lazyant

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931.
by lazyant 12y ago
"You are comparing other people's highlights with your bloopers"
932.
by lazyant 12y ago
I've "solved problems" (more like getting a breakthrough idea) during my sleep so yes I'm sure your brain can do a lot during sleep
933.
by lazyant 12y ago
"Xen fell within 2.5% of bare metal performance in three out of ten tests but often had a variance of up to 5-7%" Happy to see that I had it bang on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285851
934.
by lazyant 12y ago
I haven't seen that paper but in my experience with thousands of Xen servers, the CPU overhead is less than 5% (typically about 3% or so), not sure what parameters are discussed when talking about how badly VM behave (obv. there's
935.
by lazyant 12y ago
training as close as the real thing is the best kind of practice, see sports training for ex.
936.
by lazyant 12y ago
"Loonie-Toonie (named for the two sides of the Canadian dollar coin)". No, a Loonie is 1 dollar coin and a Toonie is a 2 dollar coin.
937.
by lazyant 12y ago
"These people are just lazy, they have color TVs in their houses. In America anyone can make it if you work hard". Literally what a friend-of-a-friend told me about why she was voting Republican, seems to be a recurring cliche but
938.
by lazyant 12y ago
After a minimum objective criteria (grades etc), just make admissions random, all this gaming stuff is silly
939.
by lazyant 12y ago
btw, didn't the US pass a law to defund research on marijuana?
940.
by lazyant 12y ago
Dropbox uses file deduplication, also I suspect the distribution of disk space used is nowhere near the maximum offered (this is, they offer 1TB but most users will take up only a small fraction of it)
941.
by lazyant 12y ago
This is one of the best write-ups over tech hiring I've seen in a while. For me is about "get the job done, don't be a dick", problem is how to test for that under time and other constraints.
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by lazyant 12y ago
silly question, is there a (known) web site for making (small) bets among individuals, keeping escrow, doing odds etc? I thought about this as a 'startup' idea but I'm scared of the laws, esp. US law
943.
by lazyant 12y ago
Unless there's a huge difference in price/offerings (not the case here), I recommend picking a host provider not by comparing "numbers" (technical differences in CPU/RAM/disk space/bandwidth/data tran
944.
by lazyant 12y ago
great! only missing typing text
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by lazyant 12y ago
For anyone interested in the innate talent vs practice in sports I recommend the book 'The Sports Gene' (spoiler: genes play a huge role).
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by lazyant 12y ago
We need cops to record video of their interactions with the public, for everybody's protection. Also, it's not true that if you cooperate cops won't be violent with you, just see some episodes of the tv show "cops",
947.
by lazyant 12y ago
I'm pretty sure bringing new goods with the intention of selling need to pay taxes in many/most countries, I wouldn't put my name/face as a testimonial on this site.
948.
by lazyant 12y ago
Reminds me of the Bounty
949.
by lazyant 12y ago
(a bit of shameless plugin but since it's related) I'm working on a SaaS project to automatically copy a website as static pages with versioning and pushing them to S3 or github pages as an online backup (to avoid having a blog do
950.
by lazyant 12y ago
yes, they also have a bigger initial TCP window than the default
951.
by lazyant 12y ago
As mentioned in the article, for some countries like Cuba, these records were not digitized and are the only source of the music of an era
952.
by lazyant 12y ago
This in general is my issue with books about (learning) any subject; there are a lot of beginners books and web sites and there are a lot also of specialized books that go into details but there are few or no good intermediate books (to sta
953.
by lazyant 12y ago
agree: 'upvote' or 'flag' and if you click 'flag' you have to choose an option like 'insulting' 'revealing personal info' etc
954.
by lazyant 12y ago
there should be a law that you should be able to cancel in the same way and convenience that you can sign up
955.
by lazyant 12y ago
connected with FB and not sure if I verified my email, I get some "server errors" and logouts and can't change my settings
956.
by lazyant 12y ago
and before austral it was peso
957.
by lazyant 12y ago
what about internet access? my understanding is that is very limited
958.
by lazyant 12y ago
why limit grains? (honest question)
959.
by lazyant 12y ago
Not sure I understand; the main variable for initial response is salary yet in none of the examples of initial emails salary is mentioned (that's my experience as well)
960.
by lazyant 12y ago
Not blackmail (threatening to reveal a secret, esp. to the police) but more like extortion.

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