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by meritt 9y ago
Edit - Nevermind, I must have confused the personal experience of myself and multiple people in my professional network with a satirical television show.
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by meritt 9y ago
Wireshark and Fiddler are both exceptional tools that serve vastly different purposes focusing on different OSI layers. Fiddler is an HTTP(S) proxy and Wireshark is a packet sniffer. While you can probably achieve in Wireshark what Fiddler
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by meritt 9y ago
Do rails apps actually use 150MB per worker or was that just a lofty ceiling estimate? Or is that with an app server that doesn't utilize process forking, and loses the benefit of shared libraries/heap/etc?
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by meritt 9y ago
In terms of cache busting comment, that's purely a configuration thing. You'd just make your cache objects never expire and fully warm the cache yourself (again, via some sort of plugin). WP itself wouldn't exist to the clien
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by meritt 9y ago
Unless the desire is around building it yourself, why not just purchase a small ~20 ft Class-B or Class-C RV? They have all the amenities built-in (including a toilet, shower, and waste storage tanks). Brand new they can be expensive ($50k+
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by meritt 9y ago
Can someone help explain to me the appeal of static site generators? Functionally it's still a dynamically generated site, just that cache population/invalidation has turned into a user-controlled manual step. Is this because of p
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by meritt 9y ago
Correct. There's a decent lay summary here: https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/new-finding-nuke-blast-cr...
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by meritt 9y ago
HN is just as bad on language/technology wars though, and that doesn't get censored. Rampant vote manipulation on comments and story visibility in general leads to very pigeonholed ways of viewing things and leads to echo chambers
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by meritt 9y ago
Any sort of forum that enforces rampant censorship, mods personally scold users for looking into another users post history, and flags/deletes/bans any comments touching taboo topics (politics is the big one here) makes it very di
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by meritt 9y ago
There's a lot I could point to but the most meaningful one that is that people were overwhelmingly complacent based on the assumption that Trump couldn't possibly win. This comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by meritt 9y ago
> Can we save ourselves a really long, pointless political argument? Did you reach that conclusion based on personal experience? Because you were quite vocal and unfortunately prescient about it 395 days ago [1]. [1] https://n
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by meritt 9y ago
When you explicitly chose to broadcast that information to the public via LinkedIn who explicitly makes that information available to the general public and does not require you to log in (in contrast to say Facebook) > highly unet
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by meritt 9y ago
It's came up since the dawn of ecommerce. The problem is answering the following questions (and likely many more) in a way that makes everyone happy. * Do you impose tax in the state where the seller resides? * Do you impose tax in the
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by meritt 9y ago
Because people self-submitted their own information to LinkedIn with the desire for it to be publicly accessible.
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by meritt 9y ago
As the pricing appears to be based on # of requests and/or # of tweets consumed, does it have a `include_spambots=false` filter or do we have to pay for the pleasure of wading through spam?
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by meritt 9y ago
Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) Stormlight Archive; Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson) Belgariad and Malloreon (David Eddings) Discworld (Terry Pratchett) Sword of Shannara (Terry Brooks)
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by meritt 9y ago
I can never decide if it's "synthwave" or "new retro wave". Is there a difference?
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by meritt 9y ago
> it doesn't magically make additional space appear. Oh, that's an excellent point, I guess my experience with open offices still provide a reasonable amount of space for each person so you weren't crammed on top of eachot
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by meritt 9y ago
> Before, I continue, I would like to call out that I am part of the ‘problem’ with open offices. I’m extroverted... While I still prefer a private office, open offices don't bother me precisely because I'm an introvert. Headph
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by meritt 9y ago
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by meritt 9y ago
FWD15 gets 15% off, which basically negated the price of shipping for me.
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by meritt 9y ago
WebRTC
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by meritt 9y ago
The CPU is rarely the bottleneck and for both Redis/HAProxy the vertical scalability solution has been to launch multiple processes or forks with different core affinities. There are downsides of course (no IPC) but I still argue that
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by meritt 9y ago
Right, I knew it started to phase out (over 6 quarters) after the 200,000th US delivery. My question was more if this proposed legislation could terminate the EV credit entirely, or it would prevent new automakers from taking advantage of i
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by meritt 9y ago
Curious if this would impact the yet-to-be-produced Tesla Model 3s or if it would only discourage future automakers from manufacturing EVs?
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by meritt 9y ago
I worked at an ad network about a decade ago and we had a partner spending about $10k/day buying traffic that was directly from click/bot farms. They were fully aware of this fact and continued buying as much as possible. We could
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by meritt 9y ago
I can't speak for exact performance comparisons but server-push isn't designed for events like SSE or websockets. It's designed for the client to make a request and the server to efficiently responded with multiple payloads t
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by meritt 9y ago
Holy hell. You need to get off Heroku right away. This is insane.
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by meritt 9y ago
Can you provide a bit more details about the limits you're encountering? Connections? As in the sheer quantity? Or speed to connect? Are you hitting linux open files limits? I have a tough time understanding how Redis would be the bott
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by meritt 9y ago
I was recently in Orkney, which has the same issue regarding sheep and trees, and happened to catch the crime in progress: https://i.imgur.com/fEXWccm.gifv

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