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by nanis 5y ago
Maybe, but not too far off. Without the Ottoman Empire standing between Europe and trade with Asia, there wasn't going to be much of a motivation for exploring new trade roots. In fact, had the Ottomans just built proper toll roads, th
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by nanis 5y ago
> I was responsible for internal IT infrastructure and operations such as maintenance of LAN system, DNS configuration, back up of internal services, data redundancy plan, and even printer issues. I was also responsible for bringing in b
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by nanis 5y ago
> Terraform is great for "fire and forget" deployments. Indeed, terraform is great for exactly the opposite: For making sure both the initial infrastructure and subsequent modifications to it are first proposed, discussed, revi
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> In 2006, during the early years of the birth of lockdown ideology, the great epidemiologist Donald Henderson warned that if any of these restrictive measures were deployed for a pandemic, the result would be a “loss of trust in governm
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by nanis 5y ago
The rise in the rate of hospitalizations and deaths among the fully vaccinated continued with today's update[1] covering the period up to 9/13. Chart[2]. Code and snapshots on GitHub[3]. Hospitalizations from COVID19 among the ful
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by nanis 5y ago
You absolutely need at least one layer of indirection between your infrastructure configuration and the terraform code used to instantiate it. This is both for versatility and for developer sanity. You do not want to constantly be thinking
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by nanis 5y ago
> I wonder how many of those ZX Spectrums, C64 etc were given to kids, who on finding that they had to actually do some work to make them do anything useful relegated them to a shoebox under the TV. In my experience, that tended to happe
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by nanis 5y ago
Mine was smuggled into the country due to currency crises and import/export controls. I owe thanks to my mother for arranging that so that I could graduate from writing programs using paper and pencil to using an actual computer. Thank
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Oh how quickly the world changes ... > Whatever the merits of these pragmatic and tactical questions, the availability of censorship gives U.S. officials operating in foreign countries an extra instrument for coping with conspiracy th
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Computing Discrete Logarithms [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
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If you are lucky enough to work with people who are willing to explain this and take the information in objectively, that's great. Sometimes, I have been that lucky person. On the other hand, in not a trivial number of cases, you'
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Pasta: A Case for Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
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This seems pdf2tohtml combined with GROBID[1]. It seems to me the masheen learningz technikz boil down to a generalization of my lightbulb moment here[2]. [1]: https://grobid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2]: https:
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by nanis 5y ago
Everyone is capable of writing crap code ... Code that might give the impression of working but is unmaintainable. PRs are conversations. Every team member should be able to request changes to start a conversation. A conversation about the
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by nanis 5y ago
Ignoring for a moment the nativist undertone of your comment, it is not unheard of for people to hear the term-of-art for a concept they already understand and have to look it up. It seems to me that once one realizes what a "wet bulb
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Implementation by Wishful Thinking(nu42.com)
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s3fs[1] to avoid the complexity in the first place. More discussion on Stackoverflow: - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132941 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9158294 [1]: https:/
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by nanis 5y ago
> ... and immediately had to reflexively reject it so it wouldn't sink in. I am not convinced by the apocalyptic prophesy that billions of people will be living in 35 C wet bulb temperature soon ... If I were to be convinced that su
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by nanis 5y ago
> "you" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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> The rapid rate of change itself is the problem What is the right rate of change? The answer does not have to be very precise. An estimate within an order of magnitude is OK.
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> Are you essentially saying that wet bulb is fake news No. The comment I am responding to said: >> Wet bulb temperatures of 35 degrees C in areas with billions of people and poor power infrastructure to run AC is bad, for example
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by nanis 5y ago
Maybe they worry about all the wind turbine blades we are burying so that governments can shovel money from one group to another's pockets.
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by nanis 5y ago
Yeah, about that average. ... You do understand the difference between smoothed decadal or even centennial averages versus much more precise and frequent thermometer measurements, right? Also, you do understand that the thermometer observat
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by nanis 5y ago
Which period of the earth's lifetime would you like to go back to?
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by nanis 5y ago
> Wet bulb temperatures of 35 degrees C in areas with billions of people I had to look up what that meant ... With this kind of nonsense being pushed around and with more than two decades of constant scary tales, no wonder the kids are n
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by nanis 5y ago
What exactly is "the" "right" climate?
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Sumatra PDF Is a PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR Reader for Windows(sumatrapdfreader.org)
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Y'know, Obamacare mandated coverage of alcoholism and drug addiction in all plans: That is, no one can opt out of paying for other people's problems even when they are caused by a completely optional activity. I am all for a refor
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Antitrust Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining(papers.ssrn.com)
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> I wish all of the willfully unvaccinated would get covid tomorrow Nice. > and the rest of us could stay home for a week. Feel free to isolate yourself as long as you wish, but it sounds like you are feeling a little envious that ot

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