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by jpollock 6y ago
A late reaction typically requires overcompensation and wasted resources because you don't have sufficient positive control to tell where things are headed. That leads to overcorrection and lots of cost.
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by jpollock 6y ago
If (1-1/R0) of the population is using the app, it should bring the R0 below 1. With covid-19, if the R0 is 3, then being able to track 2/3rds of infections should _hopefully_ bring the R0 below 1. At least that's how I'
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by jpollock 7y ago
Lots of things are designed with periodic restarts in mind. From memory, one of the JVM garbage collectors is designed with daily restarts in mind. This is done to avoid having to deal with the expense of memory fragmentation.
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by jpollock 7y ago
Because the heat increase would have been pretty much immediate after the wheel failed. This wouldn't have been a gradual degradation.
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by jpollock 7y ago
If it was in the UK, there was a period of time when the monarch was Catholic and burned Protestants at the stake and then the monarch changed and then the Catholics started getting burned. People of the "wrong" religion would hav
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by jpollock 7y ago
Resale just resets to the current value, but then freezes it again. Cities have to plan for the value in perpetuity, which means it's at valuation at year zero, and then negative from then on. Which means the house is taxed appropriate
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by jpollock 7y ago
You've got an engineer looking to rollout a new piece of software across the entire frontend fleet of serves late Sunday afternoon. Not only that, it's to add a new transport (network protocol) to a new database, both of which hav
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by jpollock 7y ago
Doesn't that depend on the testing schedule? If the schedule called for simulations to be run in parallel with the live test, then it's an expected outcome. It should be _expected_ that every test will find a problem. Since this w
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by jpollock 7y ago
and were able to feed themselves for extended periods of time.
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by jpollock 7y ago
Travel bans don't work for infectious disease management. Humans travel around barriers, and the disease generally doesn't care where the border is. Even worse, it will limit the ability for organisations to get staff and resource
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by jpollock 7y ago
His spouse is an executive who is still working. He is not retiring on his income alone.
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by jpollock 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/world/americas/youtube-pe... and related.
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by jpollock 7y ago
Sorry, I most definitely didn't want to make light of the problem! Pulling data from all the various teams' locally created data stores and external systems to push to analytics is definitely a large problem. I was trying to figur
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by jpollock 7y ago
Why are all these tools DAGs? I'm guessing I misunderstand what is meant by a "Workflow"? My assumption is that these are managing a state machine, where workflow is stand-in for "Business Process"? If it's doi
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by jpollock 7y ago
From the article: Honda Canada spokesperson: "Without an active subscription, the police would have to present a warrant to activate the location services on the vehicle and no such warrant was provided. At no time was Honda or its Hon
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by jpollock 7y ago
The EU is more complex than that, there's the European Council, which is not proportional to population (made up of the heads of state, like the original US Senate). The Council is involved in foreign affairs, particularly trade agreem
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by jpollock 7y ago
Not the work conditions, it's about quota and by-catch management. The government is rolling out mandatory cameras in areas inhabited by a critically endangered dolphin.
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by jpollock 7y ago
Didn't Europe banned neonics? Is there any data showing a recovery?
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by jpollock 7y ago
Let's rephrase... Imagine a world where Compaq was unable to create a cleanroom implementation of IBM's BIOS because that involved re-implementing the copyrighted APIs.
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by jpollock 7y ago
When you factor in rush hour, it's definitely true for the Bay Area. I live in San Jose, a morning car commute on the 101 is ~30mins, return is ~50-60mins. Riding my bike is 45mins (43-48) each way. It's a complete wash and I get
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by jpollock 7y ago
I believe the lawsuit is that there were deals which were web-only - meaning the blind person could not take advantage of them.
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by jpollock 7y ago
a more important question is what happens when it's exposed to water, either through flooding or a leaky building.
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by jpollock 7y ago
If you're on a bike, that road is lethal. Any mistake and your tire's going into the track and you're on the ground.
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by jpollock 7y ago
If you're Saudi Arabia with a silly amount of money in cash, are you looking for 10-100x return out of this, or are you simply looking for a place to park liquid funds that won't lose as much as leaving it in German government bon
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by jpollock 7y ago
The way it happens is: 1) you get asked to take out of hours client meetings. 2) those become regular. 3) you end up on a project which is high priority. 4) those have daily standups to make the schedule. 5) that becomes regular. Congratula
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by jpollock 7y ago
Speaking from personal experience, if you allow out-of-hours calls, they creep in and become the norm. Then you're expected to both be at work during work hours for meetings and to take the out of hours meetings too. This can be perfec
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by jpollock 7y ago
Given the rules on common-law marriage that many jurisdictions have, no. I am aware of one reason to get married. US Immigration does not recognize common law spouses as spouses for visa purposes. You want to travel to the US because your p
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by jpollock 7y ago
The engineers who design fridges aren't evil. They do things for a reason. So, we're left with questions. Questions: 1) what is the cost difference between the two fans? 2) what is the average first-owner lifespan of a fridge? 3)
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by jpollock 7y ago
/s Is the water you use for irrigation chlorinated or fluorinated?
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by jpollock 7y ago
Then the importer has a revolution, wipes all debts and starts again.

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