macksd

37 ms·

361.
by macksd 5y ago
Everyone seems to be missing the part of the story where I actually got connections and introductions to others in the medical field and got an answer, and the part where an anesthesiologist actually gave me what turned out to be a pretty g
362.
by macksd 5y ago
Except here's the thing: I do know how GPU drivers work internally so assuming I don't when someone wants to know isn't helpful, and I did end up getting referred to a helpful answer by one of the medical friends who had a co
363.
by macksd 5y ago
I didn't take it to mean something that they didn't know answer. But as relative experts in the medical field, they considered it a good and valuable question. I was contrasting this with keyboard experts who berated me for asking
364.
by macksd 5y ago
In the end, I got my answer because somebody in the medical field made personal introductions until I got an actual expert working in the field. So clearly it's not such a moronic approach.
365.
by macksd 5y ago
True. Perhaps dissent is a poor choice of words here, because I was never against the vaccine - I would default to supporting a vaccine. More - I didn't get why everyone was so optimistic about them and asked to know more. Even that wa
366.
by macksd 5y ago
I just happen to know a lot of anesthesiologists and they went to all of med school - I didn't. They were easy to ask and know more than me. The first nurse, again, more medical education than me to begin with, was very interested in t
367.
by macksd 5y ago
Absolutely agree with everything Linus says here. But I'm almost equally concerned that there's an awful lot of people on the pro-science bandwagon who don't actually support science, but simply don't tolerate dissent or
368.
by macksd 5y ago
Everyone may suffer from some kind of mental illness or depression at some point in their lives. We should probably care deeply about the kinds of things that might push those people over the edge.
369.
by macksd 5y ago
Might be, indeed - but it's definitely not unusual or incredible for a large organization to have misaligned incentives, ignorant executives making some of them up, and then being reluctant to admit they weren't as good of an idea
370.
by macksd 5y ago
That's not even the only way it defeats the business goal: you're now intentionally paying people that you have no intention of getting a long-term return on, or that you know aren't worth what you're paying them. To say
371.
by macksd 5y ago
Yeah I would have loved to see HDFS get really scalable metadata management. I remember hearing about LinkedIn's intentions to really do some significant work there are the last community event I attended, but from their blog post this
372.
by macksd 5y ago
This is actually a topic I love to talk about because I spent a lot of my time on S3A and the cloud FileSystem implementations. Fast metadata queries were actually a huge deal for query planning, and of course with performance there were a
373.
by macksd 5y ago
Worked at Cloudera pre- and post-merger. I thought of on-premises CDH clusters (and similarly HDP clusters) as trying to be the majority of your data infrastructure, but open so that it can integrate with other stuff. It's not just abo
374.
by macksd 5y ago
To be fair, I do find it infuriating when the news is basically outraged that someone did something offensive in the media, and then keep displaying shots and samples of it so you know what they're talking about. I remember a talk show
375.
by macksd 5y ago
Rocky Linux seems to have made a bigger deal of getting and advertising sponsors than I remember from CentOS. CentOS had a subtle link to donate, but that was it. Right off the bat, Rocky Linux had a nicer looking landing page and BIG spons
376.
by macksd 5y ago
This really illustrates to me how important the artificially colored overlays are. As river names change, I assume the river I'm tracking is merging with a larger river. And yet even when I know it's coming, I'm really strugg
377.
by macksd 5y ago
There are multiple places where the divide forks and then joins back together, and even then there are other exceptions. If you live near it, I wouldn't visualize it as a single point, but as a general shift in overall trends.
378.
by macksd 5y ago
I disagree with this. Take the Apache Software Foundation, for instance. One of their mantras is "community over code". I love to keep unnecessary drama, ulterior motives and contention out of technical open-source projects, and t
379.
by macksd 5y ago
Well I don't even know what "de-opping ops" means, so I'll err on the side of believing commenters on Hacker News (and I know that sounds sarcastic but that really is the better source to tip the scales here, IMO). Espec
380.
by macksd 5y ago
The recent resignation letters indicate they have become aware of how much technical control the owner has and intends to exercise. Edit: that said, I was unaware of the statements from Lee that are linked to by an arstechnica article linke
381.
by macksd 5y ago
>> And before you assume that's bad, don't forget that evolution makes organisms that do that I'm not exactly a highly qualified expert on evolution, but I hear this step in lines of thinking a lot and it strikes me as
382.
by macksd 5y ago
Especially when using a country TLD, suffixes like .co.za are appended to the name of the actual ISP or email provider.
383.
by macksd 5y ago
I thought white pepper was more common in the British empire - it's what I grew up having on the table. I still keep a bottle around - I feel like it's sweeter and spicier.
384.
by macksd 5y ago
I'm a little confused by all this controversy. I'm no stranger to people trying to exert secret influence in open-source projects, and put themselves in positions of power to satisfy egos, etc. and I certainly don't like that
385.
by macksd 5y ago
Yeah I noticed several cases were there to do's drop dramatically. I wondered if that was because that was a module that had a lot of to-dos that was also low quality, and the subject of a complete rewrite or replacement at some point.
386.
by macksd 5y ago
I mean it feels almost cliche to post this at this point: https://xkcd.com/538/
387.
by macksd 5y ago
I will now be reading "AF" as "as fabulous".
388.
by macksd 5y ago
And this part I'm less confident in, but my understanding is the protein spike is unlikely to mutate because it's exactly what allows the virus to bind where it does. If that mutated and that mutation was still somehow successful,
389.
by macksd 5y ago
I had this exact question and asked around before finding out a friend's brother specializes in immunology. Apparently two separate exposures triggers a much longer lasting immune response, and because of the nature of the vaccine it&#
390.
by macksd 5y ago
Didn't one of the early statements from the investigation say that they knew that no one was in the driver's seat at the time of the accident? I don't know on what basis they would make that statement and of course it could b

More ›