RandomBK

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by RandomBK 4y ago
Buying some puts also works.
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Tough to say. Do I need a Toyota? no, but I'd happily buy one for $1K. Demand elasticity makes any report on the volume of demand irrelevant unless it also covers the pricing of that demand.
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by RandomBK 4y ago
We did weigh the risks. We did study asbestos. And we as a society made an informed decision that the risk of asbestos outweighed the risk of buildings catching on fire. I don't understand the point you were trying to make here. Wh
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Having used many different providers (though not all of the ones on your list), be very careful with suspiciously generous or unmetered anything. More often than not, you'll hit a soft limit where your performance will degrade and&#x2F
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Can you elaborate? I don't recall EVGA ever making AMD GPUs
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by RandomBK 4y ago
While I'm neither a biologist nor a CS PhD, I want to call out the fallacy that simulating a system to a sufficient degree requires simulating each individual molecule in exacting detail. We've gotten quite far with ideal gas laws
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by RandomBK 4y ago
On one hand, I totally get it. Sending the whole team offsite for a full workday of fun and games every 6 months is a little over-the-top considering the current economic environment. On the other hand, many FAANG have been more than happy
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by RandomBK 4y ago
I'm quite surprised a new API like this got merged without a clear (public) indication for why it was needed. Given that Linux commits to never breaking user-space, I'd imagine adding this new feature incurs a substantial and near
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by RandomBK 4y ago
I once encountered this problem when writing a video game as an never-published side project. Most in-game items and resources were very simple - largely expressible by a simple <item_type>:<quantity> dictionary. Others however,
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by RandomBK 4y ago
One topic I'd like to see more discussion around is how best to set up staging environments for Docker Compose projects. Ever since the V2 migration, I've been banging my head against multiple bugs in Docker Compose itself, which
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by RandomBK 4y ago
My scripts aren't particularly fancy or original, but you can look through everything at https://github.com/randombk/randombk-dotfiles .
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Why should taxes subsidize the study of topics that have no economic value? Most "college should be free" proposals fail under scrutiny because degrees tend to fall into a spectrum of utility: On one end are degrees that impart sk
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by RandomBK 4y ago
> No matter if a movie leaves a streaming service or if the digital rights change in the future, a physical disk makes the content permanently available. Well, isn't that ironic. Sure, the content is "permanently available&quot
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Twitter doesn't say that 5% of all accounts are bots. While I don't have inside knowledge of how Twitter does things, the industry standard is to: 1. Build a classification model to determine whether an account is a bot or not. 2.
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by RandomBK 4y ago
I feel that every time we talk about Java, we should clarify between Java the language , Java the programming style , and Java the JVM . As a language, Java's not too bad. It's a bit wordy, in bad need of some syntax sugar, but
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by RandomBK 4y ago
IIRC it's mostly incentives for large companies to jump ship
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Obligatory link to the talk from MS where they covered the origins of Pluton on the Xbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo The video does a good job of the original threat model for this technology and how it wor
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by RandomBK 4y ago
You may need to be careful, as it's possible communicating with the SEC might cause you to be privy to material non-public information. For example if you know there's a SEC investigation into the company because you're coope
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by RandomBK 4y ago
This picture is not the actual image data from JWST, but rather an interpretation of infrared data. If you're only asking about the details in this picture, my understanding is that JWST is better though not by orders of magnitude. How
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by RandomBK 4y ago
>consistently given boards wide discretion to act as they see fit in their fiduciary duty That discretion is highly limited in the context of an acquisition, where there's a high risk of conflicts of interest between the Board and S
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Unfortunately BGP problems make DNS problems look trivial :(
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by RandomBK 4y ago
No, but I also don't wear a mask that covers my face and I don't use a voice changer to scramble my speech. In meatspace, people use different modes of identification than just a name, so names aren't as important to figuring
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by RandomBK 4y ago
It's somewhere in between. You definitely need to enable features that are normally out-of-reach of regular users (i.e. user namespaces, network namespace, unprivileged ping, etc.) However it's still a far cry from full root acces
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Where did "free digital goods" come from? People have to pay money - sometimes a lot of money - for these loot boxes. I'm fine with random loot tables, but the moment I need to pay to roll the dice it stops being a "ra
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by RandomBK 4y ago
There's elements of this also represented in GNU Parallel, a really nifty utility that lets you create a fork-join pool out of one or many systems. IMO it is severely underused these days.
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by RandomBK 4y ago
In my experience, Keycloak is best treated as a "pet" in the "pet v.s. cattle" spectrum. It takes a while to warm up, so you don't want to be constantly restarting it. I deployed it out-of-sync with the main applica
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by RandomBK 4y ago
This looks quite interesting, and is sponsored by the Linux Foundation and several other orgs. Code signing is definitely a mess in the Linux world. One thing I'm less happy about is how these sort of projects always tend to build up a
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by RandomBK 4y ago
There was an article making the rounds a few years ago [0] that made some rather blunt and pointed arguments _against_ stackful concurrency. I'm not an expert in this field, but it would seem to me that while some of these arguments do
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by RandomBK 4y ago
Huh, this is new to me. How does zfs handle regular directories that happen to be named .zfs? Might this be a security issue as well? What permissions are needed to access this path? If I somehow have a webserver serving static files from a

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