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by swasheck 7y ago
your comment reminds me of this post: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
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by swasheck 7y ago
Not constructively. Zadkey essentially derided France for being unprepared for a situation for which they had no true context. If you take no issue with Zadkey's comment, then I'd assume you have no issue with the Harvey response.
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by swasheck 7y ago
if 1500 people died from a sustained blizzard lasting a decidedly "abnormal" period of time would be a better equivalency. It's not like someone just turned the heat lamp on France for a day and zapped 1500 people and then tu
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by swasheck 7y ago
It is helpful. It may not provide the answer the OP wanted, but it provides the answer they needed.
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by swasheck 7y ago
This largely depends on the RDBMS. When generating estimates for memory grants, Sql Server will look at the row size as well expected counts. I’ve had particularly bad ORM queries throw together products of joined tables with all possible c
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by swasheck 7y ago
like the AOL of this generation
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by swasheck 7y ago
this was my reaction, too. please don't patronize me by telling me it's for my benefit. advances in things like NLP are great, especially for the social sciences, but it's not going to connect me to my (facebook) world.
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by swasheck 7y ago
Interesting thoughts. My impression of the situation is that “freedom of ...” is colloquially internalized as “freedom from consequence.” If society had access to justice on the same terms, then I wonder if things like freedom of speech wou
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by swasheck 7y ago
receptor-mediated endocytosis ( https://biologywise.com/mechanism-of-receptor-mediated-endoc... ) is the process by which the body begins to ignore a persistent stimulus (notably, smell). i'm not sure if there's a l
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by swasheck 7y ago
My dad and my uncle are staunch believers in a wild man sort of creature that lives out here in the remote San Juan mountains of southern Colorado. The stories they share are vague, but convincing. They grew up in these mountains, sleeping
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by swasheck 7y ago
i grew up in orlando and had multiple "field trips" to st. augustine. this cannonball fact was one of the more celebrated and (and funny) facts that they'd share with us. as we got older, our attention went from "cool fo
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by swasheck 7y ago
an aws tam once told me the same thing. us-east-1a gets the new stuff first. i never validated it against anything other than this one person's statement.
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by swasheck 7y ago
This is covered at length in a book titled “Good to Go.” It was such a good read and addressed so many things that I’d taken as a given about recover. Highly recommend the approach and the style of the author. https://www.goodrea
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by swasheck 7y ago
> pre-wired to be biased towards the short-term. do you mean toward self-preservation?
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by swasheck 8y ago
I’ve seen 3 or 4 of these posts over the last few months and they all seem to have half in common with each other. At this point do we need more posts calling attention to FDW and Table Inheritance as things nobody’s using/heard of? Th
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by swasheck 8y ago
I don’t think that was the argument, so forgive me for the confusion. It’s really more like, “why not employ the unemployed homeless and receive the civic benefit of clean toilets, which might improve the quality of said toilets and hopeful
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by swasheck 8y ago
What if SF employed a few of the homeless to clean them? I’d like to see public money spent invested in people than more unusable/inaccessible utilities. Certainly not a get rich quick scheme, but it’s just a quick thought.
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by swasheck 8y ago
This was my thought. Also, this can’t really be that much more sanitary or clean.
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by swasheck 8y ago
I wonder what the economic impact to local economies would be if we could be rid of the bribes, cronyism, and nepotism that goes into civil maintenance.
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by swasheck 8y ago
His "The Storm Before the Storm" ( https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic... ) is a great read as well. I was genuinely saddened when I finished it.
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by swasheck 8y ago
Consul for 7 terms (though not in a row). He alternated between savior and terror of the republic.
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by swasheck 8y ago
Ever since the SR-71 piece a few days ago (in which there are some disparaging F-35 comments), there have been a few submissions on the F-35 that appear to attempt to bolster its reputation.
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by swasheck 8y ago
Slightly OT: This is a timely find and post as we debate how and why Boeing got the 737MAX8 through approvals. This is such a salient quote: > Perhaps the truest explanation of why things happened as they did is the most ordinary: that h
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by swasheck 8y ago
Isn’t most of the legacy AWS EC2 stuff Xen?
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by swasheck 8y ago
i thought i was the only one.
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by swasheck 8y ago
Statistically fewer incidents. Greater scale of tragedy, emotionally. Though there are entire branches of fields that use statistics to mitigate risk, probabilities are tricky things. I found this interesting read a few days ago https:&#x2
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by swasheck 8y ago
I believe that the commercial jet industry works a bit differently. It seems that they just rely on the carriers to make that call, though I could be completely mistaken. Having said that, this is a snippet from AVHerald's post on the
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by swasheck 8y ago
18 months ago I was in a shop that used F5 and it was a nightmare. Some of the best network admins I've ever worked with and they couldn't nail down why the load balancer did the things it did, when it did them. It was bad enough
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by swasheck 8y ago
i thought that because cash was "legal tender" it was required by law to be accepted but the second paragraph disabused me of that.
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by swasheck 8y ago
I'm not sure about that. I thought cloud was primarily about consolidation of infrastructure, development, and operational headcount which does price some sort of OpEx reduction, but the primary goal being the reduction (elimination, i

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