lazyant

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1. 631.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   Define "best". There's a lifestyle associated to those cities that not everybody prefers.
2. 632.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   "attack our government", so treason
3. 633.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   not necessarily, in the first write we can update receipt status as "queued" so queue system can update to "sent" or retry
4. 634.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   well the Tutsi / Watusi are reportedly [cn] also 6ft tall as average, same as the Dutch
5. 635.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   from what I understand FB uses Mysql as permanent storage, not as relational database
6. 636.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   well, I've seen it twice and it's a fine movie but I don't see there's anything special about it, the serial killer using a theme has been done a million times, the only twist is the motivation/endgame of the killer
7. 637.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   I don't think I got good recommendations (based on the ones I've seen) but then again I have peculiar tastes; I think Lilo and Stich is a great movie and se7en is a meh movie (and I can argue why).
8. 638.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   "the entire site became unavailable since the load balancer took the servers out of rotation." I don't care about the regexp, this is bad SRE, you can't just take servers out of rotation without some compensation action.
9. 639.▲
   by lazyant 10y ago

   I've used Gillete II disposables all my life, other brands don't shave me and more blades don't improve and are more expensive. I switched to safety blades a few weeks ago, I still don't get it right, got a sampler colle
10. 640.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    there are permanent settlements in Antartica (for some definition of "permanent")
11. 641.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Don't they have full service stations in Chicago or Boston?
12. 642.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Google translate of http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2016/06/30/5774ead6ca4741db16... "the background of all these investigations are the lack of tax harmonization in the EU and tax strategy of the co
13. 643.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Calendar and Hangouts https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/748516307235143681
14. 644.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    yes Calendar and Hangouts https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/748516307235143681
15. 645.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    I'd rather multiply by 2 75% of the time than divide by 2 25% of the time (just a wild-ass guess of how often one or the other appear in common equations)
16. 646.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Japanese? OK but this is common in Europe as well since I can remember (40 years)
17. 647.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    You mean like nobody will force to land a plane carrying a prime minister for example? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
18. 648.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    one point anecdote: Google's Keep lost my data after it decided to upgrade itself (gone from phone and cloud). Just some notes but still.
19. 649.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Because a lot of people attempting suicide and failing often don't try any more and lead "normal" lives, see the study on Golden Gate jumpers who survived for example ("the moment I jumped I regretted it").
20. 650.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    > it’s better to have 2 impressive achievements than 2 impressive achievements and 3 weak ones. This is logically false but psychologically true.
21. 651.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    > Portknocking is far too easy to beat and really doesn't impede much. If you have to guess a random 3 port sequence in a 65k port space, how long will it take you to break? at 1 try of 3 ports per second I get almost 9 million year
22. 652.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Suddenly almost everyone in HN knows more about extinguishing wildfires than the Canadian firefighters, who pretty much invented the category. Just three words: zero lives lost.
23. 653.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    conference calls are terrible for troubleshooting, let the tech do their jobs (they can use chat) and then for the postmortem you can conference.
24. 654.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    No email in you profile to PM you.
25. 655.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    I've been reading that ZFS was "almost ready for use" in Linux for years, how stable is it for production now, anybody here using it, any good/bad comments or tips? (using CentOS 7 at the moment)
26. 656.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    I live in Canada, AWD is great to get you out of a bind, to get going from a stopped position, it does absolutely nothing to stop or control the car (actually it adds weight so is a bit worse for stopping). I have an AWD car and a regular o
27. 657.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    yes I do that a lot (throw the stone and hide the hand)
28. 658.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    Just by quick browsing I see missing a lot of network and server-side: what if name server doesn't have domain record, routing protocols (BGP), what happens when request hits Google on their side, there's load balancer for sure -h
29. 659.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    For the same reason a lot of people can play the guitar but not the violin; it's easier (at least to get started) and in many cases get the job done so the other option is not missed.
30. 660.▲
    by lazyant 10y ago

    oh no, now I have to put my time where my mouth is :-)