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by vacri 9y ago
An autoscaling group has a max spend of '"a server" x n', where you set what n is . Autoscaling groups don't keep adding servers forever.
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by vacri 9y ago
AWS has so many services that trying to decide what to stop if you reach a billing threshold would be impossible to automate. Similarly, pricing is not built into the individual services APIs, so adding a per-item billing threshold would no
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by vacri 9y ago
Agility varies quite a lot. For example, a pick-and-place robot's arm has more agility than a grasshopper's hind leg, as that leg is pretty limited in its movement.
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by vacri 9y ago
Muscles/limbs also don't power-down for long periods. They're in need of constant maintenance (energy, food; waste removed) or they rot.
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by vacri 9y ago
I like https://regexper.com/ as it gives you a visual flow of what's happening.
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm surprised that people don't note again and again that the fearmongering and bitching about things like the ACA that the Republicans have done for this entire decade has led them into power... and yet they've got nothing
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by vacri 9y ago
> If something is that urgent you don't text, you call SMS is UDP, and voice is TCP?
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by vacri 9y ago
The amusing thing is that we never care about this distinction in handwriting. "Oh, your two tiny vertical-ish lines denoting 'inch' are not ever-so-slightly slanted..."
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by vacri 9y ago
> The speeds were good and the apps work but are kind of boring ... isn't the point of a VPN do just do its job and stay out of sight? Why is 'boring' even remotely relevant to the VPN equation?
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by vacri 9y ago
> The problem is that people just buy the cheapest shit possible anyway Yes, they do. And regulations can control that. Regulations around building codes stop people from building shanties everywhere. Regulations around new vehicle saf
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by vacri 9y ago
I can't believe you're saying that it's our moral duty to buy the cheapest shit possible, in order to prevent child prostitution. That's just fucked-up, wilfully blinkered thinking.
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by vacri 9y ago
Interesting, the variations in explaining this stuff away. Here are you saying "this labour is just part of being a family in Africa", and upthread there's someone saying "if children didn't have these jobs, they&#x
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by vacri 9y ago
That's a very peculiar variant of the "think of the children!" argument; that you should buy things you don't want (stuff made with child labour) in order to stop children you don't know from crushing rocks. >
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by vacri 9y ago
More insulation has other tradeoffs. Look at arctic animals - they're not very agile or dextrous. Penguins, whales, sealions, polar bears... they're all 'lumpy' and nowhere near as agile as other areas. Even the occasion
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by vacri 9y ago
> A few emails, echats, and meetings are sufficient. As a sysadmin, I overhear a ton of stuff that people don't put into chats. I like being in the office and being able to hear what people are talking about in the workplace; it h
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by vacri 9y ago
Perhaps 'organised' rather than 'well-organised'? But the point is that 'India' has a national government (and a cricket team, and an army, etc), and 'Africa' has nothing of the sort.
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by vacri 9y ago
Running your own (successful) business is always going to net you more money than being salaried. It's the payoff for taking the risk. A company pays a salary based on how hard it is to replace you, not your value generation, whereas y
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by vacri 9y ago
In what tortured version of modern-day politics can you possibly see the UK or the US invading Germany, even in a pipe dream?
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by vacri 9y ago
Australia's defence is the same. Our only real threat is Indonesia, and if they decided to invade, we can't stop them by ourselves. So it's the defence plan to do more damage than would be gained. Of course, Indonesia isn&#x2
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by vacri 9y ago
This seems like one of those questions that definitely can't be studied with a survey. The context of 'fighting for your country' differs quite a lot; there's a major difference between fighting a defensive war against a
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by vacri 9y ago
> Happy where I am now, but future interviews will include me asking what management would do about this, and termination is the only correct answer. Why is it always scorched-earth and never something like retraining? You bemoan hosti
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by vacri 9y ago
What was the politically-correct talk that gave rise to Nazism?
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by vacri 9y ago
Stop thinking of politics as left/right. It's multipolar.
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by vacri 9y ago
'Uncertainty' is a much more ambiguous term that means many more things than 'imprecision of measurement'. Still, I'm interested to hear why you think sig figs are high-school only when they're the standard way
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by vacri 9y ago
It's not about uncertainty, it's about precision. Unless, of course, you think that scientific notation is limited to only high schools.
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by vacri 9y ago
I once saw a youtube video which said that an object moving at 4m/s would be slowed down by [thing] by 0.00006m/s, so its new velocity would be 3.99994m/s ... except that no, its new velocity would be 4m/s. The author, a
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by vacri 9y ago
If you want some more anecdata, then of all the people I've known, I've only known two of them to have been in a car accident where they were injured; one of them was before I was born. I guess that means that people don't di
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by vacri 9y ago
> As it turns out, those safe conditions render the helmet as unnecesary. One wonders why competitive track cyclists wear helmets, then? After all, no-one is on the track but the cyclists, all moving predictably, and they minimise the
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by vacri 9y ago
It's always from Denmark and the Netherlands, these studies. Super-flat places with compact cities. Cycling to work isn't so casual when you have hills around or a 'new-world' spread-out city.
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by vacri 9y ago
Hexagons are what you get when you squish a lot of semi-rigid round things together. It's not like the bees are designing hexagons - look at the cells on the free edges of a comb and you'll see little in the way of sharp hex-ey co

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