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by makr17 3y ago
If I had to make a guess, the US military is dipping into ammunition reserves because they hope/expect to stop using 5.56mm and 7.62mm rounds with the rollout of the XM-7 and the XM-250 (which both fire 6.8mm) https://en.wik
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by makr17 3y ago
"Due to the changes in PEP 701, producing tokens via the tokenize module is up to 64% faster."
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by makr17 3y ago
Definitely agree. In my mid-20s I was at a startup. Without any exaggeration, every job I've had since then links directly back to that first company. Somebody I worked with then has a problem now that needs solving, and remembers h
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by makr17 3y ago
Manson?
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by makr17 3y ago
My gmail address is lastname@gmail.com. Not a particularly common last name, and I thought it lucky when I got that address early on. I've since come to view it as mostly a curse. I get email invoice every time Orkin goes out to spra
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by makr17 4y ago
Freshman year of undergraduate math required How to Solve it -- Polya The Art of Problem Posing -- Brown and Walter I'm not sure it made me any _better_ at math, but I did always enjoy How to Lie With Statistics -- Huff
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by makr17 4y ago
For the formal underpinnings of the infinitesimal approach, the phrase to look for is "Nonstandard Analysis": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_analysis Fun stuff.
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by makr17 4y ago
Not OP, but in my jurisdiction the smart power meters broadcast consumption as SCM at 900MHz. rtlamr https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr does a good job of receiving and decoding those broadcasts using a cheap SDR. My
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by makr17 4y ago
IIRC, it won't run them all at the _same time_, it will run them in parallel, which ends up being limited by the value of `max_parallel_workers` in your config. So if you find that parallel operations are swamping your DB, maybe tryin
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by makr17 4y ago
Reminds me of the Stainless Steel Rat, where he is intentionally caught and sent to prison, hoping to further his criminal education. Only to find out he is now incarcerated with all the criminals that weren't smart enough to evade ca
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by makr17 4y ago
I used to know a HS Maths teacher whose approach to testing was similarly brutal. Essentially, in his view, if a student is able to answer every question on an exam correctly, then we haven't fully assessed the depths of their underst
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by makr17 4y ago
In the 90s I was at a little internet startup, and the product guys _insisted_ that a verification loop for registered emails would be catastrophic and lead to a massive dive in registrations. Engineering pushed back, it went all the way t
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by makr17 4y ago
freepbx unifi controller home assistant mythtv mailcow ntp/chrony with a gps antenna
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by makr17 5y ago
Definitely possible on Linux. In the not distant past I had a large on-prem PostgreSQL DB that had a hot standby that we used for backups. Since ZFS snapshots are atomic you can just snapshot the dataset under the DB without worrying abou
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by makr17 5y ago
From my desk in a residential but dense area I can see 60-70 meters at any given time with a usb sdr. Water meters in our area do the same, but since it is near the street and below-grade I can only see a few of those. After having looked a
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by makr17 5y ago
And even then, it really depends on what you're trying to do. My use case a few years ago was such that _every_ dedicated graph engine I tried would just OOM on the test set of ~10M nodes, which I attributed to insufficient pruning. P
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by makr17 5y ago
Maybe it's changed over time since this was posted, but right now the top result for "tank man" on DDG is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man and though the image searches do show a bunch of other thi
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by makr17 6y ago
Yep, I live with this too... I thought it luck that I got <my_last_name>@gmail.com early on, turns out it was a curse. It's not a _common_ last name, but people with the last name seem to assume it is theirs, or maybe people mi
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by makr17 6y ago
When a site requires a response to these questions, I typically provide a purely-fictional response. e.g. (not real examples) My childhood best friend: Ender Wiggen City I was born in: Moscow, ID etc... and then log the specific lie in my
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by makr17 7y ago
You should write your code with consideration for the next person tasked with maintaining it. If for some reason you can't manage that (?!?), I suggest coding with consideration for _yourself_, six months from now, still slightly drun
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by makr17 7y ago
Yeah, but so does every US-based consulting outfit I've ever seen... IBM, Oracle, Accenture. The knowledgable Senior Dev answering your questions during the bid goes away _quickly_ once you sign. They're off to convince the nex
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by makr17 7y ago
"You loved us so much you broke us."
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by makr17 7y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
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by makr17 7y ago
My High School debate coach loved to sit in the back of the room during practice with his hand in the air counting the number of "Uhmms". Disconcerting at first, but then you start actively trying to keep the count from increasin
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by makr17 8y ago
A related related maxim: "Someone who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person."
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by makr17 8y ago
Wholeheartedly agree, asking the right question helps in getting closer to the right answer. In my undergraduate Mathematics curriculum, "The Art of Problem Posing" (Brown and Walter) was required reading alongside "How to S
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by makr17 8y ago
Well, yes. But California _also_ has the highest population of the states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... Might be more fruitful to look at a per-capita metric?
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by makr17 8y ago
I've been using flowroute for years now.
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by makr17 8y ago
Anyone else remember far enough back to when OCI referred to the Oracle Call Interface (C library)?
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by makr17 8y ago
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