shawn-butler

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by shawn-butler 7y ago
raw_allocator (string) Which memory allocator to use for the PYMEM_DOMAIN_RAW allocator. Values can be jemalloc, rust, or system. Important: the rust crate is not recommended because it introduces performance overhead. From the docucmentat
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by shawn-butler 7y ago
>> Farmers haven't just been adding a bit more fertilizer and water every year, Nice to believe and it is certainly what growers should be doing, but the evidence clearly indicates that they really aren't. Nitrate levels in
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by shawn-butler 7y ago
brew zap formula[0] worked for me to uninstall the listener.. brew update && brew cask zap -f zoomus [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
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by shawn-butler 7y ago
No you don't
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
Illegal everywhere in the US since 2004: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/108/s1301/text
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
>> Just fine/arrest/ban the hosts who actually do it, given evidence that it is them doing it. The Federal voyeurism act of 2004 made it illegal in the US to record video of someone without their consent when that person had
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
Perhaps not the government itself which exists within strict constitutional boundaries, but the same logic should apply to the major political parties with hard caps on the amount of incoming donations over which they have to "structur
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
"recreational scientific activity"
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
Seems counter-intuitive to Amazon's own public dataset program / policy: https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/public-datasets/
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
> There's no reason to change bank unless there's some substantial incentive Or you bank at Wells Fargo or some other institution whose corrupt practices spill out into public.
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
Great massive fines, significant lawyer billing, some worthless credit monitoring service free for 6 months and screw the affected consumers. Let's see Target is probably the most obvious parallel: $202 million in reported legal fees
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb works for me by turning Elasticsearch into an index type (PG10 only)
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
My opinion of Bruce Perens just decreased markedly. Hopefully he will edit this blog post with better advice to the "casual" computer user.
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
>> 3. Eliminates fee diversion .... The USPTO is one of the few agencies of the US federal govt that are profitable. Congress diverts the funds away from the USPTO funding its own improvements (more examiners, better technology, etc)
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by shawn-butler 8y ago
If Cigna's deal to acquire Express Scripts is terminated, either party could owe a fee of either $2.1 billion or $1.6 billion depending on the reason for the breakup, according to the filing.
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
There were rumors iMessage moved there but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Would be great to see from Apple an engineering blog "strengths and challenges at scale" post now that it has been opened again.
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
This sounds like a business opportunity to me rather than a cautionary note. I remember all the people who bashed Apple when they acquired FoundationDB. I hope they are appropriately ashamed now.
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
Amazon resisted a warrant from a prosecutor seeking all Alexa recordings from a house that was the site of murder. Trial in Arkansas I believe. I don't think it ever went anywhere precedent setting however because the defendant eventu
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
It's not magic. It amazes me how many "data scientists" can't explain the basic mathematics behind their modelling. If the outcome of algorithm/model can't be explained by its regulators then it shouldn't
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
This is a much more likely and testable hypothesis than the linked article.
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
>> Another is the ability to easily retarget for AngularJS, Backbone, React Native, and so on by just swapping the compiler backend. I couldn't find any reference to this in your documentation. Exactly how easy and/or do yo
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
I do not underestimate the amount of control they have. Their share in the bank was was determined in 1998 on the basis of the states' population and GDP, and adjusted since. Please by all means do me a favor and educate me on the amou
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
A lot of successful governments use the euro, a currency which they neither own nor control?
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
Maybe instead of a litmus test on their political donations, Mozilla needs one on whether its executives respect users.
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
They raise the issue of having Alexa devices in semi-private places like hotel rooms[0]. I think people have an expectation of privacy in a hotel room. And I assume major hotels have security measures in place to catch consumer-level eaves
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
That's how it may have used to work. The abuse of the Commerce clause has expanded the regulatory power of the federal government almost unilaterally.
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
Monsanto does not own the world of agriculture. This is a ridiculous claim. There are many more than 1,000 separate seed companies that supply the many types of commercial seeds globally, and hundreds of seed companies that sell corn and s
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
Synchronous replication was added in 9.1 and much improved in 9.6? pglogical[0] works pretty well for me under 10 but I have no production experience with bdr[1]. [0]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/pglo
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
I wonder if there is a study of these "sweetheart" municipal discretionary tax incentives deals? I have to imagine very few, if any, ever achieve the ROI the politicians claim and usually on top of non-tax incentives. Would be in
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by shawn-butler 9y ago
It gets worse.. some financial news outlets are reporting that the CFO and executives leading two business divisions dumped shares prior to the news. Equifax responded they didn't know about the breach and it is unrelated.

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