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by thyrsus 5y ago
No swap. These are large RAM (400G to 1000G) Kubernetes nodes.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Are there recommendations for learning about Linux kernel memory management? Two anecdata: * I had some compute servers that were up for 200 days. The customers noticed that they were half as fast as identical hardware just booted. Dropp
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I think the part about "caring about only your part of the work" is partially wrong, in that every team member, not just management, should care about every component they are aware of, not just what they build. Everyone should c
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by thyrsus 5y ago
My experience with mocking was sad. I had unit tests; they all passed. I had end-to-end tests; they all passed. In production, I had about 1 in 1,000,000 failures. The most likely culprit was broken TCP connections, in turn most likely due
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by thyrsus 5y ago
One aspect of bad math education is that most folks competent in math can choose a different field than teaching and earn far more, without also figuring out how to motivate children while constrained by bureaucratized pedagogic dogma of th
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by thyrsus 5y ago
This article says nothing about the safety of ibuprofen, which has different (generally safer) toxicity than acetaminophen/paracetamol.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
65 REM ? 70 GOTO 20
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An Effective Git and Org-Mode Based Workflow(2015)(hal.inria.fr)
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by thyrsus 5y ago
This is why I don't understand why businesses aren't demanding universal health care and a universal basic income. Employees are much less expensive when one is not providing health care, and also less expensive when pay provides
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by thyrsus 5y ago
What is the meaning of "|" in this context? It doesn't seem to be "or" or "such that", which is what I'm accustomed to. It would be hilarious if the variables were processes sending stdout to stdin
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Don Becker had the advantage of working for NASA, a.k.a. the federal government, where everything is automatically public domain. Even classified information developed by the U.S. government isn't copyrighted, it just isn't avail
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by thyrsus 5y ago
All intellectual property I create is owned by my employer, per terms of employment. My employer doesn't care about my musical performances, since no one else would, either ;-) North Carolina is friendlier to employers than Californi
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I think you mean "blocked, then investigated", which it sounds like you're doing. A company running a large variety of software - particularly third party - needs to have staffing sufficient to such investigations.
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I agree completely that assasination, beyond moral abhorrence, would work out as well as most U.S. foreign policy - horrifically. The last foreign policy success I'm aware of was the Marshall plan. I think it's a mistake to minim
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by thyrsus 5y ago
I don't like the Solarwinds Linux agent. When I last looked, there was still an sh syntax error in the cron job it installed (look for a file named 1 in your root directory) and I couldn't reach anyone who could understand my bug
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Can you wrap its invocation in a script that sets a snap specific version of the $HOME environment variable? If it's perverse, it ignores $HOME in favor of reading the passwd entry itself, in which case I'm happy to have never en
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by thyrsus 5y ago
Obliquely relevant question: can U.S. sole proprietors make expensed charitable contributions? I'm guessing not, because that would decrease the 13.5% Social Security "contribution", and would be on top of the "standard
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I have an abacus and an instruction book on how to use it for decimal calculations. The five beads on the bottom each represent one, and a bead on the top represents 5 - yes: ten can be represented in two ways: a 5 bead and all five one be
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Look at the social security mortality tables. Where it says you have a 10% chance of dying in a particular year of life, you have a 90% chance of living. Pro tip: don't be 120 years old ;-)
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by thyrsus 6y ago
http://howfuckedismydatabase.com
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Many data centers are larger than houses. I expect them to get larger as cores get cheaper, and code gets smarter about NUMA.
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by thyrsus 6y ago
We're talking about a rope around the equator, right? Circumference = 2 pi radius is the same as circumference/2 = pi*radius so three more feet of circumference is 1.5 more feet of radius.
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by thyrsus 6y ago
N=48; are there similar studies with larger N?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Could, say, California tax corporations net worth at a percentage of the revenue derived from California? (This is a downward extrapolation from the original article's proposal to deal with assets hidden overseas.) I'm queasy ab
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Please provide evidence.
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by thyrsus 6y ago
In western economies, Piketty showed that equality peaked approximately in the 1950's, and has been dropping since. (Almost) no one recommends we have another world war to decrease the assets owned by the rich, but Piketty, like the o
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by thyrsus 6y ago
My search for "Lana e" failed; did you mean something else? Or could you direct me to an explanation?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I enjoyed the ideas and clarity of icon, but I've never had a colleague who would invest the time in learning it. The bus factor is larger when the language barrier is high. The small community is reflected in icon's sparse ecosys
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I've found myself doing this in e-mail recently. I naturally try to set the stage/explain the situation, then ask for something (opinion/resources/prioritization/...). But I've been advised to lead with the r
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Not by the definition they use.

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