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by milesvp 6y ago
Oh, wow, I vaguely remember running across eDonkey at one point. I don't think I ever realized it could handle that kind of load. I was in a position to mostly stick with Apache for various non technical reason basically for long enoug
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by milesvp 6y ago
My understanding with debt collectors, is that they usually purchase a spreadsheet with very limited data, and there is almost never a paper trail for said debt. Which also means debt has a habit of showing up on multiple spreadsheets that
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by milesvp 6y ago
Even in 2007 when I was starting to cut my teeth on larger web traffic there was a lot of discussion around serving 10k concurrent connections. I remember being blown away by a graph showing high throughput at 70k concurrent by a YAWS serve
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, you’re sort of describing engineering in a nutshell. It’s all about tradeoffs, and there’s so much min-maxing going on. Then eventually you discover some property or design where the tradeoffs aren’t as bad while still mostly maxing t
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by milesvp 7y ago
An anecdote about allergies. I take zyrtec (generic) for mild hayfever. Have been for almost a decade. So, I sort of figured I had allergies covered. I’d get cold/flu symptoms twice a year at roughly the same time each year, and just f
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by milesvp 7y ago
Then you might have a problem since you don't have the rights to transfer that license to twitter, and I can't imagine the infectious nature of GPL would apply in this context. I suspect given the format of twitter, it would likel
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by milesvp 7y ago
Not an expert, but you can see issues with a single supply chain by looking at some commodity prices. Pork belly futures are way up, while the prices for whole pigs is tanking. This is due to meat packing plants closing. It’s an elbow to el
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by milesvp 7y ago
Don’t let anyone chastise you for this. Most desk locks are easy to pick. Also, there are like 3 keys to have on your keychain to open like 80% of all manufactured locks like the ones in furniture. Deviant Ulam, a pen tester, gives a lot of
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by milesvp 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it required diff eq to solve these parabolic equations. I merely meant to give an anecdote about one of the first times I felt truly betrayed by mathematics. A subject I'd previously held in the highe
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by milesvp 7y ago
Fun story. I was in college taking differential equations. And I was faithfully attempting to apply what I'd learned in class, and having a somewhat hard time at it (this was before I realized how useful matlab was). When I was doing s
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by milesvp 7y ago
I laughed out loud when he said this. I take for granted how much gambling knowledge I have (especially since I generally think gambling is stupid), but I thought everyone knew about Monte Carlo. I'm going to have to look up Las Vegas
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by milesvp 7y ago
This one can be quite complicated, but I wonder how much of it is actually related to the quote that goes something like “science progresses one death at a time”. Which is talking about a bigger problem in science, which is that tenured sci
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by milesvp 7y ago
Interesting you used Wozniak as the model. I get the impression from everything I’ve read about him is that he is very forgiving of people less knowledgable/experienced than himself. I take your comment to be even more poignant in that
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by milesvp 7y ago
I have a friend who needs to ship out of Hong Kong. I can tell you that he’s greatly effected by the lack of passenger flights. Much of his shipping went through a shipping aggregator, but ultimately, most of his shipping ended up as being
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by milesvp 7y ago
As mentioned above, in another comment, a big tradeoff is potentially maintenance and operations work. It may not be a hard thing to maintain, but it's another dependency that's not core to Postgres. I've done a lot of ops wo
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by milesvp 7y ago
You might check out https://seattleflu.org/ I don’t know if they’re the only ones doing random testing, but my understanding is that they were able to put pressure on the CDC when no one in the US was legally allowed to tes
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by milesvp 7y ago
You have to convey which algorithm, which takes bits. And at the very least you need a pointer to a file, which also takes bits. You’d do well to look for archives of alt.comp.compression. There was also a classic thread that surfaced recen
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by milesvp 7y ago
Funny this. Back when I had more time on my hands I liked to do project euler problems. I'd start with the dumbest brute force method to find the answer, and let that run. Then I'd see if I could figure out the math and implement
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by milesvp 7y ago
There’s a lot of comments on this thread, and I apologize if I’m saying anything that’s been said multiple times already. I would say that HN is the healthiest comment driven site I’ve been part of in the 27 years I’ve been on the internet.
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by milesvp 7y ago
Interesting about the advice not to have "weekly" in your newsletter, due to the implied deadline. I'm curious how this plays into other advice I've read from content creators, that delivery consistency is key. And that
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by milesvp 7y ago
He did, and the poker on the show was generally abysmal. But partly for the ‘I’ll see you... and raise you’ prevalence in drama is that it creates a more dramatic situation. The dramatic effect is the very thing that can be taken advantage
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by milesvp 7y ago
Sure, except that the article was talking about changing your OODA loop to somehow disorient an opponent. And while that might be useful the same can be achieved by having so many more OODA loops than your opponent that you can simply choos
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by milesvp 7y ago
I have to leave my two cents on this topic. I spent a good amount of time writing situated agents in persistent worlds (aka bots for things like everquest). My experience was that the tighter the feedback loop the less the bots would get st
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by milesvp 7y ago
You may be missing one of the more fundamental reason to rebalance your portfolio at predetermined points in time to a predetermined balance. That it takes emotion out of the equation. By rebalancing, say, every time you put money into your
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by milesvp 7y ago
FYI, redaction from pdf can be similarly difficult. I once was tangentially involved with a pdf redaction piece of software, and due to many different issues with pdf, the solution ended up being to create images of the input pdf draw over
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by milesvp 7y ago
I honestly thought they were worth more than that as well. I've been surprised by the ability to lease a static IP from my ISP for $5/mo for years. I just assumed that they had a surplus, and that was simply the current market cle
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by milesvp 7y ago
I saw a youtube video recently about the extensive use of cell phones to play old school runescape. Like it’s everywhere in every prison in the last couple of years. People not only play it but also use it’s currency for real world trading.
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by milesvp 7y ago
My understanding is that it’s based on a law from several decades ago, when it was difficult to get your hands on a sequencer, that was meant to help empower the CDC once some kind of pandemic was declared in order to get tests out faster.
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by milesvp 7y ago
Yeah, it was all 1x1 and 1x2 that split along the 1x wall. It’s the point with the most strain. I have older lego that split similarly, but those had at least ten times the play time, and a much lower percentage. I do hope they’ve sorted ou
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by milesvp 7y ago
Yeah, most likely they all came from the same factory. Was from a reputable brick n mortor. Probably from the same shipment. There’s a chance they’ve sorted out the issues since. But it’ll take a long time for me to feel confident in their

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