ktaylora

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by ktaylora 3y ago
It's pretty active, actually. Look at the release notes for FreeBSD major versions. Some folks think the release engineering team is too active and that major versions should be supported for more than ~5 years.
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by ktaylora 3y ago
If you are working with FreeBSD in the cloud, you can use Terraform to provision on AWS and GCP. If you have to manage bare metal FreeBSD systems at scale (hundreds of systems), most devops folks use Ansible. There are playbooks out there f
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by ktaylora 3y ago
Love distrobox. Use it on my daily driver. If you are running an Ubuntu LTS / Debian stable / PopOS as your main operating system (because you want stability), but want to run bleeding-edge gui applications in debian testing (or e
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by ktaylora 4y ago
Yes! I knew it was out there somewhere. Thank you.
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by ktaylora 4y ago
This is cool. What I really want is to be able to build an array of these. Like turn a stack of old fleet framework laptops (or lenovo laptops -- something cheap and plentiful) into a little closet Kubernetes cluster. A bit like people do w
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by ktaylora 4y ago
I started on GitHub, moved to a job that used Gitlab, and then another that uses Bitbucket. Being platform agnostic about CI/CD and Git, I think, looks better than being wed to a single provider.
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by ktaylora 4y ago
Uh, yes, my snarky friend. I didn't suggest Sri Lanka is agriculturally self-sufficient. With so little a land area to work with, that would not be possible. It's not clear that switching to organic agriculture in any way reduces
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by ktaylora 4y ago
There's a premium that can be exacted from switching to organic agriculture that isn't be discussed in this article. Sri Lanka has a limited land mass available for food production and they mostly export commodities to other count
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by ktaylora 4y ago
I've had to work through ADHD as an engineer and echo what a few folks on here have said about slowing down and being intentional. It's easy to get overwhelmed when you have a to-do list with 25 things on it and you feel like you
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by ktaylora 4y ago
I've used mounted volumes in docker for high-traffic postgresql databases and they've held up nicely. Should test this with SQLite, but I imagine it would perform just fine.
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by ktaylora 4y ago
I've had similar experiences to what's been offered in other posts. Getting off the SD card and onto external storage is essential. The machine is almost useable, chromium lags a bit, but for other tasks on the CLI, it's quit
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by ktaylora 5y ago
Kerrisk wrote a great intro chapter on the evolution of the UNIX system architecture (with sources) and how Linux has developed with it that's relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linux_Programming_Interf.
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by ktaylora 6y ago
Yes. We've lost the tall grass prairie to corn. But there are still vast portions of short and mixed-grass prairie in the southern great plains on land that was never suitable for crop production. The Texas and Oklahoma panhandle regio
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by ktaylora 6y ago
The direct impact of turbines on wildlife (e.g., from direct strikes) may be negligible. But the secondary effects of carving-up large blocks of intact grasslands in the Great Plains with infrastructure like service roads, wallpapering dese
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by ktaylora 6y ago
We usually see the UN human development index cited for this. Which ranks countries based on life expectancy, education, as well as income. For the wealthy, my assumption is that you can buy your way to better education and life expectancy
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by ktaylora 6y ago
A lot of users struggle with this. Mozilla needs to diversify it's revenue stream, but the options available to them are only tangentially related to Firefox. Basically, (1) the VPN service they are spinning up and (2) Pocket. I opted
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by ktaylora 6y ago
> If producers are able to totally game a commodity market and control prices so completely than you have bigger problems than just poverty. Game is probably more strongly worded than what actually happens : a shift in the demand curve.
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by ktaylora 6y ago
This. There is compelling evidence that UBI, over the short term, really is effective at distributing money to a lot of people in need without a cumbersome burden of proof placed on assessing that need. That's why the treasury departme
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by ktaylora 6y ago
Industry kinda already has. Products launched. Teams managed. A candidate's publication record is a conversation starter during interviews, but I feel like years of experience at a company working on launching a successful project is a
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by ktaylora 6y ago
Fidelity and other major online brokerages do this with their money market accounts. It doesn't chase an optimal yield like what you are proposing, but that would be interesting. Instead, they use a large basket of money market and sav
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by ktaylora 6y ago
Came here half-expecting to see probabilistic programming implemented via Direct Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). This is cool, too, though.
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by ktaylora 7y ago
The faith part comes from interpreting the economic results of capitalism. Do you accept it as a useful economic system given all the problems you see with it? Are you willing to entertain the possibility of alternatives? If not, why?
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by ktaylora 7y ago
I'm for anything that might eleviate this second silent spring we are seeing with pollinators/birds in the US. But how much time/money does it take to develop an RNAi-based pesticide? Also, it's specificity sounds like a
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by ktaylora 7y ago
* and probably humans, but we couldn't get approval for that yet... maybe now that we're in Nature Medicine?
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by ktaylora 7y ago
You can try the experiment on yourself. Find capsules of flax seed oil that look like capsules of CBD oil. Have someone place a one-to-three week supply of each in separate envelopes and take them twice daily. Score your anxiety level each
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by ktaylora 7y ago
Probably need to repeat this study with 72 additional individuals treated with a placebo to compare against the cannabidiol group. My guess is that just thinking that you are doing something about your anxiety and sleep issues will result i
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by ktaylora 7y ago
Thx, mate. I'm a TOR user. Happens all the time.
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by ktaylora 7y ago
I think the most interesting conclusion is that ASD (particularly "High Functioning" ASD) may actually be ADHD. Clinicians should do more rigorous testing to differentiate ASD and ADHD in their patients. Also, they add that "
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by ktaylora 7y ago
The statistics for this paper are pretty straight forward. The sample size is small, so recovering a significant effect with frequentist hypothesis tests like MANOVA with 30 samples is challenging. However, the authors went to great lengths