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by ssmoot 11y ago
My work computer is also my home computer. So not losing photos and videos is pretty critical. Everything else is replaceable. I just bought a cheap Seagate Backup Plus 4TB last year. I think it was $130. Then I just let Time Machine do it&
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I'd be surprised. It's used in motorcycle helmets as well and there's definitely a market for pretty pricey motorcycle helmets if you could claim they were better in any marginal way.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I'm not sure if I agree with the other poster's point. But just the same, your logic is: So if I get into a fight with a drunk concealed carry holder, I deserve to get shot? Of course not. Would it have been wise of me to consider
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Your car probably has it (behind the bumper cover). Helmets have it. Your home may have it. It's light, it insulates, it absorbs the energy of impact (once at least). I don't know if there are effective, inexpensive substitutes fo
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Towing a small pop-up camper? At highway speeds the whole trip? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if you ran out of juice before reaching Yosemite. Grades and highway speeds have a huge impact on range IME. Not to mention an extra 500lb
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Akka doesn't spawn additional OS processes. It's thread based. (ForkJoinPool? Though maybe that's changed.)
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by ssmoot 11y ago
That's crazy. I think I probably paid $20 for DEF to cover the ~11,000 miles I drove in my truck last year (and I'd have to imagine it's thirstier than an economy car). You pop a blue cap under the hood, dump in the DEF, and
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by ssmoot 11y ago
But who provides the quality standards oversight? The drug is apparently produced in India. What if pills were shipped to the US and it was found after the fact that many batches contained unacceptable levels of iron? Who to blame? I'm
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I'm not qualified to answer either way. But my grandfather worked at a coal fired plant. I've been to the strip mine. I've seen the trains that run continuously to truck it in. From a layman's perspective it seems like a
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Local Jump Errors everywhere. But I remember specifically using open(url), parsing some HTML, and writing out a CSV. Today there are libraries to make that trivial for an experienced Rubyist, but this was Ruby 1.8.0. FasterCSV was still jus
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I think you have to understand Types when working with Ruby. Otherwise it's just syntax voodoo. That's a big part of what helps a language like c# continuously reinforce a mental model that leads to better/easier understandin
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I actually found c# much easier to learn than Ruby. (I learned it before Ruby). The compiler helped a lot. It's also a lot more consistent. When I started Ruby, I often didn't understand why something I wrote worked. That's n
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Since I used the keyboard for most of my navigation in HipChat I find Slack incredibly annoying. With HipChat I could rearrange channels and have my most often used 3 at the top and switch between with a couple keystrokes. With Slack it&#x2
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I agree. But that's my biggest problem with Docker. Who runs SmartOS and uses Zones? Why? When you have a local server, that supports KVM and Zones, you choose KVM as the cleaner abstraction. While surrounded by neat tech, Zones are ac
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I bought a Konica Minolta 1600W Color Laser Printer on Amazon a few years ago after being frustrated at the infrequently used ink-jet cartridges going bad yet again because I didn't print enough. I think it was $120. Still on the origi
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Maybe it depends on airport. I've definitely never seen a "blue sleeve". And I've definitely heard veteran pre-board called out at Love Field. Either way, like I said, I probably wouldn't change it. It has no real i
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by ssmoot 11y ago
The "unassigned seating" thing is a little amusing since IME SouthWest actually has like 7 levels of "special" (at least it feels like that) before general seating is allowed. I probably wouldn't change it (the spec
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Your JVM does. jruby.jar is megabytes of reimplementation and mapping of the Ruby stdlib onto the JVM. Plus in this example, loading a Ruby parser and interpreter. Here's executing an assembly (über-jar) I wrote in Scala: → time sc
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by ssmoot 11y ago
What if you could require() your patch just where you needed it? You'd have the utility and elegance of the simple solution, without abusing the global namespace. That's exactly what you'd do in Scala. implicit class Html
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by ssmoot 11y ago
It's a Sublime competitor. Not an IDE. I'll just speak for myself doing Scala development: It in no way replaces IntelliJ. Atom doesn't host SBT. It won't compile in the background, it doesn't parse your code and bu
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by ssmoot 11y ago
You don't think a device that weighs over 2lbs falling from 40' could kill someone? And that seems like it's being pretty generous. In most "quadcopter crash" videos I've seen on YouTube the drone was much high
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by ssmoot 11y ago
> it's merely there to illustrate that it gets a lot more difficult to appreciate the value of a little personal time in the present if you have an unusual utility-function in your moral code that applies a lot more weight to the fu
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by ssmoot 11y ago
> it's unconditionally making the world of the family worse It obviously is. The 48 hours or whatever curing cancer can and will continue another time. Child birth won't. And if you can't even afford to prioritize your fam
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by ssmoot 11y ago
That should be his choice though. (For myself, as an avid Yelp user, I don't care. It's mostly easy to pick up good vs bad reviews IME.) I also don't have a lot of sympathy for "small business owners" wanting to fig
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by ssmoot 11y ago
That's not really anything to do with sorting. At least not covering indexes as I'm familiar with them.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Yes you can manually re-order a table, with locking, but that's really not the same thing as enforcing in on INSERT/UPDATE.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I'm using that for short-hand yea. But it was my experience pg_restore is no faster outside of basic parallelization.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I want to be able to say: BACKUP clientdb_a, get a clientdb_a.bak file, and be able to restore it without statement generation. Which seems like a reasonable baseline expectation if you were to ask a lay-person what they'd imagine a da
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by ssmoot 11y ago
That's really just for setting up replication IME (and even then, that's pretty complex compared to MSSQL). What if I fat finger a table drop for Client A? With pgbasebackup the best I could do is set up an entirely new server and
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by ssmoot 11y ago
re: Materialized Views: I stand corrected! Thanks. (CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW was introduced in v9.3) The backup/restore procedure in PostgreSQL (last I looked, latest I've used is 9.2) is just statement generation. It's not a

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