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by scott_s 8y ago
I can assure you that I am never trying to "own the libs"; I am often the kind of person such people would want to own. But I do care about unstated assumptions about what is "good," when I fear those unstated assumption
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by scott_s 8y ago
The Impossible Burger is the best veggie burger I've ever had. I was a vegetarian for 10 years, and have now been a pescatarian for 8 years. It has been 18 years since I have had a proper cheeseburger, and since then I have had many t
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by scott_s 8y ago
Because when people talk about "chemicals", they are often flirting with the appeal-to-nature fallacy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature ).
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by scott_s 8y ago
An advanced high school senior in the US will take Calculus 1. An advanced high school senior in the US might take Calculus 2. (Yes, I am intentionally implying that taking calculus is what defines a student as advanced.)
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by scott_s 8y ago
I think you misunderstood jackschultz's post. They were encouraging people to seek medical treatment if they encounter symptoms similar to what jackschultz experienced.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I'm surprised that you didn't reject it for plagiarism. That's what I did when I discovered plagiarism while reviewing a paper. I wasn't an expert in some of the background material, and they referenced a survey paper
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by scott_s 8y ago
I was impressed with him on Vox's The Weeds: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/28/18283925/p...
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by scott_s 8y ago
A useful perspective is that we find contaminants from fossil fuel burning everywhere.
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by scott_s 8y ago
shrug It's additional software in the networking stack, and it has a performance penalty. I think it's fair to call it a "virtualization cost," since you're paying for the container's networking abstraction.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Who is participating in the betting markets? Are these people perhaps more likely to personally like certain candidates more than others? When the market is relatively small, this question matters. I'm skeptical of the betting market
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by scott_s 8y ago
What benefit do you have over Plus Codes ( https://plus.codes/ )? I only learned about them from this thread, but they seem to solve the problem quite well, and there's no premium component.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I feel the opposite: SO posts are often the launching-off point for me to find the even more detailed stuff. Your feeling that things were somehow better when they were worse, is I feel, misguided. Developers learning answers to specific qu
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by scott_s 8y ago
As someone who reads a lot of SO posts when looking up nitty-gritty stuff, I think it's much better. I have yet to ask a question. But, for example, just this morning I wanted to know what kind of support Java has for POSIX signals,
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by scott_s 8y ago
I believe the point is that W3W have no relationship between each other - which is probably inherent, as I assume it's a hash of some kind. You can't do anything meaningful with two W3W addresses, even though they may be literally
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by scott_s 8y ago
For standard Docker container deployments, there is. See: https://docs.docker.com/network/
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by scott_s 8y ago
"Still.. in a sad, awful, terrible way, I'm happy I met him. What a stupid world": https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/03/16 I think that one spoke to a lot of people - it certainly s
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by scott_s 8y ago
It's tempting to say that containers don't have any virtualization costs, but they often do for networking. For some applications, the addition of another networking driver doesn't matter. For others, it does.
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by scott_s 8y ago
> In this case, rather than claiming you disagree (which should imply understanding), you can just say you don't know enough about the issue to comment on it. aidenn0 is making a subtlety different point: this form of rational argum
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by scott_s 8y ago
It also, as far as I know, requires taking indefinitely. Once you stop, if you were going bald before, that process will continue.
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by scott_s 8y ago
On the discussion with Kelton and Furman on the Ezra Klein show: I came away frustrated, because I felt that every time Kelton tried to delineate an ideological difference, Furman disagreed that it was in fact a difference. I found it a goo
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by scott_s 8y ago
Some of the ones which are done during the school day, involving students, sound horrific: Active-Shooter Drills Are Tragically Misguided, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/active-...
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by scott_s 8y ago
Kids realizing they already have an online presence made by the people who were teaching them about being responsible about their online presence is becoming A Thing. Two other stories with similar circumstances: "When Kids Realize The
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by scott_s 8y ago
I can see that if you're constantly gripping the tablet. I sit with it similar to how I would with a book or a magazine; I'm not actively gripping it, and it allows more posture variations than a laptop for me.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I'm 37. I use my iPad at home for when I want to watch videos or look something up on the internet, but I don't want to get out my work laptop. I try to limit my laptop usage at home to actual work (or things that are work-like, s
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by scott_s 8y ago
> What would the cost be? All that would happen is that the free pages are marked as clean. That's a minor page fault. You get an OS-level exception, switch to kernel mode, process the page fault by marking the page as loaded, then
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by scott_s 8y ago
> Not some huge new paradigm shift in how we construct programs I think Rust is exactly that. It makes memory safety a first-class concern for the language. Thinking about it as "fighting the borrow-checker" is like trying to p
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by scott_s 8y ago
> However, the memory in question here is, for the most part, not freshly allocated, but was in use once. Because the author does not differentiate between virtual and physical memory, I can’t agree with that. It’s quite possible most of
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by scott_s 8y ago
The author never made clear if they are measuring virtual memory usage, or physical memory usage. Having a lot of virtual memory does not "cost" much: it's just having permission to use a lot of memory if you so wish. It&
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by scott_s 8y ago
Email signing is trivial with the right email program. My work email is signed, and all I had to do was tick a checkbox.
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by scott_s 8y ago
No. As the author insightfully points out, it is the attitude displayed by many people who read the book, and reacted, yeah, it's racist and sexist, but it's pretty entertaining: 3/5 stars. The problem is casual acceptance.

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