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by notacoward 7y ago
Just to be clear, I'm not saying they weren't innovative. I'm saying they weren't as innovative as they claim. Apollo, Masscomp, Pyramid, Sequent, Encore, Stellar, Ardent, Elxsi, Cydrome, and others were also innovatin
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by notacoward 7y ago
However it happened, modularity is still a good thing. It allows multiple filesystems (and other things that aren't quite filesystems) to take advantage of the same functionality, even concurrently, instead of each reinventing a slight
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by notacoward 7y ago
> when you read, zfs will check the data on both and pick the correct one. Are you sure about that? Always reading both doubles read I/O, and benchmarks show no such effect. > there's no way for the fs to tell which is cor
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by notacoward 7y ago
This needs to be more widely known. Sun was never as open or innovative as its engineer/advertisers claim, and the revisionism is irksome. I saw what they had copied from earlier competitors like Apollo and then claimed as their own id
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by notacoward 7y ago
> Things that come from economic growth Things that come from actually building stuff . Purely economic growth, as represented by banks and brokerages and economics departments, doesn't put food in anyone's belly or a roof ove
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by notacoward 7y ago
Employing a euphemism to make something sound better is always fun (corporate "missions" and "visions" are often good examples) but that doesn't really change the underlying reality.
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by notacoward 7y ago
It's not individualist so much as corporatist, and not so much anti-collectivist as anti-humanist. This post exactly mirrors Stalinism in its reduction of humans to their capacity for production. Can we please just for once stop tryi
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by notacoward 7y ago
It all seems to be about increasing economic efficiency. Good little workers, turn dollars into more dollars as efficiently as possible! Nothing about increasing anyone's quality of life, solving environmental problems, advancing sci
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by notacoward 7y ago
A comparison like this would be much more informative if it used more than one layer of setup/cleanup. When you get to four or five, it really highlights how well some of these scale up (or not). Also, neither nested functions nor mini
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by notacoward 7y ago
I tried one of those. Despite having been a Beyond fan for ages, I thought the Dunkin Donuts version tasted terrible . AFAICT preparation makes a big difference, and whoever made that one at DD simply did it wrong.
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by notacoward 7y ago
If/when it becomes necessary, I'm sure Beyond/Impossible would figure out alternative ways of producing coconut/palm oil. And the meat industry astroturfers would come out again to fear-monger about how it's too a
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by notacoward 7y ago
I think there are actually two issues here: where should companies hire, and what should they pay those they do hire. The answer to the first question is unequivocally "somewhere cheaper" even though the cost in terms of cultural
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by notacoward 7y ago
Do you have any evidence for that claim? I don't have anything broad-based, but I work remotely for one of these companies and make exactly what I would if I worked at HQ. And it's not because I'm some super-awesome negotia
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by notacoward 7y ago
Negotiate better terms. I work for a FANG, and my salary is pretty consistent with what's in that list despite the fact that I work from home elsewhere. Sure it's northeast, but that's probably closer to southeast than to wes
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by notacoward 7y ago
You're right that it might not affect people's impulsive desire for revenge, but a declaration does affect whether the US or Iran can claim any moral high ground that would sustain such an impulse. Targeting foreign leaders is onl
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by notacoward 7y ago
How many anti-Soleimani messages have been posted from within the US? Are those all going to be investigated as propaganda assets too? Any rational person knows Soleimani was a dangerous person whose orders caused significant instability an
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by notacoward 7y ago
I'd like to see more research on already known cannabinoids. From what I've read, the effects of CBD on its own are pretty limited; most of its strength lies in "entourage effects" when combined with THC. The same seem
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by notacoward 7y ago
> underestimating how diverse people’s values are While we're valuing diversity, let's consider diversity of circumstance as well as attitudes. Working 80 hours a week is not the same for someone who's single and healthy v
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by notacoward 7y ago
The question IMO is not whether it's easier or harder, but whether it's more or less sustainable. That in itself is two questions: (1) Is it sustainable in the sense that you can remain productive throughout one day? (2) Is is sus
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by notacoward 7y ago
> There are plenty of multi-tenancy file systems Name one. What I mean by multi-tenant is that the namespace, security space, capacity quota and I/O quota are fully isolated and managed at the storage-system API , not via other fac
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by notacoward 7y ago
Open-source data storage is full of gaps compared to its commercial/bespoke brethren. To give just one example, consider multi-tenancy/QoS. Very few OSS distributed filesystems or object stores even seem to have heard of the conce
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by notacoward 7y ago
> The fact that it isn't simple doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. Never claimed otherwise. > The body may be fascinating, but it sin't miraculous. It's not miraculous, nor is it especially fragile. It'
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by notacoward 7y ago
I'll add to that advice. Get insoles with the right amount of arch support, then swap out either the shoes or insoles at the first sign of breakdown. And stretch after workouts. I had a bout of plantar fasciitis a couple of years ago
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by notacoward 7y ago
> repetitive pounding of running results in wear and tear on the body It can result in wear and tear, it can also result in strengthening. The relationship between enhancement and degradation, and associated outcomes, is far from simple.
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by notacoward 7y ago
> why is the tendency to increase the distance Up to a point, because most of the sought-after benefits do scale with duration (for which distance is a proxy). But that point is pretty quickly reached. A few 5km runs a week at moderate p
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by notacoward 7y ago
> I have no dog in this fight. No runner in this race? :D Merry Christmas.
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by notacoward 7y ago
Some Kenyans and Ethiopians have been caught using those drugs. So have some Americans, some Canadians, some Germans, some Chinese ... you get the idea. It's true of elite athletes in any country and any sport, just about. Generalizi
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by notacoward 7y ago
> the Tarahumara (ancient running people) are the best distance runners on earth Pretty sure the Kenyans, Ethopians, etc. might have a word or two to say about that. More importantly, the emphasis in "may be counterproductive"
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by notacoward 7y ago
Was going to say approximately the same thing. It's good old equalization of risk. People will persist in bad form, and/or train harder than they should, to the exact extent that their shoes let them. That's true for both max
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by notacoward 7y ago
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