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by pravus 3y ago
> Why would an IP rights-holder believe you? Because in addition to all the filthy pirated booty I stole, I would also show them this: * My 350+ physical CD collection * My 200+ physical DVD/Blu-Ray * My entire merch c
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by pravus 3y ago
This is what I'm asking... It's like going to the wholesaler and wondering why they don't have a nice pretty brick-and-mortar to buy from. GS doing consumer credit just seems like a large impedance mismatch in various level
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by pravus 3y ago
Look at the dip in Permian versus Haynesville, Eagle Ford, Barnett and Fayetteville. Permian is West Texas where I said I was and it didn't even dip below the previous low. East Texas is a whole other country...
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by pravus 3y ago
I'm not sure how much it would really be needed. Part of my family owned and operated a gas measurement business in West Texas and I don't recall ever having to do anything special for winter conditions on pipelines. Most of the
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by pravus 3y ago
> There’s a meme that Git is hard to use but I think it’s conflating the challenges of getting used to version control at all No. I had used CVS, SVN, SVK, Bazaar, and Mercurial for years before I switched to Git. I can generally expla
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by pravus 3y ago
> I'm guessing due to some backwards compatibility idiocy that seemed like it made sense at some point ... > ... making a compelling reason to fuck over the future in favor of optimisation now > I never questioned the competen
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by pravus 3y ago
Maybe it's just me and my bad attitude toward products today but this could explain why everything seems to be turning into low-quality garbage. I'm not a millionaire business man so I must be doing it wrong, but spending over 1&
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by pravus 3y ago
I watch primarily wildlife documentaries, educational lectures, and podcasts related to academic topics like paleontology, archaeology, ancient history, and other subjects. I don't want music, live shows, television, sports, or most c
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by pravus 3y ago
My Service Provider License Agreement states that I am able to circumvent any ad technology when using my own devices. It is free. The "with ads" part is someone else's opinion. If you don't want ad-blockers, shut it d
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by pravus 3y ago
> Why do you pretend that you are entitled to free video storage and bandwidth from YouTube? Because they offered it for free. YouTube can close the doors any time. If they want my money, they can make a service offering that meets my n
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by pravus 3y ago
> I get that we -need- electricity at night. But frankly, there is zero incentive for me to put my billion there. Its high risk with no reward. That's why we aren't getting nuclear right now. Once the regulatory hurdles come d
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by pravus 3y ago
I'm not telling you what to do, but I really wish this kind of thinking would stop. I've spilled concentrated round-up all over my arms and legs many times because I used it regularly as weed control all over my property in Texas.
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by pravus 3y ago
In a data center you have racks of computers performing all of the workloads. At this point these racks are fairly standardized in terms of sizing and ancillary features. These are built-out to solve the following: * Physical space
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by pravus 3y ago
I've thought along the same lines. I currently have some personal projects going in this direction. My vision is to create a set of tools that would allow you to set up a micro infrastructure to self-host all of these services on any
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by pravus 3y ago
There's no reason to have a URL (or any data) encoded in the state parameter. The purpose of the parameter is to provide an opaque lookup key which you can utilize to provide correct, validated responses. This is usually done in some
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by pravus 3y ago
I currently pay $5/month to the Kevin Richardson channel as a member and have been a member since inception for over 4 years now. When I went to the members section of YouTube to view my members-only videos I received the blocking mes
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by pravus 3y ago
I worked at an educational institution where we ran an academic-focused Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that was fairly large. Not quite 40k tables, but it had over 4k. To give you an idea of how this was organized: * Most
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by pravus 3y ago
It's really just the effort and time to understand the data structures and API considerations between the two systems. Saying something is a UNIX doesn't absolve you of the duty of knowing how the specific UNIX was implemented.
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by pravus 3y ago
This is interesting. Part of my life was working with a water well driller running a rig for my grand-father's business a long time ago. The technique is virtually identical but with a hydraulic lift for running the drill and uses co
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by pravus 3y ago
> BTW the question I asked was about querying data without ever using a SQL language, like tapping directly into the data. A lot of databases are just data structures written to disk in an efficient manner. There's nothing really s
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by pravus 3y ago
I think it could be argued that the basic form of this was around as X.509 certificates far before blockchains. I'm not sure what the history would be before that, though. Also, in my mind at least, the idea for doing secure attestabl
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by pravus 3y ago
> would it sound different? I don't believe it would. While there can be pretty bad PRNGs, they are typically implemented to produce a particular statistical distribution which would be identical to a real random source for the pur
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by pravus 3y ago
I recently set up my own self-hosted email solution again and made sure to do all of these things: * Proper A and MX record set up in DNS per SMTP standards * Proper SPF record in DNS * Proper DMARC record in DNS * Proper
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by pravus 3y ago
> Can perfectionism be "cured"? I don't really consider it a "cure" but the way I manage my perfectionism (and holistic completionism) is to simply re-frame my goals to not meet perfect but to get as close to per
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by pravus 3y ago
When I was doing disaster recovery we measured three things: 1) the likelihood of a particular scenario, 2) the magnitude of the impact if the scenario unfolded, and 3) the level of effort expected to recover. It was the combination of the
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by pravus 3y ago
> Would we lose formatting, etc? Basically you'd lose the entire source representation of your code so you are essentially shipping binaries at that point. You could annotate the AST with hints to recover the original source, but o
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by pravus 3y ago
I was hoping to see something like this. Thank-you!
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by pravus 3y ago
> What is the market for "wide" applications though? Just my experience, but essentially these target industries, not necessarily consumers or singular entities. Hence the term "enterprise". As someone who worked on
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by pravus 3y ago
I will admit that polymorphic types can still be pretty awful in an RDBMS. And yes, juggling sets can take some creativity with SQL.
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by pravus 3y ago
Not really, imo. The biggest advantage of Mongo was being able to store a single hierarchical document and search it. Now that you can do that in the RDBMS there's no advantage at all. You also throw away all capability of doing rel

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