lazyant

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31.
by lazyant 1y ago
you are comparing data storage to a backup solution, not the target market
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by lazyant 1y ago
One chess engine I saw long ago used a small depth (maybe even 1!) but with the exception of consecutive captures to avoid the biggest case for this issue (pawn promotion as well iirc)
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by lazyant 1y ago
half my youtube ads are about AI productivity/assistants, so many of them, good luck.
34.
by lazyant 1y ago
physical products, I couldn't find any software or SaaS
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by lazyant 1y ago
Dogs are the 3rd deadliest animal to humans (discounting humans themselves), but since they are popular pets and more like another family member in some Western countries, they get a big pass imho (or rather, their owners) https:/&#x2
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by lazyant 1y ago
A checklist usually have dependencies; some items should be done in specific order
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by lazyant 1y ago
from another study, the home advantage is due to ref's unconscious bias, rather than an effect from the public. So all the new tech (VAR) surely has helped reduce that bias.
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by lazyant 1y ago
also with time they get more cocky? While new drivers have a higher crash rate in their first year of driving, the fatality rate is actually highest in their second year, not their first.
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by lazyant 1y ago
It's confusing but you can read it as (Rail Over) Bridge. Defining acronyms/initializations the first time they are used is best practice[1]; I hate the opposite of just throwing around acronyms that the reader may not be familiar
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by lazyant 1y ago
A server that has a spike of load and can't cope with it is pretty normal, hard to characterize as "broken". When the client(s) can send more work than the server can handle there are three options: 1 - Do nothing; server
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by lazyant 1y ago
"a genocidal smart evil man convinced a stupid evil man to attack a country with an evil regime" (paraphrasing)
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by lazyant 1y ago
If it helps, I did the math for different sports in different countries and the chance of a kid becoming a professional at a sport is about 1 in 10,000 - 20,000 (and that is counting like making 50k/year at a low division).
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by lazyant 1y ago
yes, and my pet theory is that the power law for creative professions (and others like realtors) come from low barriers of entry.
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by lazyant 1y ago
Meh. Be outwardly positive and follow whatever you want to do but the reality is cynical (or you haven't been around much yet).
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by lazyant 2y ago
that's assuming the health in the years before dying (or the number of "bad" years) is the same, which may not be the case
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by lazyant 2y ago
And the fentanyl "from Canada" story is because there was a seizure up north in the US and was attributed to come from Canada (but may as well be going the other way) and amount was like 0.1% of total apprehensions. Most of the il
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by lazyant 2y ago
or you can just bring a bag of cash to buy a condo in NYC https://theweek.com/articles/736313/how-foreign-investors-la...
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by lazyant 2y ago
yes; quantity leads to quality
49.
by lazyant 2y ago
Pretty much like Parcheesi with extra detours in the circuit where your token cannot be caught.
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by lazyant 2y ago
"There is no such thing as software productivity." != "There is no such thing as a simple, objective software productivity metric".
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by lazyant 2y ago
Canadian example, this year https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-student-flying-commute-c...
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by lazyant 2y ago
I wouldn't call it abuse of trust but it's a bad idea to do a migration or any operation that can fail and cause downtime without warning the clients. Come Monday and no servers are online, what do you say, "oops, I tried to
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by lazyant 2y ago
Type II fun https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale
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by lazyant 2y ago
I think we humans are not very good at guessing what would make us happy; you just need to try the real thing or as close as possible.
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by lazyant 2y ago
summary for the lazy: OVH
56.
by lazyant 2y ago
If the CLI runs on an engineer's laptop (like AWS CLI for ex) then it doesn't matter
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by lazyant 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model (kind of), pretty standard nowadays way in SRE to talk about root causes (plural) because usually it's more than one specific thing.
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by lazyant 2y ago
Not arguing with your point but see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge
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by lazyant 2y ago
They are fluff values with little actionability and the scrum/agile rituals seem unrelated to these anyways.
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by lazyant 2y ago
People with physical jobs should definitively be able to retire, a construction worker is not getting up a scaffold at 70.

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