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by josh_fyi 4y ago
The first two functionalities are for instances; the last two are general.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
If this is a reasonable interpretation of "What does your company do to reduce cloud cost?" then the answer is: The company I work at offers (in GCP and AWS) reserved-instance style discounts but without commitment; spot-instance
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
You should certainly be nice to the janitor: They are not part of office politics and so can afford to just interact naturally and decently. Conversely, people are careful to stay on guard to threats and opportunities in interpersonal power
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
This will mean more tests in proctored test centers like Pearson VUE. Many students and professionals taking tests cheat casually and without embarrassment: It is seen as simply an efficient way to maximize grades.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
In the US, that is constitutional, though still a terrible thing. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
In Israel, prisoners can work for about 65% of minimum wage. This allows them to learn the value of work and of saving for the future. (This describes the court case that boosted the salary from ~40% https://news.walla.co.il&#x2
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
I've seen real time to mean "must finish in x seconds or else fail " which means technically after x seconds you may simply exit the process, and the definition has been fulfilled.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
I'm impressed at their honesty. They could have gimmicked the stats to make themselves look good. Why did the SF school district take the step of gathering such negative numbers apparently honestly?
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Not antisemitic, just that it ignores Jews, who were Hitler's bête noire. There is a tendency to ignore the fact that Jews were a special target and say "Hitler did bad things to people." (The USSR was especially bad in this
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
The British Empire was more than "the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder". During the nineteenth century, the British army was absurdly small compared, for example, to the armies of conti
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
This is good. If all protestors could use amplifying equipment without limit, the right-wing fanatics, left-wing fanatics, and every other type of fanatics would be shaking the earth with competing loudspeakers. (And no one would be heard.)
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
You still need to know what keys to expect. The Clojure map that get replaced with a new map have the same problem as a mutable dict.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
After Citibank ignored many requests to fix a bug that would not allow me to register my phone number for my credit card, I tweeted. I was immediately contacted by their social media customer support team. They then phoned me to arrange th
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Since richer students tend to have more educational progress, this would be a great way to fund the rich ;-)
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
See "Whither Tataria?" on AstralCodexTen. Why has the beautiful architecture of the past been replaced with concrete boxes? https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
If I were English, I'd say that they need to repay for Darien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme , first :-)
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
This was approximately the case among hunter-gatherers, and in the early agricultural period the jobs were still easily learnable. Over times, some jobs became dependent on specialized abilities or skills. The world is better for it.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Such requirements lists are usually wish lists; and intended to filter out completely unqualified candidates. If you are generally qualified in the field (e.g, Java developer, data scientist), ignore the list and apply. In any given field,
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
If you did even one freelance job, say you freelanced. No one will ask exactly how many hours you did. If they ask you to describe a a project you did, describe some long-ago project. If they press for specifics of a given timespan, say tha
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
I do outbound email for my domain from a generic Gmail account, where my domain address is added as an alternate "Send mail as". This gets sent through Mailgun's free SMTP. Incoming email to my domain is forwarded through Cl
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
> define your diet to the gram, "Buffett's diet of sugary soda, junk food, and limited vegetables has reached legendary status." https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-diet-2017-10 > traveling
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
I've worked in hi tech in Israel for 20 years and now have a completely international clientele that I work with, and I don't think Israelis in general are like that.
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in 1918 And they've hardly bothered us since then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j20voPS0gI&t=1m44s
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
And yet another Yiddish Wordle! https://greenwichmeanti.me/wordle/
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
There are so many dark patterns for tracking users, not to mention other dark patterns. The excessive focus on cookies is a distraction. (Not to mention that cookies can be a valuable, almost unavoidable way of providing useful services.)
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
Don't keep up with the Joneses. Instead, just be a nerd and don't care about being popular http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
A relative's account was hijacked. Her name was replaced with another name, but the photos and friends list etc remained. I reported it, and FB deleted it. She created a new FB account. The moral of the story is to backup Facebook, and
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
>including the pronunciation marks It was likely copied. > very uncommon in daily use. I can imagine that it is a quote from the Quran They are common in religious texts.
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
Similar laws exclude those who discriminate against blacks for political (or any other) reasons from government contracts. This person is entitled to discriminate as he chooses, but not to get government contracts.
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by josh_fyi 5y ago
Why does it say in an article about Arabic, "In Afghanistan, where hate speech is reportedly one of the top 'abuse categories.'..." Arabic is not spoke in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, there is common ignorant generalizati

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