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by mfer 6y ago
extraordinary is "Beyond what is ordinary or usual." This word brings about three thoughts... 1. What is beyond ordinary? Who sets the direction? If it's more technical work, more creating, or more money... who sets that as a
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by mfer 6y ago
There are many districts that expect kids, including early elementary, to sit and stare at screens a majority of the day (with breaks for things like lunch).
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by mfer 6y ago
Some things to think about... It's important to look at total diversity and changes within that total. They don't need to happen together. Noting differences between the US and other places like EU is useful. Might there be someth
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by mfer 6y ago
IANAL either. But, there is a difference between taking a straight dollar amount (a fact) and description written that includes the fact. If all Google did was display the dollar estimate that would be one thing. They go beyond that to incl
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by mfer 6y ago
Taking someone else's copy written content and presenting it as your own can be seen as content theft. Imagine if a book author did that to a chapter of a book. When the one doing it can essential present the case that they should be a
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by mfer 6y ago
To a consumer a 1.0.0 may be more stable. At a 1.0.0 you expect the authors to not change the API for what ever the API is for the thing. Your interactions with the software have an expected level of stability and authors don't need to
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by mfer 6y ago
If you refuse to tag a 1.0.0 and follow semver it means any change could be a breaking change. This has an impact on consumers of the software. As a consumer, I quite often value stability.
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by mfer 6y ago
Are you familiar with https://calver.org/
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by mfer 6y ago
> Who's date? The date the customer sees it or the date the developer wrote it? Hopefully you have a continuous deployment pipeline in place, in which the customer gets an evergreen version without thinking about it, in which case o
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by mfer 6y ago
For those who don’t know, the issue in the US with not knowing the hotel or car rental costs is typically taxes. Different places have different taxes and those are often not shared at the time one books. I’ve been using fixed price service
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by mfer 6y ago
Online only banks have fewer expenses (no branches or staff in them). This appears to translate into higher rates which is a selling point for them.
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by mfer 6y ago
I'm left with a lot of questions like... When someone is arrested there are certain legal requirements, like the miranda warning, that must be done. Are those all being followed? People need to be charged in the proper jurisdiction for
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by mfer 6y ago
> Confidential VMs leverage the Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) feature of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs Powered by AMD. I wonder who will leverage this next.
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by mfer 6y ago
> Today’s developers are expected to develop resilient and scalable distributed systems. The author start from within a silo. Many of today's developers don't have these expectations. Operators are non-trivial software. Some of
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by mfer 6y ago
What has he done that's good for society? For example, He's built his business to be bigger while reducing the number of small businesses. Is that better for society? Why?
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by mfer 6y ago
Bezos has about the net worth of the #2 and #3 richest people combined. The median wealth in North America is less than $500k per adult. North America is where it's highest. Bezos has over 400,000 times the net worth of the average Nor
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by mfer 6y ago
So, I'm not having issues with lag. It seems to work as I expect. I wonder what situations would cause people to have lag.
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by mfer 6y ago
I don't have it handy but DHH, when he went off on this on twitter yesterday, noted that in March Apple decided to be much more strict with enforcing this. Also, DHH is now using his megaphone on this issue.
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by mfer 6y ago
Zoom blogged about it... https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/11/improving-our-poli...
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by mfer 6y ago
I wonder how much a refrigerator costs to design and manufacture that just keeps things cold. That might help with margins.
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by mfer 6y ago
On their site they have a map of counties and risk level. Some counties I know of that currently have few cases are labeled as very high risk. They had cases in the past but the numbers have fallen. This makes me question the usefulness of
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by mfer 6y ago
There are more than one major flu strands in the wild now and depending on which we got first will tell us how we react to the other. Or, so I'm told. Here's a video on the flu from 1918 that killed many. It's a few years old
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by mfer 6y ago
Only in theory. A Reuleaux triangle would need to be connected to an axle which is connected to the thing being moved. If it's on vehicle or trailer you have one on each side. The axle needs to go up an down 3 times per circle revoluti
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by mfer 6y ago
You bring out some good issues. Three things come out to me... 1. What we post through most social media platforms is direct messages rather than private messages. It's a subtle semantic difference but an important one. The things we s
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by mfer 6y ago
You make a good point on the difference in censorship. One thing has to do with government. It isn't "the government" but rather then "United States government". The individuals involved in this process are in other
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by mfer 6y ago
This shows a double sided approach to the services like Twitter and Reddit. The social media companies argue they are not common spaces where free speech is required. This way they can moderate as they choose. It serves them. But, they also
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by mfer 6y ago
How are you deploying the workloads into the cluster? Manual kubectl or Helm, GitOps with something like Flux, something else?
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by mfer 6y ago
Out of curiosity, are you using terraform to deploy k8s, your app stack on k8s, or both?
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by mfer 6y ago
This gets a bit into monopolies. YouTube is Google and Google prioritizes its own properties. Google is the most widely used search engine and works hard to keep it that way. Is there a way to easily have popular interviews online outside o
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by mfer 6y ago
Notifying users of the code of a semantic change does not mean it's not a semantic change. Even if the Go team can find a way to notify all of the public drivers impacted, they aren't going to be able to know about the private dri

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