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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   As a fellow European my view changed a little bit, when I understood how US votes differ. I'm used to vote one or two items, sometimes three on one election day. US votes often have dozens of different items. They vote on proprositions
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   A lot of slot machines used to work like that. The outcome appears to be random, but is in fact a big hard coded table determining the outcome depending on current state. If you know the table and are able to determine the state of the mach
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   Maybe it's possible to overwrite already printed lines with terminal sequences.
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   I'm the guy fixing the typos in everybody's README :)
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   This looks very nice indeed, and I wish there would be something like that for Go or Ruby. The only minor nitpick I have is the layout of the interface. I would think having the output below the editor would reduce eye movement necessary.
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   And it isn't even minified. So if there would be a problem in production it would be easily debuggable.
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   Maybe managers could get the same benefit if they would encourage employees to speak up and actually follow the advice some of them might have.
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   Regarding the back pain from sitting to much: IKEA has an electrical standing desk called BEKANT for a little more than 500 EUR. This was life changing for me.
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   by rmetzler 8y ago

   What tools can you recommend for machine learning?
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    And "something like JSON" could mean YAML, which had it's own share of RCE bugs. It's still better than these object deserialization bugs one can find in Java or Python Pickle, which seems to be even more permissive.
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    German lawyers use fax, because the receipt shows the recipient has legally received the message. This is not the case with email. Therefor they created a different kind of electronic mail system (De-Mail [0]) they want people to subscribe
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    I think, it's only in theory like this, since you can't route energy over large distances without significant loss.
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    There is a video in German on youtube where Prof. Hans Werner Sinn explains, why Germany can't store the excessive amounts of renewable energy in Pumped Hydroelectric Storage. You would need too much storage capacity, especially since
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    Obligatory "I rigged an electronic vote" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzBI33kOiKc
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    I was under the impression to have read that Chinese are mostly lactose intolerant. Does anyone if this is true? Is Chinese ice cream different from western ice cream which uses dairy?
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    Look up Asperger Syndrome. Maybe this applies here.
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    You could run Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi cluster using the Hypriot distribution.
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    Can somebody please explain what the difference is to jq and similar tools?
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    Philip Agee wrote about what the CIAs modus operandi was in "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" and his later books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agee
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    I'm glad nobody taught me that.
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    "White Wilderness" snippet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM
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    by rmetzler 8y ago

    I didn't touch much Java Code for ~ 10 years now. I remember reading about the string concatenation problem in the Effective Java book. Using a StringBuilder was the very first thing I usually tried when I needed to improve performance
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    blockdiag [0] has several helpful types of text to diagram processors with several output filetypes like svg and png. In particular I like nwdiag (network diagrams), rackdiag (server rack layout) and packetdiag the most. There is also an i
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    Bats aren't birds.
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    > Also, " = " is a bit annoying. I'd prefer ": ": .foo.bar[0].baz: this is a\ntwo-line string The output of gron is perfect valid JavaScript. It wouldn't be that way with `:` as key-value delimiter
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    Nomad was my choice for queue centric workloads, but it doesn't seem to fit the webserver / long living services as good as Kubernetes. I'm not sure, but I would think you could run Nomad and Kubernetes on the same servers,
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    I used this for baremetal: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kubespray
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    I used kubespray to set up a Kubernetes cluster on our own hardware. I have Ansible and Docker knowledge and ran into a few issues, but it didn't take much time to set up a custom cluster. It's still different as I had issues acce
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    I was wondering if you think the whole Docker inc is closing or something like that. Docker is only shutting down their cloud offering for Docker Swarm and I think it is to bundle their resources and focus on integrating Kubernetes.
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    by rmetzler 9y ago

    I don't have much to add to the discussion about coffee machines. I just want to say, that Britta water filters (and potentially those of other brands) leak silver ions into the filtered water. This is to reduce the green algae in the