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by knz 10y ago
> My point is you need smart enough people for your job and nothing more. You do an IQ test, a personality one and that's all. The rest can be learned. Company culture matters. Even the most intelligent people that are willing to gr
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by knz 10y ago
The Tasmanian tiger always reminds me a little of the efforts to introduce Moose into New Zealand ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose#New_Zealand ). "In 1900, an attempt to introduce moose into the Hokitika area f
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by knz 10y ago
I also read it initially as "acquire Apple" and had to check the date...
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by knz 10y ago
> ADS-B is amazing, yet I also find it's amazing it took so long to become more popular given how helpful it is. How much of this is the FAA dragging it's feet on NextGen projects? It's astounding that after billions being
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by knz 10y ago
Isn't being selective with what you lie about the answer to this? If you don't care that Google know about a purchase then use your normal email/credit card etc. If you want additional privacy then use methods that allow this
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by knz 10y ago
Distain for public transport is effectively the default position for some politicians (and therefore their supporters) in some parts of the country regardless of the inefficiencies obvious during every commute. Having travelled to countries
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by knz 10y ago
The benefits of containerization are not limited to production deployment. Docker makes it trivial to run the exact same container in QA/dev as well - it's a 10 line Dockerfile and three commands (create, build, run) vs having to
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by knz 10y ago
Is it vendor lock in if you're casting services like Netflix etc? You can use many different devices to watch your content. We've had a Chromecast since the first version and it has always worked well (with the exception of Netfli
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by knz 10y ago
> Apparently attributing anything unattributable to Russia is having a massive comeback right now. Could that be because the US and Russia are currently engaged in a low level proxy conflict in Syria? The "Great Game" ( https:&
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by knz 10y ago
We are indeed using the CentOS repositories. The current version on our production servers is 1.10.3.
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by knz 10y ago
I've posted about this before, but my work (non IT Department at a State Govt agency) has been using Docker in production for about a year. We are small by HN standards (~12 apps on 5 hosts that are a mix of API's, front ends, and
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by knz 10y ago
Does Gen X have more in common with millennials or boomers? Would there be much difference between a society dominated by Gen X rather than millennials?
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by knz 10y ago
I assume they are referring to fly by wire?
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by knz 10y ago
I don't know what it was like in America, but as a kid in New Zealand during the 80's/90's Apple was synonymous with desktop computers in an education setting. My understanding is that Apple deliberately targeted the edu
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure how accurate the data is but the USGS have a GIS map of turbine locations - http://eerscmap.usgs.gov/windfarm/ . This website ( http://www.awea.org/resources/statefactsheets.aspx?it
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by knz 10y ago
Isn't another benefit of wind and solar the fact that it's distributed rather than concentrated into a few locations? Between the increase in frequency and severity of storms associated with climate change and the threat of terror
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by knz 10y ago
You didn't think they would catch on in the ocean or on land? I drove through rural Minnesota and South Dakota on a road trip last week and was amazed at how many turbines are out there these days. Xcel energy in Minnesota offers a pro
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by knz 10y ago
Correct. I've heard that it varies depending upon your location. For example St Paul, MN was massive when it was set up so most of the eastern suburbs of the Twin Cities have St Paul MN, 5XXXX rather than the actual city. Municipalitie
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by knz 10y ago
The USPS have a hard enough time maintaining a conventional address database. My understanding is that addresses in the US are usually derived from the municipal authority and by the time those trickle out to the various consumers (counties
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure that is a good analogy for the wall. Is it a different wall protecting thousands of cities or one of maybe ~10 walls (the main OS's) that is reused? Would it be that hard to build a few good walls? As you said though,
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by knz 10y ago
> I tried to make my own maps once for my GPS unit, it gave me a new level of respect for mapmakers. It's not terribly hard to take the raw LIDAR survey data and make crude maps, but making a nice polished zoomable map with trails,
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by knz 10y ago
It's naive to suggest that "US Foreign Policy" is somehow specific to the US. Most, if not all, of the major European Nations actively support these same policies and have a much longer history in many of the conflict zones a
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by knz 10y ago
That has been my experience with foscam IP cameras as well. The UI was horrible, they routinely lost the static IP's I had assigned, and it reached the territory of being something that caused more stress than it was worth. The only ap
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by knz 10y ago
> It's clearly marketed to a not-technically-skilled market I'm not sure that is entirely true. I know of several people who work in IT and use them. Any decent outdoor IP camera is going to cost at least $100 and $10/mont
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by knz 10y ago
I agree but there is the small issue of cost. I've read before that the ISS was the most expensive project in global history at > $150B. I used google to confirm the cost and was stuck by 1) the fact that "Is the International
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by knz 10y ago
Even the most winter wary Minnesotan will venture out far more than three months of the year! Spring, summer, and autumn are fantastic here as well. The winter can be long, but if you get outside and enjoy it, you find that you look forward
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by knz 10y ago
I'd take the northern winter over the LA smog and traffic any day (and I say that as someone who loves visiting LA!).
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by knz 10y ago
A true northern winter redefines your sense of cold if you are from a more mild climate. The ambient temperatures sting any exposed skin and freeze any moisture (like the inside of your nose or condensation as your exhale) almost instantly.
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by knz 10y ago
Two infants were just shot in a mini van not far from where the shooting in Minnesota occurred. There were also multiple shootings overnight in Minneapolis that resulted in at least one fatality. The Police aren't armed just for traf
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by knz 10y ago
Per capita is a far more useful measure. I'm tired of seeing the media pushing the total number for various issues and ignoring the fact that the US has 320 million residents.

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