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by kjellsbells 5y ago
whenever i see a headline like this i always add the qualifier, "in mice", and, invariably, that is what the reported effect was measured in. Just like this one. Derek Lowe, explains some of the problems with mice models here htt
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
All true in 2009. In 2022, I'm less sure. We seem to be back to bloated software with deep and complex dependencies that allow down release cycles and innovation. try doing the 67 releases that the author cited when you have to wrestle
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
You might be right or wrong, i dont know, bjt i can say with great certainty that a regulator doing nothing in the face of multiple credible accusations has no relationship to whether those accusations are true or not. Sometimes the regulat
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
There's no silver bullet, but some pointers... - do they actually suck? You're making sales after all. Call up a customer, and ask them to be honest. it could be you are fine and need to give yourself a pep talk. - bad demos tend
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Discovering that the number 1 has n nth roots, eg there are three cube roots of 1. Blew my 16 year old mind and pushed me to go to university from a very working class background where people didnt do such things. Sadly, I then graduated in
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Echoes of the old kein mitleid fur Microsoft site, http://www.kmfms.com/ Plus ça change...
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Over long horizons, only very structural knowledge retains value. This is why CS courses drag you thru exercises like writing your own compiler and simulating a CPU. This isnt an observation peculiar to computing of course. The practice of
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
You may not want to hear this, but technical analysis of /price data/ is a fools errand for a number of reasons. There are the folks with PhDs who dream in C++ about martingales but even they dont consistently beat the index. More
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
I do wonder sometimes just how close microsoft are going to get to att in the service of azure. the network cloud deal. the xandr deal. each deal makes att more important to microsoft leadership as their flagship client. i wonder idly if th
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
This is a miscomparison of tenses. The peninsular Arab armies of 700-1300 were unstoppable. But the parent commenter is asking about the armies of the modern era. Actually a more interesting question is why /regular/ armies organi
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Id argue that the telco industry tried, and failed, as opposed to not trying at all. ATT for example sent a boatload of people on training from Georgia tech, invested massively in automation... and couldn't pull it off. I also blame th
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
The question, 20 years later is, does it matter. All recent wars in the ME have been asymmetric, and in such wars the indigenous "irregular" forces invariably win. Perhaps it doesn't matter that Arab culture is unlike the US
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
5G means so many things to people it gets muddy. If you are Verizon or ATT, you have lots of mmwave spectrum, so your interest is in dense urban environments and multi-dwelling units where your speed let's you compete against wifi and
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
No conspiracy required, just change "party" to "parties" and "someone" to plural "people". Zoom went from interesting tool to de facto worldwide standard in about two months. I'm pretty sure that
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
That's actually a great point. To create, you need to throw out preconceptions like the razor. But to achieve persistence, simplifying ruthlessly... ie bringing the razor back in, helps. It's a bit like brainstorming: if you shut
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
The people who boo at operas are detestable. Like they have a mental image that the work is preserved in amber and the staging must never change. It's crazy and short-sighted. Example, they booed Patrice Chereau at Bayreuth in 76 and t
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm in sales. WSL2 Outlook Excel PowerPoint Of these, WSL2 might be the most surprising but it has replaced all the separate tool chain that I used to have (cygwin, vim, putty) with the Ubuntu distro. As to why I even need
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Some observations: - Tool options increasing monotonically seems like the very definition of bloat. Probably since the marginal cost of adding an option is very low and the cost of removing an option is very high (angry users). - Ther
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Ill save you all a click. Bill Ackman is not running Solaris. SPARC in this case is a financial vehicle. Gotta admit, I was slightly hoping the dude had a much loved SS10 under his desk.
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
There is a tiny window where the workers have more power than usual. I wouldn't be surprised if fast food automation becomes the #1 growth industry in a years time. I applaud anyone with the nerve to fight for better conditions at thei
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Really doesn't matter who is wrong or right here. Debates on LinkedIn are never a good idea. Could have been avoided with a DM.
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
It feels like the diamond in the story is the insertion of randomness in the backoff/retry. Networking protocols have an awkward habit of not doing this and accidentally inducing thundering herds of retries. In the till situation, clas
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
The historian Eric Hobsbawm once wrote that the 19th century didn't end until the cataclysm of 1914, and that the 20th finished early with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. I think 1990-2001 was an innocent decade and the 21st
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
It gets weirder. I recommend reading Derek Lowes blog on the subject here https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/07/02/th...
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
It seems exceptionally odd that someone you don't know is calling you out on this and not your direct manager. You need to talk to your manager asap and in the interim a. Be extra careful not to "give away points" eg by missi
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by kjellsbells 5y ago
Redhat 4 or 5 I think from the cover CD of a magazine. Kernel 1.2.13, although the first thing you did in those days was to make config and recompile as modules were not a thing then. Makes me wonder how we found time to do anything product