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by jfoutz 5y ago
Does this count as uncontrovertibly false? It was good enough for convictions. "OxyContin is a Schedule II prescription pain relief medication, classified as having the highest potential for abuse of legally available drugs. The Purdue
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my (flawed?) impression is, the OS implementation is heuristic. putting a process on a core is not much different than putting state in swap. it's not that important with nvram disks, but it's not that hard to keep your data out o
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you can handle the load or not, right? A built in maintenance window is super nice, but servers crash all the time. So, that's a problem, or you've got a system in place. if you can handle failover, you've got free maintenanc
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Hobbyist me thinks this is really cool. Thinking about how different runtimes might hint allocation of resources is fascinating. Professional me knows I'll be stuck figuring out that some bursty process that really needs p1 access all
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Kinda? I think year to year stuff dies and turns to soil. At geological timescales, a forest adds a millimeter of soil over however long it takes, eventually that dead stuff turns into coal and oil. Can't quite dredge up the memories o
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Super weird you don’t have a “show this thread “ link. I technically have a Twitter account, but haven’t logged in for perhaps 8 years. Anyway, datapoint, works for me.
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The federal government sued ibm for monopoly status, ibm outspent them till it didn’t matter. I’d imagine Apple could play the same game.
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I'm going to quibble. This is all unfounded, you're probably right and I'm a fool. the statistic, adding 1 degree to the temperature isn't that bad. That statistic nicely glosses over the huge amount of energy added to t
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Rarely. Marathon training in summer, and being lazy about starting long runs early in the morning. I'm pretty confident that I can say the incidence is not zero, but I'd agree it's less than 4. this is over years. starting a
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I think you're underselling it a bit. Our ancestral heritage gives us sweating. If that doesn't work, we sort of fall back to fight or flight, with a racing heart rate. move the blood around as much as you can, and hope some part
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That's good stuff! I peeked at the lancet study, but it didn't support my trollish response to the OP. The real point I was trying to make was the crazy extremes, the higher variance. I vividly recall running one morning when it g
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Huh. https://www.weather.gov/hazstat/ That's of course cherry picked. But I think the sucky part is increasing the variance of the temperature distribution. So the hot is hotter and the cold is colder, and both en
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by jfoutz 5y ago
Sailboats are one I struggled with, especially sailing into the wind. I think my intuition there came from a boat going the same direction as the wind, say, north at 1 meter/sec. now the boat can't go faster than 1 m/sec, but
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Well, Euler, and maybe Ramanujan. I'm not them. It's better to assume we all need help and direction. Just about everyone I've ever worked with has had a beautiful insight or three. The real trick seems to be finding a proces
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Ah, it was a late night quip with the intention of undermining the article. Yes, computers are fast, but there's no underlying intention. Our abstractions aren't great, but I think our abstractions let us communicate intention in
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Ftfa > They can perform more operations in one second than a human could in one hundred years. Please identify the traffic lights. We suck at abstractions, but I think we’re still winning there.
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Failure too. Recovery in a pipeline is different than fan out.
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Let's assume a has a time constraint, and needs to start shoveling bytes back to the client in 30ms. In the pipeline case, a probably only has visibility to b, each service in the chain has ~7ms to provide its response. In the fan out
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Do you have any control over the individual services? One way to ease some of that pain is a standard library to obtain your keys and topic and publish metrics when things are published and consumed, or at least logs on startup. It's a
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You're not going to like the answer, but I think it captures some of what you're getting at. Windows 95. Old style gui programming meant sitting in a loop, waiting for the next event, then handling it. You type a letter, there&#x2
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by jfoutz 5y ago
IIRC, wood chisel and 3 plates. Prussian blue to evaluate the thickness. Portland cement, a hairdryer and crucible. I made tongs with strap iron and a drill. hairdryer on the charcoal to melt the aluminum. I started with sand casting alumin
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I can deal with my stuff without politics, but when I need cooperation like when sharing a road how do I avoid politics? Isn’t getting buy in to share the road inherently political?
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Oh yeah! I was almost in a car accident. Car in front hit the break, car was very close behind. Touched the break, and passed on the shoulder. Definitely relate to the time slowdown. I think it was adrenaline, I remember shaking after.
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Not long ago I realized there's a whole bunch of stuff I just "make up" about the world. The "me" part of my brain knows I blink. I know I'm blind, but I don't remember it at all. Turns out it's actua
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I'm not sure about the point you're trying to make. The famous reference is about Abraham Wald looking at all of the common places that planes didn't get shot. That's where you put the armor. And it was really effective.
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This is satisfying. I made some uncharitable claims around spinning a yarn. Makes so much more sense that Presho was "of unsound mind" I feel sorta shitty for my other claims. but the court evidence and findings are great. Thank y
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Imposition is number 1. You don't talk to people. People assume you don't want to be talked to. Sometimes dive bars are just for seeking oblivion. Picking fights would be #2. Getting mad when losing - you've chosen to inte
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Oh my. We can all tell the parent poster is trying to connect an idea from English to American. I appreciate that you're fussy and pedantic, because I work with computers. your observation is crisp in English, but irrelevant in Americ
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that may be the case. in the U.S. (I'm from the U.S. it's stratified by age and income and race, by default. Dive bars, amazingly, are not) I've had a hard time finding a casual space that didn't involve alcohol, where y
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by jfoutz 5y ago
I love dive bars. All of my training is focused around persuading a machine to do what I want. I get pedantic. I think this is rooted in the computer not doing what I want all day, and me, little by little finding the correct path. Lawyers

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