milesvp

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by milesvp 9y ago
Because physics is full of magic! Sadly I don't have enough physics background to google this phenomenon in a way that provides good results results, so I can't find other sources, but the way I understand it is there is a small b
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by milesvp 9y ago
Not exactly. Economics is all about trading. Trading is all about wants, desires, and needs. If I make something that everyone wants, it is not useless junk, useless junk is something nobody wants. So it's actually very important to ha
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by milesvp 9y ago
Sadly there's some truth to this. I'd really hoped that once I was adult it'd be easier to distance myself from people who reward effort for effort's sake. On a related note, it's also really hard to distance yourse
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by milesvp 9y ago
I think you named the ones I used a few years ago. cx_freeze and py2exe both had issues. I was using 2.7 at the time, and I managed to get something deployable that didn't require installing system libs, but wasn't a single file e
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by milesvp 9y ago
This was definitely the wisdom I've heard historically. I suspect the number may be slightly higher than it was 40 years ago due to digital communication, but a lot of what I hear is that it's just really hard to deal with all the
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by milesvp 9y ago
I may not know enough specifics to be useful, but we ran into issues where the solution was to sort of have servers spin up and bootstrap themselves until they could finally locate and cede control to the chef server. It may have had someth
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by milesvp 9y ago
Organic food is already becoming cheaper due to it being available even at low end grocery stores. Whole Food's margins have been falling for years due to this fact. What I find interesting is that Amazon intentionally keeps their oper
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by milesvp 9y ago
Be weary of Chef if you plan on any kind of autoscaling. We had to deploy some pretty big hacks to get around some core assumptions in chef in order to use AWS autoscaling. On the other had we did make autoscaling work with chef. Not sure h
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by milesvp 9y ago
God yes, I need partitions high enough not to be able to see people's faces, otherwise I'd be so distracted I may as well stay home.
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by milesvp 9y ago
If you're interested in 'real world' emperical and experimental data on under utilized resources due to low rents the economist for eve online has some pretty convincing data based on actual game changes they made. Basically
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by milesvp 9y ago
I've sort of had this same experience myself. The quality of links for obscure topics is nowhere near as good as it used to be. It's harder and harder to find the topics I know exist, sometimes they're buried under lots of ir
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by milesvp 9y ago
You're not quite making the right analogous scenario. It's more like if a neighbor you know who has some strong vocal opinions agaist the current regime suddenly gets arrested on some charges like conspiracy to incite revolt. I wo
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by milesvp 9y ago
Interesting. That might work assuming workers get an appropriate amount of rest. I know it works well for nursing staff to have longer shifts. There's definitely a cost to handing off tasks, though I expect this to be near zero in a fa
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by milesvp 9y ago
Actually PI day should be 6/28. It makes a lot of important formulas simpler... makes me sad we still teach PI, when TAU is mostly superior :P
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by milesvp 9y ago
God I hope so. Ford figured this shit out over 100 years ago... 3 shifts maximized factory output. Also having 5 day vs 6 day work weeks didn't significantly reduce factory output, but helped significantly reduce turnover. I swear, it&
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by milesvp 9y ago
Economics changed. Right now the most affordable housing is furthest from job centers. Last time I compared apt prices where I live pricing was such that living within walking distance of downtown was priced such that pricing for similar ap
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by milesvp 9y ago
Sure, you can lose your job because you can't get to your job, or you can??? I'm sorry what alternative are you offering? We live in a society where driving is most necessary for those who can least afford it. I think you may gros
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by milesvp 9y ago
That is the absolute wrong takeaway here. It's about being overly harshly punished for mistakes in their youths. I've heard very similar stories from public defenders that have nothing to do with drugs, but with common punishment
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by milesvp 9y ago
All companies are tech companies in this day and age, it's a meaningless classifier. But not all companies recieve most of thier money from advertising and selling personal information, which makes ad company relevant classifier. Googl
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by milesvp 9y ago
Porting is always a pain in the ass, it's one of those things where you're much better off compiling to all the platforms that you think you care about as you go, and make sure it's part of your continuous integration process
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by milesvp 9y ago
You should check out the planet money podcast on this topic. Turns out a big part of (consumer?) solar getting cheaper was the invention of a new tool, some kind of wrench I believe. http://www.npr.org/sections/money&#x
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by milesvp 9y ago
As with all security it's a matter of layers, with each layer making it more difficult, but perhaps not impossible to bypass. A simple deadman's switch might be to host some key piece of the software on a remote server that is har
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by milesvp 9y ago
I'd not thought to couch it in these terms, but yeah, committing to 4% operating margins is essentially committing to spend all their revenues. Not sure how much it keeps the money moving, but I'm sure it encourages investment and
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by milesvp 9y ago
If you don't know, then I can't tell you :P Seriously, the biggest problem with php is that fundamentally it's a templating language. One thing I've seen with templating libraries in general, is that they are meant to ta
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by milesvp 9y ago
My understanding is fourth is still alive and well in the embedded world. A fourth compiler can be written in very few instructions, which is very important when you don't have a lot of memory to work with. http://demin.ws&#
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by milesvp 9y ago
I don't think this is intentional. My experience with AWS is that they aim to constantly improve products and create hosted services that are cheaper than if you frankensteined the same thing yourself. They don't always succeed, b
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by milesvp 9y ago
This was basically my thought. After dealing with twice a gestationally diabetic wife, I can tell you that much of the hate on refined foods is very much founded in science. Glycemic indexes of food really was something we had to take into
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by milesvp 9y ago
Yeah, I cry for my young children. I have no idea how to prepare them for the hell that is the always connected life. I have no idea how to teach them, that most of it is noise, and that being purposely unavailable is essential for mental h
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by milesvp 9y ago
I think he's trying to imply that the stereotype exists for a reason, that deep thinking requires isolation from distraction. For a more concrete example, you can look to what Richard Hamming had to say about the topic. He noticed a si
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by milesvp 9y ago
Yeah, this joke sums up just about every arbitrage situation I think I've found. I think, naw, it must be an illusion, because the market is so efficient... Means I end up paralysed around starting new endeavours.

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