eggsnbacon1

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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
time "spent" in the database depends on the speed of DB drivers too, which depends on the language. Our stuff is Java and average query is ~2ms round trip. Python, Ruby and friends are bad for page speed metrics. REST response ti
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
50% of graphics would be 100% better if we banned red/green color schemes and pie charts
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
this site is also considered a "questionable source" with "extreme" right wing bias https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-national-pulse/
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
In my experience, its usually project managers and sales doing feature driven development while developers beg them to stop. Devs have to deal with all the bugs and messy codebase
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
I'm an idiot, was confused with mean
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
> Real median per capita income is the highest its ever been regardless of which inflation index you use Median is very misleading because of rise in income inequality. More than 50% of gains in median income last 20 years have gone to t
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
It might be a good thing for me at this point. Started out on a promising new project. Years later its been designed by committee into a sprawling unfocused mess. Maybe getting the boot would spur me to go back through the interview gauntle
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
Unless the site uses certificate pinning its possible to do a downgrade attack that forces browser off of HTTPS. The extension HTTPS Everywhere is a stopgap against this
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
I think some bias may be inherent. To blue eyes again, you could make a facial recognition system that just looked for 2 blue iris shapes and probably score 90%+ accuracy on most datasets (of exclusively blue eyed people and non-human objec
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
I'm going to be controversial here, and say that its possible that light colored skin is easier to identify from background, giving higher confidence to "is face" detection with lower false positives. Brown is, next to green,
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
> Tech companies have made clear that they don’t like the idea of blocking apps without a more organized policy process, and have suggested that they see this as a First Amendment issue, said Adam Segal, a cybersecurity expert at the Cou
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
this might be one of those projects that gets open sourced with the hope that someone else will maintain it
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
As far as "studio monitors", you should know that a quality set of over ear headphones has better sound reproduction than any speaker. I used to be involved in the pro audio scene, until I realized this. Its impossible to eliminat
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
India and China aren't exactly friends, I think its pretty reasonable to limit business ties of any kind. A sovereign nation has the right to ban any import, are you disputing that?
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
Remdesivir is a prodrug that converts to GS-441524 in the body. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00316 By most anecdotal accounts GS-441524 is better and possibly safer. And its readily available
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
I never "bought" TDD. Just like "microservices" it adds a ton of complexity and cost for something you probably don't need. The TDD cult doesn't consider that its the last thing you should try, test everything.
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
yup. Setting some tor privacy extensions in Firefox already locks you out of Google login. Yay!
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
anything with an orbit calculated to take more than a decade to decay without station keeping is banned. These calculations are routine so the requirement is only a burden for mission cost (needing more satellites for coverage). Exceptions
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
Useful but not necessary. Anything pointing at the Earth, nearly all satellites, work better closer. The issues of line of sight and coverage are all about money, and the cost of small satellite launch is dropping rapidly. There are some sa
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
I think there needs to be rules about orbital distance. Low earth orbit satellites like Starlink aren't risky because their orbit decays rapidly without constant boosts. Its the perfect failsafe. The only reason to use higher orbits is
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
When the monopolistic rideshare titans were banned in Austin there were local competitors within weeks. They kinda sucked for a few months, but by the time Lyft and Uber returned they worked quite well. They also paid the drivers FAR better
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
its pointless to bikeshed this. People did the same to defend TD and other crazy communities. Most of the posts are fine, but occasionally blatant sexism will make the front page and mods don't do anything about it, or even encourage i
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
I use Peazip on Linux https://peazip.github.io/ tar.gz is ancient
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
Its clearly what they do. The best example, a default sub TwoXChromosomes is full of blatant hate speech against half the species and its touted as a progressive bastion when its a different variation of The Donald.
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
Do they really need to access thousands of C++ API calls from Rust? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of writing safe code in Rust? This smells of "not invented here" which applies to Google projects pretty often. They should f
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
New buildings are rather efficient in US. The problem is old buildings that use 5X the energy for HVAC. I echo that AC is quite efficient. Far more efficient than traditional heating. There's a misconception that hot areas are less env
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
its easy to get this stuff. You can just pay some anonymous person on Fiverr that has access. Nobody should have access to this without a warrant, its a huge invasion of privacy.
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
the em waves produced by substations induce fear of decreasing home values via an unknown mechanism.
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
IMO in this regard WASM is pretty much the same as Java/C# except slower and less mature. In Java, distributing libraries as cross-platform "jars" is very common.
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by eggsnbacon1 6y ago
I'll be honest, I'm pretty anti-Go. Its filled with hacky workarounds for when various things don't fit their "simple" abstractions. File IO and paths is laughably not cross-platform because of this, for example. Ne

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