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by hangonhn 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Y%C3%BC-hsiang#Conversion... There was a Chinese general who supposedly did something like that using a firehose.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, is there a reason for Mormons to especially care about their genealogy?
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by hangonhn 6y ago
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” - Jean Luc Picard I'm not saying everyone of those people in charge are in the same boat but maybe we shouldn't be too hasty in judging t
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by hangonhn 6y ago
That's actually not an entirely crazy idea if you're trying to hide from Western governments. Are you more worried about the Chinese government coming after you? Likewise, if someone in China is trying to hide from the Chinese gov
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by hangonhn 6y ago
"show me the ingredient list and instructions." YES! I don't want your backstory. I don't want to be mean but I'm just not that interested in you Mr./Ms. random Internet poster. I would often just close the tab
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Likewise! It's a huge stress reliever for me. I get to get out of the house but still be isolated from everyone else.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Wait. We're only hearing it from one point of view. Rather than calling for action, should we not also hear other view points or do some investigation or research first? Isn't knee-jerk calls to action contributing to what you see
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Yeah I'm pretty skeptical as well but I've learned that just because someone is a competitor, we shouldn't deprive them of the virtues that we like to believe we have. It is very possible and I would argue probable that Xi is
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by hangonhn 6y ago
The Chinese military is historically beset by corruption and "leaks". The "Century of Humiliation" started when the Chinese navy was utterly destroyed by a newbie regional power Japan at the Battle of Yalu River partly b
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I had to Google it to confirm but Nick Clegg is the same guy who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK under David Cameron. I'm super curious about how that came to be -- what skillsets and talents a former Deputy Prime Minister of t
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Can you explain more about the walking part? Is it because pedestrians get hit by cars a lot? Otherwise it seems walking should be incredibly safe.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Anyone know the reason for the dominance of Power processors in the top 10 other than it's from IBM and they get a lot of contracts for HPC?
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Tangential to this discussion, what was AMD's original reasoning for getting rid of its own fabs and spinning them out into Global Foundries? It seems these days that fabs are so strategic. Did they realize they can't compete in t
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Anyone know why Java's object hash is even on the list given how small it is? It's not even mean to be cryptographically secure.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Or that AWS reduced the cost of its retail operations (no store, no real estate, no staff, etc.) so dramatically that it drove out nearly all its competitors that it became the universal intermediary between buyers and sellers. The profits
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I worked at a big tech company many years ago and it's precisely this disconnect that I will never work for a big successful company again. Successful companies tend to have a lot of "buffer" in terms of resources so they fee
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by hangonhn 6y ago
The reason the history is so biased against the Russians in the US is because it was written by German generals. They ended up doing two things: 1. Absolving themselves of any guilt or mistake. It's all Hitler's fault. :rolleyes:
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by hangonhn 6y ago
In case anyone else has Global Entry, the Global Entry ID card is Real ID compliant.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
The UK granted those liberties and some measure of self governance only in the last years of its rule. The Governor of Hong Kong was never elected. The elected portion of the legislative council was implemented rather near the end of the UK
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by hangonhn 6y ago
That was exactly how it was before. The whole equity compensation was the answer to the problem of CEOs that never grew the company. That was why all the leveraged buyouts happened in the 80s and 90s. They didn’t want CEOs who just stayed a
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Just to clarify, does it matter if these libraries are pure Python? What I have a hard time understanding is how PyPy is almost a drop-in replacement but then have issues with missing libraries. Couldn't you just pip install the librar
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by hangonhn 6y ago
The bit that helps me a lot with Chinese is that once you known the characters, you can deduce the possible meaning of the words, especially in the context of the sentence. For example, 手機 is "hand", "machine", 飛機 is &qu
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Did any other introverts discovered that they're not as introverted as they thought they were during this pandemic? I got a pretty harsh awakening about 2 weeks into shelter in place. At the beginning I thought I would excel at this an
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Oh boy! I had a similar cascading failure situation once with a Nagios "cluster" I inherited. The previous engineer distributed the work between a master and 3 slave nodes with a backup mechanism such that if any of the slaves die
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I was about to suggest the exact same. It is literally what we do at my company. Of course you now have to them deal with searching and indexing. To mitigate this issue, we use UUIDs to reference users throughout our systems. Any fields tha
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by hangonhn 6y ago
This is so mind-blowing-ly crazy and awesome. I've always loved the idea of Backblaze but never tried it. But this combination is so insanely good and valuable. When an efficient market/economy works correctly, the results are jus
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by hangonhn 6y ago
This may be the opposite song to "I've Consed Every Pair": "Write in C": http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00259.html Someone apparently made a YouTube video too: https://www.youtube.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
"Either way, inventory management is like banking, aiming to be eventually consistent is a lot more realistic than being always consistent." Yeah I love those basic DB examples of transactions and why it's important using ban
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Or Ousterhout level since we're talking about Raft. His career is amazing with contribution in many different areas of CS -- not to say Lamport's hasn't been.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Yes! I was about to say something similar about China as well. In China, and maybe other former Communist countries as well, kids with talents or what seems like talents are identified very early on and only those with such aptitudes are gi

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