whitegrape

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by whitegrape 10y ago
Have an immutable filesystem, where "deletes" are recoverable by going back in time. At least until you do a scheduled "actual delete" that will reclaim disk space. Another option (though last time I tried it, it didn&#x
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by whitegrape 10y ago
For me it was college.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
This explains it pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout
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by whitegrape 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party These people were not evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked probably is evil but at least he's trying to repent. If we're goin
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by whitegrape 10y ago
What's so bad about prefacing the meeting with "Sorry guys I'm expecting a call at some point today so if my phone goes off I'll need to leave to answer it"? Some people must surely be expecting calls from someone o
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by whitegrape 10y ago
30-something.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
It's The Guardian, what do you expect? Lots of HN users like reading trash it seems.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Education on the individual level just doesn't work. People are too dumb. (I had the pleasure of rereading this recently: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/07/stupider-than-you-real... ) Those that aren'
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by whitegrape 10y ago
OT/pro-tip: the trick to reply when the reply button is gone is to click the timestamp and reply on the item's page instead.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Or if students had the option to discharge their debt in bankruptcy at all, how many would do it. I suspect enough that we'd have something resembling the last debt crisis on our hands, but depending on how that gets handled it might e
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by whitegrape 10y ago
I went to college for a number of reasons despite already being skeptical of the "party line" everyone was telling me about how important it was to go to college, but ultimately I was able to swallow the estimated $100k price tag
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by whitegrape 10y ago
It's a lot easier for people to see this argument with basic income than with minimum wage, but the signaling on property owners ends up being the same whether you know for certain all your tenants now have an extra $x in funds or just
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by whitegrape 10y ago
King County property taxes have been steadily going up, that's a bigger factor than minimum wage. Even in the sprawl around Seattle, prices have gone up, but I hope they'll see a regression since the commuting situation is if anyt
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Google's done a lot of crappy and questionable stuff over the years, but intentionally bricking devices is unquestionably evil.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
If it actually happened, that's both pretty hilarious and sad for all parties involved. The unintentional fallout has been much more amusing to witness than the actual gimmick of putting a Minion in everyone's email. I can't
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Even being inherently relative, you still need to determine the underlying values with some metric (like implicit type conversions, or max deadlift). If you tell me someone's max deadlift is twice their bodyweight, that tells me they&#
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Seems odd to lump Python (which is pretty strongly typed) with Ruby and JavaScript (JS especially not being strong). Edit: Actually this whole thread makes it seem like we all have our own different definitions on what makes something &quot
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by whitegrape 10y ago
It should be implied by generics. But it looks like Swift has some special sugar for it, neat.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
The simple theory I use for explaining Perl preference is that it correlates to your preference and tolerance of postmodernism in general. http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html is a good elaboration on the postmodernism o
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't benchmark them anyway. And I think you could probably find some meaningful comparison. Certainly it would be more useful than the Druid whitepaper's benchmarks against MySQL . (I used to
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Has anyone done a meaningful private benchmark comparison with http://www.scylladb.com/ ? I didn't find one online.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
Wow 1997, but thanks for the link, it was a fun read. It'd be fun to hear from people in the industry what their experience has been on larger multi-people projects -- e.g. how long would it take to create an ASIC like http:/&#x2
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by whitegrape 10y ago
China doesn't need anyone in the US to give it excuses, it can stand on its own logic.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
It would be surprising. Snowden's confirmations pissed off a lot of people in tech and either effected or hastened plans to build more secure systems in tech companies. (See for instance https://www.techdirt.com/article
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by whitegrape 10y ago
I thought of disputing the "scientists and astronomers" bit in the parent (what do botanists generally know of orbital dynamics that make them any more qualified to comment than anyone else who took a few physics courses in high s
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by whitegrape 10y ago
For something as (relatively) easy to predict as asteroid trajectories, I would be very curious why the 1% disagree, or whether it really is 99% given that exact phrasing with no qualifications. It invites scrutiny, but also invites not bei
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by whitegrape 10y ago
At least it's better than Verilog. But there's Python to the rescue! http://www.myhdl.org/ Still a lot of tooling left but my FPGA tinkering became much more enjoyable when I stumbled across MyHDL.
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by whitegrape 10y ago
I don't know what a true polished, seamless desktop experience on any OS would look like. Windows 10 may be better (I'm still on 7 for work/gaming) but I still notice it BSODs and is apparently heavily resistant towards cus
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by whitegrape 10y ago
More like anything with a guided search algorithm will be said to be like AlphaGo. In general I think the field may be warming up to the idea that "whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there is a nonrandomized wa
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by whitegrape 10y ago
It'd be nice to remember original meanings. The "eu" of eugenics means "good" (and how this good is accomplished "positively" or "negatively" doesn't matter), humans have been practicing it

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