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by volkadav 7y ago
since when is being a poor kid trying to get an education a lack of responsibility? if anything, folks like that have more than enough on their plates without a bunch of jerks -- of any political leaning -- kicking down at them as they try
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by volkadav 7y ago
roughly 2700 bytes, from a bit of googling. (off the top of my head, the most likely use case for 2+kb text fields would be things you would be using pg's full text index on anyway, not the usual btree type indexes as you'd want t
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by volkadav 8y ago
The Audeo M's (are? were?) the only ones with native, in-device/streamer-less bluetooth. They work just like bluetooth headphones/mic (used so far with: osx, android, linux desktop) and the sound quality is outstanding. The o
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by volkadav 8y ago
For what it's worth, my last pair of digital aids were purchased circa 2011 as well, and the pair I recently (last few months) got aren't just better, they're astonishingly better. I ended up going with Phonak Audeo M&#x27
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by volkadav 8y ago
And now, having looked through the online archives you get access to as a subscriber, I realize my memory was faulty. It was the November issue with Guido on the cover! nostalgias in intense greybeard The other holy shit moment I had wi
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by volkadav 8y ago
Stumbling across the December '98 issue of Linux Journal in the Tower Records store across from the UT Austin campus was kind of a transformative moment for me. :) Resubscribed just for that sense of nostalgia alone.
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by volkadav 8y ago
I work at OCI. It's a pretty good gig, all things considered. Just my two cents. There isn't a super strong push to use The One True Corporate Solution as you mention, by and large we're given a very free hand in terms of tec
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by volkadav 8y ago
I felt very lucky to have had her for an experimental mathematical modeling course (M375) back around 2000. She was simply delightful as a professor, even for a mathematical lummox like myself. :) Encouraging, informative, brilliant ... we
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by volkadav 8y ago
It's been a while (~2 years) since I last had to tangle with it, but off the top of my head: 1) Disk and network IO performance was extremely inconsistent, to the point of being unusable at times. 10kbps reads off of the msft-local mir
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by volkadav 8y ago
Thank you for levels.fyi! It's been a handy tool as a hiring manager here trying to translate to our HR department why we should bring people in at level X vs. level Y. (For those of you reading this who haven't ever been a hiring
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by volkadav 8y ago
A quantum datacenter? I hope they've got a healthy budget for speeding tickets. "We know exactly where it is, but have no idea how fast it's going!" XD
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by volkadav 8y ago
First parsed this headline as cooking a curry powerful enough to send a spacecraft into a Mars orbit, haha! "Wow, that's a strong curry, what do you spice with?" "... Hydrazine."
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by volkadav 8y ago
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston OCI is Oracle's bare metal cloud / next-gen IaaS offering; most of us are in Seattle and there are branch offices in the SF bay area and Boston
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by volkadav 8y ago
That's kind of a weird thing to shout on a conf call; I tend to go with "WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!" ;D
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by volkadav 8y ago
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston OCI is Oracle's bare metal cloud / next-gen IaaS offering; most of us are in Seattle and there are branch offices in the SF bay area and Boston
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by volkadav 8y ago
Echoing others, you may have a much easier time installing linux in a virtualbox(.org) vm than doing so onto a laptop as a bare metal install. CentOS is not targeted at desktop use much; if that's your goal and you're new to linux
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by volkadav 9y ago
similarly, i recall once being denied root on a host while trying to help out with something and then asking if i could at least have sudo less to look at things... which was granted. >:D (then i fixed the problem)
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by volkadav 9y ago
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston OCI is Oracle's bare metal cloud / next-gen IaaS offering; most of us are in Seattle and there are branch offices in the SF bay area and Boston
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by volkadav 9y ago
Sparta (Oracle) | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston Sparta aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's bare metal cloud; most of us are in Seattle and there are branch offices in the SF bay area and Boston area.
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by volkadav 9y ago
I guess taking every branch by default avoids the specter of branch prediction vulnerabilities? (This is me failing my saving throw vs urge to make terrible nerd jokes.)
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by volkadav 9y ago
Sparta (Oracle) | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston Sparta aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's bare metal cloud; most of us are in Seattle and there are branch offices in the SF bay area and Boston area.
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by volkadav 9y ago
___ _ / __|_ __ __ _ _ _| |_ __ _ \__ \ '_ \/ _` | '_| _/ _` | |___/ .__/\__,_|_| \__\__,_| | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston |_| Are you someone
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by volkadav 9y ago
Yep. I haven't worked there but got an offer from them and work with a number of ex-amzn people. I forget the exact numbers but it was something like ~20% in total vest over the first two years and then something like 40% a year in y
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by volkadav 9y ago
Sadly, insurance does not typically offer any coverage for the devices themselves. (src: been wearing them for over twenty years, have seen one employer plan that offered any benefits in that area)
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by volkadav 9y ago
Have you considered traditional business loans through a commercial bank, if your revenue and growth projections would support that? Downside: debt is a drag, upside: you don't have to give up ownership stake. Good luck, whatever you
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by volkadav 9y ago
you're on a site named "hacker news" and you're complaining about someone using technical jargon? if only there were a site adept at providing information about search terms: https://www.google.com/
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by volkadav 10y ago
I hear you. For what it's worth, if you're ok with a self-hosted alternative, tt-rss is alright (takes some fiddling to set up but it isn't awful, and pretty much just works after that). The web UI is very reminiscent of gr
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by volkadav 10y ago
Oh man, count yourself lucky if you never had "fun" with context. :) For everyone who hasn't had that ... joy, imagine perl4, but compiled and running in its own proprietary vm with a ton of employer-environment-specific exte
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by volkadav 10y ago
Is one of the three languages context still, or did they finally get rid of all that? ;) (nytd 2008-2010)
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by volkadav 10y ago
He's instituted a ban based on ethnic origin from countries that are majority-Muslim (for that reason), has in the past called for a Muslim ban, and the architect of the ban has said it's a Muslim ban. If it walks like a duck, qua

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