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by 49bc 8y ago
I don't love YAML, but for configurations I always choose it for the simple fact that it supports comments. Comments for json are almost always hacky (for example, imbedding a comment key inside the value).
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by 49bc 8y ago
The article doesn't specify whether or not the encryption was "broken", or whether Cohen is simply cooperating. My hunch tells me it's the latter.
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by 49bc 8y ago
> Google can practically destroy any company/person in any vertical if it so chose. Yet they don't. So either they're not as scary as "Microsoft was even at its peak", or maybe they're not as powerful as y
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by 49bc 8y ago
Exactly. This makes so much sense for the city. This type of calculation doesn’t even include a fuzzy bump in technological growth for a city that’s connected with cheap fiber.
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by 49bc 8y ago
This is the case in many, many major cities. When discussing this type of rollout, it’s almost always talking about last-mile, which is the most expensive to rollout and maintain.
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by 49bc 8y ago
That’s a distinction the average person wouldn’t make.
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by 49bc 8y ago
rm /bin/sh ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh What the heck? Installing this package wipes your sh and replaces it with bash?
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by 49bc 8y ago
> Microsoft didn't even ask their customers for permission. They just automatically switched anyone who installed IE7 to Bing as the default. Don’t worry everyone it’s different now!
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by 49bc 8y ago
Based on the picture, "pulling it up" looks like a fairly intensive task, requiring boats, persons, etc. That kind of thing eats directly into the ROI for a datacenter. I doubt it competes with a static building with a bunch of so
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by 49bc 8y ago
Ugh I read your job post months ago and I’m so interested in what you’re doing. I’m not aligned in any of the skills, just really interested about the actual work. What can you share?
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by 49bc 8y ago
Interesting idea. My hunch tells me that they’re underestimating the corrosive nature of salt water. I also wonder about vibrations, which are much more pronounced underwater. But I guess we won’t know until we try!
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by 49bc 8y ago
So they don’t do anything? Eventually you’re just maintaining stacks of errored and broken computers.
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by 49bc 8y ago
For a laptop? Even my heavy usage is ephemeral workloads. I care so much more that the dang thing works reliably without fussing or fiddling, which can not be said about 99% of laptops on the market.
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by 49bc 8y ago
But you can’t live in your other investments.
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by 49bc 8y ago
How many web apps can you name that don’t rely on any external gems? Packaging that mess is a pain in every scripting language.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Most languages don’t support static binaries. Other than Go I can’t think of any that make it easy.
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by 49bc 8y ago
There's really nothing special there. Grid operators balance generation and demand, and need to continually update their models. E.g., generate less during midday and more in the late afternoon. It's a hard job sure. That's w
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by 49bc 8y ago
I’ve driven high-and-low all kinds of vehicles, big to small fast slow etc. I will say by far one of the most fun driving experiences you can have is a small <50cc moped in the city. Stuck in traffic? Get off and push it along the sidewa
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by 49bc 8y ago
If a company is going to build drone AI in use by the military, I feel MUCH better knowing that company is google and not some poor-quality contracting company.
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by 49bc 8y ago
You hold your tongue and value family relationships above petty squabbles. It’s not some pious virtue. It’s just what you learn to do as a functioning adult.
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by 49bc 8y ago
And do that every single time there’s an update?
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by 49bc 8y ago
How do you know which one the app is doing? From my perspective the vpn was “on”
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by 49bc 8y ago
Last time I looked at a “system-wide” adblocker, it was just a vpn service with proxied your traffic (not just DNS) through a who-knows-what server. That seemed really sketchy to me, and I doubt most users knew the implications of it.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Don't look at GDPR and see it as some kind of slap in the face to Facebook or Google. The reality is that regulation like this invariably benefit the companies large enough to hire the lawyers to abide by the regulation. Similar story
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by 49bc 8y ago
> De Beers said the logo won't be visible to the naked eye, but it will make the stones easily identifiable as lab-grown. They really still don’t get it still. Consumers aren’t making the same distinction for something that’s orga
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by 49bc 8y ago
I still don't think returning a 418 (in the realm of client errors) is the correct code, even if it is a connected teapot which you're trying to identify! I think the appropriate action would be a client sends an HTTP HEAD to th
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by 49bc 8y ago
Why give them the option to shoot themselves and neighbors foot? Seems more like a technology problem with BGP then knowledge problem.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Not only that, but if you’re returning this status code you’re almost certainly doing something wrong or user hostile.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Yes a 500. Not sure how anything else would ever pass the smell test of even a lazy pull request.
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by 49bc 8y ago
How many “kicks” does it take to build a reasonably resilient distributed service? A lot!

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