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by lstodd 3mo ago
The right question is "to what age". Get all McKinsey and calculate a TCO of a baby from conception to end-of-uni. $1.2M is low-end even for eastern EU, it's more like twice that. 0-to-23. $100K/year. This what a baby co
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by lstodd 3mo ago
Hahaha yes. Those times there still were original Sony to be had and not that Sony-Ericsson crap.
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by lstodd 3mo ago
:) Comments are billed separately at 0. First question that I will have would be - why do you need the what are you asking for. Because you are relying on my expertise and I do expect myself to deliver the best possible answer. And then we
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by lstodd 3mo ago
Maybe that's linkedin people. There are others like me: there is no such thing as 20 minutes. If I take on something, it's at least 10 hours effective. So we would just flat out refuse any such offer while on the other hand you ca
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by lstodd 3mo ago
Please port Kubernetes to common house flies so that they drop dead out of all the unnecessary overhead. That would be helpful.
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by lstodd 3mo ago
Helping to inflate a bubble is a valid strategy as long as you undestand the mechanics enough to organize a favourable exit. I think we have lost a number of treatises on this exact subject since at least Egypt's old kingdom, 3000BC.
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by lstodd 3mo ago
Good question would be: is it rational to act on known-to-be-incomplete data? Is it rational to rely on assumptions? What readily follows is the question: is it even possible to be rational, or is it a delusion?
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by lstodd 3mo ago
AC systems don't quite care about direct sunlight, they are forced air heat exchangers. Now if the condenser (rooftop) side is undersized and therefore inadequate given elevated ambient air temperature all you can do is shut down a por
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)(gutenberg.org)
196 points by lstodd 3mo ago|65 comments
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by lstodd 3mo ago
longjmp, setjmp, setcontext, getcontext, makecontext, and swapcontext and whatever have no bearing on safety, memory or otherwise. What you have to deal with is what is represented by sigaction(2) and only and much later then by what you u
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by lstodd 3mo ago
OMG yes, Daria. I so m glad I just got those 90s originals
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by lstodd 3mo ago
That attitude is how you start building up more and more tech debt until you trap yourself into extinction. If I thought that Musk's effort could benefit from an infusion of cash I would have organized it. As it happens he's limit
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by lstodd 3mo ago
yea, as sibling said. p9 was not possible on pdp11. what was possible there was .. v7 and 2bsd. see https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix p9 was done when "current state of unix" was already fixed
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by lstodd 3mo ago
No, it is not real as in threatening anything in particular. Some old crap got shot up. Who cares, we can launch 10x or 100x.
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by lstodd 3mo ago
365 beers even if 0.33l.. one would die of acute electrolytic disbalance while being quite drunk, about same as if one would neither drink nor eat anything but water. edit: IIRC it takes about 10 liters of water to commit suicide. Depends o
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by lstodd 3mo ago
It was contained and therefore not worth mentioning. Someone got blown up by the tyre he was pumping up, no sweat. What's missing is the Mayak accident / Kyshtym disaster, 1957. It also did not result in any world-ending stuff. Pe
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by lstodd 3mo ago
Risk is theoretical, that is; a) never demostrated, b) most probably overblown c) any methods of mitigation were never even given a chance to develop. All in all you people take the precautionary principle so far as to cripple your own prog
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by lstodd 3mo ago
This. Once you're into not-currently-selling stuff, as in some original cuts for example, piracy is the only way possible and is in every way better on top of that. It works. And it does not preclude you from paying original creators.
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by lstodd 3mo ago
Why even bother with all those hoops. Just download.
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by lstodd 3mo ago
I would pay zero. I would just use torrents.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
As if they did not back then. Fiat is just simpler to work with, but one can pull a bubble without it just fine. Anyone forgot the railroad crash of 1873? The tulip mania of 17th century?
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by lstodd 4mo ago
if someone shows that kind of dedication to engineering, and make no mistake, this is engineering, I would certainly hire them at least as an apprentice. one can settle into a doctor or lawyer career some time later. one can't learn to
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Please don't twist. alloca is in fact a limited arena/pool allocator and as such for some small sizes it is latency-free. It is also there in C. It does not have anything to do with GCs. You insist that offloading other allocation
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Process makes the product, not percentage. You can for example attempt to make icecream from say typical 30% and end up with uneatable slop only because you didn't start with whole milk out of the cow. Turkish I would not consider an i
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Best ingredients possible make the product remarcable. For icecream you make it from cream, not milk, not some substitute, just the real milk cream. Not the processed crap that's sold along the same crap milk. The real thing, made fro
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Icecream was solved in 1950s in USSR.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Considering that where I saw it they were doing that unsupervised since at least ~200BC (this being the Illyricum and then Dalmatia), I don't think they have any problems climbing down now.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Any large cargo aircraft has primary loading inline with centerline, side doors just aren't efficient. It's either via front, via rear or both. Me321/323 was I think first heavy cargo with nose clamshell doors, but after that
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by lstodd 4mo ago
It takes a stupid cow, but when they can climb mountains as they do it is not inconcievable that one can roll down. (I was suprised to see a cow jumping up on a ~3m rock ledge like it was nothing)
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by lstodd 4mo ago
RTG degrade no matter what you do with the resulting heat. It doesn't matter if you compress stuff or just let them cpus idle be.

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