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by hinkley 8mo ago
I think this is one of the ways in which the internet is dangerous for children. Gen X kids were starving for any adult not their parents to acknowledge their existence. Which made us targets for predators. But now we’ve overcorrected and a
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Little did you know that your ideas were incorporated into Navy training. The Navy is wet work and you need practice working in such conditions. They unfortunately left out your concessions stands and the water slide. Sorry. (I know that su
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Volunteer to judge the science fair?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
> usually
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by hinkley 8mo ago
And yet we get copycat movies all the time where clearly someone stole an elevator pitch or eavesdropped at a coffee shop and ran with it.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
That’s a shame. Annhueser Busch turned one of their estates into a tourist trap. But you couldn’t pet the horses, which is literally the only reason an 11 year old would want to go near a brewery.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Exponential back off with random jitter is the solution there. It can be a bit tricky though because the random jitter can reduce throughput if it’s too generous or not generous enough. For instance backing off 53 ms is a lot of latency. Ba
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by hinkley 8mo ago
For performance reasons we needed a set of assets on all copies of a service. We were using consul for the task management, which is effectively a tree of data that’s tantamount to a json file (in fact we usually pull trees of data as a jso
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I’ve only worked two places as big as OP described, but you probably see this more when your company leases a third of a floor on a giant office building. Or a floor and a half, or two half floors because it was easier to expand onto the 12
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Many turnstiles can be jumped over. In this case it’s more about preventing theft and espionage. I knew someone years and years ago who worked as an assistant to lawyers. The firm had a second office in the state capital, turns out someone
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Shooters tend to be mentally ill people who have been pushed too far by a system, trying to burn that system down. Killing a boss with a keycard that opens everything might not just be possible but also preferable. Fuck you Tom, you made me
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by hinkley 8mo ago
No, the model there is something bad happened, we must do something. This is something, so we will do it. I’m not saying that to diminish the value of the actual solution, but what the people want is literally something to make them feel be
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I kind of suspect an AI to sign up for AWS instances using stolen credit cards at some point.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Allocation behavior when one core deletes and another adds and they reuse the same memory allocation is what I thought you meant. Is that what you meant? Because if it is then you now have potential for the problem I described.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
We know that modern flagellates can steer to or away from light. When they started doing that is, as you say, pretty difficult to establish since they haven't left archaeological evidence. Unlike shellfish.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming: bitching about AI.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Pile this into the bucket called, "being poor is expensive."
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by hinkley 8mo ago
How does reuse avoid false sharing between cores? Since this is concurrent hashmap we are talking about.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
So... stupid question, if this is true, why isn't it downloaded as a docker image?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Don't we have single celled organisms with more than one 'eye' now? We've been able to sense light and shadow even before we became multicellular, didn't we? And this article seems to be implying rather otherwise.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
The thing with microbes is not if they can grow in a place it's whether they can get there first. Beer is basically knocking out natural bacteria and trying to get yeast growing before the bacteria can turn it into cleaning supplies. T
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by hinkley 8mo ago
So the thing about mushrooms is you pretty much have to stick them in your mouth and chew for them to hurt you. There are plants that can screw up your life if you touch them, but people sort of have the two threat levels flipped in their h
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Winecap mushrooms are stupid simple to grow. I think it might have sailed into the sunset now but up until last year I had a colony over 20ft in diameter. They have a short fruiting life though. Works a bit better if you're a morning p
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Lots of houses have unresolved water damage issues. Termites for instance mostly show up in wood that already has water damage.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I like to amuse myself that if Robert Preston had lived another 20 years that Stephen Colbert or John Oliver would have paid him a heap of money to explain cryptocurrency to us all and it never would have happened.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
From the first video I thought they had already shipped this, but it sounds like they were describing what their new model was. This seems like a product with a very very long sales pipeline, so I wonder if they work on pre-orders with exis
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by hinkley 8mo ago
The reason I like to use the Polish example is that I got it straight from a Polish dissident, and a second one didn't correct me when I repeated it to him later. Nobody has official numbers on populations that are a mix of documented
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by hinkley 8mo ago
The speech that worked (mostly) on the children in my life involved the concept of 'cannot unsee', which they seemed to understand. There are some parallels to gun safety here because there are things that even the adults in your
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I have shares in one of their biggest customers, and one of their customer’s biggest customers. We are quickly leaving the realm of dependent variables still looking anything like diversification.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Hitting the lens at an oblique angle won’t fry the sensor though? You have to get close to the cone of visibility which is then within the bloom area.

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