myusernameisok

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by myusernameisok 9y ago
> All Docker images are glorified tar layers that are compressed with gzip. By definition, all users of Docker are users of gzip and tar. I understand what your point is (it's not as visible) but I don't agree with saying it&#x
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
I feel like docker is core to more businesses than compressing/decompressing files. A lot of business package things in docker containers and are probably more likely to donate based on that. Compressing/decompression feels more l
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
One nice thing about the movie theatre is that you're paying a large amount of money (~$5/hr) to be there, so you're more likely to pay attention. I find with netflix, people take shows less seriously and spend time on their
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
For the most part, adding complexity to anything increases the chance of failure. For average people (who don't generally give out their keys) it's not a great idea, but for airbnb hosts, making a key that is hard to copy is a goo
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
I wasn't even aware they existed until I saw this thread. I don't understand why companies feel they need to start selling average household products, but with cameras, microphones, wifi, and bluetooth. Maybe I'm just paranoi
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
I'm fairly certain you're incorrect. With the GIL you don't have to lock shared memory because the assumption is that only one thread will be running at a time. For example shared data structures won't be changed while b
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Yes, I'm sure Google has analyzed this. I'm just saying it's fairly surprising considering that $3 billion hinges entirely on the assumption that people won't change the default. Apparently there are approximately 700 mi
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
> "Court documents indicate that Google paid Apple $1B in 2014, and we estimate that total Google payments to Apple in FY 17 may approach $3B," Bernstein analyst A.M. Sacconaghi Jr. said. "Given that Google payments are ne
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
I tried. My company has a python API that we run on our machines, we sell the machines to businesses and don't manage them ourselves. We wanted to see if we could get some easy performance increases without too much investment. At the
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
It's the same issue with Python. AFAIK there are a number of Python libraries that are not thread-safe, and the GIL prevents them from being an issue.
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Some APIs I've seen just use 400 for all generic client-side errors, including request syntax errors, impossible requests, duplicate requests, etc. I would argue that most of the time, for any sufficiently large application, you'l
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Take this for what it is - I'm a software developeer who works in the cloud, not a cloud expert. The abstraction behind AZs is what every AZ counts for at least 1 data centre. So for every region there is at least 2 AZs, and every AZ m
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
California is the most populous state. Most Americans treat Canada like it's some uninhabited wasteland, which is somewhat untrue. There are parts of Canada which are less populated but there are also densely populated parts which are
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
This is very disingenuous in my opinion, California is the most populous state. Most of Canada is not populated. Most Canadians live within the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor [1]. Its a fairly small (densely-populated) area compared to the to
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
The S3 outage was across the whole US-EAST-1 region, not just one data centre. I know my company and a few others that are redundant within a region (ie if one AZ goes down), but not if a whole region goes down.
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Especially because AWS regions are broken up into multiple availability zones (data centres in the same area). So taking out a single data centre won't do much if the AWS customers have correctly designed their systems for high-availab
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Only in Quebec is this allowed though, not the rest of Canada [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Piller_order#Quebec_.28c... EDIT: turns out I'm wrong, disregard this.
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
I don't understand how this is fundamentally different from just doing it in regular javascript. You could write a javascript function that recurses forever on condition x: just write a function that calls itself with the same paramet
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Google also seemingly hasn't been trying very hard to make Youtube profitable. Spotify has a free tier, but you only get the "standard" 160 kpbs bitrate, as well as ads. To get the "extreme" 320 kbps bitrate you nee
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Radio stations still exist and they survive primarily on audio advertisements. That's also without any of the internet fingerprinting which can be used to cater advertisements and potentially make Soundcloud's advertisements more
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
I don't know if that's necessarily true. Youtube is to Netflix what Soundcloud is to Spotify. Netflix and Spotify are successful because they charge a small fee to allow users to consume high quality content. Youtube and Soundclou
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
> The only legitimate complaint there is that it's tough in Rust to get two arbitrary mutable slices into the same array. Rust wants to be sure they're disjoint, to prevent aliasing. For some matrix manipulation, this is inconv
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Well certain Linux distros (Gentoo comes to mind) are designed to support their users compiling applications from source. Some users just want to be able to compile using -march=native, and aren't interested in fixing compiler warnings
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
> it has no business doing random tampering like intercepting logins and DNS requests and renaming device nodes I agree with the resolving DNS requests complaint, wasn't aware of that to be honest. That actually does seem somewhat o
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Presumably end users who are compiling from source wouldn't want to enable -Werror though. If you are an application developer and a compiler X gives warnings that compiler Y doesn't for your application, then ideally you should p
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
> Why is that now a systemd thing? Just cause systemd is the creepy uncle that likes to touch everything it can? So I'm just gonna pipe that crap into syslog anyway... and don't get me started on LP's shenanigans. Feature
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
With the exception of slackware (which aims to be the most Unix-like Linux distro) I don't understand all the hate for systemd and why people continually try to remove it from their system. I've read countless blogs on the pitfall
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Rent in Toronto broke 1600 CAD for a one bedroom apartment recently. Not quite 3000 USD, but also consider you'll get paid significantly less than half and probably get less office benefits (such as free meals) as well.
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by myusernameisok 9y ago
Trudeau also has a much higher approval rating, sitting at about 50% approval and 40% disapproval [1]. Trump is sitting at 38% approval and 55% disapproval [2]. Regardless of your opinion on them, Trudeau is more popular in Canada than Trum