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by mason55 7y ago
I still don't get how that answers the question. If I have enough RAM for both the "hardly ever used" pages and the "more frequently used" pages then what good is the swap doing me? The only way that makes sense is
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by mason55 7y ago
I was hoping this post was going to say something like turning on some small amount of swap will allow the OS to cache some things that normally it wouldn't cache at all, and so you get some improvement there. What's actually in
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by mason55 7y ago
My wife is from Long Island and when she drinks she starts pronouncing the final g if the next word starts with a vowel. She becomes from “Lon gisland” and is planning on “goin gout” later.
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by mason55 7y ago
It’s interesting that science-minded people seem to like it so much. I gave up pretty quickly as it seemed like he was just writing a narrative without much science to back it up.
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by mason55 7y ago
Right, if you’re a high touch enterprise SaaS that requires things like customer training, good luck with pure CD. Your customers are going to be very cranky if stuff is changing all the time. That’s not to say you can’t get many of the goo
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by mason55 7y ago
From what I’ve heard the first public betas of 11 and 12 were quite stable compared to this. Which is fine, betas are not supposed to be bug free. But people who had great experiences with the 11 & 12 public betas might be lulled into a
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by mason55 7y ago
Yeah I always feel like a jerk when people open tickets in the summer saying “Please do this at #:## EST” and I have to reply “thanks for providing a time but it’s currently EDT in NYC. Is that what you meant?”
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by mason55 7y ago
The key to being successful at something like this, whether it's internal LOB software or a B2B enterprise product, is to provide a way for users to handle any exceptions out of band. If you try to code for every process exception you
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by mason55 7y ago
Only in the sense that you couldn’t directly compute the locations at arbitrary points in time given current positions and velocities. The three body problem doesn’t stop you from running a simulation and getting the correct answer.
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by mason55 7y ago
Start off by writing down a clear goal of what you're trying to accomplish. This is pretty much the first thing I do when I write any document in fact. Then figure out what the requirements are that help you meet your goal and write t
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by mason55 7y ago
Huh? That’s still not a monopoly. Argue that they’re violating anti-consumers laws to have access to device you purchased, sure, but what you’re describing is in no way a monopoly.
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by mason55 7y ago
But none of those things are a monopoly. A GE oven that only cooks GE food isn’t a monopoly, it’s just a shitty oven. Plus, monopolies aren’t illegal, using them anti-competitively is. So the analogy would be GE buying or putting out of b
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by mason55 7y ago
It's a valid comment, but if you're in a position where you are worried about 0-days from random web browsing then you should be using the internet on a fully segregated machine. If Firefox or Chrome has an RCE + privilege escalat
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by mason55 7y ago
I actually like the idea of having consequences for allowing tailgating, assuming the company cares about it. Maybe not firing, at least right away, or if you get tricked/someone sneaks in behind you, but put some teeth in the policy
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by mason55 7y ago
Did the link take you to a site that auto-ran malware? Or did it take you to some kind of page that said "login to unsubscribe"? The latter is why password managers can be so valuable. I never type my passwords in so if my auto-
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by mason55 7y ago
Yup software will always break. The key is whether you can fix it quickly (fix meaning land commits AND get it in prod) and test for the issue in an automated way in the future.
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by mason55 7y ago
If you’re assuming x is non-negative I would want to know why. Is it a function of what x represents in the real world? Is it something that we agreed on but there’s no physical reason x can’t be negative? Did the dev just assume x can’t b
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by mason55 7y ago
As a counterpoint to that, in some cases technology is changing so rapidly that things which were best practices no longer are and vice versa. Things that we take for granted now, like CI/CD, were not even technically possible 20 year
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by mason55 7y ago
> requires commitment to a handful of golden rules or the entire thing comes crashing down What are the golden rules?
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by mason55 7y ago
Why didn't you just replace the battery?
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by mason55 7y ago
Second book, aptly called “The Dark Forest”
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by mason55 7y ago
Why? Why should public markets be the red line? If you’re not profitable yet then that means there’s lots of room for growth. If companies are going public when there’s still all that room for growth then it means the public gets to share
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by mason55 7y ago
Yeah the steering guides are not really AR but the rectangles that pop up on the thing you’re about to hit and turn colors based on how close your definitely are AR.
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by mason55 7y ago
Yeah, there's also general morale among the rank and file. Everyone's locked up for six months (except a few directors who are selling into the greenshoe). You can tell people to not even look at or think about the price for six
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by mason55 7y ago
Square does the same thing. If you control the flow of money to the merchant you’re in a great place for both risk assessment and ensuring that you get paid back.
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by mason55 7y ago
The whole problem is that the money didn’t go to Stanford. That’s where the “theft” occurred.
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by mason55 7y ago
Think of it like this. The school has X places reserved for people to pay their way in. In exchange for those places, the university and student body get a bunch of benefits for letting in someone who is not otherwise qualified. Think of t
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by mason55 8y ago
Yes, in my mind this is the key of a data lake. Take all your raw data and store it somewhere, then provide ways for people to access and query the raw data. This means ingestion is faster (no transformation) and you don't throw away
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by mason55 8y ago
Do we know, is this because of a change in society, such that it became difficult or less important to track these things? or is it because of a change in the people, for example people of Roman descent mixing with local tribes, like the F
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by mason55 8y ago
There’s a difference between Googling and comprehension. Google is a great substitute for remembering facts and details. It means there’s more room in my brain for concepts and things that can’t just be Googled for. Treat Google as an augme

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