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811.
by vacri 9y ago
Well, Apple has just released the 'smart keyboard' for its ipads, the 'smart' bit being that with a physical connection, "it doesn't need charging and automatically transfers data". Such innovation! Someth
812.
by vacri 9y ago
It depends on what your deployment system is; it's not always trivial to just change the target git origin to a new server. For someone who knows what they're doing and has the time to focus on doing it, it won't be too hard,
813.
by vacri 9y ago
> you can instead push your artifacts to an s3 target This is our tactic. I tried to do baked AMIs at one point, but the 10-15 minute turnaround in registering them meant that we couldn't use them for staging or testing (too long
814.
by vacri 9y ago
but interestingly, fridge adoption kept powering on.
815.
by vacri 9y ago
Not losing users?
816.
by vacri 9y ago
If your printer is on a network, it can 'phone home' in most cases. They now know which IP address the printer lives behind. Get compromising document > look up serial number from dots > look up IP address from serial number
817.
by vacri 9y ago
> Especially my boss: if my boss is going to be a white dude, he had better have publicly condemned sexism in a way that feels constructive and genuine to me. This is such a weird statement to me. If it works for you, fine, but I think
818.
by vacri 9y ago
A while back a friend of mine told me how her (great-?)grandmother in Malta used to do the laundry down the river as a young woman, and her and her friends used to dream about having a magic box that you could just throw the laundry in, pre
819.
by vacri 9y ago
> typhoons all the time Spare a thought for the Philippines - the wikipedia typhoon path picture almost completely covers the entire country (HK is hidden in there too, though) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon
820.
by vacri 9y ago
There are significant cultural differences to be found within each of China and India alone; I'm not sure how you can say that they're culturally the same.
821.
by vacri 9y ago
Isn't that $1710 already including the 30% discount? (It works out to $3.4 x 30ish days x 70%). You get similar discounts on AWS, but you have to commit for a year - given the OP's intent of leasing a Dell server for three years,
822.
by vacri 9y ago
With correct pricing (3-year commitment), you're actually looking at about $8k/yr/server difference, for 64-core servers. If you're at the point where your workload requires ~12 64-core servers, that difference will net
823.
by vacri 9y ago
How does that work out? Looking at the per-hour figures in AWS and GCE, they're similar for a 64-core, quarter terabyte RAM machine ($3.20 AWS, $3.40 GCE). Both vendors have ways to get your bill discounted (with google's being ea
824.
by vacri 9y ago
> A dedicated m4.16xLarge EC2 instance in AWS is $3987/month. You could build that same server for $15,000 through Dell, lease it at $400/month (OpEx) Cherry-picking a bit there. You're entering a 3-year commitment with
825.
by vacri 9y ago
The average wage in Canada is $50k. The median family income is $76k. That's before taxes and living expenses. If you can drop nearly three times the entire median family income per year for half a decade on renovations alone, you&
826.
by vacri 9y ago
Yes, if you invest your tuition and never touch it for a quarter of a century, you'll have mildly more money than if you went to college. In the meantime you'll be doing... what... to put food in your mouth and improve your life
827.
by vacri 9y ago
The GP was saying to reduce conventional forces because of the nukes, not the other way around.
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by vacri 9y ago
> I'm not trying to get into a debate about guns. But any list of rights no longer enjoyed by Englishmen wouldn't be complete without mentioning it. Well, if you're going back that far as to consider carrying guns as a l
829.
by vacri 9y ago
There's all sorts of words I can recognise in other languages, despite not speaking them. French, German, Italian, Spanish; all these have more than a handful of words that most fairly literate native English speakers can recognise, ev
830.
by vacri 9y ago
It's exactly the same with letters. There's nothing particularly evocative about the English 'a' in the glyph for it. Even the arrows the OP mentions is learned association.
831.
by vacri 9y ago
Top-to-bottom isn't inherently better, but since only barbarians stack books with the front-side down, it has the advantage.
832.
by vacri 9y ago
I get an even bigger laugh imagining the same sentence being used in an article about a different industry. Imagine "A nurses' strike today was averted when management agreed to install a rollercoaster and free frozen yoghurt mach
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by vacri 9y ago
Unions are a necessary evil in my opinion. Haven't had a positive experience with them in my own life[1], but life without unions has been done (a lot), and it sucks. [1] The first of these was telling the team I was on that because we
834.
by vacri 9y ago
> If you're optimizing your career, either make the most you can at an established company, or start a startup. I feel I'm optimising my career, working as a sysadmin at a small startup. It's not optimising for money, bu
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by vacri 9y ago
Imperial Germany never had much of a global empire, only a central European one. Places like Namibia and New Guinea weren't exactly powerhouse colonies.
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by vacri 9y ago
The ironic thing is that a big part of what Made America Great in the first place was military protection of trading partners. Withdraw that protection and the trading partners now have less reason to give sweetheart trade deals.
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by vacri 9y ago
Meh. The heart icon has nothing to do with the anatomical heart, but it represents love. Love has nothing to do with the anatomical heart. So, apart from the name, they don't share any aspects; they're not workable drop-in replace
838.
by vacri 9y ago
It's not identification or elegance; they're mounted that way so that you can see all of the wings. The live butterfly position has overlapping wings, and you can't see all of the detail.
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by vacri 9y ago
I realised in Swordfish that the 'hacking' bit (with the 3D shapes rather than anything real) isn't meant to be literally hacking, but instead emotive of it, for the 98.2% of the audience who doesn't know what actual
840.
by vacri 9y ago
I remember visiting the Caverns of Sonora in Texas. At the lowest point, the tour guide turns off the light for the group to experience what the cavern is like - dark, with the occasional drip of water. The odd thing was that the group I wa

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