lazyant

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   by lazyant 10y ago

   My family doctor's office in Canada would refer us to a nurse phone consultation before even giving us an appointment for our daughter. Here you have to exaggerate, she was having 38.3 C and the nurse insisted that anything less than 3
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   There are three sponsor companies from Waterloo (granted, not the big ones) so not ruling out something in Waterloo
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   Sending taxes in the US by mail was unnerving for me, I don't know if things have changed but basically you put the envelope in the mail box and then .. you don't know, no receipt from the IRS, nothing. What happens if the envelop
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   I call it the "executive summary", basically we "are" a PowerPoint presentation of our brains.
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   > you (practicing for 10,000 hours) are going to be better than somebody who practiced only 1,000 hours no matter how talented they are. There's a lot of counter-examples that contradict that statement, at least in areas like sports
6. 576.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   arbitrary yes, equally, no.
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   I remember just three things about the book "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" (1994): the death march, that they tested the OS by writing a file over and over (!) and tha
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   Just a note for people playing with vm.swappiness ( = 0 for ex) , what it does it's different depending on distro and version (as in with one version = 0 meant "absolutely no swap" and another version it may mean "try no
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   by lazyant 10y ago

   "...most Python developers use the Python Package Index to get their dependencies. ... easy_install is one tool to mess up your system. Another package manager is pip." hmm TIL?
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    Well, in their defense (Google/Amazon/Facebook etc), a team leader or any other particular person cannot interview 500 applicants, so either more people are interviewers or they are way more specific with initial resume (which can
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    would IMDB's ToS be OK with this?
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    USA basically has the cheapest housing in the world https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    Not learned from this incident but in general: - you don't have a backup until you test restore - use checklists and scripts - use another person as soundboard, esp. to confirm destructive changes or "ad hoc" comm
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    hugs
15. 585.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    I go to McDonalds once every 4-6 months or so. A couple weeks ago i noticed the machines and tried them. As an old fart I prefer the human interaction, also the machines seems slower to me to get all the details of the order right. Also I
16. 586.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    you have a (small but valid) point
17. 587.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Proud to be Canadian, see our PM's latest tweets https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/825438460265762816
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    https://twitter.com/Stl_Manifest
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    yes, this was described in Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind; different pictures shown to the left or right eye and getting different answers
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    1935: let's turn away those Jewish refugees
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    That "robot" seems more like a remote-control arm operated by a human (so a robot is not beating the captcha) since it doesn't seem to have input sensors like cameras.
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    Also mentionable is that you need to service them if you want them to last / keep their value, I think it's about $500 every 5 years or so.
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    The origins of precise clocks is because ships needed to calculate how far they had travelled in terms of longitude (eastwast/westward. How far you've travel north/south is easy to calculate by how high the sun goes). The Bri
24. 594.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Try namebench https://github.com/google/namebench , it will give you the fastest name servers for your case (location plus usage)
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    > The game is sufficiently () complex that the weaker player may not even notice the actions of the stronger player I recommend to people learning to look at the activities of someone "good" at the field but not a star for this
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    You would have to run candidates with different names, in this case we have a Jewish name (author) running against a somewhat Hispanic name, I imagine some percentage of people would vote just on perception of ethnicity.
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    > bought voter lists ... to identify the folks most likely to support me what info is on those lists that you can use to identify supporters?
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    In most best scenarios, if you are good enough as developer after a few months of training you'll be able to land a job in a random software company at 1/3 or 1/2 your current salary doing probably 'boring' stuff, y
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/business/international/ecb...
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    by lazyant 10y ago

    that's a good reason but not the reason for me, death penalty is wrong period, same reason as torture is wrong.