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by slyall 7y ago
A quick Google shows a few sites that keep history of IMDB ratings. Unfortunately they seem to concentrate on movies actually in the IMDB 250 Some interesting ones: Avatar - http://top250.info/movie/?0499549 Se7en - h
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by slyall 7y ago
He doesn't mean that you don't know the JavaScript framework of the week. He means if you have not been writing any code regularly recently (because you have been a Manager or Architect or whatever) then your programming skills wi
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How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?(glamour.com)
9 points by slyall 7y ago|2 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
The passengers in the New Zealand flight were jerks but one of them said: "I have to say that if watching the safety video is so crucial and you can be escorted off the plane, maybe Air New Zealand should stop making 'Rachel Hunte
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by slyall 8y ago
If you caught every instance of someone breaking a law then the fines can be pretty low. Eg If you knew that there was a 99% chance that you'd be fined every time for minor traffic offenses (going 5k over the speed limit, failure to
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by slyall 8y ago
Now I realise there are multiple people in this thread but the bookclub went from: "My book club will not be a safe space, it is open to everyone who reads the book" to: "Behaving like a decent human being is an implicit, obv
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by slyall 8y ago
" I'm sorry why are you kicking me out? I read the book and I'm not doing anything wrong! I guess I'm talking a bit more than some other people but they are just quiet and I'm an outgoing guy. " "Are you s
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by slyall 8y ago
The block is a minor inconvenience. I'm okay with it as long as it is a temporary thing.
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by slyall 8y ago
Ironically my ISP is using their DNS servers to block archive.is
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by slyall 8y ago
I don't think they intend to be as out-of-date as they are. They are supposed to be around a version behind. So they should really be releasing 1.13 soon rather than 1.12. They have had a few big tech changes in the 1.9/1.10/
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by slyall 8y ago
The work reminds me of this young adult Sci-Fi story I read when I was a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs_(Sleator_novel...
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How Jibo The Robot Succeeded – By Dying (8min video)(youtube.com)
2 points by slyall 8y ago|0 comments
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Tim O'Reilly on the fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s growth strategy(qz.com)
1 points by slyall 8y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 8y ago
Previously ( June 2017, 106 comments ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14610110
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by slyall 8y ago
I got forwarded the CIS Securing Kubernetes benchmark document a few days back. That had around 100 things that should be set on a cluster for your Enterprise's next security audit. https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark&
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by slyall 8y ago
Hmm [goes off and does more research]. Okay, it appears this is so common that gmail has some guidelines that if people follow they are are usually okay: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365?hl=en It does
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by slyall 8y ago
I wouldn't advise doing this. Forwarding all your email from one provider to another doesn't really work in today's Internet. The problem is that from gmail's point of view your registrar is now sending it a lot of spam.
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Optimising startup time of Prometheus 2.6.0 with pprof(robustperception.io)
3 points by slyall 8y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 8y ago
Worried to see the rackmount hardware close to the carpeted floor with a wall directly behind them. Potential for dust and airflow issues. I've had bits and pieces of a home setup over the years (currently just an HP microserver with d
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by slyall 8y ago
Which edition of "The Road Ahead" did you mean? From the Wikipedia article: After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining critical mass, and on December 7, 1995 — just we
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Hilbert’s list(seths.blog)
68 points by slyall 8y ago|14 comments
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by slyall 8y ago
> What has the Rainbow Warrior III been up to? The Wikipedia entry makes it sound like it's just doing press junket runs. Greenpeace is a "Raise Awareness" organization. Publicity and a good relationship with the press ar
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by slyall 8y ago
Well listened since they were all audiobooks. But they are the top 20% or so. For around the last year I've been listing (with a little review) the ones I listen to https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/category/misc/
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by slyall 8y ago
* The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough * Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb * Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean * Sapiens: A Brief His
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by slyall 8y ago
I migrated my work passwords from Keypass to Enpass. Just exported to the right format and then re-imported. They have howtos for a bunch of them: https://www.enpass.io/docs/desktop-windows/import_export.htm...
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[NSFW] Maximizing Your Slut Impact: An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling(knowingless.com)
19 points by slyall 8y ago|5 comments
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by slyall 8y ago
So you are saying that the town (8000 people) should have required the bank to put in 200 "additional" underground parking spaces? A town with a regulation like that won't spend much time planning future expansion.
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by slyall 8y ago
Ballpark construction costs: Surface parking $3,000 per space Multistory $20,000 per space Underground $30,000 per space
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by slyall 8y ago
It'll be interesting to see what the pricing numbers actually mean. Say my app generates 1GB of logs per day. If I create a dashboard showing hits/errors for the last 24 hours and have the dashboard refreshing every 5 minutes it m
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by slyall 8y ago
A classic short story along this line is: Computers Don't Argue by Gordon R. Dickson A man has a complaint with his book club, but a series of errors escalate things alarmingly. The Wikipedia article has the whole plot: https:/&#

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