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by manv1 4y ago
People will believe whatever they want to believe. They only found 5 deaths that had no other real issue besides the vaccine. At that level more people died from shower accidents than vacccine-induced myocarditis (assuming that there was a
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by manv1 4y ago
Really, the big win is going to be "efficient air conditioning for poor countries" and "using materials other than concrete to build." Everyone loves AC. The more money you have the more you use it. And everyone in poor
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by manv1 4y ago
I never did get an E450 as a side table. Those things looked really great.
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by manv1 4y ago
"Unix is a lifestyle. A unix workstation was just an expression of that lifestyle."
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by manv1 4y ago
Yeah,it's going to be tough. However, the one good thing about Z-Wave (even relative to zigbee) is interoperability - devices pretty much work for the most part, even with generic drivers. At some point there'll be a matter/t
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by manv1 4y ago
TL; DR: Don't! This reminds me of a line from Tom Lehrer: "if you can't communicate, the least you can do is shut up."
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by manv1 4y ago
People (and technical people) like to believe that one data point isn't important, that it's an anecdote and doesn't matter. But as a lawyer once said, "I convict with anecdotes." In any case the reports are interes
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by manv1 4y ago
As an example, police departments in the US are decentralized, in that there's no overarching police authority in the US; there are local police departments, various state-level police departments, and various federal departments. The
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by manv1 4y ago
I've configured Cisco routers, F5s, LOMs, PDCs, NAS boxes, built servers from parts. And I'd never do it again. That shit has literally no value, and it's quite difficult to configure, manage, and maintain. And no matter how
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by manv1 4y ago
If you think atlassian tools have no value you haven't been in software development for long. They might suck, but they suck substantially less than anything else.
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by manv1 4y ago
The left doesn't want to differentiate between the categories of homeless people because it doesn't fit the narrative. Writers would like us to believe that the vast majority of homeless are people down on their luck, who are work
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by manv1 4y ago
My response: the C128 ran CP/M? Really?
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by manv1 4y ago
The problem is always people. Even if everyone buys into a process the process is only as good as the people in it. A process doesn't guarantee results - it guarantees consistency. Sometimes that means you get consistently bad results.
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by manv1 4y ago
"You can't delegate understanding." - Charles Eames Abstraction means you don't have to think about details. Unfortunately, details matter in software. As a simple example, how many projects use Hibernate, then run into
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by manv1 4y ago
A non-toxic pesticide would be pretty pointless.
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by manv1 4y ago
Really, their app is a mess, but from a delivery point of view their stuff is pretty good. Just yesterday I was going to redeem a deal and the store was closed to walk-ins, so I had to use the drive thru. I couldn't use the deal anymor
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by manv1 4y ago
Realistically speaking, this is bullshit. Billing has all the data that's required for implementation. The fact that most health systems don't want to publish that data is a reflection of the nature negotiated rates and not a tech
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by manv1 4y ago
A discussion of healthcare pricing would take hours, but here's a TL;DR: Most insurers pay negotiated rates, which have no real relationship to list price (uninsured pricing). The law is supposed to (1) make it easier to compare costs,
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by manv1 4y ago
This is going to be another new way for people to generate content for TikTok. Great idea, actually. How does the mic situation work? Will you need a USB mic? Can you use a BT headset?
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by manv1 4y ago
There was a theory back in the early days that smoking provided nitric oxide, which had beneficial effects re: covid. The Vitamin D comment here also tied nitric oxide to vitamin d and uva/uvb. Maybe it really is all about NO.
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by manv1 4y ago
There seem to be at least three universal laws of bureaucracy: 1. it's easier to hire people than to fire people 2. more budget is better than less budget 3. performance is, for the most part, irrelevant as long as the process is follo
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by manv1 4y ago
Really, the risk here is that the install is going to do something unfortunate, like delete everything in your filesystem because you have a space in your home directory name or cause problems because your .profile didn't end with a CR
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by manv1 4y ago
It's not a problem with camera manufacturers, it's a problem with hardware companies. Even chip vendors, who you would would think understand the importance of software, will de-prioritize their software side. I wonder if it'
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by manv1 4y ago
One problem with EV charging is behavior. People want to top up their batteries, just like they top up their gas tanks. That means taking up infrastructure space. If 5 minutes gets you 50 miles, get the 5 minutes and go. It's like putt
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by manv1 4y ago
Apparently it's true. I wonder when this was implemented? Canonicalize separators "All forward slashes (/) are converted into the standard Windows separator, the back slash (\). If they are present, a series of slashes that f
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by manv1 4y ago
fopen will/should fail on windows with the unix path syntax. The reason it's indeterminate is because some stdc lib vendors will do path translation on Windows, some won't. I believe cygwin does (because it's by definiti
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by manv1 4y ago
The reason you use specific sizes for types (int8, int16, uint16, etc) is so you know how to read/write them when you move your data between platforms. x86 is little endian. ARM apparently can be configured to be either. In real code t
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by manv1 4y ago
Multi-region in AWS means building it yourself. I suspect that the skills for real HA are atrophying because for 99% of the people multi-AZ is enough and most of the AWS stuff supports multi-az automagically. The problem with multi-region i
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by manv1 4y ago
Pussy changes everything?
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by manv1 4y ago
A startup is about managing risks and spending your time/money appropriately. Your cloud provider running out of capacity isn't an obvious risk especially if it's just capacity for general compute. For some clouds that seem t

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