lazyant

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   by lazyant 8y ago

   (Just in case) they are free in Canada.
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   one "electronics-free" day a week
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   We've been using Notion for a year or two now (a lot of people didn't like Confluence) and it's been working pretty well. I particularly like how they construct URLs for documents; it always keep its ID regardless of title ch
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   Same thing, just copy-paste the moves into https://lichess.org/paste
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   Giving a present was not only from the mayor: "A local business was similarly benevolent to councillors, distributing boxes of chocolates."
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   So the reason to be against these things that don't hurt anything is that the people putting them up may be virtual-signaling? so what?
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   There was a Reddit thread about something like this and some bilingual people said the language they speak changes their personalities to a degree. For example someone raised in a language - say French in France - and then learnt English an
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   In past World Chess Championships when they finished tied with points the current champion retained the title, which I found disappointing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1987#...
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   by lazyant 8y ago

   If it was up to me, for university admissions there would be a public clear and objective scoring system, based for example only on grades and then use a lottery system weighted inversely by income. No more essays and subjective values, sil
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    He makes some valid points but I think if you want to write a blog entry about why "B" is not good for a case and you rather use "A" (that you already know), then you should at least try "B" technology; it does
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    So you've been given the responsibility but not the authority. You've been set up for failure. Demand clarification of what's expected from you and the backing to carry it out, because right now you are not able to do your jo
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    Please get the facts before spreading wrong ideas. She has said that she never applied. Also some people are commenting (I don't know if this is true) that a professor has more paperwork etc to do for the same salary so she may want to
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    They are both accepted words. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    Similarly, about what people think of you: "Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernard_Baruch
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70912.The_Dice_Man
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    I don't remember if it was 1/3 or 2/3 (a lot anyways) of motorcycle accidents were caused by another car driver, and mostly due that they didn't see the motorcycle so a high-visibility jacket (yellow/orange with ref
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    A directory is just a special type of file that contains a list of file names and their corresponding inodes, how is a directory NOT a file?
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    Somehow related, when you have a problem or a decision to make, thinking about you in the third person apparently helps.
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    No. "El mio X" or "El X mio" sounds terrible, esp. the first one I doubt is even proper, the latter can be used to stress "mine" (mio).
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    I learned about this from the "metamagical" section in a Scientific American magazine from the 80s, good times. Apparently Uri Geller did it on tv and didn't work.
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    seconded, and it's like $10
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    by lazyant 8y ago

    "about us" returns 500
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    Great "teaching by showing" example but I don't get the initial technical scenario; you have sophisticated (ie, not RR / random) load balancers that keep track of queues in web servers, so they have to get some informati
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    I read it as "they test in production" (because they don't have good testing environment similar to prod)
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    Shouldn't one of the main properties of data poisoning be that it should go undetected? otherwise the collector agency (FB, whatever) can just develop an algorithm to flag that new data.
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    Somehow related, "Command and Control" is an excellent read.
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    My goto for initial troubleshooting a server is: uptime # uptime and CPU stress w # or better yet:last |head # who is/has been in netstat -tlpn # find server role df -h # out of disk space? grep kill /var/log/messages #
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    TL;DR: applied to a lot of companies, practiced for five months (also: got strong mentally and had a side project).
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    I think Warren Buffet (?) said almost exactly the same thing, if your taxi driver is talking about some investment, it made the public perception and it's too late now.
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    by lazyant 9y ago

    You run servers and dbs in UTC then you translate in your app to local times, this is best practice. Otherwise, problems.