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by thyrsus 4y ago
I work within an organization resembling this, and yet it has remained profitable for multiple decades. I forever wonder when the technical naked short options[0] will get called, but they never have in a serious way. My suspicion is that
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I'd need to find another mantra. After emptying the wastebasket (30 seconds), every object in my office represents a past and/or future project that I haven't the mental bandwidth to prioritize. I'm not quite at hoarde
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by thyrsus 5y ago
If you're rich or can afford the months of devoting your life to that, yes.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
There was talk a few weeks ago about restricting such behavior, e.g. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/11/democrats-clean-up-... It seems to have dropped out of the news since then.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
The exploit relies on the behavior of backtick quotes in mySql, which I'd never encountered before. Do other SQLish databases have similar features?
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by thyrsus 5y ago
NOT a bible verse: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; For I am the meanest son-of-bitch in the valley.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Please substantiate that claim by citing similar code exhibiting better clarity.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Why does Dunning-Kruger come to mind?
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Are there data to support this? The original article cited Scandinavian experience, but I'm having trouble finding a reliable source.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I picked "other" for "my employer ceased operations". Maybe I should have picked "change is good"?
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by thyrsus 5y ago
For me, yak shaving is when the prerequisites to doing the thing I want means I have to do things I hate, like resolving inconsistent circular library package dependencies for things I don't even want on my system based on code that&#x
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by thyrsus 5y ago
What part of "passively monitor" permits automated shutoff? Police intervention might be problematic, especially if you're poor or non-white, but it's better than being shot at. Edit: s/observe/monitor/
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Since there is a fee for making a trade, how much are you investing before a 0.03% return makes back that overhead?
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by thyrsus 5y ago
As a sysadmin, I'd be fine if the stuff on top supported ipv6. E.g., I'm not aware of support for ipv6 in Kubernetes. In anticipation, where can I catch up on ipv6 routing? Does the number of route entries explode? I do need a &
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I rarely worry about technical "debt" when there's a plan to "pay it down". But it seems those plans are in short supply and much "debt" would better be called "naked shorts" as previously discu
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by thyrsus 5y ago
The post suggests that carefully designed experiments could settle the question. I hope they get performed.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Braking? Spend half the trip accelerating, the other half decelerating. The "erosion" problem mentioned nearby is still formidable.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
It's good to see principle component analysis used to select only two components. Configure the algorithm to give you all statistically significant components and it can come back with 30 or 40 components, which fit the data exquisite
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by thyrsus 5y ago
If the study was in Egypt, that would have been Friday.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
It would have better reflected reality had the article included Sonya Sotomayor in the list of Catholic Supreme Court justices.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Please elucidate. The article's author thinks Mr. Lin is being ironic, but says others he's proposed that to believe the opposite. Has Poe's law taken over every field of communication?
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I worry that Heylighen's algorithm would look like Facebook's with similar results.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Not reproduced in the Intercept article: undermine the capacity, availability, and reliability of public transportation, especially rail. Someone in the KGB must have gotten a copy ;-).
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by thyrsus 5y ago
The Catholic theological tradition holds that the "form" remains bread, but the "substance" becomes God. It is explicitly not a symbol, it is God. Many of the laity don't understand this or, even if they do, do
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by thyrsus 5y ago
That era didn't end, we just became inured.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
There's also the "benefit" that if the future doesn't resemble the present, you don't have to make mundane preparations for it, like contributing to a 401k (since dollars will be useless), to say nothing of promotin
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by thyrsus 5y ago
The customers for this software are companies like Cadence or Synoptics, who then use it to encourage license compliance by their customers. As a Cadence customer, my employer could use strace to observe the license daemon behavior and fig
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I remember seeing the 3d scale models of arcologies at the Corcoran Art gallery sometime in the early 70's. They were beautiful, and indeed utopian. Are the model's preserved anywhere, perhaps at Arcosanti?
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I'm not sure I detect the grouchiness in the bug report, although I probably would have closed with a line like "Thank you for your work!" which might be omitted when reporting bugs in paid software. For free software, bug r
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by thyrsus 5y ago
3rd party closed source software; I think it's using the C library malloc - which uses sbrk for small things, but uses mmap for >= 128k. Fun historical fact: the Red Hat/CentOS 5 kernel ulimit didn't limit mmap allocation

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