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by wpollock 2y ago
Aren't you assuming that the healthcare system operates for the good of the patients? From my point of view, that doesn't seem to be the case in the U.S.
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by wpollock 2y ago
The original name was .SCCS. I put the SCCS strings in there to save memory. In the early 1980s, the 3B20 computers used to manage the U.S. phone network had a 32MiB memory limit. By 1985 the network had outgrown that memory limit, by ju
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by wpollock 2y ago
>Eiswert determined that Darien had submitted the payment to the school payroll system, bypassing proper procedures. How did he allegedly bypass payroll procedures? An athletics director should not have passwords to the school payroll sy
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by wpollock 2y ago
I thought limpet teeth were the strongest material known?
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by wpollock 3y ago
Github Flavored Markdown (GFM) is a superset of commonmark. The differences are indicated in the GFM spec at https://github.github.com/gfm/ .
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by wpollock 3y ago
The problem with this is that wind speed alone is not a good indicator of how destructive a storm can be. Storm surge, mud slides, etc., contribute and can be deadly even in a category 1 or 2 storm. If the scale is to be updated, it would
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by wpollock 3y ago
Poor Turing must be rolling over in his grave. The so-called Turing test was common before Turing wrote his rebuttal, calling that test little more than a Gallup poll (i.e.,just a subjective opinion). He proposed an alternative test, the r
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by wpollock 3y ago
Will this enable lombok officially?
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by wpollock 3y ago
>SQL is much more powerful than most people think, and taking an afternoon to learn everything you can do with it is a great investment. SQL is indeed powerful but how can anyone learn SQL well in an afternoon?
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by wpollock 3y ago
I understood the issue was caused by lots of cron jobs firing at the same moment. If Github had a better cron, the 700 or whatever network downloads would not have occurred at the same moment and there would have been no problem. Sorry if I
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by wpollock 3y ago
The problem of concurrent cron jobs isn't new. Solutions existed for decades. Fedora cron used eth0's first IP address and a urandom number to stagger cron jobs starting times. Google addressed this issue by having a single enter