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by hylaride 6y ago
People in general are notorious for their short term thinking. I’m not re-evaluating personally, even though a good chunk of those amenities are gone and it remains to be seen what will replace them. However, people I know are “fleeing”.
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by hylaride 6y ago
I live in a 2 bedroom 900 square foot condo with a toddler. The kitchen table acted as my “desk” before COVID, usually in a pinch if I really had to. Currently I have half of our bedroom stuffed with a desk so I can work full time during
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by hylaride 6y ago
I don't call myself a libertarian, but I am sympathetic to a lot of their arguments. Stossel comes across as a whiny spoiled brat who can't handle being told 'no' to doing things like lighting up a cigarette in a public
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by hylaride 6y ago
Oneweb is bankrupt. It may be half-rescued by the British govt as an attempt to build its own GPS system since they got kicked out of Galileo due to Brexit, but it is unlikely to be a player anymore.
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by hylaride 6y ago
IPOs are the way they are because of a lot of historical reasons. Before everybody and their uncle had a stock trading account, the investment banks and their moneyed clients were often the only way to get access to capital in meaningful qu
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by hylaride 6y ago
I won’t disagree with you about any improvements 11 made, but merely again the delta against competing options available. FYI, I’m verbally harsh because as I said I miss Solaris and miss having an economic reason to use it.
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by hylaride 6y ago
No, I meant 10. The same way you might say that the McLaren F1 is the pinnacle of car engineering, despite higher performing cars being subsequently released. The delta between what you could get between Solaris 10 and most anything else
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by hylaride 6y ago
Solaris 10 really was the pinnacle of UNIX. At a previous company, we were doing with Solaris zones and ZFS snapshots essentially a docker-like development ecosystem. We were really excited about the crossbow networking project, but then t
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by hylaride 6y ago
Agreed. I've got a rant or three about how Tim Cook's Apple has become cold and calculating, but this guy was not fired for helping his friend. There was something between him and his manager. Maybe his manager is a dick who wan
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by hylaride 6y ago
My big deal with google is the fact that half the search "results" are now prefixed with "Ad".
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by hylaride 6y ago
Starlink would have to violate international laws, via the ITU, to serve other countries. If they violate it, and the US allows it, causing the ITU to collapse, there’s nothing to stop foreign companies from broadcasting/jamming signa
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by hylaride 6y ago
Follow the money.
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by hylaride 6y ago
OK, but you'd be delaying scans by having to wait for the MRI, which takes significantly longer to setup and administer as well as being much more expensive (which would further reduce access). Also (and this is according to the XKCD c
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by hylaride 6y ago
My understanding is that the dosage within those few seconds is the equivalent to absorbing half a year's worth of radiation. That's explicitly what Sieverts are designed to measure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by hylaride 6y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but I've always been told that CTs are significantly cheaper and faster to administer. According to the famous XKCD radiation graph, a full CT head scan is about 50% of the normal natural yearly background radiatio
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by hylaride 6y ago
In the presentation they literally list the TCP stack as a technical advantage. In the video the guy literally says kqueue and sendfile as superior freebsd code for their use case. Also, I never said it's "faster". Most mod
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by hylaride 6y ago
> And I would still like to see some evidence. There are plenty of talks, papers, etc from both Juniper, Netflix, etc on why they made their choices, but your response is merely "could also be they did not understand how to configur
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by hylaride 6y ago
I think that the engineers at Netflix "could figure it out". As a long time BSD fan (since 1998) who has had to accept the fact that Linux won out in the end, I can vouch that by far the biggest pain point on Linux is its networki
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by hylaride 6y ago
I don't think immigration/multiculturalism is the cause of that (though maybe it’s an accelerator). The world is homogenizing. Travel to any city in the developed world and all coffee shops, fashion, etc look the same.
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by hylaride 6y ago
Gross revenue and/or profit.
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by hylaride 6y ago
To be fair, it was almost certainly the diamonds that brought the price to $1m. But in the words of David Lee Roth “who am I to get in the way of a good rumor”.
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by hylaride 6y ago
Most of that gear was likely bay networks kit, which was actually acquired by Nortel. I don’t disagree that it was crap, but it was cheaper than Cisco. I grew up in the Ottawa area in the 1990s and my parents were in the tech scene there; t
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by hylaride 6y ago
Moving to it’s own chips may be fine and all, but I’d much prefer Apple to deal with the rotting quality of its OSes first.
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by hylaride 6y ago
By "main booster" did you mean the big red thing? That was a fuel storage tank and yes, it was not re-used.
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by hylaride 6y ago
Wrong how? COVID-19 didn't exist until late last year, so how could they have been wrong since 2009? Even if they were wrong, people can be wrong and change based on new information. That's not incompetence, that's learning
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by hylaride 6y ago
I'm not by any means defending the Canadian telecoms, but I'll say one thing about the networks of the big 3: they are rock solid. While visiting Germany, I was impressed by the cheap prepaid data plans, but I only got EDGE in th
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by hylaride 6y ago
Amenities. Not having to drive everywhere. Good internet. Rural areas are more conservative in general (I'm talking about the cultural sense, not economic) so that can be stifling for a lot of people.
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by hylaride 6y ago
I generally have a 3-strikes rule with companies. Single-bad experiences can be for any number of reasons. The person you dealt could have been a jerk or going through a divorce, or whatever. If I got a rental car that required premium ga
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by hylaride 6y ago
I've always rented from Hertz because they've historically been the least hassle, if more expensive than Enterprise. I live in downtown Toronto and don't own a car. I use car sharing for local needs, but the traditional car
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by hylaride 6y ago
Strangely, the iOS version supports feedly, but the desktop version doesn’t.

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