gnaritas

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by gnaritas 6y ago
> we really must appreciate that Kubernetes really is the future of infrastructure No, it isn't. It's extra complexity most don't need.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> One thing I've always wondered is who the heck is Martin Fowler and why does he have such a following? You don't know the history of your craft; study more, look into where agile came from, the extreme programming movement, a
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Oh I agree with you on the car, but this assumes you know enough about them to get a decent one for 3k; people go for newer used ones because it's a black box to them and they want something they "feel" is reliable and they d
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by gnaritas 7y ago
There's also someone buying a lottery ticket that will make them rich soon, so what? Both take a huge amount of luck and are extremely unlikely.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> The freeways around here are gridlocked with cars costing more than $28,000. Yea, financed with debt over what is now typically 7-10 years. 28k of capital to invest is out of the reach of the majority of Americans. Please don't p
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Fair point on the LiFePO, but none of those other things really matter as they're easily made up for by a larger bank, what matters is the cost per amp/hour and lithium isn't remotely there yet. The exact fraction varies, but
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Lead-acid is still better, it's 1/10 the cost for equivalent usable amp-hours. Most boaters use deep cycle golf cart batteries, they're produced at such scale that they're cheap as hell. Lithium is a waste of money and d
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> What's the point of anonymity when trading You don't have a right to trade anonymously; sorry, but that's called money laundering.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Law and medicine are traditionally seen as high status and may retain women longer, but certainly, suffer the same issue; women over 30 drop off dramatically in law as they leave to become parents.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
According to the population who already lives there and have well-established laws and customs. Humans are tribal, diversity isn't generally desired by most.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> there's no way to go back and conduct experiments to validate hypotheses. That's not required to do science. The notion one must be able to go back in time to prove evolution is absurd. Evolution happens, that's a fact.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> They're just people who at this time have housing insecurity They're homeless, trying to hide that reality with a non-sense PC euphemism doesn't change that. This attitude isn't helping, it's obfuscating and b
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> It's really unfortunate that it's not a reliable storage medium. That's not what it's for, you're just misusing the tool for something it isn't meant to be. It's not a database, it's a cache.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
You must not live in a state where pot is legal; in such places $2 bills floating around everywhere, I use them all the time. The reason: cash businesses use them heavily to reduce the amount of physical cash they need to maintain and move
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Having to work is not slavery. Wild animals work and they're as free as free gets. Work is a necessity of survival, the necessities of life require labor to create/get and it's on you to carry your own weight, that's not
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Which is about 18% of the original investment, not 20, assuming no gains or losses.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
It certainly can be, but that's not a business problem, there will always be people who failed to prepare or lacked the necessary skills to prepare for old age or people who refuse to move somewhere they can find a job. Education doesn
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by gnaritas 7y ago
It's not meant to provide a living. Companies don't exist to provide jobs, jobs are a byproduct of the business, not its reason to exist. Minimum wage jobs are people with no skills who are easily replaceable, usually teenagers le
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by gnaritas 7y ago
No, there are other reasons[1] we believe dark matter exists, it's not just a fudge factor in the math. There are multiple lines of evidence pointing at its existence. [1] https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/five
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory? They grew up lazy in soft times. It's a never-ending cycle, parents work hard to make kids lives easier than theirs, kids do
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> Why should I take a 125% hit when I'm providing a convenience for the patient by doing all their scans on the same day? Because what you're doing otherwise is unethical. Padding the bill by spreading out the appointments is a
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by gnaritas 7y ago
tldr; weather != climate
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Queues eliminate bursts, bursts are not harder to process unless the response must by synchronous.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
That's not why people moved from assembly to C, C is portable, assembly is CPU specific, the move to C was about abstraction to a higher level language in the name of portability to multiple processors, not about verifying program corr
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by gnaritas 7y ago
You're assuming there'd be a winning system, that's a bad assumption, different systems would be acceptable to different sets of people. There isn't one right answer, there are many and people will gravitate to the ones
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by gnaritas 7y ago
> Usually within 2-3 years one has to throw away most of the code as it was written in an obscure, low adoption language, or it is just so difficult to maintain that new features can't be added. So you've never worked in good c
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Lisp isn't a large language, it's a small language with a large library.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
Crazy, HAProxy is free, will proxy and load balance anything not just HTTP, and it's absolutely trivial to configure and install; there's nothing remotely complicated about setting it up. Most importantly for trivial offloading of
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by gnaritas 7y ago
That's wealthy, not rich. Rich people live off income, wealthy people live off net worth.
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by gnaritas 7y ago
No, the behavioral test [1] one writes cannot be replaced by type checks nor does a type system reduce the need to write tests if you're doing testing correctly. [1] https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1

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