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by kokey 7y ago
We have been using it to watch our non-verbal young autistic son in bed. I know a tiny light in a pitch black room keeps him awake for many hours of the night and he doesn’t do being awake quietly so it also keeps us awake. We also can’t ju
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by kokey 7y ago
That answered one of the biggest questions I had when I saw that CRT display magnification of the chip. Well done to him, hope he doesn't get bored in college though I'm sure he'll find ways to pass the time.
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by kokey 7y ago
An engineer's way: Pi = 3
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by kokey 7y ago
For mixed workload servers I tend to go for 1GB swap, vm.swappiness=0 and then alerts on around 300-400MB of swap usage. I found alerting on swap to be the best indicator of impending doom, whether it's from a slow memory leak or a bu
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by kokey 7y ago
I don't know what other people do, but I think the better option would be to set vm.swappiness to 0. Swap space is a good safety valve. You should never really have to use it, so a good way to detect that something is going really wr
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by kokey 7y ago
The most common cause here is something causing a situation where some queries hang or takes a long time to complete, while also locking access to something, while new queries keep coming in. This builds up quickly. A good way to catch thi
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by kokey 7y ago
IBM had a huge push about 20 years ago to spend their resources on Linux, I believe this played a part in Linux beating everything from SCO, Solaris and even AIX and BSD out of the market.
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by kokey 7y ago
Yup, it's easy to spot a bubble but it's not easy to be able to tell how big it's going to get or when it's going to pop. You can be out by years and by magnitudes, which isn't useful for being able to profit from
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by kokey 8y ago
Personally I'm very excited about News+. When News launched I was hoping it would become something like News+ eventually. I think this could be what saves good journalism, I like to get news from a spread of publications especially w
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by kokey 8y ago
What really bugs me about this is that it reminds me of the dotcom days. Microsoft ASP stacks made it easier to find less experienced developers to quickly develope sites, no one having an awareness of optimisation and instead would throw
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by kokey 8y ago
Well, I must admit that I was surprised by that 30% production figure. That came fast, hopefully it's possible to keep up the growth in that.
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by kokey 8y ago
Unfortunately people are a bit mislead by the headlines on this, you'll get news saying that on some days renewables became a significant part of the mix (for that day), or that renewables are a significant portion of new capacity (sin
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by kokey 8y ago
Don't write off gas yet. Switching from coal to natural gas allowed the UK to cut CO2 emissions dramatically in a short period of time and have resulted remarkably less carbon intensive electricity generation compared to countries tha
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by kokey 8y ago
For the desktop/UI that end users use, for reasons I don't understand, seems to work better if it's maintained by a large commercial enterprise. That's why Windows works, Android works, Ubuntu worked a bit and obviously
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by kokey 8y ago
UUCP is one of those good things that many early ISP providers overlooked, You had companies with an e-mail server that would dial up to the internet to send and receive e-mail and would get a dynamic IP address. This would be no problem f
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by kokey 8y ago
I suspect since easy investment money with no questions asked is slowing down and there's increasing IPO activity, companies are starting to care about their bottom line more and along comes with it strategic fights with potential comp
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by kokey 8y ago
I think the real future here is when automation develops enough so these cars can drive itself to and from a parking location nearby. This will free up the space on these streets taken up by existing cars, allow more space for traffic and
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by kokey 8y ago
> This almost reads like satire. After I spent a big part of my day with adjustments trying to make Windows font rendering suck less so I could get some work done, I also thought it might be satire, but it feels more like reading someone
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by kokey 8y ago
I'm not sure why this is such a problem in Linux, where latency is really not such a big problem in Darwin/MacOS/iOS.
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by kokey 8y ago
I think as long as Microsoft holds onto Windows tightly the better bet in the future will always be a Linux or UNIX-like OS. Like many other things, the thing that works more like evolutionary systems tend to prevail. Linux might be the d
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by kokey 8y ago
Like a Macbook with a bag that has plenty of hubs and adapters and a Raspberry Pi in there just in case. Perhaps the middle ground would be a box with all the ports this design has that you can plug into a USB-C laptop or tablet.
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by kokey 8y ago
I think something people tend to miss is when these problems are appropriate. If you are hiring from a pool of recent graduates for a junior position, or any such situation where you have a demand for the position, then this might be a goo
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by kokey 8y ago
I think the difference a senior person can make is to see what things the new language/framework/paradigm still doesn't solve and think of ways to evaluate their risk to a particular project's requirements and how to mit
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by kokey 8y ago
It depends, on the chemistry research side the pharmaceutical companies still do a lot, if not most of the heavy lifting. Cheminformatics benefits from the big scale in these organisations and also do the of the type of thing discussed in
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by kokey 8y ago
I think it's good that we see more efforts at making good e-mail clients. Outlook was never great, but it has really ruined e-mail with the current font and design layout that makes it even harder for people to notice important e-mail
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by kokey 8y ago
I thought I remember seeing this at the Game On exhibition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_On_(exhibition) but it must have been the SNES version.
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by kokey 8y ago
Well, strangely enough a recent study seems to indicate that a reputation for being evil is actually good for attracting investment banking type business https://insight.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2018/beneficial-wrongdoing/
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by kokey 8y ago
I think MongoDB has a place, but that place isn't being the database for a big distributed content store for a web site or something like that. Where I do think it has a place is for some of the in-memory data structures of a node run
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by kokey 8y ago
I was being sarcastic there. Everyone also knew for a fact that property is a very safe investment and things backed by property is a very safe investment. Before the stock market took a knock over the past two years, people were talking t
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by kokey 8y ago
It would be similar if they allowed people to use their ownership of stocks and index funds to use as leverage to borrow funds to buy more stocks. They could borrow based on the risk ratings of stocks, and everyone knows it's a fact th

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