sarlalian

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   by sarlalian 4y ago

   How about a non-cynical answer. Software does not have effectively zero marginal cost per copy. It does have zero manufacturing cost per copy, however support is quite an expensive on-going cost. When you have a presence in multiple mark
2. 92.▲
   by sarlalian 4y ago

   If he's having money trouble, maybe Musk shouldn't be eating avocado toast every day.
3. 93.▲
   by sarlalian 4y ago

   It's a fair assumption. The free speech absolutist crowd very much tends to trend conservative. I think most reasonable people would reject the assertion that twitter is the de facto standard. It isn't even in the top 10 for s
4. 94.▲
   by sarlalian 4y ago

   Yes
5. 95.▲
   by sarlalian 4y ago

   Ok, that's good for a U.S. centric view. Do you know that every medical device manufactured in China, for use in China meets the same requirements? Same for India, Russia, etc. The U.S. isn't the world and I'd be surprised
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   by sarlalian 4y ago

   First, I’m not a zig user, or a zig community member so I don’t really care that much whether you use it or not. But it comes off as a bit immature to let a single person’s actions turn you off from an entire language. I’m sure it would b
7. 97.▲
   by sarlalian 4y ago

   The whole Collapsing Empire series is also quite excellent.
8. 98.▲
   by sarlalian 4y ago

   It's complicated. States can't just limit a persons rights because they aren't explicitly enumerated in the constitution. The federal government does have an expressed interest in making sure states don't legislate away
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   by sarlalian 4y ago

   The privacy portions of HIPA were a balanced between a persons right to privacy vs a persons rights to free speech. Much of the foundations of a right to medical privacy is based on Rowe V. Wade. Without a right to medical privacy, HIPA c
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    by sarlalian 4y ago

    Thankfully the founders had some thoughts on "inventing rights". "Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Bodily au
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    You are assuming that a large number of their customers are from the U.S. not knowing what business they are in, their customer pool might be 90% Canadian. The whole world doesn't necessarily target U.S. customers.
12. 102.▲
    by sarlalian 5y ago

    Or apple sells you a product, and with google / android, you are the product.
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    I use TimescaleDB to store data from logs (syslog, http logs, render logs), timeseries host metrics (CPU, Disk, Memory, Network), system inventory data, FDW to LDAP, network flows, etc. I do analysis across multiple dimensions for a variet
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    They do you can do some pretty good optimizations if you know what type of data is being written to a table, and with Timescale, you are converting a specific table into a Timescale hypertable, which give you different tradeoffs from a stan
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    While I'm not a current customer of Timescale, I do use the open source version of Timescale extensively, so I feel like I can summarize some of the benefits of Timescale over other TSDB's. The company is a mid size, with awkward
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/2690#issuecom...
17. 107.▲
    by sarlalian 5y ago

    Because people keep saying and doing crappy things, and then when they are called out for it, they claim its just a joke.
18. 108.▲
    by sarlalian 5y ago

    How about not telling offensive jokes, not making offensive assumptions, or just not being offensive. Its a programming language mailing list, what exactly is it about a sexist joke that you think belongs there?
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    Part of the context around that article is it was written post Katrina, in response to many people asking why the people didn't just leave. "Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave."
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    My partner and I cook almost 100% of our meals at home. I shop for groceries 1x a week, and it takes about 1 hour. Meal prep / cooking and cleaning varies a bit. We generally cook 1 roast chicken a week, and a pot roast in a slow co
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    by sarlalian 5y ago

    Raw ingredients are more expensive than you would think, and while you can eat very cheaply (rice, beans, onions, a few spices), most people aren't particularly good cooks. Add in that for poor people in the U.S., many work multiple j