jbotz

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by jbotz 4y ago
Seeking position as Senior SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Manager Location: Brazil Remote: Yes, preferred Willing to relocate: Yes, possibly Technologies: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, git, GitHub actions, GitLab
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Biologists and chemists, and yes, of course, meteorologists and climatologists, routinely use Celcius, not Kelvin, in scientific publications. So that's a strawman.
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The usefulness of typologies like MB lies entirely in opening one's eyes to the ways that people can be different without necessarily being "better" or "worse", which is good because it helps us to understand diff
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The boiling point of water may not be very significant to daily human experience, but the freezing point is, at least for people who don't live in the tropics. Celcius does better there than Fahrenheit, doesn't it? What "pe
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It's not that you dream rarely, it's that you rarely remember your dreams. As a general rule, the only times we remember dreams is when we wake up right after (or during) the dream without leaving REM state. For some people this
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There could be a new crater by an asteroid that impacted the moon this morning. The crater is big, but not quite big enough to be visible on the blurred "real" image you shot this afternoon. After Samsung's alogrithm enhanc
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Psychedelics and Psychological Strengths(internationaljournalofwellbeing.org)
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Maybe it's because to do cutting edge self-driving you need cutting edge software and machine learning engineers, and software engineers are less likely to put up with Elon's crap because they have more options? Tesla and Space X
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PDF here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3984596
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Do Prostitution Laws Affect Rape Rates? Evidence from Europe(journals.uchicago.edu)
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PDF here: https://philarchive.org/archive/SHAQBO
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The Physical Foundation of Quantum Theory(link.springer.com)
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The article concludes: "Eventually, though, someone will release a program that’s nearly as capable as ChatGPT, and entirely open-source. An enterprising amateur will find a way to make it run for free on your laptop." Well not in
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A materialist believes that everything can be explained by the interactions of matter and energy, and there is no independent "spirit" or other such thing that's separate from the material universe.
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Tuning into brainwave rhythms speeds up learning in adults(eurekalert.org)
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1.2M-Year-Old Obsidian Axe Factory Found in Ethiopia(iflscience.com)
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Also free from Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/navpers
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I don't know about wasabi, but birds in general are completely immune to capsaicin, the substance that makes hot peppers hot. I grow a variety of hot peppers here in Brazil and the sabiá (a Brazilian songbird) particularly likes the
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Hah! In Brazil nowadays pretty much all babies are born by C-section. Why? Doctors like it because it's more convenient since you can schedule it, whereas natural birth happens when it happens. Women like it because it happens un
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What's the deal with the "processing your cookie preferences" for "up to several minutes" on redhat's site..?
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Not just microplastics, this can remove all sorts of contamination. The filter material is composed of "covalent triazine networks". Triazine is N3H3. Anybody know anything more about this, how economical this would be to produ
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High-efficiency water filter removes 99.9% of microplastics in 10 seconds(newatlas.com)
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Pigeons are just about the most agile fliers in the bird world, so maybe they just feel that they are above needing "optimal strategies".
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It might be interesting to check if this effect correlates (inversely) to gratefulness / religious practice. I mean, if you only think about how things could be better you might not be so grateful for the things you have, but if you t
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Environment variables are not a good way to pass secrets around. For a list of reasons see this 2017 blog post: https://blog.diogomonica.com//2017/03/27/why-you-shouldnt-us... The TLDR is, first environ
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It says "supports up to 64 clusters, 512 cores, and 1024 threads". I know about threads and cores, but what are clusters in this context?
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You know what's really scary? That OpenAI insists on my phone number to let me create an account. That must be part be part of Zora's plan. And no, I didn't give it my phone number so I can't ask it myself.
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OpenSSH doesn't try to parse untrusted text input that can be fairly easily manipulated by an attacker (i.e. in this case the logs). That's something that should be scary in any language, but C is definitely one of the worst choi
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Monopoly is not the same as "industry standard". And specifically in the case of Microsoft Office / O365 there is very little actually benefit of using it over any of the more open (and even free) alternatives... rather than
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They are located in territories that are not friendly to US "glowies". Also, they tried that with Pirate Bay which was on glowie-friendly territory (Sweden, ever happy to lick US jack-boots) but it just became a game of whack-a-m

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