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by shakow 2y ago
You think wrong.
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by shakow 2y ago
How is it a “consumption” (in either case) if the water is basically just running through a pipe and released a couple miles down the line/evaporated into the atmosphere without being polluted?
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by shakow 2y ago
The problem is not that he does not know everything, it is very normal to learn all the time (xkcd 1053, etc.). The issue is to be so deep into your own sentiment of self-importance to imagine that you discovering the basic functions of a d
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by shakow 2y ago
I'm... not sure that's the kind of Friday-at-2AM embarrassing mistakes you want to put on your blog if you sell yourself as an elite consultant? Not using `-iname`, using `-print0` and being surprised to see NULs appearing, the we
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by shakow 2y ago
“Tool” may not be the right word; but being able to live monitor the vacuumer, to understand what table was taking how much space and why, to track min/mean/max execution time of queries, and, more generally, all the internal metr
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by shakow 2y ago
> Perhaps you could elaborate? IPC, I suppose?
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by shakow 2y ago
To add some feedback as someone whose company replaced redis with PgSQL after I lobbied for it (leveraging my experience using it in bioinfo HPC beforehand): - agreed, autovacuum is definitely something to keep a close watch on – but as lon
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by shakow 2y ago
Are those standards really useful though? I'm under the impression that Perl/Ruby/Python/etc. have done well enough without.
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by shakow 2y ago
A.k.a. the marketplace (the literal one) 50 years ago!
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by shakow 2y ago
> The cell was active before Then why was a no-fly zone set up? That sounds pretty counter-productive?
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by shakow 2y ago
AFAICT from TFA, it looks like this cell could only have been active from Sept. 30th, as it was when the no-flight zone was removed. IIUC, the guy started its stuff the 28th, and the incident happened the 29th.
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by shakow 2y ago
> He should've approached the relevant air operations cell The one that was not yet deployed?
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by shakow 2y ago
Well, looks like the pioneer spirit is well dead and buried in the US.
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by shakow 2y ago
Please feel free to develop what you perceive as being a fair representation of the situation. > or expresses some caution Bellowing about religions while monopolizing a talk Q&A is not “expressing some caution”.
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by shakow 2y ago
> Getting smart young people to contribute to Linux Distros (and BSD for that matter) to me is a tough job. I mean, they came with enthusiasm and a lot of hard work, brought a new language with many advantages (as said by the BDFL humsel
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by shakow 2y ago
That's why GP used brackets to denote the adaptation of the quote by changin the first name.
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by shakow 2y ago
There is no security hole if I am singing my own certificate for my own mails on my own server; it would mean that I do not trust... myself? Now if I were to provide this as a commercial service, sure, my customers may be worried.
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by shakow 2y ago
Mexico? Anyone remember Guantanamo? The US I guess, but NAFTA regardless...
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by shakow 2y ago
> C through stack memory. Stack memory is decades older than C.
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by shakow 2y ago
> Saying that Generative AI is a compression algorithm shows a lack of understanding of the issues and technology at play. Because of what?
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by shakow 2y ago
> a gpu can provide 1000%+ of perf AND a certain level of portability. Relying GPU only makes sense in a handful of context, e.g. “computing stuff fast is my core task” or “this will be deployed on beefy workstations”. SIMD addresses all
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by shakow 2y ago
> because the smallest unit you can really work with on modern computers is the byte Absolutely not, look e.g. at all the SIMD programming where bit manipulation is paramount.
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by shakow 2y ago
Smaller key sizes and faster at a given level of security, PQ-safe (at least as far as we publically know).
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by shakow 2y ago
> for just ~35 days or so? At full consumption. I'm pretty sure that in circumstances that would lead to the use of the reserverve, oil would be strongly rationed and directed towards hospitals/army/police/logicstics&
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by shakow 2y ago
> as a country supplied by sea I can't read the whole article, but according to the header, they are stockpiling resources they can produce (and do so) themselve (grain, oil, gas).
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by shakow 2y ago
> It benefits consumers. On the short term and reasonable spatial scale; sure. What's currently happening in the West is that common people are discovering that on the long term and at world scale, it does not really benefits them f
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by shakow 2y ago
> If you have to build a wall around your state to keep people from fleeing It's not really about building a wall around your country to keep people from fleeing, but to prevent gadgets sold by people leveraging arbitrage in an unfa
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by shakow 2y ago
> spending a lot of money in a local economy makes it more prosperous Do these people really spend a lot of money in the local economy? Realistically, even assuming they pay a couple dozen people $100k/year for service and indulge d
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by shakow 2y ago
I remember in the 90's we used the prefix case to differentiate between SI (kB) and powers of 1024 (KB). Not sure how widespread it was though; no Internet to poll at the time :)
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by shakow 2y ago
> circassian genocide You are aware that Circassia is 3 countries and more than 4000km away from Tajikistan, right? And that the ethnicities involved in the Circassian genocides are wholly separated from Tajiks?

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