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by tannerbrockwell 6y ago
Twitter would have to recognize, an in kind contribution to any candidate running against the President. "The value of an in-kind contribution—the usual and normal charge—counts against the contribution limit as a gift of money does. A
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by tannerbrockwell 6y ago
"In December 2007, Reader linked up with Google Talk (the chat feature in Gmail) to display shared streams from friends. Within the context of feed reading, it fomented something of a Neolithic Revolution. Foragers, hitherto gathering
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by tannerbrockwell 6y ago
I posted the correct test and got down voted. The other Vitamin D test is not accurate. If you ask for the test from your doctor, he has to specify the one I linked. You can decide for yourself what level you want to target. The other test
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by tannerbrockwell 6y ago
If you get the test make sure it is the right one! 25 (OH) stays in the blood longer, so this is the more accurate test. (half life of 3 weeks in your blood). Many experts recommend a level of at least 30 ng/ml ... some actually sugges
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
I wonder what happened with the WHO study: "20,000 healthcare workers [will receive] #chloroquine [and] will be tested daily as currently used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis for three months or until they are diagnosed with C
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Also see the book 'BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability', published by Brendan Gregg (2019). This book can help you get the most out of your systems and applications, helping you improve performance, r
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Hopefully we get some update on the WHO test that is announced in this document: "20,000 healthcare workers [will receive] chloroquine [and] will be tested daily as currently used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis for three mont
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
The data coming out of the UK on ventilator use is not reassuring at all. [1] It feels like we are treating a symptom of the coronavirus, and in practice ending up with 50% and higher mortalities. That these people would have died anyway, i
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Current convention is to refer to eBPF as BPF, and where referring to the Original BPF as cBPF. This is why Brendan's book is "BPF Performance Tools" "Then in 2013, Alexei Starovoitov completely reshaped it, started to a
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Agreed. using bpf can eliminate some of the requirements for packet captures. Computing the metrics on the host, also eliminates the network traffic of exporting logs or pcaps to for instance splunk. [1] Brendan Gregg wrote a book that digs
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
When you get to the level of analyzing packet data, the first obstacle is actually capturing the conversations that you may find relevant. While a capture filter can help on the acquisition, it is possible that an error in the filter could
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Jony Ives relates how Steve Jobs asked him; "How many things have you said no to..." [1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oksetv3i90
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Look at OpenTracing. This is the merger of two tracing initiatives and will provide the pointers to both commercial and open source solutions. [1] There is some excellent capabilities to instrument an existing java app through the jvm [2] w
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
"Thus, a predisposing genetic background can give reason for interindividual disease susceptibility and/or severity" I have not seen any good demographics breakdown of coronavirus deaths other than age/sex and even that
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
There is an Anki Deck for the words / meaning / pictographs... [1] I am fascinated that this is a 14 character alphabet. I imagine if a CS major or mathematician made this they would have been strongly inclined to base 16 for inst
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
You said it yourself "critical/essential" business. If you believe you may be an asymptomatic carrier of COVID-19 it would be immoral to infect your co-workers. Especially if they are unable or unprepared to work from home th
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
I use SVG for the majority of my work with Affinity Designer. I save an .afdesign file. But what I'm shipping is the SVG. I just realized that Affinity Designer can directly open PDF files, so the only reason I ever opened Inkscape is
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Git exists, because Bitkeeper were being A holes. [1] A developer needed some metrics on the Bitkeeper repository that Linux used. Remember this is a proprietary and commercial product that granted a handful of licenses to the Linux commun
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Affinity Designer - File - Export PDF EPS SVG You can directly open these files. The .afdesign format of course is proprietary, and support for import and export of these formats does what I need.
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
The enterprise systems tie in to your Exchange / Outlook messaging for shared calendars. We saw excessive equipment failures with the Steelcase line. This was a few years ago. But like I said, they had the option of using iPads, but we
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Not really surprising at all. There are most likely a higher percentage of asymptomatic individuals in the US than is expected. From the article: "In the past week, the number of tests conducted in the United States has increased, howe
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Optics at this point. Most regions in the US are transitioning to mandatory quarantine with only exceptions for food, pharmaceuticals or essential business. With both NY and CA on de facto lockdown, we will see this impact the National GDP
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
I warned you a week ago we would "waste of resources" and here we are: "Health officials are struggling with a complicated message — more people can get tested, but those with mild symptoms should stay home and practice socia
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Investing is a very personal matter. A financial advisor is the best person to discuss this with. If I were pursuing this for myself I would build a Permanent Portfolio [1]. If I was looking for a financial advisor I would talk to Andrew Ho
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
I've seen companies waste some pretty serious time on admin and maintenance of room reservation screens by the doors. Oddly enough they had chose not to go with an iPad based system because of cost
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
The tests are not accurate. [1] We are running around like chickens freaking out about tests. The only thing to do at this point is Social Distancing so the growth curve flattens out. Testing is NOT a solution. Testing will not make a sick
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Load testing is a form of capacity planning and validation. You must acquire other metrics to meet modern SLOs.
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Implementing monitoring of key metrics is a requirement for establishing SLOs. A dashboard may not be observed constantly, and if you have an incident, those key metrics better be presented in a manner that shows realtime, and historic perf
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
I just discovered the news / comedy podcast No Agenda. [1] Hosted by Adam Curry and John Dvorak. Apparently this has been a thing now for ten years!? Sort of a hidden treasure. Adam was on Joe Rogan recently to talk about how he invent
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Actually no. In 2015 and 2018 this was documented to be due to widespread illegal sand mining operations off the coasts of the world. Dredgers will scoop out sand offshore, and the dynamics of the coastal beaches, is that the onshore sand i

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