jweir

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by jweir 7y ago
I have no experience doing this, but Erlang and Elixir do support hot upgrades. The Big Elixir 2018 - Desmond Bowe - Hot Upgrade Are Not Scary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeUF48vSxwI
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by jweir 7y ago
Hah. No you didn’t. My daughter has it and won’t give it back. She calls me a sucker and she is right.
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by jweir 7y ago
About time but, will the repaired keyboard just start breaking in a year? Or is it a more robust design? I have had 3 broken keys so far. Apple replaced one key, right in shop. I replaced one out of my own pocket. And the other just broke
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by jweir 7y ago
Depending on the tree(s), it could be consuming CO2 24 hours a day, year round, solar is just part of the day and only reaches capacity for a brief moment. I don't know the numbers to show the difference. That is why I asked for some
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by jweir 7y ago
Can you prove that or back that up with some facts?
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by jweir 7y ago
But, wait... some places are clearing forest for solar farms. Georgetown https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/01/georgetow... Rhode Island https://www.providencejournal.com/new
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by jweir 8y ago
A proper town home has a yard and no garage - but I don’t usually see those being built in CA.
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by jweir 8y ago
Construction is a major contributor to climate change. So, how does tearing down and then replacing with town homes of similar density fit into the city’s climate change plan? https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev&#
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Nasa Satellite Reveals How Much Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants (2015)(nasa.gov)
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by jweir 8y ago
Been to a gas station? Cash vs Credit pricing. My local beer store does the same thing.
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Billionaire Has a New Goal for His 17,000 Workers: Learn to Code(bloomberg.com)
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by jweir 8y ago
California has a response to that... https://youtu.be/tItIRScGMuc
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by jweir 8y ago
Can you throw this thing away? Will it degrade in the landfill without being toxic?
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Hours-Long Trading Malfunction Halts World's Most Popular Markets(bloomberg.com)
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by jweir 8y ago
What is old is new... You used to not be able to own your phone - it was leased from AT&T. That was the only option until Ma Bell was broken up in the early 80s.
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by jweir 8y ago
Ok, we had a MySQL DB around 500GB, and not on Heroku, but we used the AWS Database Migration Service: https://aws.amazon.com/dms/ We had just a few minutes of downtime. I did have few issues around permissions, but an
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Modern medicine is like the medieval church(independent.ie)
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by jweir 8y ago
If you are looking for something like this in the western United States, check out fire lookouts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_lookout You can rent a number of them from the Forest Service. The ones I have staye
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by jweir 8y ago
Alternative https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-01-07/softb...
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SoftBank Plans Reduced $2B Investment in WeWork(bloomberg.com)
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos – Steven Strogatz, Cornell University(youtube.com)
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by jweir 8y ago
To be clear, VirtualBox and Guest Additions are open source. It is only the Extension Pack which is licensed. No? Until today I had never even heard of the Extension pack, and have never had any need to use it.
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by jweir 8y ago
A gripe about F# on MacOs - how to install it, count the ways - 6. https://fsharp.org/use/mac/ Don't I need Mono, wait, shouldn't I be using .NET? Oh I will probably install it one way, only to discover
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by jweir 8y ago
ML (Meta Language) vs ML (Machine Learning). It is confusing. When I hear ML, I think the language (cause I am "old"), but it is usually the process (Machine Learning) cause that is what is hot. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by jweir 8y ago
Thanks https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-francisco-ca shows a clear increase during the fires. Note that graph is log10 scale. Now, can someone explain what this data means, and how dangerous these levels
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William Goldman, Screenwriting Star and Hollywood Skeptic, Dies at 87(nytimes.com)
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by jweir 8y ago
I got my start as a pixel editor/animator using Deluxe Paint and Deluxe Animator for DOS at Virgin Games. Hand anti-aliasing, selecting your limited palette, and working with the hardware and screen constraints was fun. But, we at the
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by jweir 8y ago
It is formally defined. You can declare your a C.O. when you register for Selective Service. https://www.sss.gov/consobj
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by jweir 8y ago
That stat is bogus. Maybe technically correct based upon the status when you register for selective service, but look at the number of objectors during the Vietnam era: > A total of 170,000 men received C.O. deferments; as many as 300,
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by jweir 8y ago
What was the inspiration? What problem(s) did you have with other tools that Vespene solves?

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