans discusses pedagogy generally, first looking at traditional academic subjects, then non-academic, and finally applies these learnings to her own research on teaching no
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“How to teach programming (and other things)?” by Felienne Hermans(youtube.com)
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by greggyb 4y ago
ZFS snapshots are immutable, rendering them quite resilient to encryption attacks. This may alleviate some of your concern.
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by greggyb 4y ago
Compression is useful even with directly attached storage devices. Disk IO is still slower than compression throughput unless you are running very fast storage. If your workload is IO-bound, then it is quite likely that compression will hel
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by greggyb 4y ago
'Psalm for the Wild Built' and 'Prayer for the Crown-Shy', both by Becky Chambers. They are a pair of sci-fi novellas that explore the idea of finding purpose (and much more) through a series of adventures and conversati
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by greggyb 4y ago
Such languages offload more work onto the data model than SQL does.[0] For example, in the Tabular model (where you would use DAX), relationships are defined in the model (and supported by an in-memory data structure that you can shortcut-t
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by greggyb 4y ago
There are a number of query languages to address this type of reuse and composability for analytical query workloads. - MDX: created by Microsoft to provide a dimensional query language. The language is incredibly powerful, but depends on y
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by greggyb 4y ago
This is a helpful review of the fundamentals to cover. I will definitely be doing my own searches for content on the topics. Do you have any good references for resources in the vein of teaching the fundamentals. Not like "DNS: here is
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by greggyb 4y ago
Are there any good resources for what to mind as a sysadmin? It seems that most resources I find when searching, or that come across my radar (like this article) are focused on mechanism and how-to. I often feel a bit out of my depth when

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