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by steve_gh 4y ago
Basic queueing theory says 100% load is not possible with any sort of variance in the arrival rate or service rate. Realistically 70% is a good starting point for a max continuous load - then tune it. You might end up a bit lower or higher
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by steve_gh 4y ago
You could ask ChatGPT to do this sort of conversion
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Insightful. A lot of left wing Vs right wing political thinking can be cast as strong Vs weak link thinking.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
I don't know (US?) Copyright law in any detail, or any copyright law beyond reading debates about GPL and other licences (IANAL). but wouldn't the fact that you have successfully passed off this fiction as fact for 16 years count
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Define "need" In my job (infrastructure management) I am constantly fighting against people wanting to throw data away. "We know the condition of the bridge" they say - "so we don't need the past 20 years of ma
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by steve_gh 4y ago
We have electric scooter rental where I live in the UK (Bath). They are restricted to one operator (Voi), you need at least a provisional driver's licence, they automatically lock if you try and ride 2-up. and there are specified parki
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Why are women so marginalised by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?(theguardian.com)
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Good article. Reminds me of the old climbing mantra: The best way to learn is through experience. Usually a very frightening one.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Really interesting, I knew Lincoln was a lawyer by training, but was unaware of his area of practice. Or for that matter, his interest in technology, or role in sounding the US Military's first aeronautical core.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
this week, next week, sometime, never
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by steve_gh 4y ago
>> The total “amount” or “supply” of a financial asset is the total market value of it in existence: the number of shares outstanding times the market price. Isn't this assuming 'mark to market' - the assumption that th
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Small error: in the Roman Republic, the dictatorship took power away from the consuls (with short term limits - normally 6 months), who were the normal leadership. And one of the things that republican dictators prided themselves on, was th
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by steve_gh 4y ago
A government is only as good as it's opposition. Having a strong range of voices and differing viewpoints on the board is a good thing. Employee representation is one of those range of voices
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by steve_gh 4y ago
This is the best online travel journal I have seen in a long time. Loving it!
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Actually, on thinking about it a bit more, it has a lot of similarities to a whole bunch of coordination problems that I worked on many years ago in the mobile phone industry. There was a problem was coordinating resource usage between a se
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by steve_gh 4y ago
The whole thing really comes down to a tension between on the one hand trying to find a globally optimal solution, which requires lots of state coordination, and locally optimal solutions, which are unlikely to be as good, but do not have t
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Anyone who quotes early Billy Bragg lyrics at me on HN definitely deserves an upvote.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
I can get on a train in Paris and be in Marseille in 3 hours. In a car it would probably be at least 8 hours. Just how are CAVs going to improve on that?
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by steve_gh 4y ago
This is interesting - can you expand a little or provide a link. I get a-b links, but where do father and son come in?
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by steve_gh 4y ago
I can recommend Patrick Leigh Fermor as a travel writer. For those who don't know of him, he was the leader of the partisan group wo abducted the German General Kripke in Crete in 1943, filmed as I'll Meet by Moonlight. His books
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by steve_gh 4y ago
More proof (if any were needed) that "Naming things" is one of the two* core computing problems. * Alongside "Cache consistency" and "Off-by-one errors"
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by steve_gh 4y ago
On wind turbines there are generally ground drag effects that reduce the wind speed closer to the ground. A 3 bladed setup minimises the wind speed (and therefore thrust) differences between blades, minimizing the off axis forces on the rot
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Climbing is also about core strength. I started bouldering much more regularly about a year ago, and was amazed by how much my trail running improved without any special effort.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
That's a pretty poor tone for HN. We don't do that sort of thing here.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Where I come from there is a saying "Clogs to clogs in 3 generations"
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Needed saying. Chapeau!
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Depends also on what you mean by the "Standard Library". Back in the day Ruby had built in language features (e.g. Innumerable), and a standard library that was bundled into the distribution (e.g. GServer). More recent versions of
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Now that is interesting. If you release a full Git repository, it may well contain a lot of information that is potentially PII. Names and email addresses may well be PII, commit timestamps might be as they may indicate someone's locat
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by steve_gh 4y ago
I work in an engineering consultancy organisation. A lot of the big tenders are incredibly wasteful, with lots of money being wasted on them. We have an aggressive sales pipeline process. We prune our sales pipeline hard, and ensure we are
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Hmmm. I'm interested in the GitHub ToS, which (if I understand correctly) basically says that GitHub and it's affiliates (MS) can use anything you post on GitHub to improve their service. What if I build an AGPL licenced service,

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