joncrane

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by joncrane 7y ago
Maintenance windows + Multi-AZ means that the nodes in different AZs are patched at different times, resulting in zero downtime of the app.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Most bathrooms with hand dryers eschew the paper. So the alternative is just walking around with wet hands? Or not washing your hands at all?
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by joncrane 7y ago
True hyaline cartilage cannot "build up." The good stuff (intra articular) is a precious resource that you can only lose, not gain. The cartilage in your nose and ear are different, and besides, the stuff that's blocking you
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by joncrane 7y ago
The "between the lines" message they're sending is that they're staying at the top of a slippery slope.
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by joncrane 7y ago
They ARE following the shareholder. The founders are the shareholders. The minority shareholders are just along for the ride.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Are league of legends servers commonly run on AWS?
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by joncrane 7y ago
You did great! Congratulations. For anyone reading this and considering doing the same, one minor tweak. > I called and resigned immediately and told them I’d write up transition documents for the next developer ...or any other task th
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by joncrane 7y ago
I think it's more of a thing where you talk to a bankruptcy lawyer. I'm sure some are willing to talk for free for 30 minutes or so. Maybe talk to one or two, then draw up a list of questions and pay one for a full consultation.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Can't you do it once for home purchase? You basically borrow from yourself in order to buy a house? Instead of paying a mortgage, you slowly redeposit the money back into your 401(k).
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by joncrane 7y ago
There is a very small subset of people who do. There's also companies who are posting things like "Hey we won some irrelevant award yay us." Or more likely, employees posting this about their own as a public signal that they
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by joncrane 7y ago
This means he's also meta-smart. He focuses his limited mental energy on the things that lead to success in the areas he wants (he's been elected PM, that's the peak of success by any measure). The fact that he has gotten a
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by joncrane 7y ago
Don't most laws work like this: "As of Date X, Y will be illegal." So refiners basically stop making high Sulphur diesel, but date X is far enough in the future that there's time to use it all up before the law takes ef
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by joncrane 7y ago
So why didn't they switch to Slack, Mattermost, etc rather than build their own?
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by joncrane 7y ago
She's not a boastful person and doesn't like talking about work, and we don't have much in common. But in an effort to bridge the gap, she would tell me about work. The few conversations we had about her job made me angry o
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by joncrane 7y ago
My Aunt wrote computer code into her 60s. This was up until at most 10 years ago. She has a degree in math and went back to school after being a SAHM and got a degree in computer science from a community college, and banged out code for a
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by joncrane 7y ago
Oh, whoops, the article describing the bribe was in the NYT. Sorry about that.
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by joncrane 7y ago
It only costs $600 to plant a piece in the NYT?!?!
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by joncrane 7y ago
Do you think that mesh is tight enough to skateboard on it?
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by joncrane 7y ago
Why do the different processor quantities have different base frequencies (higher for lower CPU count) but the same "Turbo Boost" frequency of 4.4 GHz? If you ran Folding@Home on one of these, would you get sustained 4.4GHz clock
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by joncrane 7y ago
Do you think it can be used as some sort of metric? Like ratio of followers:blocked replies? Or the number of accounts which block a person's replies?
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by joncrane 7y ago
Surely even the below average business owners will know at least a week in advance that they're going bankrupt?
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by joncrane 7y ago
Ha, I used to do the same thing when I drove an airport shuttle for a hotel while I was a bellman. Thanks for stirring up a crazy memory!
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by joncrane 7y ago
This is like the old adage. "If you truly believe in market efficiency, you would never bother to bend over to pick up a $100 bill because if it were real, someone else would have picked it up already!"
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by joncrane 7y ago
I literally just switched in the past two months (actually, went from having used screen two jobs ago (~2 years ago) to using tmux at my current job). I'm on the tmux train now and I'm pretty happy with it.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Nicotine stimulates Growth Hormone release and GH is linked to some cancers. For sure many tumors respond much more intensely to GH than normal tissue. Much in the same way estrogen makes some breast cancers grow faster. So it has a carci
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by joncrane 7y ago
Well it can't hurt. Making me better at dealing with stress is a win. Giving me enough space so that I can recognize the source of the stress is the next win. Having the space to determine the best next course of action is the next wi
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by joncrane 7y ago
Hugo Boss used to make Nazi uniforms and Volkswagen was literally founded by Nazis. I think we need to reference more recent crimes if we want to write off entire companies. What would be interesting is to determine what's within range
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by joncrane 7y ago
In real life, smaller particles tend to sink to the bottom of a container. So you're more likely to grab a whole pill as time goes by.
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by joncrane 7y ago
I agree 100%. This is going to sound weird, but bear with me. I grew up as a skateboarder and am still super into the scene. What separates the pros from the wannabes isn't just talent. It's dealing with adversity, discomfort,
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by joncrane 7y ago
Like a £40K sign on bonus to relocate to Iraq? Or £40K per annum? Because the latter seems low.

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