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by jffry 5y ago
It's only similar to your premise, but I enjoyed Mur Lafferty's "Six Wakes", which is a scifi murder-mystery aboard a colony ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Wakes
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by jffry 5y ago
There's no way we could ever stop the world and get everybody to use a new protocol overnight. Attempting to change the format of an existing protocol in-place in a way that existing hardware and software cannot handle, would be an eff
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by jffry 5y ago
Because "just add 4 more bytes of address space" wouldn't be backwards-compatible with the world's worth of hardware and software built around IPv4 anyways. There just isn't anywhere in an ipv4 packet that you could
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by jffry 5y ago
Not everybody likes the same foods or flavors as you, and that's okay.
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by jffry 5y ago
Why is this "article" a bunch of images of text with charts interspersed?
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by jffry 5y ago
Properly caramelized onions freeze and thaw very well, since they are already pretty broken down and much of the moisture is gone. Since the big factor is the 40-60 minutes on the stove, I make a large batch in several pans. The onions can
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by jffry 5y ago
The "full extension" I linked is 800 bytes of JS, and thanks to being an extension it can redirect network requests before the page even loads (useful because sometimes Reddit can be quite sluggish to respond, and also because it&
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by jffry 5y ago
If you access Reddit via https://old.reddit.com it's always the better UI. Bonus is that this works even if you're not signed in. There's a handy browser extension for automatically redirecting you if you click a
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by jffry 5y ago
Cool! For anybody looking for Mario specifically, here it is: https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1158846045285232641 The one with the Pole Position racing game looks pretty cool, with a surprising amount of st
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by jffry 5y ago
From their FAQ [1]: Q: How does the AI in Canvas work? NVIDIA Canvas uses a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) to turn a rough painting of a segmentation map into a realistic landscape image. 5 million photographs of landscapes were
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by jffry 5y ago
I'm not entirely sure how this would be achiveved. When you draw in the app, you use a brush and have to pick materials from a palette (like "sky" or "ground" or "stone wall" etc). It doesn't seem to
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by jffry 5y ago
Indeed, AWS has both made it more difficult to create a world-readable S3 bucket, and made it much more obvious in the UI. Some things I've noticed just clicking around the S3 console right now: - There is an account-level S3 setting
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by jffry 5y ago
Interesting anecdote: When I lived in Cambridge, MA in 2015, we had an election for 9 city council seats with 23 candidates. Here's a specimen ballot from that election (PDF): https://www.cambridgema.gov/election/~
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by jffry 5y ago
I don't imagine many people will cancel HBO Max because this email was just too much, but rather because this email reminded them that they have HBO Max, and might spur them to think "I never use that so I should cancel it"
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by jffry 5y ago
This tweet does at least give some some indication that they're not (outwardly) trying to throw their intern under the bus: https://twitter.com/HBOMaxHelp/status/1405712235108917249
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by jffry 5y ago
This incident doesn't necessarily indicate that they were using prod data in a test system. I can plausibly imagine that there's some separate system that takes an identifier for some list of customers, and some template, and blas
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by jffry 5y ago
This just gives me so many more questions. I hope that their apparently compassionate public stance translates into a healthy internal response that doesn't railroad the poor intern.
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by jffry 5y ago
Ah, that's I think closer to what I was remembering!
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by jffry 5y ago
I think it's harmful to ascribe fault as a binary thing. Assuming, of course, that this wasn't some deliberate act (because that would be weird): The person who ultimately pressed the button which caused the code to run that sent
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by jffry 5y ago
I wouldn't read anything into the presence of tracking pixels. They plausibly would route all outbound mail through some system which instruments it with click tracking and tracking pixels, and probably also handles rate limiting, bou
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by jffry 5y ago
How's the anecdote go... "Why would I fire him? I just spend $200,000 training him not to do this thing, he'll never make this mistake again!"
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by jffry 5y ago
Comments have incrementing IDs so without using the delay option you could look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments and try to guess what your comment ID will be before posting, but now you're in a race to be t
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by jffry 5y ago
It's trivial with delay>0 enabled in your HN profile. (Delay makes your comment not appear publicly for N minutes) Post comment, get link, "shorten" url, edit comment, boom: http://www.5z8.info/dogfights_i2
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by jffry 5y ago
The term for this is "binning", and the explanation is wholly innocent. Manufacturing silicon chips is not an exact process, and there will be some rate of defects. After manufacture, they test the individual components of their
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by jffry 5y ago
I wrote a small script, executed with a cron job, which adjusts the color temperature of all my Philips Hue light bulbs throughout the day. The Hue device bridges have a simple HTTP api available over the local network, and with a combinati
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by jffry 5y ago
Not sure. Maybe something else is responsible for identifying "stuck" jobs and kicking them out to humans to decide what to do (assuming worker crashes are rare) If we're talking PostgreSQL specifically, and newer-ish Postgre
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by jffry 5y ago
For many billing activities, "days" is a small amount of time delay. One very viable option to "the worker died" is to just look for stuck jobs once the run is complete and kick out an alert to let a human decide what t
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by jffry 5y ago
The idea, I think, is you wouldn't delete the job from the queue until the processing was done. Of course, this relies on the jobs being something that can be retried.
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by jffry 5y ago
But I can certainly imagine there could be problem domains where most of some collection of integers being manipulated are expected to be sparse or dense.

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