lambda_obrien

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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Alternatively, i bought my Google phone for 1000 dollars 3 years ago and get zero updates now. That's pretty sorry.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Check out http://btrdb.io/ which is a similar idea. It's a distributed database as well. It was designed for storing billions or even trillions of records for electrical data from hundreds of sources at once. It was wr
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
You're probably right, whether we have free will or not, we still cannot tell the future, so we should act as if we have it. This poster is clearly conflating their own life situation, which might limit them somehow, with the universe
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Same here. I used to have to borrow, steal, or buy content, but now for about 50 bucks a month i can subscribe to a few services and get all the tv, games, and music I want. Until that changes considerably, I'm fine with the status quo
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
There are better prison systems in the world than the barbaric ones in America.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
> true but politically inconvenient Wanna give some examples or are you just dog-whistling?
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
The USG could kill it by using a 51 percent attack; the NSA must have rows upon rows of servers that could be repurposed for a week or two to destroy the market. Split the blockchain every couple of hours into several different versions, ev
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Imagine an SSD serving up query responses! I love it.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
I think we know that America isn't healthy in any respect right now. Part of that is we don't think it's necessary to take care of each other.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
It's called loyalty, it goes both ways, but American companies don't understand it today. You shouldn't just treat people like a tool or equipment like American companies tend to. Sometimes people need something from the comp
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
That's a bad thing why? These people are just taking care of the people who take care of them and their kids. It seems logical to me.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
I'm a former SWO qualified Naval officer, as stated elsewhere I believe. I vouched your comment just to reply, because it's important to be correct. I'm not going into details about anything else, I've gone into detail e
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
This is probably it, even between branches there are major differences, the Navy and Air Force both tend to be more educated than the ground forces which tend to attract soldiers and Marines who want to play Battlefield games in real life.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Yes, and every officer since then has been drilled not to do such mistakes. The military fucks up like this sometimes, but that's one event out of millions of miles steamed. Not defending this event, those sailors should have been cour
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Frankly, your thoughts don't matter because you don't have the expertise to judge.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
I used to be someone who did programming outside of work, but I don't have time with a kid, and further I don't really want to spend time fixing anything electronic any longer. I just use a console for gaming, my computer sits unu
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Would you want to fire several hundred kilos of tungsten in a random direction while you're next to the USA coast, where civilians and shipping pass by all the time? Edit: as a reply, since I can't post faster: CIWS, in certain mo
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
No submarine can come this close to the coast without being detected. Especially not in this area, there's huge numbers of Navy ships there 24-7 due to training, and all of them are using passive sonar all the time due to that training
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Folks, there are very strict conditions under which a Navy ship can use weapons, and some unknown aircraft isn't gonna be a situation that they're going to open fire. You could be shooting some moron in an ultralight or some kids
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
As a former ordnance officer: lol No one is going be the CO the opens fire on a non combatant drone on the USA coast, as you'd lose your command pretty fast. Edit: I can't post faster, so here's a response to a reply: I didn&
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
There's no marines onboard a destroyer, and no one is shooting anything that hasn't shot first when you're in that area, it's full of Navy training platforms and civilians.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
I hope they give you a nice bonus for trying to fall on the sword so honorably, but even if no one else read your post before you posted it then that's still a leadership failure, frankly.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
> It sounds like you got your arse kicked for being a jerk. Oops. People say things like this about people who get killed by cops for minor offenses and such. I think people shouldn't be jerks, and should learn from mistakes, but th
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
People avoid weirdo dudes who act weird, even if they're not sexual predators.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
There ya go, hehe, I wouldn't want to deal with it.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Why not just fake stuff? If you give software no file permissions, show it an empty dir. Tell the software you saved it's file but don't, just keep it in an memory overlay just for that program's run. If it wanted the network
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
When my company upgrades to 3.8 or higher, I'll be happy to include as much typing as possible. I can't wait until I can refactor Python more easily, it's a huge pain right now.
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
From experience in medical equipment, a BOM was about as useful as a piece of toilet paper. Trying to keep one up to date when every resistor and nut and bolt is included is a pain and about 20 percent was probably wrong. An SBOM is just mo
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Last week, I refactored an update query into smaller queries looping and doing only 20 updates at a time because too many updates was taking more time than allowed. It turns out that one query that happens is to remove a field of it isn&#x2
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by lambda_obrien 5y ago
Yes, it's great if you setup the data structures properly, we pay a few bucks a month to run a lot of infra on it to query telemetry data over a few hours to a few days at a time. I think an equivalent cost in just a database server in

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