selimnairb

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by selimnairb 5y ago
I think what was happening was, if you wanted to make a VM image (which you could then later clone to new instances), it would result in the original VM (i.e., the source of the image) being no longer usable.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
No, I haven’t used Azure since changing jobs two years ago. Thanks for the heads up.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Also, I may have missed something, but cloning VMs in Azure used to be (still is?) a destructive process. WTF?
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Don’t know if this is still the case, but I always felt more nickled and dimed on Azure (than AWS). For example, the base SKU for their managed PostgreSQL compatible service did not allow use in a VPC/behind a DMZ. You had to pay subst
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Did you have any side effects from the Moderna shots? I did the same thing as you (originally got Pfizer, decided to get a Moderna booster based on Delta efficacy; I have a young child who can’t be vaxxed yet). However, I haven’t yet had th
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Also, SCSI drives were more expensive (but usually performed better), so most stuck with IDE’s limitations.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Honestly, I suspect that lot of the slowdowns that people see in ~4+ year old Macs, iPads, or iPhones is in large part due to degradation in flash storage, especially in ca. 2013 MacBook Pros where the flash modules were still kind of shitt
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by selimnairb 5y ago
What debt crisis? The national “debt” is not a crisis. The US has a great degree a monetary sovereignty. As long as this is true, it will always be able to pay its “debts”. The US government spends money into existence, which is a direct su
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by selimnairb 5y ago
I have always liked math, but have never been great or very good at it. I graduated from a US public school gifted program, and a top 30 US university. The biggest problem I always had with math education is they didn’t teach the “why” near
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Not sure this is right. Coal plants are at best 40% efficient, combined-cycle natural gas 60%. Then you have transmission losses (2-13%), and then inefficiency in EV chargers. Atkinson-cycle engines (often used in hybrids like the Prius) ca
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by selimnairb 5y ago
“Full Self-Driving Beta” should be an oxymoron. Why is this being allowed?
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Federal government deficit=private sector surplus. The money is conserved. Federal surplus=private sector surplus. People who want to balance the federal budget either don’t know what they are talking about, or are cynically trying to redis
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Federal taxes also legitimize the currency by providing stable demand for the currency.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Also, municipal broadband is often funded by issuing bonds that are paid back with revenue from providing Internet service.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Well, any Federal funds are categorically not tax payer funds. The Federal government spends money into existence as it is a currency issuer (through the Federal Reserve).
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by selimnairb 5y ago
I’m not a JS frameworks expert, too much churn to keep up. I learned Angular 2+ a few years ago and found it to be a bit heavy weight. Thinking of learning Vue 3 now. Svelte looks interesting though. What I am hoping for long term is that t
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by selimnairb 5y ago
“ “Time Difference” (“Zeitverschiebung”) lists time zones for cities etc. – for example, the time zone for San Francisco is America/Los_Angeles.” Does anyone know how the canonical cities/regions associated with a time zone were d
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Forty-three here. It takes longer to learn things mainly because I have a young child and my time is chopped up and my sleep is less/worse than it would otherwise be. One thing that has improved with age is intuition, which helps immen
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by selimnairb 5y ago
UUCP
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Case in point: I saw once an older man washing traffic cones in Japan. I don’t think traffic cones get washed in the US.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
I recently started using pandas to do groupby and aggregation. It’s nice to have, but the whole time I kept wishing it would just let me run an SQL query without adding another dependency. Having learned SQL long ago, I find it to be much m
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by selimnairb 5y ago
It doesn’t matter how efficiently the city is run. At some point, it may become impossible to support current levels of population. For instance, if drought conditions continue to be more common, there will be less and less water available,
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Can you provide a legal definition of what "full documentation" would be?
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by selimnairb 5y ago
Or just rent a pickup when you need it for $50 a day? Fancy-boy pickups easily cost upwards of $50k.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
This makes me want to make good on a joke/threat to make a Linux distribution that is incapable of displaying animated GIFs. It will also block emojis.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
I was wondering how macOS scheduled the efficiency cores but was too lazy to dig into the docs. Thanks!
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by selimnairb 5y ago
And river meanders are doing just that, meandering to and fro, changing (albeit slowly) continuously. Modern borders need to be tied geodetic datums, which has been also mentioned are also constantly changing (although probably more slowly
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by selimnairb 5y ago
I think this approach applies even more so for GPU compute as it’s the only sensible way to code these devices.
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by selimnairb 5y ago
The data-oriented design approach is and has been standard practice for doing numerical simulations on High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Still the problem of language support and syntactic sugar to make this style less error-pr
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by selimnairb 5y ago
This is great, but what happens to the sachets? Are the biodegradable? When I was in India a few years ago I was struck by all the newly introduced non biodegradable packing strewn about EVERYWHERE. The old unfired clay cups used by road-si

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