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by vpeters25 3y ago
They were done the minute mods broke their habit of moderating their subreddits. Some dedicated mods might come back, but it is really hard to return to a lost habits so the damage is done already.
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by vpeters25 4y ago
I suggested them to put: - A random video from the ones uploaded in the last minute. - Another random video, uploaded anytime In both cases, these videos should be shown regardless of language, view count, etc. In most cases these random vi
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by vpeters25 5y ago
Probably blankets embedded with a conductive metal mesh in a pattern designed to block microwaves could be issued to all US personnel in foreign countries.
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by vpeters25 5y ago
I remember on my first year here in Texas, driving by Arlington's city hall and there were a bunch of second amendment rights guys protesting outside, armed to the teeth with assault rifles and camo pants. The police in their HQ right
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by vpeters25 5y ago
Just want to point out the law allows unlicensed carrying of a concealed firearm, keyword here is concealed. It is my understanding you already can walk around with a firearm anywhere in most US states that don't ban firearms as long a
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by vpeters25 6y ago
> If so many people have trouble implementing agile maybe it just doesn't work? The problem with agile and other empirical processes of project control is that it goes against the OCD tendencies of scientifically minded people. They
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by vpeters25 6y ago
> However, after seeing how badly it can be weaponized against developers, I'm certainly ready to throw out the bathwater, and I think this is what they're talking about. Poor management is a separate issue from agile. Even so,
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by vpeters25 6y ago
> Also I think the comparison to lean manufacturing has always been very shallow. I get the metaphor, I just don't think that human resources in engineering can be optimized like manufacturing processes. Agile and Lean are empirical
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by vpeters25 6y ago
This 100%. One of the reasons people hate Agile is because they miss this point and keep micro-managing.
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by vpeters25 6y ago
Every time I see an "agile sucks" post, I take the time to read it and every time (so far) I have found they blame the process for some key part of agile they missed. Quote from the article: “Way too much of Agile has been not abo
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by vpeters25 7y ago
In agile, or any other project management process, the "customer" is not necessarily just the final user but any stakeholder. As a rule of thumb: anybody who needs regular progress updates on a project is a "customer". T
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by vpeters25 8y ago
I can confirm, I have grid-tied solar panels and have gotten outages in the middle of sunny days which is usually the time my panels are actually supplying surplus power to the grid. Only way to have juice during power outages in my config
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by vpeters25 8y ago
This is a good idea, but i think it could go even further. Somewhat unrelated but if you really want to see how horrendously unfriendly the typical smartphone UX is, hand one to a technology-challenged grandparent (who can probably use a le
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by vpeters25 9y ago
Rolling their own health care company might solve only part of the issue. I think the largest driver of healthcare costs right now is price gouging by providers with their charge masters, needless exams and procedures.
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by vpeters25 9y ago
I have been thinking on a "simple rule" that could mitigate gerrymandering: 1. No congressional district can span more than 1 partial city and/or county. This will force districts to be drawn to cover whole cities/counti
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by vpeters25 9y ago
> It also doesn't seem like the internet regulatory state of pre-2015 was a disaster. This is a common inaccurate argument I have seen pushed by the telcos to justify repeal. There are many well-documented cases of how the "big
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by vpeters25 9y ago
Based on what happened in the south of Chile, I think they might want to wait a couple more decades before claiming escaped salmon didn't gain finhold in the wild: My uncle was among the pioneers of salmon farming in the south of Chile
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by vpeters25 9y ago
The article's title seems click-bait. It makes good points identifying some of the already known weaknesses in bitcoin's design, but he is basically complaining that Satoshi didn't predict how his creation would evolve over t
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by vpeters25 9y ago
Maybe we don't need a unique id at the federal level after all. Financial institutions are already required to follow KYC (Know Your Customer) laws. For this they need a way to validate the identity of the customers they do business wi
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by vpeters25 9y ago
> Lenny actually changes it's response depending on what the caller does. Pauses, keywords, etc. It's actually a sequence of recordings played in the same order every time in a loop from the 5th. Telemarketers usually realize i
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by vpeters25 9y ago
Think of this scenario: Oppresive government wants cloudflare to stop hosting some dissenters site. Cloudflare says no Then such government tries again, this time accusing dissenters of terrorism or something else despicable such as child m
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by vpeters25 9y ago
I sort of agree. I personally got tired of answering recruiters' questions about how much time i spent in frontend vs backend. I also realized there was an increasing trend in job postings looking for "full-stack" so I start
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by vpeters25 9y ago
Maybe an auditable electronic voting system: each candidate's campaign can run their own "miner" making it impossible to tamper with voter results. On the other hand such a system might make the individual votes less anonymou
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by vpeters25 9y ago
> The only issue that irks me is that I can't resize a pool after it was created, can't add new disks, can't remove one (without risking parity). Not sure why ZFS would not auto resize for you. It's the reason I have
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by vpeters25 9y ago
Ah DCOM, fun times. Back in SQL 6.5 days (and all the MS SQL versions up to, i believe, 2005), "precompiling" queries in stored procedures was recommended for performance reasons. It was even asked on hiring interviews, at least t
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by vpeters25 9y ago
> I'm and old programmer and I've been arguing against business logic in SPs since SQL Server 6.5 and have been losing ever since. That's not an old/young argument. > It's because vendors (in this case MS) rec
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by vpeters25 9y ago
> The real problem is the assumption that this is a 'solved problem', i.e. that a) there is an one-true-way algorithm out there, and b) that is what the interviewer wants you to know (i.e. know in the sense of knowing a fact).
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by vpeters25 10y ago
Apologizes for the "me too" post: It appears to be impacting gotomeeting, I get this error when trying to start a 12pm meeting here: CloudFront is currently experiencing problems with requesting objects from Amazon S3. Edit: ironi
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by vpeters25 10y ago
I was told that by GV support, but I'm struggling to find any other likely source for it. I removed all redirections from my GV number and tested: - I called from my home and cellphone, both hangouts and GV ringed. - I asked my family
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by vpeters25 10y ago
I had a GV as the primary in my resume for years. Last year, many recruiters emailed me that calls weren't going through with a recording stating "The person you are trying to reach is not accepting calls at this time". I ask

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