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by specialp 7y ago
Yeah there is. It is not like saying that if black hit on roulette 10x in a row that one would be statistically overdue for red. Because those are completely independent events with equal probability on each trial. With earthquakes if stati
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I think too they tend to give you their worst teams to start to see if they can get it done. We had a team from India yes, yes, yes us all the time, and then ask loads of questions 36 hours later that showed they had no idea of what was goi
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by specialp 7y ago
It is going to be a "pandemic" regardless of what we do short of sealing off all travel for a long time. It does not kill a vast majority of the people it infects unlike Ebola so there will always be a large pool of carriers and t
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by specialp 7y ago
I completely agree (not related to this project, but a rant in Ruby). I used to thing metaprograming and DSLs were the best part of Ruby. Now I think it is the worst part. It makes code almost impossible to inspect, has hidden shared state
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by specialp 7y ago
There are also a lot of people putting a coating over the numbers to make them not reflective and unable to be read by red light cameras and other automated means.
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by specialp 7y ago
We've had our Rails like apps (Sinatra, Padrino) Dockerized for 5 years now and running on container orchestration systems. First Mesos, now Kubernetes. And some running as Lambdas as well. We do not have a single production app not in
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by specialp 7y ago
Yes you could do that for all your gems... Or you could just copy in Gemfile.lock. One of the big reasons to run in containers is repeatability and knowing if it runs in your local Docker fine it will run the same on another Docker like sys
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by specialp 7y ago
It is the move to crossover type vehicles and SUVs which are almost all over $30k. People think they need something "good in the snow" and that can carry a lot of cargo. Both things that most rarely need. Even in very snowy and co
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by specialp 7y ago
A lot of people have taken a short position and that is driving a lot of this gain. The shorts are getting squeezed bad and have to cover thus further driving up the price. It is a lot harder to make a long term short bet due to the potenti
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by specialp 7y ago
My job did Weight watchers and I lost 25 lbs and am now not overweight. I am now a WW lifetime member. There really isn't a gimmick to what they do. They provide accountability, emotional support, and decent diet advice by emphasizing
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by specialp 7y ago
I'm not surprised by this. When one gains weight, it is distributed pretty much everywhere. I gained 25 lbs from a sedentary lifestyle that many of us on this site have from our jobs. I lost it, and snoring/acid reflux went away c
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by specialp 7y ago
For me personally I have tried it, and it gives me a headache and makes me feel bad. Now this could be like anything else that causes motion sickness where one would get accustomed to it, but I am not prepared to spend a lot of money on a h
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by specialp 7y ago
This isn't really true. I work for a non profit scholarly society publisher, and we pay millions of dollars a year for copy-editing/formatting and also the work to find referees that do not have conflicts of interest/are not
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by specialp 7y ago
We have abandoned ORMs completely for a repository based approach. It is much more satisfying to write a function to extract/insert whatever you want into a database using the full expressiveness of their query language, and power of t
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by specialp 7y ago
I work for a journal which is in this field. Grammatical errors are OK for a manuscript as long as reviewers can understand what you are reasoning. We will copy edit for grammar or style later if accepted. We won't change the significa
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by specialp 7y ago
You can pay $100/10% a month on Amazon and get good support. They will debug and guide you on. Hiring someone with the expertise you get would cost magnitudes of order more. And if your enterprise is at the level where it warrants 15k
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by specialp 7y ago
IDK about the other cloud providers, but if you have the support on your AWS account for businesses the support is excellent, skilled and fast. We have had support doing TCP dumps and other advanced troubleshooting whenever we've had a
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by specialp 7y ago
A recent development that went under the radar a bit is the rule change to allow for light weight train cars on the tracks in the USA. The Acela line in the Northeast has been plagued with problems even going 125 MPH due to the large increa
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by specialp 7y ago
It is known that 100+ IBU is no longer perceptible as 100 is the max bitterness we can discern. Even regular IPAs weigh in at 50-60 IBU so they are also extremely bitter in the scheme of beers. Most styles of beer are 10-30 IBU. In general
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by specialp 7y ago
I think IPAs have made for peak craft beer and it is going down. You are right about IPAs being easy to cover up poor brews. I brew, and people are really surprised when I tell them one of the hardest possible beers to brew would be a Budwe
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by specialp 7y ago
I've found the comments on TikTok quite positive in general. Especially with these "vulnerable" groups of people. I think it is due to the younger user base. It seems that people that have grown up with social media nearly th
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by specialp 7y ago
> AWS security is so complicated now, at the control plane layer, that hardly anyone understands it. YES! Here is an example.... I wanted to use Elastic Container registry and have Fargate pull from it. I had to figure out that ECR is ac
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by specialp 7y ago
I suppose buying a $130 box that no longer works AT ALL because the cloud backing it and providing all of the functionality is gone isn't a reason to want longevity? It would be like buying a mobile phone locked to one network that fai
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They wouldn't have true but that isn't the point. The point here is that Google is willing to kill products that are successful by all other metrics and burn the users because it just isn't enough for them. They are acting li
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Yes that is the problem. The inner startups. Some startup from YC fails, oh well they disappeared. But Google isn't willing to put the time and effort to get something to stick as much as it would be for a company that it was their sol
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by specialp 7y ago
OK what if line 950, subsection B of the TOS agreement, gave Facebook the option to harvest one of your kidneys? Would that be enforceable? The point of the regulation is to make clear consent for personal information to be used. Saying the
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by specialp 7y ago
Yeah but that's the issue. On eBay the seller has their feedback rating displayed prominently. On Amazon it is sold by <insert English odd word combo> "company" that nobody pays attention to as the ratings are on the pr
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Amazon is a more expensive fast shipping AliExpress. For things like ultrasonic cleaners the best place to go is Ebay and buy a used one from the era when trustworthy products were sold. Filtering on condition: used on EBay gets you a lot o
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This is different as those were companies left flat footed due to their massive bloat and inability to change. Sears was systematically raided for money to buy back shares, and other schemes to benefit Eddie Lampert. He is doing this with A
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by specialp 7y ago
Disney is probably the only media company with enough of a portfolio to have people add another streaming service in addition to Netflix or replace it. NBC/ATT/Apple don't really have a chance IMO. It is sad but we are going

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