loire280

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by loire280 2y ago
This week we had a few minutes of downtime on an internal service because of a node rotation that triggered an alert. The responding engineer started to put together a plan to make the service HA (which would have tripled the cost to serve)
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by loire280 2y ago
Except according to Graeber those jobs exist because leaders, companies, and society like having lots of employees doing this work for various reasons and we all more or less tacitly agree that the output of those jobs is useless and only
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by loire280 2y ago
Post WWII, interdependence between European nations has generally been considered good for national security.
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by loire280 2y ago
I really enjoyed DoW2 as an action RPG but share your disappointment with it as a sequel to DoW1. I think it would have been received better with a different title.
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by loire280 2y ago
Those features are mostly being added to existing products and therefore aren't supporting new revenue streams. It remains to be seen if these features are popular enough to become table stakes for the existing OS and productivity soft
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by loire280 3y ago
However, they require constant human monitoring and interventions from those humans every few miles to work properly - and it's not clear that the need for those interventions will be solved with more training data. https://
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by loire280 3y ago
Why wouldn’t they? This technology is not a competitive advantage for their company, wouldn’t make sense for them to sell as a standalone product, and it helps their engineering department attract good talent.
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by loire280 3y ago
I expect that, over the next few years, companies that need to lay off workers will spin their mismanagement by claiming they are replacing those jobs with "AI".
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by loire280 3y ago
I drive a Volt and I’m convinced this configuration of car is what many Americans should be buying until battery manufacturing ramps up and EV fast charging infrastructure is widely deployed. It gets 45-60mi range but it charges just fine o
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by loire280 13y ago
I'd definitely use a job board that was a better interface to a whoishiring thread.
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by loire280 13y ago
I'm hoping that the mass appeal of BSG (especially now that it has a second life on Netflix) and the accessibility of the new Star Trek movies will pave the way for more space opera on TV.
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by loire280 14y ago
This is a great idea, but I think the rush to find an alternative is premature - there's going to be a huge shift in the RSS reader landscape over the next few months, and the best alternative may not even be announced yet.
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by loire280 14y ago
GS Design in Milwaukee, WI is hiring a full-time backend developer. Must be on-site. GS Design offers an incredible work environment, generous compensation and benefits, and the opportunity to work with a national client roster including H
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by loire280 14y ago
My girlfriend uses the mobile web version of Facebook on a semi-dumb slider phone (it might be some variant of Symbian). I find it baffling because the browser is so terrible and the screen is 320x240, but she's perfectly happy with it. She
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by loire280 14y ago
It's also self-parody of Marco's exhaustively researched reviews - which are often focused on relatively mundane things like LED light bulbs, thermostats, and coffee gadgets.
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by loire280 15y ago
While what you say is true, I disagree with you in tone. Adobe makes money from Flash by selling licenses to the tools. During the long period of platform growth, developer community growth and turnover helped maintain profits through new l
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by loire280 15y ago
Let's say that there are many wealthy buyers who can easily afford to buy a Porsche. However, Porsche sets up a dozen dealerships in remote corners of the desert, each separated by miles of dirt road. Each dealership has a couple of model
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by loire280 15y ago
Drinking lots of coffee likely doesn't increase cancer risk, but it can be an indicator of poor sleep habits.
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by loire280 15y ago
The dollar value of shipping isn't the only cost - 2+ days is a long time to wait and Wal-Mart is only a couple of miles away. Some things can wait and you can plan ahead to account for shipping times, but not everything can be planned for
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by loire280 15y ago
$20 for a one-time scan? Assuming their SEO is as honest as their business model, this site must print money.
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by loire280 15y ago
This isn't an unusual dilemma in publishing - print or online. If for-profit companies can adequately maintain editorial integrity despite pressure from ad partners, I think an ideological non-profit like Wikipedia can manage.
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by loire280 15y ago
It seems unlikely that the type of people who shepherd Wikipedia pages in their free time would fail to notice and immediately report that type of censorship. The proof would be unnecessary - even the implication that Wikipedia was tamperi
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by loire280 15y ago
This is why I stick pretty close to stock vim - I use it on too many remote systems to worry about keeping my environment consistent. I could automate something, and maybe when our sysadmin finishes integrating puppet into our servers I can
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by loire280 15y ago
Looks like a heavy-handed attempt to maintain their culture - as uncouth as it may be.
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by loire280 15y ago
True, and I've heard that iOS 4 didn't run so well on the iPhone 3G in the first place. However, even once support was dropped, the iPhone 3G was still on the current major version (4.3, a relatively minor update, is the version that dro
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by loire280 15y ago
Developers care. What use are the new shiny features in Ice Cream Sandwich when I need to make my app compatible with phones on Eclair or Froyo to access a sufficiently broad portion of the Android install base? If developers are wary of
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by loire280 15y ago
The chart cuts off after 3 years - the point is that the original iPhone was supported with the current version of iOS for 2 years after the last one was sold (minus two days - iOS 4, the first version to drop support, came out June 21, 201
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by loire280 15y ago
His contributions to the community were released under liberal licenses and will undoubtedly be widely available tomorrow. Heck, you can `apt-get install diveintopython` on an Ubuntu system. However, a lot of links just got broken across
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by loire280 15y ago
The domain for that site is owned by a Chinese university, and the IP address of the server it's hosted on looks like a shared server (there's over 200 sites hosted on that IP). I doubt Mark has anything to do with hosting that site.
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by loire280 15y ago
The hardware in an iPhone really isn't that important as long as the interface is responsive. Apple has consistently made choices that ensure that performance can be squeezed out of slower hardware. These include restrictions on iOS develop

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