mianas

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by mianas 4y ago
Clown-car cluster sounds like it'd be a good name for a compute product.
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by mianas 5y ago
This seems like the perfect thing to implement as a browser addon. If you think you need it, install it. Otherwise, the code doesn't touch your install. Much like the container tabs extension, in terms of requiring an addon for certain
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by mianas 5y ago
When I read "wasn't entirely correct", and "probability of a crash was about one in a million", I wondered how you'd work that value out. Predictable statistics screams RNG, to me. Especially if the code author
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by mianas 5y ago
The 'lower total cost, higher unit cost' problem is one of the reasons I love the way the EU mandates advertising prices. i.e. anything sold needs to have the price you actually pay on it (including VAT/other charges), and th
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by mianas 5y ago
I got myself into the habit of opening transactions before doing anything that could alter data by hand. Huge panic-saver. Even earlier, I got into the habit of typing the where clause before typing the from clause. Not much of a change, bu
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by mianas 5y ago
I have no idea, but I'd guess it was the client generating a random number to use as a unique ID, with insufficient length. AFAIK, anything UUID-sized or bigger doesn't have this problem on Earth.
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by mianas 5y ago
I came here to reply to the parent comment's remark about "irreversible interaction like aerobreaking, but this dwarf planet has negligible atmosphere." by mentioning lithobraking because it's been consuming my thoughts
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by mianas 5y ago
I've seen this turn out the other way on a road contract near my house. (rural Ireland) Some Italian construction company underbid, and slightly later went bankrupt after finishing some of the work. They just about missed the contract
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by mianas 6y ago
> Heating water with electricity is the literally last thing we should do. Would you consider electric showers an exception? They only heat whatever water you're using. I've lived in houses with no hot water in the taps for mon
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by mianas 6y ago
> Someone has uploaded the source code to GitHub Anyone else think the smartest move for microsoft here is to leave it up, unless another copyright holder complains? Not only has XP been sunset many times, many years ago, it might finall
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by mianas 6y ago
This occurred to me after looking at the Wikipedia article [1], and seeing the different "versions" and the rationale about not leaking data in the ID. In general, if you want to encode info in your IDs, you can do that. Just make
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by mianas 6y ago
4chan is a bit special when it comes to government orders. For example, they have a (heavily limited) de-facto warrant canary. Since damn near all of them specify that no data should be deleted for a period of time, posting is disabled on a