lucketone

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by lucketone 9mo ago
Giving over the agency to corporations is no beneficial over all.
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by lucketone 9mo ago
Whats wrong with firewalls? Or, how the alternative world looks where network security is more pleasant?
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by lucketone 9mo ago
Random theory: - it is a practical test of price elasticity (if demand doesn’t drop much, then it means profit can be increased more)
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by lucketone 9mo ago
So in summary: - own the hardware, if you have constant load and have enough expertise (personally or a team) to use/maintain it at your required reliability level - rent the cloud, if your usage is opportunistic/ spike’y/rap
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by lucketone 9mo ago
Also true that they definitely calculated that only x% of customers will read the pricing page or the email. (X probably being below 10)
96.
by lucketone 9mo ago
sqrt((x2-x1)^2) == x2-x1 I think you meant sqrt(x^2+y^2)
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by lucketone 9mo ago
It was written in different times, different audiences. (When variable names t,p,lu were the norm) It was useful for me and many others, though I never took such (any?) advice literally (even if the author meant it) Based on other books, di
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by lucketone 9mo ago
It is irrelevant, if both are available as base package. I guess you want to point out that choices are subjective. That subjectivity is relevant within their classes (air—food-water, security-health-plumbing-heating, smartphone-car-vacatio
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by lucketone 9mo ago
“Directions are ambiguous, when somebody says turn right, I grab the wheel by the bottom and move the hand to the right” *Technically* it could be less ambiguous, but actually it is good enough. If memorising this is hard, not a big problem
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by lucketone 9mo ago
Alternatively, it signals that people are really lazy and/or “common education” (process for common knowledge) is lacking on this topic. (I bet it is described in the manual; but we will never know - I also have not read it)
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by lucketone 9mo ago
It should be renamed to currently accepted “international traditions and customs” (ITAC) Queue’s/line’s in shop are not formally enforced by some authority to my knowledge, but most participants adhere to such order. (I would call it t
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by lucketone 9mo ago
What you say is true, but idealists should not give up just because a murderer exists. While it will not control the murderer, it can and will influence it (violence going 10% down is better than 0%)
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by lucketone 10mo ago
Like a bootcamp training.
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by lucketone 10mo ago
I known for very long time that c (and co) inherited the syntax from algol. But only after long time I tried to check what Algol actually looked like. To my surprise, Algol does not look anything like C to me. I would be quite interested in
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by lucketone 10mo ago
> you don't need to fight over it, because it's a local display preference This has limits. Files produced with tab=2 and others with tab=8, might have quite different result regarding nesting. (pain is still on the menu)
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by lucketone 10mo ago
Optimisation usually sacrifices some flexibility and/or robustness. Valid if needed, but exists
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by lucketone 10mo ago
In short your stance is to sacrifice readability for performance. Legit in some cases. But for usual business software, code is for humans (compiler will make machine code intended for the machine)
108.
by lucketone 10mo ago
You implied that I am regular user, which I am not.
109.
by lucketone 10mo ago
Looked up: Luandanum is opium dissolved in alcohol (for next clueless reader)
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by lucketone 10mo ago
In my defence, word “ago” was on the other line, so I kind of skipped it.
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by lucketone 10mo ago
Unintentional.
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by lucketone 10mo ago
It feels too dismissive. While I do agree, that: - there is a chance of something other causing the instant relief AND matching the moment of cannabis use - health policy for population, should be made based on studies of population At the
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by lucketone 10mo ago
Example. Poisoning by methyl alcohol. Ethyl alcohol is ok’ish (the regular stuff), while methyl alcohol can make you blind or dead even in small amounts.
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by lucketone 10mo ago
> there must have been perceived downsides at the time. I also don’t know, but I seriously doubt there was cost benefit analysis. My two bets would be: - church/priests had power and they condemned most things, except for preying. -
115.
by lucketone 10mo ago
So during what period cats were missing? Duration is clear, start and end not clear
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by lucketone 10mo ago
That one seems unrelated with OS security model and root account. (One must squint really hard to see root and oop god object as same)
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by lucketone 10mo ago
If you use Kafka as a queue, then no difference. (Load balance a message between consumers) But you can also use Kafka as pub-sub system (duplicate messages to each subscribers) Messages are not deleted after consumption (configurable)
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by lucketone 10mo ago
> You don’t need genetics to ride a bike Depends on how you define genetics. Starfish cant ride it; There exist genetic conditions that would make it difficult or impossible to ride a bike (first google search: inherited retinal diseases
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by lucketone 10mo ago
You are free now.
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by lucketone 11mo ago
And lines of code is like the mass of an airplane.

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