jdsully

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by jdsully 7y ago
The great thing about business unlike monarchies is there is always more than one king. Go find another one.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Tanks are quite vulnerable in urban combat. As the Russians learned at the start of the battle of Grozny: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994–95)
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by jdsully 7y ago
When I was in University I witnessed a strange sight: Half the student council running through the building, sitting down in a corner and holding a quick vote. The odd behavior was so that they could have a quorum without certain undesira
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by jdsully 7y ago
I hear this a lot - most of the time its just people happy making >100k not realizing the Canadian dollar has dropped a lot, and just how ridiculous US salaries have become in the last 10years.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Seems rather expensive to use so many ws2811s.
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by jdsully 7y ago
> You have a habit of posting in healthcare threads and denigrating physicians Ad hominem arguments are very much out of place here. You have points that don't require an ad hominem yet you chose to use them anyway. I can't u
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by jdsully 7y ago
Believe it or not taxi driving used to be a semi-skilled occupation. The test to drive a London black cab is notoriously difficult: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3307245/the-knowledge-taxi-tes...
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by jdsully 7y ago
If done right you won’t even know its happening. The best companies setup entirely different brands to segment the market.
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by jdsully 7y ago
> The best customer is one that comes in and says "I want this item, I will pay a reasonable price right now and walk out a happy customer" These customers are not price sensitive. So you do not want to give them the best deal.
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by jdsully 7y ago
The fact the consumer didn’t do any due diligence doesn’t change the situation. Perhaps the situation should change - but somebody has to lose when promises can’t be fulfilled. As for dine and dash there is a difference when there is no int
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by jdsully 7y ago
You take on the risk when you pre-pay for services you haven't yet recieved. By law you are also a creditor just like a bond holder. Similarly when you eat at a restaurant and pay at the end the restaurant is providing you credit. Mo
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by jdsully 7y ago
Giving customers higher preference would indeed be possible if agreed ahead of time. But it would increase borrowing costs as bond holders would now be subordinate. Don’t expect it to happen unless a law mandates it - consumers don’t have e
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by jdsully 7y ago
Once bankruptcy is inevitable it's a mad rush from creditors to secure assets. The net effect is your "bankrupt" as soon as it appears inevitable regardless of whatever timeline you would have planned. Further continuing to
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by jdsully 7y ago
Office/Commercial space is usually leased on much longer intervals than 1 year. It has to be or it would make no sense to complete the necessary renovations.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Unfortunately the vast majority of KeyDB users run Linux.
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by jdsully 7y ago
My reading of the source code is there is no way to prevent this. The spinlock is guarding the check which determines if there is work to do. Its been a few months and I had intended to go back and try using a try_lock(). But I’m not normal
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by jdsully 7y ago
We have! https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/06/17/blog-post/ Still though I hate seeing needless waste. There’s no reason the active thread needs to block on a soft_irq when there are unused cores to
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by jdsully 7y ago
The Linux network stack has been the bane of my existence trying to squeeze more performance out of KeyDB. I really hope it gets this kind of love in the future. On Linux there’s a spinlock in do soft_irq that blocks even in non-blocking IO
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by jdsully 7y ago
They literally put a bag of ball bearings into the hollow interior of an enriched uranium sphere (to prevent its accidental implosion which would set off the bomb). Even scarier they didn't really know if this would actually work, but
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by jdsully 7y ago
Tl;Dr; We don't know and this article sheds little extra light on the subject. It asks questions and doesn't answer them. I've left the conclusion here to save you time: > “Spying was one thing, but his willingness to swi
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by jdsully 7y ago
I feel like at this point if you use an intel library or compiler you should know its Intel only. If you aren’t using it in a controlled environment stick to clang/gcc. I can’t really blame them. Why support your competitor?
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by jdsully 7y ago
SQL is great if you will have multiple applications looking at the same dataset. E.g. An employee management program and a payroll program. In this case you should design a sane schema and mold the app around it. ORMs are terrible in this s
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by jdsully 7y ago
If WeWork fails it will likely be because people don’t need office space (i.e. a recession).
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by jdsully 7y ago
“Not practical to exploit” raises the hairs on the back of my neck. All you need is one person to make a tool and suddenly its practical for everyone. If you had told me about Spectre as a theoretical possibility I would have thought its pr
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by jdsully 7y ago
While I broadly agree with your point, movie popularity is not random. Your own post contradicts this point: > What you do is play it as safe as humanly possible. You don't take any chances. How would it be possible to "play
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by jdsully 7y ago
Someone voluntarily leaving (even illegally) is not in the same class as public figures being kidnapped off the street. One is an individual matter and the other makes everyone feel unsafe.
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by jdsully 7y ago
If you ever have the time I’d appreciate any help you van give with KeyDB. It’s an attempt to accelerate progress in the Redis universe. https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB
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by jdsully 7y ago
Redis gets contributions from Redis Labs and Amazon. Although it tends to take a very long time for PRs to get merged. Its one of the reasons behind my fork KeyDB which coincidentally got its initial traction from a HN post [1] [1] https
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by jdsully 7y ago
Can you point out the “collateral damage”? I can’t think of any. He did damage the mass surveillance system but that was intentional.
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by jdsully 7y ago
I ordered the impossible burger because I thought it was healthier. I can't imagine I'm the only one. Their website and marketing insinuates its healthier too although as has been pointed out here in a very tricky way.

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