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by slyall 2y ago
A house is not a zero-risk investment. Any number of reasons from Natural disaster on down could cause it to lose much of it's value or even become uninhabitable. Possibly in a way that insurance wouldn't cover. Think of people wh
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I had somebody sit near to me who wanted to leave at lunchtime but was convinced to stay on and left after the second day. This was on the ads team. The job involved managing ads on our site (via google ads and some other providers). They h
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The book "Imperial Earth" by Arthur Clark featured a circular cycle track on a low-gravity spaceship. The main protagonist was trying to train for earth gravity so he cycled around it very fast until he felt 1G
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Another reason for puppet being less popular is lots of places ended up with very complicated configuration that did everything on the server but was hard to work with. Ansible you could deploy a small playbook that did just one thing. A lo
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I had a simple one on a Kubernetes cluster in AWS. What happened is we'd have a queue processor that normally needed a couple of pods to handle events. Except that once a day another process would drop in 5 million requests into the qu
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Probably so if they accidentally upload a confidential document they can claim that anybody who downloaded it (or shared the URLS) violated their T&Cs
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Google owns youtube. I'd be surprised if their user agreement doesn't allow them to train on the uploads. Same with Apple and Facebook. I'm not sure a dozen companies (before consultation and licensing) having control of 90-s
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A new movie staring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum features this is a subplot. Stay for the last line of the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0k04aH71UA
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Same. My employer was highly impacted by the November 2nd outage but this latest one didn't appear to have affected us at all.
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I'm not from Australia (in NZ) but I'd expect the usual range of views. However fines are a voluntary payment to usually attract less opposition Typical limits are here. 100 km/h on most freeways, 100km/h on ones built t
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The US is very lax about enforcing speed laws compared to other countries. Compare to somewhere like Australia where you get fined for just going a few km/h over the limit and the use speed cameras extensively. https://www.q
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There is already something called Kiwi in the Kafka space. https://github.com/domwood/kiwi-kafka
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Turnitin will have millions of essays written by students. No doubt they will already be looking at these deal (or getting ready to update their license if it currently doesn't permit it).
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Heat Death of the Internet(takahe.org.nz)
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So soon the world forgets the words of President Thomas Whitmore: We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world decla
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Not to mention that snow isn't very common in Australia.
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Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me (and 24,000 Other Songs) on Spotify?(nytimes.com)
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Opponents are usually talking about long term and short term. Basically they will argue that there is no connection between price and supply.
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Stewart Hicks did a bit about the book in a youtube video. The video is mostly about Art Deco buildings but it talks to the author and uses some of the content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VNP9RYIS_E
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Well 25 years ago was pretty much (December 1998) when "LAMP"[1] was defined and that was originally Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. So Postgres and Python were not the obvious choices back then. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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The Ten Thickest Books I Own(blog.darkmere.gen.nz)
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An article in a local New Zealand news site put as the clash between "The Old Town and the New City" The New City are the creatives, students, hipsters and yo-pros. They want to live an urbane lifestyle, with trendy cafes, thrift
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The Website has stats on the number who play each game (and their moves). March 7 - Wordle 992 - 1,748,583 players March 8 - Wordle 993 - 1,749,500 players To get these go to: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022&#x
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Whereas a "poor mans hobby" is a a 1970s muscle car and a home workshop... Sure you can spend thousands on racks of servers and UPS/generators but you can also spend less than $500. Personally I rent a unit in a quadplex and
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Some politicians will know a lot more about procedure. Especially if they want to go for a leadership position. People like Lyndon Johnson knew Senate rules backward. If you could win or lose a critical vote based on some obscure rule last
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Never Again by Doug Nufer: a 163-page novel with no repeated words [pdf](ubu.com)
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Doug Nufer writes fiction, poetry, and performance pieces that seem to be based on formal constraints even when they are not. Never Again, the most audacious example of his work to date, is a novel in which no word appears more than once. I
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This sounds similar to "The Discovery of France" by Graham Robb. Recommend
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I know plenty of people who go from Asia to Europe via the Middle East because the other route via the US involves getting a US visa and doing the full trip though immigration, customers and usually security.
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Just as a datapoint I'll say I installed Ubuntu 22.04 18 months ago and it defaulted to Wayland. Since then I've had no problems with it. $ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE wayland

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