andy9775

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by andy9775 4y ago
Even more administrators? And we wonder why education keeps getting more expensive.
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by andy9775 5y ago
> Aside from that, there are people who go into consulting and gain a lot of skills If what the author claims is true and consulting is basically making up numbers to fit some conclusion and general fluff work, I'm not sure that&#x2
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by andy9775 5y ago
> "make something people want" It's more of a "the other options suck" kind of thing with Tesla, no? > Would I have bought something else if I could get it? Maybe.
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by andy9775 5y ago
That's one way of encouraging investment in green energy sources but may not be perfect. Again, it's a wait and see game. Further, for a firm starting up mining ops your cost isn't just the variable cost of electricity, you a
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by andy9775 5y ago
Exactly. If bitcoin mining drives demand for solar, leads to solar production jobs in the US and increases R&D leading to more efficient panels - awesome. But if companies start to go public based on the premise of mining bitcoin at the
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by andy9775 5y ago
The issue is finance firms will get (are getting) involved. It becomes easy to purchase an inefficient energy production source (old coal, natural gas, etc.) that cities/counties/states are trying to get rid of which would otherwi
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Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment(newyorker.com)
23 points by andy9775 5y ago|20 comments
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by andy9775 5y ago
Being subpoenaed makes sense. If SquareSpace (or cloudflare, namcheap, etc.) is required to police content, hosting goes back to costing hundreds or thousands of dollars a month just to pay for the content moderators (at every level?).
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by andy9775 5y ago
How do these laws affect companies like SquareSpace[1] (companies which provide a site builder and hosting)? If someone builds a site which violates these laws is SquareSpace held responsible? Is it up to SquareSpace to police the content o
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by andy9775 5y ago
Are you accounting for family connections? High income families tend to have connections which can help. If your parents are good friends with a lawyer at a top law firm you no longer have to apply on your own merit. Poor families lack thes
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by andy9775 6y ago
A gift is just that, a gift. The party giving the gift isn't expecting anything in return. In the streaming example, you're providing entertainment for "gifts". That's an exchange of goods/services for monetary
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by andy9775 6y ago
Hoping ARM fixes some of the heat issues though and the transition is successful.
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by andy9775 6y ago
Yup, kept my 2015 13" pro till I bought the 16" a few months ago. The touch bar is meh for me though. I find it quicker to change volume with physical keys than touch bar but it's not a huge issue. However, love that the phys
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by andy9775 6y ago
It's fast, memory efficient and you're productive in it. It also follows write once, run anywhere without any dependencies. Downside is no generics but otherwise great.
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by andy9775 6y ago
> FWIW, I personally think distance learning is underrated, although I have been doing it for years so I've had time to become accustomed to it. I can understand why some students (including my wife) do not like it, and may never li
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by andy9775 6y ago
Cool. My favourite class in University went from low level, transistors, to gates to assembly. We used logisim and programmed our logic to an FPGA board. Final logic lab was building the circuit for a processor with two instructions of your
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by andy9775 6y ago
Not really family plans these days. Any additional lines are charged as normal and you just get the convenience of a single bill - no discount. Or at least that's what the rogers rep told me.
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by andy9775 6y ago
ya, but limited hardware IIRC. Considered it.
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by andy9775 6y ago
> A $600 price difference for this machine is probably worth it in my mind. Agreed. Recently bought the 16 inch MBP after considering Lenovo and Dell. Prices between the machines weren't that much different (Lenovo came to 7200 minu
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by andy9775 6y ago
As mentioned by the other commenter one of the big features is service discovery and load balancing - it seems like micro is stepping on k8s feet here and is a bit more than just a framework. I could see using micro on bare metal (with all
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by andy9775 6y ago
yup. Micro seems like a framework + platform for running micro services (ideally on bare metal). (Not saying there's anything wrong with that though)
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by andy9775 6y ago
Would I use micro on top of k8s? Doesn't seem to make sense to mix the two as far as I can tell.
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by andy9775 6y ago
> What university is that? It sounds awful. Rather not say, but a few do that. Plus in something like CS there's an hour long wait for office hours which are 2 hours twice a week with maybe 3 profs - so 6 hours for 500+ students - n
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by andy9775 6y ago
My undergrad is very focused on self-study. Prof's have gone the the extent of saying, "I won't waste time showing you this, you could just go on youtube". Flipped classroom models are increasing and the focus is again,
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by andy9775 6y ago
> I don't think it would save the university money, if done well. IMO universities these days are mainly in the real estate business. The maintenance on a building with multiple 1k person lecture halls isn't cheap. Faculty are
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by andy9775 7y ago
I'll counter this by saying that in my experience school projects are no better. TA's and prof's don't have enough time to give to groups. Students are left to figure things out on their own. Some classes assume (wrongly
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by andy9775 7y ago
"The Ontario government, during negotiations with Cisco for a juicy corporate subsidy, indicated that salaries are 'very competitive' and that they'd do 'anything to keep it that way'. Literally stating that he
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by andy9775 7y ago
Svelte comes close, stencil.js looks to have a focus on PWA's. I've played a bit with svelte and want to try stencil My one issue with PWA's is iOS doesn't support all the features.
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by andy9775 7y ago
can I do a pattern based ignore, to ignore a specific folder in all subfolders? Dropbox/ /node_modules/ or similar?
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by andy9775 7y ago
Of course they did. Parents grew up in a former communist country and smuggling in goods, stealing, were all pretty common. The reason you don't hear about it is because if people did those things that would mean that communism is bad

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