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by kerblang 5y ago
I adore Groovy the language but am compelled to note its horribly slow bootup time. On a commodity laptop it's usually a couple of seconds - acceptable for some things, but hard to justify for one-liners.
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by kerblang 5y ago
That sounds like... Puzzle time! I had to cheat, sort of, by looking at the man page: > Local file names can be made explicit using absolute or relative pathnames to avoid scp treating file names containing ':' as host specifie
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by kerblang 5y ago
> Men and women typically aren't that different in studies. That's an extremely broad assumption
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by kerblang 5y ago
Am I reading this incorrectly or did literally all the female candidates finish the test in private while none of them finished in public? (disclaimer: Am male but still cannot talk and hack at the same time)
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by kerblang 5y ago
Mostly tangential: I find it amusing that I got served 3 different ads for Google Fiber on that reuters page (2 of them were the same ad). Of course this is because I looked at Google Fiber a week ago to see if it was in my neighborhood yet
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by kerblang 5y ago
Yes and I like it better
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by kerblang 5y ago
What, has everyone forgotten the legendary babynamewizard.com? It was one of the few java applets that succeeded. Seems to be still kicking, probably rewritten in javascript. https://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=&am
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by kerblang 5y ago
I was actually expecting this was about Amazon collecting data on the neighbors of Prime customers by forming some composite view of not-Prime vs. Prime traffic. My knee seems to be trained to jerk in a persistent direction...
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by kerblang 5y ago
Apparently 100 billion stars in there. That is nuts.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Interesting... That crunchbase article directly links to 3 other VC/private equity firms that invested heavily: ATA Ventures, Partner Fund Mgmt, Fortress Investment Group. Usually I only hear about George Shultz, Henry Kissinger (and I
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by kerblang 5y ago
Obviously the more people using a language, the more 3rd party libraries/frameworks proliferate, of course, and Java is very popular. But: Technologies are separate from their cultures. You might think the tech enforces its own cultu
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by kerblang 5y ago
Not OP, but go look at the consul documentation. In fact, just look at "Configuration" page alone: https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options - it goes FOREVER. Maybe you don't need most of that, but
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by kerblang 5y ago
Just to contradict the complaining about groovy scripts: I reduced something like 100 jobs to 2 using groovy in jenkins, and it has been a godsend. I'm not having any problems with it. Mind you, the Groovy stuff was implemented as an a
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by kerblang 5y ago
> The spill and subsequent port closures will disrupt maritime transport across the Red Sea, rerouting many shipments around Africa I assume this means another mess for the Suez Canal.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Late reply: This scenario is reasonable and I usually handle it by logging the thread ID in multi-threaded systems, which amounts to a "free" global variable.
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by kerblang 5y ago
My understanding was that increased alcohol intake raises hormone levels, especially cortisol, which raises blood pressure/breathing/etc and keeps you from dying. Also note the jitters experienced as the alcohol is metabolized and
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by kerblang 5y ago
Just an opinion, but I tend to think of this as distributed monolithic development... the more log correlation is needed, the more likely a requirement has been chopped up and then duct-taped back together over HTTP.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Monad tutorials are hard to understand because nobody actually wants to tell you what a monad is, because that would defeat elitist thinking. A monad is just a very concise definition of a List. In java terms it's as if you're def
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by kerblang 5y ago
Just to be clear, running smoke through a sewer line is not a genius move, just standard practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpLABJw2KU But certainly finding problems in old systems is a valuable skill, and it requir
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by kerblang 5y ago
One of many things I learned from writing software just for myself is that I'm just about as bad as anybody at figuring out what I really want, even when I'm talking to myself. I've even had one or two cases where I ignored a
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by kerblang 5y ago
If I work for purina then my _dog's_ gonna eat that dog food, by golly. And maybe I'll at least give it a sniff. Speaking of the devil, I had to carry somebody's stray dog home (again) when I was on my jog this morning, and m
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by kerblang 5y ago
I also thought it was pretty nifty little OS, courtesy of an A/UX office file server that I was tasked to set up in 1993 or so I think. And yes it was a very expensive file server at that. My recollection was that internals of A/U
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by kerblang 5y ago
So okay yeah it's Turing Completeness that matters the most to me as computer science, on a purely pragmatic basis: When people are pitching the latest whiz-bang doodad, the answer is always, "This isn't doing anything we cou
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by kerblang 5y ago
Interesting story, esp. as an example of the difference between math and science.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Yes I am a hypocrite, thanks for pointing that out
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by kerblang 5y ago
If anybody decides to make a movie in which an asteroid is gently pushed slightly off course by mild-mannered people who don't scream at each other constantly, I promise to go watch it. I've become rather inured to explody flicks
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by kerblang 5y ago
Did we ever resolve the flame war over /dev/random vs /dev/urandom? I recall puzzling over endless threads of no- you're -wrong
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by kerblang 5y ago
It's painfully obvious the web site is intended to promote mainframe technology, the author's bio is right there in plain sight, and you were able to find the web site's sponsors by simply checking the "About" link.
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by kerblang 5y ago
I've used cassandra quite a bit and even I had to go back and figure out what this primary key means: ((channel_id, bucket), message_id) The primary key consists of partition key + clustering columns, so this says that channel
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by kerblang 5y ago
It's kind of hard to find the article's point, so TLDR: People hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see, and so "disinformation/misinformation" is just giving them what they're asking for, not

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