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by specialp 8y ago
I live on Long Island, and it is expensive. Schools are funded mostly through high property taxes. It is nearly impossible to get high density housing approved for working age people. The constituents want only 55+ for complexes so they can
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by specialp 8y ago
I have a manual transmission CTS-V and having a manual is a significant performance disadvantage these days. A 10 speed auto transmission will shift much faster than a 6sp manual driven by anyone even a professional, and it has more gears t
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by specialp 8y ago
I really think they don't care that much. For them what they do is take a 20% rip from the random sellers that appear on there and always side with the buyer in any case of counterfeit or misrepresented products. This is working great
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by specialp 8y ago
Yeah I don't understand at all why people think that Google wanted to be in this business. They were forced to. ISPs were starting to lag behind on bandwidth that was important to them, and also started to discriminate on traffic. It i
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by specialp 8y ago
Orchestration does introduce complexity but it does so with a large base of users, developers and general ecosystem. As developers and systems implementors we are already sitting on top of a huge stack of what could be an impossibly complex
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by specialp 8y ago
I have used Mesos/Marathon from nearly the beginning and K8s. We currently use K8s. In your third paragraph about the 11 person team with custom scripts is why K8s has won out. It wasn't really the marketing by Google, it was that
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by specialp 8y ago
I think the only high barrier of entry is actually getting a cluster going outside of Minikube. The abstractions for pods, services, replica-sets etc are pretty easy to understand and the alternative for scaling a service/making it dis
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by specialp 8y ago
The reason why helium is "running out" is it is being treated as a cheap commodity which it is and was. Many experiments and machines would rather top off boiling away helium rather than recapture and recompress it in an expensive
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by specialp 8y ago
This is true to some extent (IMO Elm and Haskell) but I think at least being exposed to one functional language will make anyone a better developer in all languages. I started programming in Clojure, Clojurescript, and now messing around wi
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Yes everything I write in Clojurescript gets ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS and works fine. Also I have found that I get a lot more gain without having the language get in my way with functional programming vs strong static typing. Especially when
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by specialp 8y ago
Many people (me included) don't trust Google to stay with any business besides advertising. There's been too many times that they have ended services with not much time to get off.
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by specialp 8y ago
This is a pretty bad mistake from the customer if this is true. If not done already it would probably be good to expose Prometheus metrics on CPU/Memory usage per node.
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They are not similar at all besides both being called a "subscription". Facebook subscriptions are giving users access to content they cannot get without, and there are different price points. YouTube is offering a Twitch style $5
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by specialp 8y ago
This isn't a subscription really it is a a recurring donation. And yes I am certain it will take off because a lot of creators now are unable to do what they'd like due to advertising sensitivity. A single subscriber brings you th
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by specialp 8y ago
This is a thing that has been done on Twitch for several years now. The 4.99 isn't really a subscription, it is a recurring donation. You might get some things like special emoji or a symbol next to your name but that is it. The purpos
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by specialp 8y ago
The problem with Ruby isn't static typing per se, it is the terrible handling of `nil`. Ruby either has to make nil more evaluatable, or assure unexpected nils never come with options. For instance calling `each` on `nil` should have t
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by specialp 8y ago
Here we are on HN with many people complaining about free* Facebook, and then also complaining about pay services too. It takes money to run a world class news organization. Either that or they can get paid in non money equivalents like &qu
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by specialp 8y ago
Clojurescript has very easy JS interopt (clj->js), (js->clj) plus easy ways to export external js library functions. There's been nothing I can't do in CLJS.
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Actually I would greatly prefer option 1. I am very confident that given nearly any situation I will prove my worth and have never had an employer disappointed with my work. I am not as confident I would complete a contrived coding skill ch
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by specialp 8y ago
There's no doubt that those were factors that aided. As always nothing in world history happened due to a singular factor or cause. But it is not mythology that a lot of brave and enlightened people fought an empire and have become a v
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by specialp 8y ago
The main thing causing off flavors is not the fact that the grapes are grown naturally and organically, it is that they are being fermented by wild yeast. That is the part that is kinda lost in this article. Fermentation with wild yeast can
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by specialp 9y ago
Apple already lost the Mac Pro market when they made Final Cut Pro X, and stopped regularly releasing Mac Pros. They completely disregarded the professional market by killing functionality that was critical to the users. That combined with
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by specialp 9y ago
Why would you do any of that when it opens up fine in Excel? A chart doesn't display a million things, it summarizes it. End users aren't going to be pumping stuff through shell scripts, and I personally am not in the business of
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by specialp 9y ago
Yes you are right later on people had more skepticism especially after the FDA piled on. The argument I am making is the initial claims they had about testing a single drop of blood were pretty outrageous to anyone that even knows a little
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by specialp 9y ago
People here gave me talking points based on what you are saying years ago when I expressed skepticism about Theranos. I worked in the diagnostic industry and know that 1. Many tests (that are in the comprehensive panel that is routinely ord
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by specialp 9y ago
If you are going to post constantly about political and social issues, and be a NYT columnist about such issues, you are going to get counter points of varying quality. Some may be offensive. Twitter is a 2 way platform. Qualifying oppositi
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by specialp 9y ago
The most important aspect of this is he was wearing a 5mil wetsuit. All of the rest of the things they mentioned are much smaller factors in him staying warm. The wetsuit also makes him slightly more buoyant. I kayak in the winter and have
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by specialp 9y ago
> It's important to read criticism like this and consider it, but not believe it blindly. The article made provably true observations about Tether. You have made the most stretchingly feasible counterpoints that have no demonstrable
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Because they were giving people $1500 to sign up for their card effectively. I am one of those people that signed up. I signed up for no reason other than I am getting a tremendous amount more than what I am paying for. Last December Chase
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by specialp 9y ago
I work for a physics journal and when we make articles for the public to describe findings we have the opposite problem when it comes to authors. Scientists especially in theory are reluctant to ascribe much at all to their research other t

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