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by mirceal 7y ago
i like the idea of artificially enhanced humans (including implanted hardware) but I don’t really want to be the guinea pig for this kind if thing.
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by mirceal 7y ago
from the book: "With that in mind, I hope the length of the entire PDF is not intimidating." PDF is 900 pages...
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by mirceal 7y ago
this is cool, but I have to wonder how much of this is ZFS and how much is the hardware. don’t get me wrong: it’s impressive, but to make the claims about ZFS you need to have a scientific approach that would involve a control group, variou
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by mirceal 7y ago
android is great /s https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/googl...
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by mirceal 7y ago
breaking news: you are probably running an outdated (ie insecure) version of android
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by mirceal 7y ago
security updates? nah upgrading to new releases? nah consistent look and feel? not on my watch! it just works? madness...
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by mirceal 7y ago
look at Nest and how hard people that invested in the ecosystem were hit.
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by mirceal 7y ago
you need to put things in perspective. I could argue that the above are not successful and I would also like to see how many acquisitions total were made and what percentage actually end up not straight-up dying.
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by mirceal 7y ago
android is both a success and a failure. i used to be a huge android fannoi before switching to iphone. even for a highly technical person, maintaining an android phone is too much.
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by mirceal 7y ago
i think these are fair game and in the long term are going to be an issue for google. once their core business stops working and/or gets serious competition they’re going to be in trouble.
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by mirceal 7y ago
ding ding ding. this guy gets it
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by mirceal 7y ago
you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.
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by mirceal 7y ago
An article from popsci cannot be wrong, right? The truth is somewhere in between as always. Some people find it really hard to follow a Keto diet. What has worked for me is to cut out sugars and refined carbs completely from my diet. This
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by mirceal 7y ago
this is already happening. the driver does see the rating and does decide if they want to pick you up or not. effectively, if you have a low rating you will have troubles getting a ride today without uber banning you.
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by mirceal 7y ago
yes an no. chess is a very old, well studied game where one can improve w/ work over time. The rules don’t change and people normally agree on what are good/strong moves vs weak moves. now, if the size of the board, how pieces mov
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by mirceal 7y ago
same as milk. milk (even the "fatfree" one) has a ton of sugar. should we also place a warning on milk? we should also start labeling fruits. because sugar. if you ask me this is a bit ridiculous. If you don't get that soda&#
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by mirceal 7y ago
detecting resources that are already there may be useful in a limited set of scenarios (prototypes / retrofitting) but definitely should not be the way you build things. thinking through what your cloud infra is doing and expressing it
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by mirceal 7y ago
the complexity of Terraform does not come from the happy path. It comes from when things go wrong and now you have to understand what went wrong and how to correct it. Now you’re in a world of pain since TF just throws its hands in the air
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by mirceal 7y ago
Cloudformation will leave your infrastructure in a consistent state. Period. It will consistently drive things from point A to point B or rollback to point A if it cannot get to B. It will also correctly remember all the resources it create
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by mirceal 7y ago
i know, hence the /s it was a jab at Terraform’s behavior
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by mirceal 7y ago
Hashicorp got it right with Vagrant and its Ruby-based DSL. At the end of the day you could always drop down to a proper programming language and express what you wanted if the DSL was lacking. Why they had to invent this HCL monstrosity is
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by mirceal 7y ago
huge difference between storing the infrastructure definition vs storing the infrastructure state. cloudformation manages the state for you and will not fuck it up / allow you to fuck it up
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by mirceal 7y ago
does it rollback in the face of failure? /s
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by mirceal 7y ago
this is short-sighted. Terraform and CloudFormation are not even in the same league. One of them works and actually can be used for Infrastructure as Code, the other one does not roll back in the face of failure - it effectively craps for r
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by mirceal 7y ago
technically Go is not a product but your point still stands.
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by mirceal 7y ago
it's good for you as in it will scare the shit out of you and make you pay attention to your sleep. the examples can be a little exaggerated and one has to wonder how anyone that does not get enough sleep is still alive - but yeah. if
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by mirceal 7y ago
so there are several levels to "improving your sleep". I agree that if you sleep like shit and only get 4 hours per night you don't need the ring. you need to get more sleep. but for some people that actually sleep well and w
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by mirceal 7y ago
it depends. do you have 314 in disposable income? is health really important for you?
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by mirceal 7y ago
not a geologist, but we all have to look at things in perspective
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by mirceal 7y ago
in the grand scheme of things, humans and what we have produced is nothing. Given enough time everything will be decomposed. On in the words of a great comedian: "the planet is fine, people are f'ed" My worry is that we will

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