teilo

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by teilo 10y ago
>Star Trek doesn't tell us how their economy is managed or their internal politics. True, but there is this much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H5uPyU2oKE Other references: http://memory-alpha.wikia.co
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by teilo 10y ago
Perhaps also relevant: I'm not much of a lip reader, but when I clearly can tell what someone is saying, I have an auditory response. I hear the words. Sometimes this is so strong that when viewing video, I have been fooled into thinki
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by teilo 10y ago
I have always had this experience. I never stopped to consider that others don't have it as well. Now I wonder how much this correlates to how people process information. I tend to visualize abstract concepts in some fashion, ever if I
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by teilo 10y ago
When I was in college, someone hired a team of Amish to build a car stereo shop across the street. It was quite fascinating to watch. They built it using techniques you normally see when building a barn. They sunk a whole series of posts i
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by teilo 10y ago
When I worked for a Wal-Mart in Indiana in the 90s, the Amish would come into the electronics department and buy country music cassettes and battery-powered players. And also, I kid you not, Gameboys.
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by teilo 10y ago
I use Python for a significant amount of data munging. Dictionary comprehensions alone was worth the switch for me. When I started, pandas did not exist, so I had to develop everything from scratch.
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by teilo 10y ago
Yes this makes as much sense as the proposal to develop a mobile technology whereby a cell phone can magically determine which of the passengers in a moving vehicle is the driver, and disable itself.
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by teilo 10y ago
We had serious problems getting NFS to work. Major permissions issues all around.
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by teilo 10y ago
We actually began with Linux. We moved to Mac because: Samba has serious problems with large filesystems due to the disconnect between case sensitive and case insensitive filesystems. It incurs massive overhead when you have thousands of fi
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by teilo 10y ago
My company runs 350+ Macs. Years ago, we abandoned Macs in our datacenter when Apple neutered OS X Server and gave us no alternative. Windows is now king there. Now we are seriously considering abandoning Mac for, of all things, our Prepres
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by teilo 10y ago
This is a wide-ranging problem, actually. Apple strongly recommends you NOT create a case sensitive file system, particularly on your system drive.
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by teilo 10y ago
When traveling in Germany, pay toilets were one of the things I liked. I don't like going into some place of business to use their toilet without buying something. It was actually cheaper for me to use a pay toilet. Furthermore, they w
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by teilo 10y ago
Having developed on a system that had to import and collate insurance claims data from multiple providers, I've come to dread CSVs for all of these reasons.
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U2F Extension for Safari(github.com)
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by teilo 10y ago
> And how is it that a "good API" requires client modules for all these different languages? Do people not know how to make HTTP requests anymore or something? That is a complex question. For example, our company's ERP is
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by teilo 10y ago
Can we avoid replicating the tarpit that is WSDL for RESTful services? Time will tell, but I have my doubts.
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by teilo 10y ago
I have made a lot of window function converts. It's amazing how many devs don't know about them. When I see a whole series of CASE statements + subqueries, it is almost always possible to dramatically simplify the query with one o
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by teilo 10y ago
They may not "support" it, but they would have to do a lot of work to prevent it, since the Linux and Windows implementations are identical. An application cannot tell the difference.
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by teilo 10y ago
I was thinking more of Ansible, but yeah. I've done SQL Server installs on Windows Core, and it is painful. Aside from the obscure PowerShell commands, you have to write a config file - just to get the damn thing installed. Rubbish. (I
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by teilo 10y ago
Yes, and the cost savings go well beyond a Windows license + SA. Being able to leverage an existing toolchain for configuration management and deployment is a huge cost savings, given that the Windows alternatives are both expensive, more d
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by teilo 10y ago
Timing. Postgres 9.5 was not on the horizon when we were building out our solution. Lacking OLAP support, the query complexity to achieve similar functionality would have been very cumbersome, error-prone, and non-performant (excessive use
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by teilo 10y ago
OLAP for one. Initial support for basic OLAP conventions was introduced in 9.5 (grouping sets, rollups, cubes, upserts), but there's still a lot missing (like nested aggregations), and a lot of performance tuning that needs to be done.
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by teilo 10y ago
In addition to being a dupe, the Popular Mechanics title is false. Natural Gas is still the cheapest form of energy production for large scale production. The cheapest overall is Geothermal. The only thing that makes wind and solar cheaper
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by teilo 10y ago
No, I am not being sarcastic. I am being a cold realist. This is the path to self-preservation. I did not advocate an "I'm going to get you approach" in the least. I am advocating the opposite: that the OP distance himself fr
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by teilo 10y ago
Do Not Apologize! That is a recipe for censure, failure, and a permanent record. It is also a way to guarantee the problem will only get worse. Your apology will be used as an admission of guilt, and she will use this against you. Ignor
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by teilo 10y ago
Energy harvesting is essentially heat reclamation. This makes for a trivial smell test for claims such as these: Think about how much heat is generated as you discharge your phone battery. Now imagine how long it would take you to generate
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by teilo 10y ago
I found that it was possible to retain two layouts when switching, but at the expense of efficiency. I could not make significant progress until I abandoned any effort to retain my former layout. Having switched three times now, I found thi
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by teilo 10y ago
There is no speed advantage. The anecdotal evidence saying otherwise has nothing to do with the layout, but with the effort put into learning to type properly. The rest is confirmation bias.
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by teilo 10y ago
No reason to change shortcuts. I use vim on Dvorak. It's all just muscle memory. Makes no difference where the keys are for the most part.
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by teilo 10y ago
Careful. It's highly addictive. I've been there a couple years.

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