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by vacri 9y ago
Adding to tyingq's comment, not all scrapers are efficient, either. Also, if you don't have the rock-bottom cheapest prices, you may not want to cater to aggregators that promote those.
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by vacri 9y ago
I've worked in a small startup with a lazy CEO. That's not the descriptor you're looking for. A good CEO lives and breathes the company, and also delegates. A lazy CEO does things like not supply payslip information because h
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by vacri 9y ago
> Yup. Those aren’t spirals. They’re all concentric circles. Except they are spirals. The black patches form the implication of a spiral - this is where your visual system picks out the spiral from. If you were to say that there are
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by vacri 9y ago
> You would never say that you are 0.0018 kilometers tall. Using sane unit sizes is important. Ah, but does "this tool" (whichever tool) mean GB or GiB when it says "GB"? As the prefixes get larger, the difference b
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by vacri 9y ago
month-first or month-last doesn't matter, until you add more time periods. YY/MM/DD and DD/MM/YY are both fine, but MM/DD/YY is braindead. Month-first gains the edge, though, when you add time-of-day, sinc
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by vacri 9y ago
What's your proposed method for getting tailored, filtered output to your transient requirements, without expending so much effort as two keypresses?
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by vacri 9y ago
Maybe make colourisation optional on either flag or as an env var. Then when you log in to a terminal and your profile loads, colourisation 'just works'.
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by vacri 9y ago
Another tricky thing is finding a colour set that works against various backgrounds. A ton of people use either black or white backgrounds. Occasionally you come across a different colour (eg: some people use red backgrounds for 'roo
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by vacri 9y ago
use X windows - middle-click-to-paste usually gets around these 'no paste here' thingies. :)
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by vacri 9y ago
Oh, thoracic surgeons, you say? Well, that just goes to show what utter nonsense the infographic is, because the average thoracic surgeon's salary in the US is not $202,948, but $473,927[1]. 150+% more than claimed. If you told a group
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by vacri 9y ago
Yes, that happens when you lock up five times as many people per capita, crime goes down a bit. Hardly surprising, there's nothing mysterious as to why. Keep in mind that the exploding US prison population started in the 1990s; 't
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by vacri 9y ago
Unskilled agricultural work is the lowest-of-the-low. In Georgia they cracked down on using illegal immigrants, and it cost them their peach harvest, because locals won't do that kind of hard-to-reach (rural), low-paying, short-term&#x
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by vacri 9y ago
That definition came in well over a century after the Second Amendment was written (1956, as far as I can tell), and so should have no bearing on interpretation of the founders' intent.
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by vacri 9y ago
The comma is "just an 'and'"? > A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state and the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It's a garbage sentence. Also,
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by vacri 9y ago
And that meaning of 'well-regulated' is also missing from the armed citizens of today. 'Well-regulated' did not mean the chaos of every-man-for-himself and zero oversight. Not to mention that the definition of 'mi
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by vacri 9y ago
> I can't imagine the criticism the U.S. would face if it had such a mechanism. Probably none. The US has civil forfeiture and is barely raises an eyebrow. Hell, Jello Biafra was singing about it in the 1980s about when he had his
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by vacri 9y ago
You seem to be assuming that each incident of violent crime is done by a different person.
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by vacri 9y ago
They randomise the AZ letters, because humans tend to shove things in 'a' before anywhere else - it's a psychological load-balancer. If you want to figure out which of your AZs corresponds to another account's AZs, you c
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by vacri 9y ago
> That's quite a bit better than a 3AM emergency call to the operating room. We need to quit with this idea that all doctors are either emergency physicians or emergency surgeons. Most doctors are not that. And does anyone really
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by vacri 9y ago
> Basically, offering poor/expensive service in capitalist system will naturally invite competition until the optimal price/value point has been reached. If all the farmers form a cartel, where does this mythical competitor c
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by vacri 9y ago
There are just as many publishers that supply debs and not rpms. It really depends on what you're after. But if you look at the usage, north america is generally more redhat-family and europe is generally more debian-family, even in th
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by vacri 9y ago
Do you know if XFS can shrink volumes yet? As far as I'm aware, that's the only limitation it has compared to other filesystems of that era.
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by vacri 9y ago
> naming the sky's color is quite a useless act. The sky's colour varies greatly. Blue, blue-white, white, light grey, dark grey, yellow, red, purple, black-with-whitish-pinpoints. Probably more, but those are just the ones o
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by vacri 9y ago
Apple's issue isn't just about 'losing money'. Their supply and manufacturing chain is in China. They have their throat laid bare on this one, and if they stood on principle, their throat would be cut in short order.
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by vacri 9y ago
It's a myth that companies are legally required to maximise profit.
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by vacri 9y ago
> only tinfoil-crazies will verify that stuff vs > my simple webapp has 514 de-duped dependencies We have different ideas of 'crazy'.
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by vacri 9y ago
GPG-signing doesn't prove maliciousness, it just proves authenticity; that it was written by a particular person. The web-of-trust is used to enforce social reputation - if a user is malicious, their key is revoked. If a user signs up
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by vacri 9y ago
> everyone has this problem. No, they don't. Some people actually implemented the "web of trust (sigh)". Security is hard; the answer is not to just go "too hard, kick the can down the road" and then make excus
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by vacri 9y ago
Do all competent programmers check the 'Delphi' job postings?
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by vacri 9y ago
They just shake their limbs back and forth or their body. It's pretty easy for anyone familiar with seizures to tell a fake, since most fakers shake their limbs back and forth evenly - a sort of even sawtooth pattern of movement. Howev

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