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by peferron 8y ago
Regarding "your age in bonds", it's worth noting that Vanguard's all-in-one retirement funds don't follow this advice at all. For example, the Target Retirement 2050 fund has 10% bonds [1], while I would expect most
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by peferron 8y ago
Thanks a lot. I guess I won't play it anytime soon—too many other great games to play in too little time. I may very well play through the "enhanced" original though... It's my favorite game of all time but I somehow onl
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by peferron 8y ago
What did you think about Tides of Numenara? I know there are many reviews out there, but your taste in games seems amazingly close to mine, including finding Skyrim boring, so I'd love to hear your opinion. I've had the game sitti
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by peferron 8y ago
But c5d, m5d, r5d and other instance types use Nitro and have "local NVMe-based SSD storage" just like i3. Doesn't that contradict your entire point? If you picked a r5d, and either gave it a larger piece of the local SSD pie
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by peferron 8y ago
Where do you intend to publish your response? GCP blog [1]? I'd like to make sure I won't miss it, and this HN thread may be buried by the time you come up with a response. [1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/
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by peferron 8y ago
If you expect your read/writes to be mostly sequential, and about throughput more than about IOPS, then local HDDs (d2 or h1) may even do the job for a lower $/GB. (You may even be able to serve straight from S3 or CloudFront but
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by peferron 8y ago
Just looking at the report's second graph, c5d.4xlarge has twice the throughput of i3.4xlarge, which is incredible. I wish AWS would release a new generation of "i" instances, with the same large amount of local storage as i3
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by peferron 8y ago
> Also, for your local disk test, on GCP, disk size makes a difference to get the best performance. The larger the disk, the better the performance. Disk read/write performance also comes out of the available network bandwidth Do yo
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by peferron 8y ago
I agree that France is not very representative of the general automobile market, but in Canada for example I would expect most households to start buying a CUV or SUV as their first car (possibly with AWD). The point is that a classic three
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by peferron 8y ago
Japanese sedans are dead too. It'll just take a bit longer. Sedans simply do not offer enough utility or fun per dollar to stay relevant. In France, where I'm from, sedans have been utterly dead from as long as I can remember. Peo
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by peferron 8y ago
I'm also a newish dad. Our only car is a Honda Fit and we're doing fine, I don't recall ever running out of space. I'm not sure what we'd need a SUV for as long as we don't go off-road. Of course that'll c
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by peferron 8y ago
Yeah, sorry, just assumed that pollutants were coming from outside. I'm just so used to it after living several years in China and now being affected by California wildfires. If the outside air is better than inside, then yeah you prob
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by peferron 8y ago
I bought the Dylos almost 5 years ago. At that time I don't think the SDS011 was available. A cool feature of the Dylos is monitor mode. It wakes up every hour, spins the fans for 1 minute, and spits out a measurement. It's conven
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by peferron 8y ago
Important tip: if you set up an air purifier in your home, make sure to plug all drafts around your house: windows, doors, etc. Even a DIY purifier with small airflow can make your indoor air excellent if given enough time to do so and no l
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by peferron 8y ago
> You really start appreciating macOS when you go and install Linux on laptop and use it for a month Actually, the opposite happened to me: I started really disliking macOS after switching to Ubuntu + i3 on my main development machine. T
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by peferron 8y ago
The same happened to me. The French megacorp I was working for told me that my diploma level had a wage ceiling that they couldn't break. They offered to pay for training so I could get the required diploma in parallel of my work over
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by peferron 9y ago
I rather think you're being extremely dramatic, and with zero justifications for why this would suddenly add a "large cognitive load" to Wikipedia (relatively to the load they are already sustaining today), or why it's a
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by peferron 9y ago
They look better than DIYs, are typically quieter for the same cfm, and optionally have an automatic mode where the fan speed changes based on the detected air quality. But yeah if you don't care how they look or how noisy they are jus
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by peferron 9y ago
Unsurprising from Facebook.
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by peferron 9y ago
My wife and I use Google Photos to share pictures of our child with our families thousands of miles away. It's unbelievably good. No ads, no bullshit promoted celebrity accounts I should follow, actually no social features at all excep
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by peferron 9y ago
Or split it in half, fill the pit holes with vinaigrette, and eat it with a spoon together with bread and butter. Had a lot of fun with that as a kid :)
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by peferron 9y ago
Exactly! If it wasn't a problem before then it won't be a problem today either. Nothing fallacious about that. The evolution of technology usually has very limited impact; WW1 and WW2 were barely more destructive than the wars tha
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by peferron 9y ago
Americans are all about freedom and equality, but having a police force who can almost arbitrarily kill you and with little consequence sounds like neither. In fact, it's not very different from how the Chinese government can disappear
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by peferron 9y ago
You have a cheap, reliable, 20 year old Honda Civic that reaches 320 km/h? If that's the case I'm impressed. Edit: not sure to which part of the comment you were replying, I probably misinterpreted it and you're talking
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by peferron 9y ago
Don't assume that your own preferences apply to everyone. I worked remotely for a few years, with my own dedicated room/office in my home, and am much happier now that I moved back to our company office even though it has an open-
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by peferron 9y ago
You're not alone. The only place I like Python is as a replacement for shell scripting.
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by peferron 9y ago
If MB gave gas for free, Tesloop could have removed the fuel costs from the S-Class total. But MB doesn't give gas for free. On the other hand, Tesloop have benefited massively from Tesla's subsidized charging. I'm curious wh
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by peferron 9y ago
I'm astonished to see many comments here on HN (albeit heavily downvoted) saying that if you're a "good parent" then it's easy—just don't forget your child in the car! It's like saying that if you're
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by peferron 9y ago
We rank all these scenarios very differently then :) Climate change and nuclear war are huge issues, and we correctly invest orders of magnitude more money and time (which might still not be enough) trying to prevent or limit these than try
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by peferron 9y ago
Yep! Just like climate change. It's chilly where I live right now, scientists don't all agree about climate change projections, and even if temperatures actually rise it won't lead to the extinction of the human race, so let&

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