jdenning

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by jdenning 2y ago
I just took a look at your project - you really need to simplify the README. I read the whole thing but it’s still not clear to me what you app actually does. I have no idea what a “Social Operating System” is supposed to be. Seems like it
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by jdenning 2y ago
We need a way to apply a click-through "user agreement" to crawlers
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by jdenning 2y ago
> … insurance companies using money to buy public opinion Or using money to buy politicians to bring federal terrorism charges. Though it’s probably covered by the payments they’ve made already
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by jdenning 2y ago
It really sounds like the prosecution had exactly zero evidence that this man was guilty, but determined to prosecute him anyway, rather than “lose”. Disgusting.
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by jdenning 2y ago
1) in addition to the excellent recommendations already mentioned: Brendan Gregg has a lot of good stuff about monitoring and performance analysis https://brendangregg.com/ https://github.com/brendangregg A
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by jdenning 2y ago
Umm, I do t want to be overly suspicious, but there are a lot of brand new accounts spouting praise here..
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by jdenning 2y ago
It might be if it weren’t an artificially constrained market.
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by jdenning 2y ago
Do any of us really care which of these mega-bureaucracies is to blame for each particular hurdle to receiving healthcare? From the patient’s perspective, they are all conspiring to gouge us, deny us care, and perpetuate their gold-plated m
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by jdenning 2y ago
I don’t think this is a viable option anymore. Most new patients are scheduled 3-9 months out in my experience. It’s particularly bad trying to see a specialist (I’ve been trying to get a spinal consultation for 10 months now, and I still n
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by jdenning 2y ago
This is awesome —- thanks very much for sharing!
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by jdenning 2y ago
I really wish we could get rid of the TSA, but I don't think it'll ever happen. It's not about security, the whole thing is a jobs program (and always was IMO).
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by jdenning 2y ago
Not OP, but I assume they are arguing that all fiat money is inherently unsound
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by jdenning 2y ago
Supply & demand?
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by jdenning 2y ago
But it has been a bubble and popped/crashed/recovered 4(?) times now - it seem fair to start considering it as a cycle rather than a bubble. I don’t know much about crypto or finance, so maybe I’m completely wrong
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by jdenning 2y ago
It honestly seems like you’re way more interested in your “one more step” than you are about making a backup copy for your kids, otherwise why not use one of the many available ripping tools? You’re not going to create a “clever hack” that
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by jdenning 2y ago
https://archive.is/8sKXF
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by jdenning 2y ago
That makes sense - thanks!
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by jdenning 2y ago
I found Emily Oster's books pretty informative (she's an economist by training, she does kind of a meta-analysis of research on various topics of interest). Her books should at least give you a good jumping off point if you want t
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by jdenning 2y ago
What's the point of a carbon tax if it's balanced by a government subsidy? Edit: Genuinely curious what I'm missing..
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by jdenning 2y ago
I assume one was supposed to be "authz"
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by jdenning 2y ago
Whoosh :)
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by jdenning 2y ago
I get it, I guess I just don’t see the point of trying to determine how much of the project I did myself here and now, 30 years later. It was my idea and I wrote the code, but my dad certainly helped with the physical design, and I think he
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by jdenning 2y ago
Perhaps that generation of cpus was very insufficiently cooled? This is before people even really put much of a heat sink on a cpu. The code did run faster with ice water, and faster again with liquid nitrogen. It was a high school, county-
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by jdenning 2y ago
This is exactly correct. The nerd/hacker acorn doesn’t fall far from the nerd/hacker tree. Same reason I had a spare 286 lying around
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by jdenning 2y ago
My dad got it just to play with on a couple of occasions. We froze and reanimated brine shrimp once..blew up a 2 liter bottle (do not attempt - it was really loud). He just got it from a gas supply - I’m sure it’s the same situation today
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by jdenning 2y ago
My measurement technique was extremely simplistic - how much wall clock time does it take to do this computationally-intensive task. It ran faster with ice water, and even faster with the liquid nitrogen (until it died from condensation). I
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by jdenning 2y ago
I mean, my dad had already got liquid nitrogen for us to play with on a few occasions, I think he suggested “something with liquid nitrogen would be science fair gold”..it doesn’t take very deep knowledge to understand that cooler is better
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by jdenning 2y ago
It really wasn’t that fancy, I didn’t even measure the clock speed - just wrote a little program (I think it was in QBasic) that calculated factorials or something (don’t remember the details), then measured performance difference between n
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by jdenning 2y ago
I won a science fair when I was a kid doing this with a 286; it worked great except for all of the condensation :D
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by jdenning 2y ago
Agreed - this is a failure of process, assigning blame to an individual is futile

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