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by qes 6y ago
"Normal" these days is grossly unhealthy.
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by qes 6y ago
> saving $200 on a PC build is just not something that justifies (to me) dealing with kind of issue This kind of issue.. you mean a visual glitch with limited scope and available work arounds in a more than decade old video game? Yes, wh
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by qes 6y ago
> You can avoid that problem by not using node and npm. Not realistically; that would just introduce more problems than what I would avoid. I have better things to do with my time than try to avoid npm. JS projects are only a small fract
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by qes 6y ago
> How is Intel Optane going to compete? You should see how fast Optane will copy a project folder full of node_modules, bin, etc.. Blows the doors off an Evo Plus. That said, probably not worth the premium for the vast majority of uses.
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by qes 6y ago
> Apart from having more thermal mass (takes longer to heat up/cool down) _Much_ more thermal mass, and takes much longer to heat up and in most set ups will never reach the same temperature as the heatpipes in an air cooler - the w
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by qes 6y ago
> In theory you should be able to run all of Bitcoin on a bunch of raspi's If suddenly the computing power available in the world was reduced to a bunch of raspi's, the Bitcoin network would be dead because it would take an ino
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by qes 6y ago
AlphaBay was like 10x the size of the original Silk Road. DNM's haven't been the same since the busts of AlphaBay and Hansa in close succession.
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by qes 6y ago
> I Know What You Download on BitTorrent No, they don't. They don't know anything I've torrented. I've been using the same _private_ tracker for about a decade. 10 TB downloaded.
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by qes 6y ago
> I feel relatively similar about Visual Studio. It's pretty clear that it's a 2nd class citizen on Mac due to being build on top of Mono. "Visual Studio" for Mac is Xamarin Studio, not Visual Studio. The naming sugge
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by qes 6y ago
> you should never abstract away code before you see the third duplication" has little to do with the article, and I'm also really not sure it's good advice Absolutes like that are rarely good advice.
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by qes 6y ago
> you can observe the organizational dysfunction ooze out the UI at all corners Really? Because I've always found New Relic's UI to be far and away the most useful out of the half dozen or so APM's I'm often re-evalua
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by qes 6y ago
> There was a rich ecosystem of third-party controls. So does HTML/CSS/JS, and they'll also often be adapted to the various popular front end frameworks of the day - Angular, React, Vue currently. I also find it easier to
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by qes 6y ago
> The API upgrade and schema change were happening at the same time Atomically? What if your DDL times out? What you describe is, in my experience, extremely standard process for rolling out breaking changes (you do of course remove the
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by qes 6y ago
> You simply cannot know how your code will have to change Nonsense. Of course you can make reasoned predictions about how your software will change or not in the future. Some will be wrong, but if you have any sense many will be right e
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by qes 6y ago
> In particular, one your ISPs/their ISP's DNS servers may be caching a record for longer than it's supposed to and will return incorrect and expired data. It's disturbing how many clients we'll see hitting an ol
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by qes 6y ago
5% increase per gen for most of the past decade vs. 50% increase per gen when clock speeds were increasing in lock step along with transistor count, but sure. I've got a 13 year old laptop that runs today's OS's and developme
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by qes 6y ago
> The laptop frequently took as long as 12 seconds just to LAUNCH Firefox Apparently, that needs emphasis.
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by qes 6y ago
It isn't necessary to "cross state lines" to be charged with a federal crime.
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by qes 6y ago
> Are youtube ads really unskippable No. I never see ads on Youtube on my own devices, and that barely requires any effort.
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by qes 6y ago
> why are we seeing lines of cops firing tear gas at peaceful protests You mean marching down neighborhood streets and firing unprovoked at people on their own porches while yelling, "Light 'em up."
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by qes 6y ago
> which costs 400 [not 400 thousand] [dollars] per hour No, it's $400,000 per hour. 0.009 BTC/PH/day to buy from NiceHash ( https://www.nicehash.com/algorithm/sha256 ) 100,000 PH/day total hashrate
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by qes 6y ago
Correction (where are you folks learning math? $400/hour, do you even have common sense?): 0.009 BTC/PH/day to buy from NiceHash ( https://www.nicehash.com/algorithm/sha256 ) 100,000 PH/day total hash
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by qes 6y ago
It's almost like if it were true that if it only cost $400/hr to 51% attack the BTC chain, we would actually see it happening much more often.
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by qes 6y ago
A single Bitcoin miner runs at 1500w on its only setting and sounds like a small aircraft preparing for takeoff.
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by qes 6y ago
There's no reasonable way to share a SQLite database between processes on separate machines or VMs.. What website doesn't use at least 2 instances for HA? How do you make sure you don't lose data in a SQLite DB?
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by qes 6y ago
> How did it get here from the straight-talking, community-orientated feel it used to have The same way as every other community on the Internet that got popular.
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by qes 6y ago
> This is a good example of how terrible messy JavaScript library creation is. Meanwhile over in .Net-land, after 15+ years of smooth sailing (5+ if you only count from the introduction of NuGet), the transition from full framework to .N
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by qes 7y ago
I'm the CTO of a "lifestyle" business, though we don't really call ourselves that. Salaries here are excellent for our area (MN). Time-off is better than average, and we have free worldwide flights for vacations as a per
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by qes 7y ago
About 40 BTC would be in the neighborhood of $300k these days, as well.
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by qes 7y ago
Isn't Elon Musk going to deliver 250K masks, like, tomorrow?

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