ssambros

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by ssambros 6y ago
Could this hint to the fact the Zodiac committed suicide in the end?
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by ssambros 6y ago
Mafia coming to you for protection money since "bad things happen" is not extortion. They just ask nicely. The fact that your building burned down after you didn't pay is totally unrelated.
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by ssambros 6y ago
I had an issue with R constantly not connecting. Ended up replacing under the warranty and now have zero issues.
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by ssambros 6y ago
> So, you are rejecting the premise that a lot of misinformation is spread and it has much wider reach than in the past? No, but how do we jump to conclusion that government, government-controlled or government-aligned entity should be a
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by ssambros 6y ago
> How is it that Google create/rebrand/close so many music and chat services over the years. It's not a rebrand. It's a rewrite. People need them promos. In many cases, however, rewrites are actually warranted. As und
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by ssambros 7y ago
if you run Redis you need at least 25% of extra RAM on top the instance memorysize if you want to avoid a lot of nasty OOM scenarios. Memorystore gives this memory by default and in aws you need to tweak the reserved-memory. https:/&#
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by ssambros 7y ago
To be fair, it seems Memorystore instance is not the same gb-for-gb as Elasticache, since Memorystore gives you extra memory overhead, and on aws you have to manage it yourself. Memorystore also has free network egress/ingress. There i
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by ssambros 7y ago
> join a megacorp? How will that help with the noise problem?
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by ssambros 7y ago
"Air Moorea didn’t know it had both types in its fleet, it replaced all its control cables on the interval specified for carbon steel cables — about once a year." Did they just ordered the replacement parts per catalog without loo
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by ssambros 7y ago
With it's pros being the ability to know how close the points are just having the 2 coordinates and arbitrary precision. Who knows how far away epic.region.music and epic.global.music are from just the names? While 18SUJ2163104440 and
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by ssambros 7y ago
> It tells you the intent. A good unit test that tries to load with jit_enable=false and expects false in return will communicate intent even better.
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by ssambros 7y ago
> Now obviously Uber is a private company No, they are not. Uber went public this month. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...
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by ssambros 7y ago
> Google could have made a much less obnoxious social network Even today, I think YouTube has a great potential for becoming a better social network, than G+ ever was.
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by ssambros 7y ago
Indeed not all locations have it, but I believe the major ones, like Santa Monica, should have it available by now.
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by ssambros 7y ago
> For the phone interview, it will be on a Google document, and for the onsite interview, it will be writing code on a whiteboard. That part is not completely correct. At onsite can choose to write code in a Chromebook which will have a
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by ssambros 7y ago
Would you prefer the government to take your money by force and give it to Wikimedia instead of them 'begging' for money?
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by ssambros 8y ago
Engines are also very different between 737 Original and Classic, so having different thrust vectors between generations is not happening for the first time.
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by ssambros 8y ago
If anyone is interested: Memorystore for Redis is experiencing intermittent failures during instance creation. Existing instances are not affected.
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by ssambros 8y ago
You keep confusing the terms. You say "privilege to vote" in one sentence and "right to vote" in another. Constitution sees due process as a right of "persons", and ability to vote as a "right of citizens&
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by ssambros 8y ago
oneof thingy { repeated string first_option; string second_option; } Not the most beautiful solution, but I've seen it in production and it works fine.
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by ssambros 8y ago
> it's the same reason that convex mirrors in America must have the text Precisely. S5.4.2 Each convex mirror shall have permanently and indelibly marked at the lower edge of the mirror's reflective surface, in letters not less
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by ssambros 8y ago
People who drove cars in the EU and in the USA: did you ever notice how the blind spot problem almost completely disappears in the EU? That's because US enforces in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard #111 [1] that the left side
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by ssambros 8y ago
Not that much anymore. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-...
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by ssambros 8y ago
Prop 13. They can't just increase property taxes.
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by ssambros 8y ago
So, what's the joke? I want to see you succeed.
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by ssambros 8y ago
That is definitely her personal opinion, as she is not a spokesperson for Google as far as hiring is concerned. Neither am I. However, I think if you ask people who conduct software engineer interviews at Google, a lot of them will agree wi
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by ssambros 8y ago
"billing practices of most hospitals are very dishonest and intentionally confusing and opaque." Is that even true? Personally I have my doubts.
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by ssambros 8y ago
American Hospital Association: Underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid Fact Sheet, December 2017 Update [0] FINDINGS In the aggregate, both Medicare and Medicaid payments fell below costs in 2016: - Combined underpayments were $68.8 billion i
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by ssambros 8y ago
Medicare currently pays less than what it costs to provide for a lot of services. And providers are either declining medicare alltogether or recouping the missing funds from the other patients. Where would all those other patients come fro
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by ssambros 8y ago
And what does the law say in this case? Can they refuse to pay out if they themselves decide it was a mistake to take the bet in the first place?

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