lotyrin

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by lotyrin 9y ago
I guess this isn't the kind of thinking that's very popular lately, but I don't now nor have I ever had long positions in anything blockchain related, for pretty simple reasons. I don't try to time markets, and I avoid t
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Both minimum and maximum levels of comfort (bread & circuses).
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Reminds me of my time spent being a customer to a real estate MLS. When industries traditionally rented access to information asymmetry, even if those rents have since diminished, there's a lingering cultural momentum not to "show
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Glucose depending on performance of a task seems pretty obvious as does performance of a task being dependent on glucose levels; is there any reason to believe that the tasks being rooted in self-control has any bearing on the results here?
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Life gets better when you realize that on any polar issue, both side will have vocal extremist idiots and it can be amusing to poke fun at the whole lot of them, regardless of one's personal position.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
And as it matures to meet more cases (e.g. new consensus, storage solutions).
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Especially the ones with the arm rests that go up.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Globally, we are pretty much post-scarce on anything anyone "requires to live". The struggle will be to find out how all the rest gets divided when controlling distribution of the right to live is no longer a bargaining position a
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I've never heard (non-sarcastic copy-pasta) people go on about how smart the show is or the audience has to be to "get it" or anything, but I have heard this echoing reaction to those people anywhere and everywhere the show
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by lotyrin 9y ago
BPF really seems nice. Ramifications to me though are: if I was willing to pay a few percent overhead on all my production instances, what I would be able to monitor 24/7 and get a return on the investment, and I haven't found muc
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by lotyrin 9y ago
It's not my interpretation (I like to be more precise with terminology), just one that I could explain. I suppose that people who feel that way about bitcoin probably feel that way about any commodities that are held at speculative val
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Most of its value is speculative and if you buy you have to hope there's a bigger sucker somewhere in the future in order to get your payout, that's not exactly Ponzi-shaped, but I can definitely see why people might consider it a
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by lotyrin 9y ago
What evidence do you have that a category "Alpha" exists and can be used to make generalized statements about behavior?
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by lotyrin 9y ago
A better methodology might be to pair a rememberer and an artist (like for forensic artist mugshots). But that would be a ton of work if you wanted to get decent sample size.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Can you imagine being the first tech hire in a company that started this way? "We just sold a contract with Y but they need it to do X" "Well... Google Sheets duct-taped to Zapier duct-taped to Twilio can't support X, so
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Why? It's really convenient to offload bandwidth and DMCA etc. to YouTube, and that lets creators double-dip if their content can be monetized there.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
You don't carry the disc or plug anything... It rests on your desk/nightstand so you can place the phone there without having to plug anything, or unplug anything to check a notification or run to a meeting. It's not a fundam
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Sauce Labs and BrowserStack have been in that space for quite a while now.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Yep. Even if you only owned a perfectly sterile (no secrets) proxy tier to a distinct service tier, you are placed in the path of requests from clients to those services and can thereby extract credentials (passwords, tokens) or PII (names,
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I think we're in agreement then. It's indeed nice to have a PM that could produce details that can be synthesized into a technical spec. It's nice when the PM can work with the customer to actually understand those details. I
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Well, there was a lot of distaste for the previous style, it's a pretty notable difference to users. (For the record, I liked the original "blobs" and will miss them.)
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by lotyrin 9y ago
If it matters what the user's username was or what button they clicked or what form they're on --- to the business --- then sure, describe those in natural language specs. If they only matter to the implementation, they should be
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I find utility in them being understood by PMs, even if not written. Also, the overly-parameterized kinds of reusable statements like "Click on 'whatever' then fill in 'name' with 'stuff'" are an anti
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by lotyrin 9y ago
https://github.com/viebel/klipse but afaict it only supports certain languages and doesn't emulate a server environment.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Few, but there are plenty that would benefit from an event sourcing model over a CRUD one, or that would benefit from thinking and implementing business logic as functions with their inputs and outputs rather than procedures with their loop
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I rarely recommend alerting monitoring or any kind of action based on load averages or more generally any metric derived from queue lengths. It's trends in high-quantile queue latencies your users (and therefore you should) care abou
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by lotyrin 9y ago
No, it's continuous with no edge effects like this because only income within a bracket is taxed at that bracket.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I use rtorrent for exactly this.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Nuclear power generation and agricultural GMOs definitely do have their opponents that use end-of-the-world kinds of arguments, and the uninformed that accept those. Nuclear especially would be my go-to pristine example of this effect.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I don't really get this article. The transaction rate limit and the wastefulness and limitations of PoW as a fault-tolerance mechanism are brought up but then just hand-waved away. If we had discussed proof of stake or theorized about

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