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by hnarn 4y ago
The post you're commenting on is a PDF file hosted on cia.gov, how is that any better? Or are you assuming that all readers of HN 1) are American citizens, and 2) that American citizens shouldn't care about possible threats from t
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by hnarn 4y ago
Nobody said the question was irrelevant or not interesting, but it does answer the question "what am I supposed to take away from this", if the answer is "you're not".
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by hnarn 4y ago
> Odd to present temperature in Celsius for a US state It's only odd if you assume that any type of data presentation is always targeted to those living in the area the data is collected for, which of course is not always true. And
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by hnarn 4y ago
The only part of being a "coffee snob" that I personally respect is the concern regarding the origin of the coffee itself and the conditions of the workers farming it. I'm not interested in the intricacies of what beans are u
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by hnarn 4y ago
That’s the same question as “how do you ensure complete trust” which is, of course, not possible. That doesn’t mean that “distributed trust-based blacklisting” still isn’t better than what Google is offering today, which is nothing.
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by hnarn 4y ago
You don’t really mention specifically what you find “frustrating” about VMWare Workstation so it’s hard to know on what criteria to give a response. I don’t know how “built in” it can be considered but I’ve used LXD a bit and since it now s
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by hnarn 4y ago
Just to play devil’s advocate for a second: the fact that the EU has banned glyphosate does not mean that it’s a confirmed carcinogen. It only means that it’s considered harmful, which it can be in many other ways apart from causing cancer.
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by hnarn 4y ago
Making accurate calculations of data center cost is of course complicated and rarely manages to take everything into account, but the common knowledge I’ve heard is that there comes a point when a company is so large that going on-prem is w
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by hnarn 4y ago
So Go is not “basically bound to IPv4” since the proxy is enabled by default.
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by hnarn 4y ago
> Go is also basically bound to IPv4 since it depends on github to pull packages Is this also true for the Go module proxy?
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by hnarn 4y ago
To be quite honest, I expect more intellectual honesty from an HN post. This reads, at best, like an opinion piece and most if not all of the controversial “facts” presented are not sourced in any way — not for lack of trying though as the
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by hnarn 4y ago
> I needed a bit of palette cleanser This is a fun mistake. It’s “Palate cleanser”.
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by hnarn 4y ago
That analogy makes no sense at all.
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by hnarn 4y ago
> if someone has a skill, they should be able to use it professionally Sure, but why would you hire an unlicensed electrician, or surgeon, or car mechanic, or builder, or elevator mechanic, or really anything that matters? The only areas
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by hnarn 4y ago
> So, that is a pretty good solution, too. Remove diplomas altogether, and let employers measure knowledge in a way they seem fit. It's not a "pretty good solution", which shows if you start breaking down how you would att
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by hnarn 4y ago
That's because the certificate is the value, not the knowledge itself. The knowledge is assumed. Without a certificate, the onus of verifying the required knowledge is now on the consumer or employer, and unsurprisingly neither of th
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by hnarn 4y ago
> why do we need to "measure knowledge"? Because knowledge is currency. It opens doors to privilege and status in society. It also ensures incompetent people are not put into positions where they can do harm.
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by hnarn 4y ago
I said no such thing. I never even claimed to be a teacher (which I am not). What I said was that we should listen to people who are active in the field for proposed solutions to problems we face. I also never said I was active in the field
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by hnarn 4y ago
So, the Leibniz argument? Our current system for educating citizens of all ages is already the best it can be, and any change or even reflection upon it is a waste of time.
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by hnarn 4y ago
My opinion is that the educational system in most industrialized countries today rewards the wrong things and that the quality of education suffers to allow an easier time of mass-grading and classifying. Whether this means it’s “broken” or
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by hnarn 4y ago
Again, it’s so easy to criticize, point out the “problem” and then offer no solution. The “knowledge factory” exists for a reason. The way our society is constructed, we need structured specialization (pick a course), verification (you’re O
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by hnarn 4y ago
Threads like these are always frustrating, because as usual people (programmers in this case) freely air their opinions on how schools are broken with phrases like “we need to fix the system”. As someone who studied pedagogy for years and q
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by hnarn 4y ago
I saw an article about someone literally just tying an air filter to the front of a construction fan, and apparently it worked well to improve the air quality in the room it was in (it was bad to begin with, of course). It’s a very simple c
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by hnarn 4y ago
I don’t have direct experience with administrating Oracle, but my impression is that they make a lot of money from the moats they’ve built: but they would never have been able to build them if the product was garbage to begin with. Sure, no
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by hnarn 4y ago
Why can’t multiple things be true at the same time? The idea of product “officers” can be bizarre and counter productive, while that product simultaneously can be one of the best in the market. I’m not saying that O365 is great, I use it at
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by hnarn 4y ago
> Workloads are moving from enterprise onsite datacenters to the cloud. This is something that the HN crowd repeats as if it were an obvious axiom where no scrutiny is needed. While I'm sure it's true that there's a gener
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by hnarn 4y ago
> if non IT companies had their own IT department I think you vastly underestimate the cost of on-prem IT, especially for small and medium sized businesses. The "floor" cost of your own IT is many, many orders of magnitude high
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by hnarn 4y ago
> Actually, the parent comment is on to something. "Brand name" enterprise software is a buoy that certain types of careerists handcuff themselves to Or maybe, just maybe, really big corporations that make software solutions ar
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by hnarn 4y ago
The VMWare market cap in 2016 was ~$32B, of course there's no objective way to answer your question definitely as yes or no but I'd say that VMWare was already at that point more than comfortably a more or less de-facto standard f
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by hnarn 4y ago
The problem is that most people advocating Kubernetes don’t have enough experience with use cases where it doesn’t fit, of which there are many.

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