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by gxti 16y ago
Apologies for downvoting you, I did so based on your original post of just "Seriously .. WTF?". I don't see his post as being WTF-worthy even though I disagree with it, nor do I condone any such posts since they add nothing of value to the
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by gxti 16y ago
You're right that the pressure to actively promote diversity will fade as diversity increases, however I don't really see this as something we'll look back on and say "what were we thinking?"
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by gxti 16y ago
In my experience micro instances are not suitable for on-demand services since they have no reserved CPU and frequently stop responding for minutes at a time. They're basically a way for Amazon to sell excess RAM to grid computing customers
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by gxti 16y ago
It's the technical name for a solid indication. I've never heard it used in common parlance but that's how it's referred to in e.g. the USDOT Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
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by gxti 16y ago
That seems quite optimistic. Do you have a source from someone who knows something about electronics engineering instead of networking?
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by gxti 16y ago
"Law" is [theoretically] a consensus on "fairness". If we all went around killing each other based on our personal views, well that just wouldn't be very fair , now would it?
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by gxti 16y ago
The unfortunate truth about humans is that nobody looks down unless it serves to further raise their own status, even if only in a subconscious, primal sort of way (consider how working with the poor is likely to increase respect towards yo
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by gxti 16y ago
The left side is cut off and the right side overflows if the window isn't large enough to contain the full layout. Reducing the text size has no effect on the layout width, either. Columnized formats are annoying enough when they work but t
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by gxti 16y ago
> But feminists think the top half is men-only, and they want it to be women-only. Stating this as if it were fact is disingenuous. The feminists that people think of when they think that -- the ones they label "feminazis" -- exist only
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by gxti 16y ago
Never mind, then. I have no idea why they did it but there's probably a perfectly valid technical explanation.
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by gxti 16y ago
I'm pretty sure they do it because the keyboard can't source the required 500mA of current. They "proprietarize" it in order to keep people from plugging high-current devices in.
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by gxti 16y ago
Fedora's Automated Bug Reporting Tool (abrt) uses this to automatically produce crash reports, which you can sanitize and approve to post in a central location for developers. I imagine that Ubuntu does something similar.
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by gxti 16y ago
It's a free upgrade from warm standby, whereas SR requires a little more configuration. A good SR cluster also requires that log archiving (warm/hot standby) be set up in case the stream gets behind, otherwise you're at the mercy of whateve
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by gxti 16y ago
I had this happen for a domain renewal at "1&1 Internet Inc.". The card expired and it failed to autorenew, except that A) I wasn't expecting an auto-renewal and B) no notification was ever sent from the company that the domain was expi
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by gxti 16y ago
Craigslist is minimal but reasonably well-designed. Amazon on the other hand I would go so far as to call awful. The #1 thing I'm looking for when I open a product page is the details about the product and it's below the fold . But still,
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by gxti 16y ago
Indeed, micros have twice the peak CPU speed as small instances, but zero guaranteed cycles. Your instance will grind to a halt for minutes at a time when something preempts it. They're basically just a way for Amazon to sell excess RAM.
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by gxti 16y ago
Indeed, HFCS and sugar are biologically equivalent. The problem is that since it became available it is being put in everything as a substitute for real flavor. People are more likely to buy products that "taste better" when really it's j
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by gxti 16y ago
> For instancen we can keep our number when switching carriers This has also been possible in the U.S. for as long as cell phones have been widespread. Presumably there is a regulatory reason because I can't imagine a strong reason a ca
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by gxti 16y ago
My understanding was that an issue with quotes lagging behind at the NYSE precipitated a kind of "order avalanche" where NYSE's quotes appeared to be better than the rest of the market, thus inviting more order flow, thus pushing their dela
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by gxti 16y ago
Sounds exactly like me, except I haven't gone back yet. I went to a poorly chosen university, hated it, and left after a year with failing grades. Now I'm happily employed with a small company but I'm positive that I'll go back (to a better
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by gxti 16y ago
No, spot instances can be shut down anytime you are outbid.
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by gxti 16y ago
Trying to communicate with a mix of people who are A) standing too far from the conference phone or B) driving to work and thus drowned out by road noise, not to mention paying attention to either you or the road but not both -- is a waste
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by gxti 16y ago
The particular scenario in the article is one in which denormalizing would be not only more efficient, but more correct as well. As the author points out, an invoice should always reflect the order at the time that it was created, not inclu
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by gxti 16y ago
> It is in effect like having a party and making everyone wear headphones. Now I know what I'm doing tomorrow night. Thanks!
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by gxti 16y ago
Tasp? It's an electrical device that rots your brain by overstimulating it. Too bad it sounds a little clinical.
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by gxti 16y ago
http://www.cacert.org/ has been jumping through Mozilla's hoops for years now, and no sign of being accepted. Shame, because they're certainly more secure than the typical "trusted" CA. EDIT: Looks like CAcert withdrew their application u
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by gxti 16y ago
My GE microwave has lots of features I never use. However, I can start nuking for 30 seconds or 1-6 minutes by pressing a single button. That "+30 seconds" button is probably be the best feature in the microwave. I won't deny, though, that
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by gxti 16y ago
reflog is a pretty neat demonstration of the power inherent in the way git stores data. The backend is just a giant bucket of changesets, and then constructs like branches and tags are pointers into that bucket. You get free undo because gi
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by gxti 16y ago
Because the entire discussion is bogged down by people trying to signal how egalitarian they are, and if anyone has a marginally differing viewpoint then they must be distanced as far as possible as violently as possible lest the speaker be
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by gxti 16y ago
This seems to be a bug in Google Groups -- if you have an expired session, it forces you to log in. But you were never signed in (or if you signed out) it doesn't ask and goes straight to the article.

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