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by gwd 2y ago
> That's just not true. There are a lot of web servers where their operations are CPU- or memory-intensive, depending on what they do. Are they working with images? Mapping? Video? Large data throughput? Especially when so much serv
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by gwd 2y ago
But doesn't the same logic apply to the database? Is the webserver / application layer really so much more CPU intensive (and/or prone to failure) than the database in sites "designed for business", such that you c
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by gwd 2y ago
There can be multiple reasons to do something. It's a simple, effective way to avoid some legit issues that doesn't require much if any testing; by itself it's a perfectly legitimate business decision and doesn't need t
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by gwd 2y ago
Consider the following scenario: 1. Someone owns one of these systems which is functioning perfectly well. 2. They stumble across a link allowing them to download the controller app, and so they install it on their normal tablet, expecting
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by gwd 2y ago
In defense of this, remember that any random person can download and install this app on any android device. It does make sense to have a clear failure mode in this case. Anyone willing to pull out a soldering iron to attach a new tablet
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by gwd 2y ago
> But it's standard to have at least 2 webservers. Why do you need 2 webservers (assuming that the cpu / network / disk throughput of a single server is sufficient for your application)?
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by gwd 2y ago
My first prototype of execution replay I implemented was for Linux processes (in like, 2000 or something), which I did by modifying Linux. The primary thing I did there was to instrument copy_to_user(). The final version of execution repla
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by gwd 2y ago
Yes, at some point when I was a student I went out to VMWare and gave a presentation to a team of their engineers. The thing about execution replay is that, in the general case, it's incredibly fragile . I happened to chat to some pe
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by gwd 2y ago
> Freelancers' careers live or die based on where future work is coming from. Happy clients are good for repeat business. Happy clients refer other potential clients. Happy clients are good for portfolios or case studies. Smart free
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by gwd 2y ago
If I've understood things right, boiling as a last step won't protect you from botulism. My understanding is: 1. The botulism spore can only be killed by heating to something very high, like 250C, which can only be achieved at
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by gwd 2y ago
> Botulism is not some cosmic horror which reaches out and grabs you randomly. It is like a knife. If you do things right it is perfectly safe. If you do things wrong it can kill you. The point of the warnings is to learn where the &quot
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by gwd 2y ago
> but American food writing always needs FDA recommendations and general fearmongering, for some reason. Maybe fearmongering is one of the reasons the deaths are so low? That, and the fact that the recipes that have become a part of the
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by gwd 2y ago
> If you are careless, you could end up with botulism, one of the deadliest toxin known to man! So make sure the fermentation vessel is airtight and everything is clean. I'm not an expert, but from what I've heard about botulis
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by gwd 2y ago
GP is probably thinking of "My dad and me"; not sure how far back it goes but I've certainly heard it quite a bit from native speakers. You might hear someone say, "Him and me, we go way back", but that's slig
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by gwd 2y ago
Inspired somewhat by the comments in this post, I yesterday just dove into rewriting all the Golang templates for my project in Gomponents, a golang HTML builder that seems at least superficially similar to the model you're using here.
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by gwd 2y ago
Nit: "Bear in mind". "Bare" means "to make bare" (i.e., to uncover); "bear" means "to carry": "As you evaluate this discussion, carry it in your mind that..."
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by gwd 2y ago
I was kind of scratching my head at what GP was getting at as well; I suspect that "better" has a different metric in the second case: i.e., the scientist is asking which chemical A or B has the stronger desired medical effect; t
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by gwd 2y ago
1. How much of that is due to its inherent complexity, and how much is just due to its novelty? If they had grown up in a society where RCV was the default, how many of those people would still have been confused? 2. People misunderstand t
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by gwd 2y ago
> ...what was the process in place and why did it fail? It appears the process was: 1. Channel files are considered trusted; so no need to sanity-check inputs in the sensor, and no need to fuzz the sensor itself to make sure it deals gra
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by gwd 2y ago
Indeed, the very first thing they should be doing is adding fuzzing of their sensor to the test suite, so that it's not possible (or astronomically unlikely) for any corrupt content to crash the system.
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by gwd 2y ago
> As far as I'm concerned, anyone who self-identifies honestly as a "Christian" is one, regardless of how incongruent their actions and opinions seem to be with some of the teachings of some of the denominations of that re
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by gwd 2y ago
> I... don't believe that it is equivalent to giving free money to people. And I hope two things are clear: 1. I don't like freeloaders either. I don't ever plan to be a freeloader, and I don't like the idea of payin
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by gwd 2y ago
Right, but there are situations where you will pay for something one way or another; we'd like "not paying" to be an option, but trying to take that option causes you to pay in the most expensive way. If you have a piece of
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by gwd 2y ago
You can see that they exist already, without UBI. So the question is, what effect will UBI have on freeloading if introduced? Will they contribute even less than they do now? Will there be more of them? Or will they stop free-loading o
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by gwd 2y ago
When I was in the military reserves, there were some guys who graduated High School and went straight into a minimum-wage job, working at Home Depot and the like. At first they thought it was great -- I have my own place! Sure, it'
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by gwd 2y ago
> What are you talking about? Christians (American ones at least) absolutely love Trump. I'll probably get a bunch of replies here from non-Christian liberals making a bunch of theological claims about a religion they don't eve
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by gwd 2y ago
Wow: https://reason.com/2022/04/28/florida-tennessee-ban-ranked-c... This is naked anti-democratic power-mongering. The only reason to ban it outright (rather than, say, letting people try it and switch back
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by gwd 2y ago
> Missing lots of days means that there will be lots of cards where it's just not clear if you're going to recall them or not. ...I'm not sure how one could do better than that. It's not clear to Anki because its mode
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by gwd 2y ago
In my experience, it's actually easier to memorize a sentence than to actually learn the principles behind something. (Turns out this is also true for neural networks, and there are loads of techniques for counteracting it.) So OK, to
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by gwd 2y ago
Sure, a single missed day isn't bad; but have you ever skipped a month? I'd been using Anki for Mandarin flash cards for a couple of years, and decided I wanted to memorize the "outs" (probabilities) of various hands for

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