sheepz

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by sheepz 3y ago
Exactly, I think a university degree used to be a good proxy for IQ. But like every metric it becomes becomes bastardized in the end.
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by sheepz 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree. If more people have a university degree, then it's no longer than differentiator that it used to be. To obtain this degree, you have to take on a substantial student loan in the States from what I understand.
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by sheepz 3y ago
These results are to be expected, if IQ is normally distributed, but we push more people into obtaining university degrees. The value of a university degree has severely deteriorated since every white collar job essentially requires having
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by sheepz 3y ago
Is it just me or has Mozilla been taken over by grifters?
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by sheepz 3y ago
Why do you think rewriting it in Rust would improve its reliability?
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by sheepz 3y ago
I've used pganalyze which is a non-free SaaS tool. Gives you a very good overview of where the DB time is spent with index suggestions etc. There are free alternatives, but require more work from you.
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by sheepz 3y ago
Agree wholeheartedly with the conclusion of the article. But the post makes it seem that there was no real query-level monitoring for the Postgres instance in place, other than perhaps the basic CPU/memory ones provided by the cloud pr
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by sheepz 4y ago
Ironically a better example of this would your own claim that focuses solely on the crimes of Nazism without any mention of Communist crimes. Since USSR was on the Allied side, Communism never quite turned into the embodiment of evil that N
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by sheepz 4y ago
s/Russia/Soviet Union/g. The huge role of Soviet Union was pushed by the Soviet Union as part of its Great Patriotic War narrative is continued to this day by Russia's propaganda. Without the US Lend-Lease, the situation
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by sheepz 6y ago
yes, this is exactly the way it is. most people are perfectly fine with throwing their ideals out of the window if they were applicable to people they don't like.
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by sheepz 6y ago
Perhaps it was run by some introverted developer-types? Or there were some cultural differences at play? The reaction seems a bit excessive and I'm not sure if it characterizes the company as a whole.
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by sheepz 6y ago
To people who hate running, run slower! Most people who hate running are conditioned to go way too fast. Once you build up a base, then you can speed things up. There is little enjoyment if you are constantly struggling. A smartwatch can gi
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by sheepz 6y ago
I've come to the conclusion that such inept statements can only come from people who have lived their lives in very safe environments where they have never needed police protection. Such environments do not represent the safety of the
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by sheepz 6y ago
While there is certainly more complexity in modern software, it does not necessarily need to translate to increased memory, CPU usage and increased latency for the user. Are you saying that this increase in software complexity definitely in
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by sheepz 6y ago
No, it's the other way around. Advances in computer hardware have allowed the use more inefficient programming languages allowing more inexperienced and unskilled programmers to create programs leading to more resource hungry programs.
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by sheepz 8y ago
Reading is good, but often gives us a illusory perception of understanding, but things tend to stick even better when you experiment with them.
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by sheepz 8y ago
Looking to try out Kubernetes, will definitely give this a try. Although the article starts with kind of a strawman (Kubernetes is robust section): you could do most of those with Docker (and compose) or with a non-containerized setup altog
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by sheepz 8y ago
It's funny that the downvoters haven't really come up with a valid argument why Bitcoin is not a valid use case for this. It's much more difficult to prove that person A transferred money to B via Bitcoin than it is via regul
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by sheepz 8y ago
It's more of an economics issue. It does not make sense to optimize, because bandwidth and CPU power are so abundant. Optimizing will take time away from adding new features.
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by sheepz 8y ago
Could you elaborate on how you fixed your tooth?
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by sheepz 8y ago
This a perfectly bad example, because your example makes the reader's intuition pump in a certain way. Consider the alternative story where Mark is a wife beater. Would still come to the same conclusion? Or does it say something about
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by sheepz 9y ago
I think communism is pretty well defined, in its ultimate form its the abolition of private property. This is in strict opposition to capitalism.
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by sheepz 9y ago
The blockchain hype is crazy. My favorite truism that I see people spouting is that Bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies are) is worthless, but blockchain is a huge innovation. Little do these people understand that the true innovation is Bitcoin&#
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by sheepz 9y ago
What would you consider as the alternative? People are so used to getting news and various services "for free", it's very difficult to get them to pay for it.
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by sheepz 9y ago
This is because this information is celebrated as proof that there was in fact "no vulnerability in IOTA and it was all FUD" by Reddit (and possibly elsewhere) https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comm
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by sheepz 9y ago
You would think so, but my commute to work is a little over 3 km and I used to drive a car to work, until I realized how ridiculous that was. I know co-workers who live even closer and still they drive.I live in a small town, but people sti
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by sheepz 9y ago
Mining cryptocurrencies in your browser could be seen as form of parasitic computing that is actually happening right now (mining Monero on Piratebay)
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by sheepz 9y ago
Most Python 2 codebases probably have a lot of unknown bugs in them related to Unicode. The code will work fine for cases where the inputs are ASCII, but will subtly break if unicode inputs are provided. In term's of code reliability,
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by sheepz 10y ago
could you elaborate on the 'more torture' promise?
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by sheepz 10y ago
illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

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