jaxtellerSoA

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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
No one goes to see a movie just because it features 1 song.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>Which makes the braces redundant at best, noise at worst. YES!! Every time I try something other than Python that requires braces, I am like "WTF, why do I have to type this extra shit! Such an annoyance."
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>There is no editor with consitent tab vs. spaces or tab width settings. This is just plain false. PyCharm does, and I am sure there are others.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>3 (syntax) seems to be about not supporting the author's own highly idiosyncratic habits Yeah, I don't get the author at all. Using indentation is so, so, so, so, much cleaner and easier to understand, even with lots of nestin
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>Value is created out of thin air through work. Value != money supply
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>You are not lending the entire economy and then demanding more than the economy be paid back. You are right that you are not lending the entire economy, I was just making the example as simple as possible. But, the second interest is be
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
How do you guys think the money supply works? I mean have never even thought about it? >What happens when there are new entrants to your economy? Nothing. >Are they all forced to split the 100k? No, if the new entrant can provide valu
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>The extra 10k is coming from the increased profits enabled by the investments that the 100k paid for. Companies, and their profits, can't and don't create cash out of thin air. That isn't how the money supply works. This
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>I think you are implying the companies and people borrow money for shits and giggles. Nope. I was just using an example. It could have been $100k and only $50K was lent out. You sill would need $105k at the end of the year to satisfy al
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
Debt with interest is inherently destructive. Inevitably the demand for debt owed exceeds the actually supply of money. To put it in very simple tangible terms, if the US economy was say $100,000, and say all that money is lent out at a sim
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
> If Verizon DSL is in town, apples and oranges. Sure technically they are both provide "internet", but this day in age DSL speeds are just plain unacceptable. You might as well make the argument that residents don't have
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>I would have expected an explosion in sales with such a product That is just unrealistic expectations in the server space. These aren't consumer products where adoption is fast. Business don't upgrade their infrastructure as q
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
Amazon, Microsoft, and Baidu would have to disagree with you, since they all have already done large Epyc implementations. Also, I can go on CDW right now and get an Epyc server, no problem. Availability isn't an issue for AMD.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>This is clearly Tumblr's Digg moment. Hit the nail on the head with that one. Digg and Tumblr should get together and write a blog "How to lose your entire user base in 1 day."
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>which implies already having high privileges. (How do users with such high UIDs come into existence?) I am not so sure about that. I work at a smallish, place and by default my AD account has UID of 945004649. Still under the INT_MAX bu
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
This is correct. "Hey are you working on that deck?" "Yeah, I just need to run to Home Depot and get some more nails" A deck is that wooden structure on the back of your house. A power point presentation is an electronic
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>hackers when they have essentially gained root? You are already fucked at this point. I would focus my attention on prevent hackers from 1) gaining any unauthorized access. 2) from doing any sort of privilege escalation from a restricte
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
Fantastic post! But can we please, please stop calling power point presentations "decks".
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
That is what I am thinking, save myself about $50 a month.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
I live in a remote area, and so far have found the only carrier that has any signal at all at my house is Verizon. So I am pretty much stuck with them, unless I get at network extender/signal booster for another carrier and install it
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>you can get a decent phone for under $150. A smart phone? If so please provide a link. The "cheap" smart phones I have found are $300 ish, which ins't terrible, but this general trend towards a $1,000 smart phone is insan
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
I was really looking forward to an new SE phone, that was my upgrade plan (currently on 6). Now my upgrade plan is to transition to Andriod, or I am seriously considering going back to a "dumb phone". The cost of phones is out of
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>Because it is the least worst option for businesses who need what it offers. And what is it offering exactly, relation database? Shit man, PostgeSQL, Maria DB, Firebird, etc.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>As MSFT is raking in cloud revenue, every other enterprise player is nervous about looking outdated. Too late, SAP looked outdated back in early 00's. I don't get why anyone still uses SAP, it performs like crap, is way, way,
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>I think the redesigns in that article demonstrate why most websites look the same. I actually went to each of them, they may "look cool" but they were utterly unusable. The hacker news one was horrific.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
And the cold war has resumed.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
Not bench marks, but Amazon is saying their new R5a and M5a running on Eypc will offer 10 percent savings on compute costs. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/amazon-web-services-...
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
Then it also stands to reason that it makes business sense to switch from Intel Xeon to AMD Epyc.
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>With power comes responsibility, of course. Fair enough. >That is good, if it is YOUR car. (emphasis added) This my concern, if I can download anything I want to MY car, how hard/easy would it be for me to do it someone else&#x2
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by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
Not sure if this is good thing? I know as the dev you are excited about it. But if I can gain access to the hardware using curl in my car, then I can download anything I want to my car.

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