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by milesvp 7y ago
My guess is if he’s using usenet, then he’s not bothering with VPN. Torrenting means you’re exposing your IP to anyone subscribed to that torrent. Usenet only exposes your IP to your provider, same way your IP is exposed to your VPN provide
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by milesvp 7y ago
Yeah, no joke. Kids shouting in your ear can cause permanent damage. I have a friend whose kid did that to them, and they now have problems hearing with that ear.
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by milesvp 7y ago
I believe I saw a reference recently saying it only took 40million years before cellulose became widespread biodegradable. I can't find a source for that number, though it looks like it might have been an MS mycology student circa 2014
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by milesvp 7y ago
I agree that “who wrote this” is dangerous, and git blame is a terribad name. I will say though, if you can avoid value judgements, then knowing who wrote a block of code is super valuable in a legacy code base. I’ve found that every dev I’
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by milesvp 7y ago
Yeah, seriously, having been in the nightmare that is trying to rollback on systems not designed for it, it is my number one (background) priority to get systems to a place where rolling forward isn't the only answer for trying to roll
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by milesvp 7y ago
Food is a good place to start. I was once very frugal, doing things like adding a can of corn to a can of soup to lower it’s cost basis (later cooking the soup myself to get even lower cost basis). Good food doesn’t have to be expensive, bu
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by milesvp 7y ago
Nearly every post so far is rah-rah pep, and while I agree with most of the sentiment I’m going to offer some different advice. Before 30 I hustled a lot to make enough to have roomates and live a fairly frugal life. I had family obligation
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by milesvp 7y ago
I'm not sure I agree that GI makes things complicated. I suspect it's sort of essential to proper hunger management. Blood sugar deltas seem to be a pretty major predictor for how strong the urge we have to snack is. That while we
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by milesvp 8y ago
Lucky you. I have toddler twins, and one has learned to ignore all commands. what’s tricky was at some point he thought his name meant ‘other’ while he thought his name was his brother’s, or at least that his brother’s name meant ‘me’. Wors
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by milesvp 8y ago
Lol! The engine placement on the Maxx so fundamentally alters the physics of the plane, that it’s a totally different beast. Even if it flew the same in common flight scenarios (aka passed all it’s unit and integration tests) it will perfor
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by milesvp 8y ago
I’m not sure I agree with you on this. I once read that pure maths tends to preceed applied maths by about 50 years. I don’t know how true it is, but if the practitioners aren’t constantly chasing some ideal version of reality, I’m not sure
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by milesvp 8y ago
Sending out money from china can be a real pain. The government requires a contract be on file. I’m dealing with this right now on the receiving end as US citizen. Apparently there are certain cases like paying US engineers which get rubber
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by milesvp 8y ago
Varies by state. State of Washington has laws protecting garbage. There is an expectation of privacy even once the trash is picked up, and can’t be searched without a warrant. Interestingly there are city laws regarding what you can throw a
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by milesvp 8y ago
FYI, the title is wrong, or at best misleading. Politicians are elected to be politicians. They outsource everything else. Fun story, my wife almost took a job in our state capital to help edit laws. The team was employed by the state and w
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by milesvp 8y ago
Never mind that the units would probably 20tb/s, it wouldn’t be impossible. We saturated our gig ethernet with 8 image upload workers from a flask app. We could have saturated a 20tb line (if such a thing existed) with 160000 workers.
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by milesvp 8y ago
Keep in mind a simple if statement in code is AI. AI has always been a (shitty) marketing term, and sales and marketing has been trying to use it to sell products for the last 50 years. You’d need to elaborate a lot more on the specific c
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by milesvp 8y ago
I notice you didn’t link to studies regarding bioperterbation. If you look into that topic, you’ll find evidence that topsoil is created far faster than we thought even 40 years ago. I suspect the bigger problem isn’t the rate we deplete to
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by milesvp 8y ago
No one’s mentioned the obvious here. We have computers so we don’t have to remember basic things. It’s far more useful to know a thing exists and what words will help you search for it. Being able to build things through first principles wi
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by milesvp 8y ago
Just means it’s realistically priced. Typical bill of materials for consumer electronics is 1/9 to 1/12 the msrp. This allows for ~3x markup for manufacturer and ~3x markup for store front. Not sure why 3x is such a magic number,
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by milesvp 8y ago
I was one of those students who didn’t care about the grade except as a proxy for learning. I never understood why other students would try to argue with profs about test grades, when it was clear they list points because they misunderstood
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by milesvp 8y ago
This is a big one. I sat in on a number of 400 level CS courses after I graduated, and a big factor was just having a scheduled place to be, and homework assignment due dates that forced the correct pace for learning. The pace also made it
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by milesvp 8y ago
It might depend on the problem space. I dunno. But I suspect it depends a lot on the type system and type inferencer of the language you use. It is easier to write a true statement than it is to prove the statement is true, and getting a co
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by milesvp 8y ago
I’ve never bought this argument about r&d for drug companies, and I have even less faith in the argument after learning recently that much of this r&d is used to modify an existing drug, not to make it better, but to essentially ear
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by milesvp 8y ago
Yes actually. The courts aren’t there to set law, that is for the legislature. Also by limiting their ruling to the narrowest ruling they can, they keep decisions as local as possible. Courts handle exceptional circumstances, and it’s impor
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by milesvp 8y ago
I've only recently become aware of risc-v, but it was in the context of FPGAs. I've been following FPGAs for years, and recently the open tooling is good enough for cheap FPGAs that I'm seeing a lot of projects starting to us
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by milesvp 8y ago
I’m not sure it’s a complete aside. What you’re describing is the general recipe that business school warns against for entrenched industries. That is to say, if you give up low margin products, you give an inroad for competitors to gain co
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by milesvp 8y ago
Single piece of anecdata for you. I know the owner of a construction company. I asked him about the 3 unions he has in his company, and his answer was that he really liked the significantly better tradesmen that the union makes available t
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by milesvp 8y ago
Netflix is a great example of how to create robust systems. Keep in mind though, they have a very different risk profile than a large bank. no one is going to lose their life’s savings if netflix entire infrastructure crumbles. This might h
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by milesvp 8y ago
Assuming you're not trolling (your first sentence gave me pause at first). I want this to be a surprising observation, because I consider following up on things to be sort of second nature, but I've noticed how bad people are in g
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by milesvp 8y ago
I think there's more to Hamming's advice than just parroting back what the consensus is in a given field though. Hamming did something that most people just don't do. He intentionally cross pollinated by having lunch with peo

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