storyinmemo

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by storyinmemo 2mo ago
"One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year." -John Cook
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by storyinmemo 7mo ago
> Overwork is an issue in general, but I don't know that it was the actual issue here. One controller working tower duties, ground movement duties, coordinating with other ATC functions off the radio, an active emergency request, an
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by storyinmemo 7mo ago
It's got to be one of these: FOB Shipping Point (or Origin): Responsibility transfers to the buyer as soon as the goods leave the seller's premises. You book it when it leaves your loading dock. FOB Destination: The seller retains
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by storyinmemo 10mo ago
2003: http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/attention_span . 22 Requests / second was a big deal. Perhaps the best benchmark for the maximum potential traffic of the community at that time comes from a Slashdot post
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by storyinmemo 1y ago
I've advocated for this as well but called it a lease. We agree to run this for the duration of the lease and agree to determine whether we should extend / re-sign the lease a period of time before the expiration. Keeps from chang
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Am I reading it correctly that you asked for a read only access token, never received the token or accessed the site with your software, and got a take down notice for your demo that only had fake data hours after asking if you could read d
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchclock I found the pre-electronic way of having a portable audit clock that had keys attached to buildings with numbers that would stamp the clock rather fascinating.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
If your wifi client device can't find an access point, it goes around emitting every saved wifi network you've got. You can learn an awful lot from that.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Maine followed in 1978. The way life should be.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Shameless employer promotion here while I work on H100 clusters today: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoe-puts-cpus-... , https://crusoe.ai/cloud/ Iceland seems to have an exces
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Intel's profit, and revenue, have declined for 3 consecutive years. Their price to earnings ratio is 36. Nvidia's revenue is now greater than Intel's with 20% of the employees that Intel has. Their PE ratio is 78, roughly dou
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Well I'd tell you that they aren't a thing in California.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
But also, the hell with this. I'm still sour enough about the TSA without the concept of, "I'll buy tickets for me and three of my friends then see who wants to go," becoming impossible or gated by ticket transfer fees.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Been playing since very early release and love this amazing game.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Absolutely they do, but that bias can be detected and weighted. More is better.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Yup, that's a piece of advice I'd give to younger me.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
> Modern sextants can read the angle to a 0.1 minute level of accuracy, i.e. one-600th of a degree or one-tenth of a mile. In practice, actual accuracy to one-half mile is acceptable and quite good. The usual standard is accuracy to with
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Temporal is completely above and beyond Asyncio. It's a full scheduling of work and queues that's cross-machine, cross-language, and very transparent. A workflow is the code that handles only deterministic actions and calls activi
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
Outside plant cable doesn't really change. Telco copper wires, CATV cables, and optical fiber are pretty much it. They stay in place for decades. OS1 from 2004 is the same quality today. You just swap out the transceivers at the ends f
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
The line is a piece of copper or glass that ends in a port in a rack at central point. The ISP is providing the connection from that point in the building to their equipment that does switching, routing, and yes billing you.
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by storyinmemo 2y ago
California has a PG&E regulatory capture problem.
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
Local pilot knowledge: Lodi is extra shitty.
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
I mean yeah, none are missing if you have them all. Excellent optimization!
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
I think about 10 years ago when I was working there I checked the trace to load my own homepage. Just one page, just for myself, and there were 100,000 data fetches.
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
There is. You pay a price for any cross-VPC traffic.
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
More overkill than writing your own system? Temporal is just plain quick to setup.
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
... as I'm reading through this doing my normal random highlight of text while I read...
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
Indeed, the thing that keeps me happy with the Coway 400 I've got is the very small power use when particulate is low and the automatic ramp up when it goes high. My fan I keep near my bed for my own comfort pulls 30 watts. The Coway p
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
Hey friends, use 802.1X for your datacenters and enterprise (certificate) wifi auth so you can audit and rotate credentials to prevent... exactly this problem. Everything else iot-like gets a very limited VLAN / alternate WiFi network.
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by storyinmemo 3y ago
Good heavens I'm feeling this. With my last few employers being acquired by private equity or having layoffs my resume doesn't scream, "Will grow in the role," anymore... and it didn't have the chance to do so. Thin

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