tpxl

24 ms·

331.
by tpxl 4y ago
Well yes, but if your database is busy writing, it's going to have less time for reading.
332.
by tpxl 4y ago
> It's one thing if you're signing the bog-standard real estate deal paperwork There are no standard contracts, and there are especially no standard contracts you're signing for the first time. I have a 'custom'
333.
by tpxl 4y ago
> The real issue with this situation is working as a contractor on a single project. At the point you're working for one client, full time, as a contractor...you're an employee. I disagree. I currently work as a contractor for
334.
by tpxl 4y ago
How much data? We were doing a few million writes/day on peak days and the nodes couldn't keep up.
335.
by tpxl 4y ago
> I'm not sure why it just needs to be taken as a given that databases will take 150ms to return any data. Run your database on a t2.small instance on AWS (1 vCPU, 2GiB RAM). Why would you do that, you ask? I don't know, but th
336.
by tpxl 4y ago
> this in particular is an emergent phenomena that only happens with large-scale civilizations Is it? If you have N participants in a market and a bunch of investment opportunities that are on average net negative, the person with the mo
337.
by tpxl 4y ago
Every instance has its own moderation, so parody, scam and Christian counterstrike accounts will be allowed on some instances, but not on others. Instances can choose to federate with each other, so it's likely no one will federate wit
338.
by tpxl 4y ago
> Worse yet, it's not a one time cost and these criminals, undeterred, will simply return to steal the new one as well. (Some?) modern catalytic converters have much less rare earth minerals, making them less (not?) profitable to st
339.
by tpxl 4y ago
Laws requiring you to provide paperwork don't make you guilty until proven innocent. And there are a lot of laws like that (filing your tax return anyone?).
340.
by tpxl 4y ago
Do you have any hard data on the benefits/drawbacks of DRM?
341.
by tpxl 4y ago
> The number stamping process does change the metal’s underlying metallurgy throughout the the metal where it was stamped. So unless you drill out the number through the entire metal (which is viable if you’re going to extract the minera
342.
by tpxl 4y ago
Load it up onto a container truck and you got yourself a nice Faraday cage to block the trackers.
343.
by tpxl 4y ago
> but we definitely have intruded on Joe's freedom to buy and sell cats No we haven't. Joe is free to resell converters, provided he proves he obtained them legally, which is trivial _if_ you obtained them legally.
344.
by tpxl 4y ago
Godot has a similar structure. The engine is MIT licensed, it's a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy and one of the lead developers has a company that does Switch and PlayStation ports. The only difference between this
345.
by tpxl 4y ago
> Being software controlled means I can require a PIN to open it. Combination locks have existed for centuries now.
346.
by tpxl 4y ago
Rentaserv.su is a hosting company, there's probably dozens of websites on that IP.
347.
by tpxl 4y ago
Not enough to cover KYC legislation.
348.
by tpxl 4y ago
Crypto exchanges have very strict KYC and AML rules. There's no chance in hell people are going through KYC/AML processes to use twitter.
349.
by tpxl 4y ago
That looks reasonable to me. The author is blunt about how he does things and why he does them, while being polite. Don't know what 'yanking' a crate means specifically, but that seems like an ecosystem problem; in Java for e
350.
by tpxl 4y ago
U wot. If Tesla engineers do work for free for a company owned by one of the shareholders, there's clear damage there in the form of misallocation of resources.
351.
by tpxl 4y ago
What has been stolen from the community exactly? The trademarks were never theirs, and the copyright still is.
352.
by tpxl 4y ago
If a vendor chooses to only sell on one platform, that's not the platforms fault (cancerous exclusives notwithstanding).
353.
by tpxl 4y ago
Galagomarket seems to have the RPi 4B 8GB in stock for 99€. Don't know where they ship, but the website is translated into Croation, English, German, Italian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Slovakian. I bought from them in Feb 2021
354.
by tpxl 4y ago
I believe the parent poster may be referring to this being a good start to facebook failing, not a good start for their VR project.
355.
by tpxl 4y ago
The underlying protocol is an implementation detail. I don't know any atom feed podcasts (and can't find any), but I can find references to people using (or trying to use) atom for podcasts.
356.
by tpxl 4y ago
So a podcast with an ATOM feed isn't a podcast? It needs a feed, sure, but not necessarily RSS.
357.
by tpxl 4y ago
> Basically, GDPR kneecapped the entire business model of everyone but Wikipedia GDPR did no such thing. There are thousands, if not millions, of businesses operating online that _actually sell goods and services for money_ and GDPR did
358.
by tpxl 4y ago
The part you quoted says you have to provide the source for the remote software on the same server as the remote software, for no charge. How is that almost impossible?
359.
by tpxl 4y ago
> you know what you are doing will result in harm, and you choose to do it anyway No, you _don't know_ the consequences and you don't bother finding out before doing it.
360.
by tpxl 4y ago
> are not, by definition, a podcast because they don't have a valid rss feed Does a podcast need to have a rss feed? All I see in definitions is that its an audio format made available over the internet. > And of course there&#x2

More ›