johngalt

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by johngalt 14y ago
Take the children of the great depression. Born in poverty then conscripted into the military for ww2. Those still alive raise their children in the shadow of imminent nuclear annihilation. Then have their children conscripted for Vietnam.
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I wonder if they've compensated the developer of mIRC.
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Do you honestly think if you get lost and knock on a strangers door you'll just be indiscriminately killed in the USA? Remember that the statistics are all talking about relatively small numbers. Take USA's 0.00004 vs Australia's 0.00001 it
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Technology creates middle-class jobs and wealth by enabling the less skilled to perform tasks they were previously unsuited for. Where did all those factory jobs come from in the first place? The entire idea of assembly line manufacturing
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Everything a hacker needs to know about getting busted by the Feds (1997)(web.textfiles.com)
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Definition of hyper-partisanship: Attacking the opposing side even when they agree with you.
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The future looks like a smartphone and docking station. The phones already have the horsepower needed to run all but the most demanding apps. Add a full size keyboard/monitor when in dock and people will switch in droves. The only question
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Travel infrastructure seems like a 'chicken or egg' problem. Why build a rail line to the middle of nowhere? Conversely how will towns develop if people can't reach them? Much of the development of the heartland US was bootstrapped by the t
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by johngalt 14y ago
Am I the only parent who was surprised how easy raising kids is? All I've heard was how much of a sacrifice and struggle raising kids is. My experience is the complete opposite. You make larger portions of the same meals, run a full washing
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"At Cloud9, more often than not we predicted our bottlenecks wrong. Dead wrong." I'd be a millionaire if I made a nickel every time someone guessed at a bottleneck rather than looked. If I wanted to expand my portfolio, I would add a nickel
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And you spend your time commenting on work you don't respect. Why weren't you out farming?
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Thank you for the discussion. I disagree with your stance as well. Why is female->male fear different than other kinds of irrational fear? If we substituted white->black in your comment would you still support it? What makes it diff
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GP states that he avoids conferences because of the possibility of being pilloried over something minor. Then you immediately prove his point... edit: You went on an angry rant and banned someone for life (if it were in your power) over a c
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The government builds roads, but doesn't provide individuals with a car, or liability insurance.
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Motherjones as top result on hacker news? Linkbait article rife with poor understanding of radioactivity and economics. Who's up for another erlang day?
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In sysadmin work it's easier to make large consulting fees. The problem you have is that no one spends the money for good sysadmin architecture/infrastructure. So you can't sell "good practices". Instead just focus your work in loss avers
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Headphones with subtle music or just white noise. Change your work schedule so you have quiet time before the office opens. If you have some flexibility about being at your desk , you can find a lot of secondary spaces which go unused. Wir
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It's a different design paradigm than mass manufacturing. Huge refineries and assembly lines are setup because they build large quantities cheaply. Not because this large apparatus is inherently necessary for construction. Think about it a
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As a sysadmin, I find it's great for problem localization. Usually an application has a pile of services behind it. Where is it going wrong? Appserver? Backend database? Name resolution? network contention? misrouted? blocked by a firewall?
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The power of a ring buffered capture should not be underestimated. Having an intermittent problem that you can't seem to catch while it's happening? Just let the capture run saving the last 2hrs of traffic. When the problem happens, pull th
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by johngalt 14y ago
I understand the math lesson and how it costs more to add each 9 to your uptime. All that will not help you convince someone who doesn't know these things. Its the difference between a sales ptich and an engineering discussion. Redundancy i
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Everyone learns the cheap hardware lesson at least once. "1% less downtime means 87 hours per year. Do you think Lenovo is 1% better than Acer?" <- what I say when I encounter a client that hasn't learned this lesson, and insists on low
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I could live to be a hundred and never forget what it felt like when I was re-reading a chapter on C++ pointers for the third time and the light went on. One of the few times I've yelled at a book in triumph. The trick to staying motivated
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Yes of course those are considered and the results may surprise you. One of the beautiful things about tapes is that you can store them unpowered. All you power is the robot(s) and the drive(s). 100 tapes sitting idle in a silo will last mu
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It's entirely possible to build a rocket that doesn't need help from gravity assists, but rocket fuel is very expensive to send to the outer planets. Better to roll downhill towards Jupiter rather than uphill away from the sun. There are ot
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Tape has always been denser geometrically than HDDs. More surface area on a reel vs a platter. SSDs would be the opposite of tape. Big$/GB low latency vs. Low$/GB high latency. Obviously SSDs would replace almost all other media if it could
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If screw drivers are cheaper than hammers, we can just tie a bunch of screw drivers together and use them to pound in nails. Considering the seek time of the robot arm. Striping data across four tapes just means you need to wait for the rob
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by johngalt 14y ago
There are a lot of people who can't run a mine or start a new one. There are very few who would chose to work in one. How is it determined who 'must work in one' (coal mine), and who is free to pursue another job like park ranger? I'm also
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What if the needs of society and the needs of the individual are in opposition? Who works the coal mines in socialism's utopia?
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To be consistent with your opinion; women should write no articles or have an opinion on the challenges men face. War for instance. No females should be in command positions or authority over the armed forces because they don't know what it

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