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Your giving really general advice that fits YOUR needs and experience. Meanwhile, my company has been in business for 10+ years and we have 60+ severs streaming a shit to of data 24x7.

Running "a few" dedicated servers is not some magic catch all for everyone.
If it takes a single person about a week to do it and mostly by solving a puzzle, then it is not art again, but craft.

Even writing an OSS project from scratch. It only becomes art if it really is done either clearly superior or is something entirely new. Plus it must be executed really well.
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Yep. I live in the Yukon (when I'm not driving around Africa) and have spent much of my life outside cell signals.

It's when I do go into a town that it slaps me in the face, and I think it would be cool to have a "refuge" in the town.

Of course the place would have no TVs either, and likely only very quiet chill music. Everything about it would be to encourage conversation with the people actually in the same room.
I was a long time FreeBSD user before I switched to Arch.
FreeBSD is a pure and beautiful system, but Linux provides much better performance and ease of use in desktop related tasks. The network stack on FreeBSD is of magnitudes faster than Linux (based on my experience with both OSes), however this does not compensate for power management issues and general slugishness while using linux software.

If you're using FreeBSD on your main computer, you need some kind of a Desktop Environment, if you don't want to stick with KDE4, you install GNOME. However, GNOME is ported from Linux and although most of the time it works without problems, there is a speed compromise (again only based on my experience).

Upsides of FreeBSD:

• The Package Repository is great, most apps such as firefox, emacs, IDE's are maintained at their latest versions.

• The system works solid, no crashes

• FreeBSD feels more like Unix, and if you're interested in the low level stuff you can learn more quickly. The source code is clean, the implementations are not complicated.

• Drivers are scarcer than Linux, but if there is a driver, it works flawlessly.

The points I'm neutral about:

• Behyve and ZFS are all great technologies, however they were a bit complex for my test. I couldn't manage to setup a Linux server with X11 forwarding. As for ZFS, I used FreeBSD on my laptop with a 256G SSD drive, so I did not see much benefit of ZFS. However, I was aware that if I had used VMs, ZFS would offer much better IO performance.

As for sleep and power management issues:

• Power management on FreeBSD is good, not great like Linux and you don't have powertop and tlp available. But it's good. You can expect upto 70-80% of the battery life you get in Linux. (You don't even have to tinker with C-States and all, just powerd or powerdxx works great out of the box.)

As for sleep issues, mostly on FreeBSD the closing the lid or pressing the power button won't be recognized as a sleep trigger. But on most laptops 'acpiconf -s3' puts your laptop to sleep.
The DNA lounge tried something similar, but to the other extreme. They put computers with internet access in their club.
Happily, I'm not in the US
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I use Resonic for that, really fast, not terminal based, but pretty good with waveform support. You can move tracks by drag&drop to folders.
> watching the accuser ride the publicity to raise a round.

Can you elaborate on this? Did I miss part of the story—did one of the accuser actually do that?
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Seattle. I was living in Bishop, California for a while though. I've wondered if there's a market for taking engineering types on these trips, if I emphasize them as tech-free escapes. You can always go through Meetup or sign up for the trips run by REI, Sierra Club etc.
Never thought I'd see MP3 as a free, open standard. Will Safari drop support for it now?
I would simply put a law in place that if it can be proven that the sexual harassment accusation is completely fabricated, then the accuser must serve the exact jail time that a person would serve who acted out all the accusations. That would stop all the shenanigans instantly.
I love the way the quiz questions add more info and sort of unite concepts into ideas that people can use. I agree that the coins are a little much.

I think you could explain a little more the benefits of RAW, and the benefits of smartphones editing photos automatically. It's hard to put my finger on it since I'm a photographer so I can fill in whatever blanks there are.. but it feels like it's missing a little bit of information. Maybe there's a link that takes you to a tutorial for disabling destructive auto-contrast and saturation on DSLRs?

Maybe there's a way to show what resolution really means? It seems trivial but people don't know what resolution is, or pixel count. They don't know what compression is. Ken Rockwell has really great detail—if you could capture that in this nice course format, that could be useful.

Keep up the good work!
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philosophically, because the working "mass" (to quote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, 68, I believe) would not have the leisure time to be informed enough to make sensible decisions. i came from a blue collar family where everyone worked 2 FT jobs to make ends meet and making savvy investment decisions was hardly possible. ignoring the lack of financial education and experience, a good sales scam promising you riches after your 16 hour workday with 4 hours of household chores still to do, kids screaming, and no hope in sight, can be highly effective.

that said, look where the electoral college got us!!

so philosophy and reality are different.

in principle i agree, let people decide. in reality that leads to housing bubbles, global warming, donald trump...
As you have found out yourself techniques which revolve around setting an artificial block don't work well. That's because they fail to really address the problem. As soon as you move into an environment without those blocks the addiction will return instantly and your willpower "training" will have be a waste of time.

Unfortunately it seems the only real method is indeed "toughing it out". Books help a lot in this regard as whenever you feel the pang you can start reading. Since this activity involves concentration over longer periods of time and no task switching, it's tremendously helpful to rewire your brain over time. You definitely feel the effects after a few weeks.
Of course it's outdated. This post was from 2010. Flash was used everywhere in 2010, of course disabling it gave you more battery life.
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If market forces play out logically, Z-wave should lose out to any of: Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth mesh, or 802.11ah (HaLow).

Z-wave is a proprietary protocol. Only 1 company has the IP & monopoly on manufacturing Z-wave chips... By contrast, any of these other techs are open and have multiple implementations available from multiple manufacturers.
What Rolling Stone article are you referring to?
On the contrary, we're left with a social remedy to a problem specifically when we don't have laws that governing a specific behavior. Our morality is not limited to what we codify into law. You might even argue that the court of public opinion is the tip of the spear that helps us determine what should and shouldn't be covered by laws.

And, by the way, we do rely on public opinion to do our bidding in the justice system. They're called juries.
> you bought a dirt cheap laptop

As I've already said, you're a wrongfullt accusing right here. I've bought a mid-range laptop.

> The laptop will be slow regardless of OS with a spinning drive

As I've already said, you're wrong. Linux will still boot in 10 seconds and won't freeze for minutes during work.
Interestingly my social life suffered both from a lack of social media and a lack of smoking, since smoking breaks were an ubiquitous form of bonding at my high school.
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Should you ever assume IO to be deterministic? Hard drives can crash, they can be slow(especially magnetic). Networks can disconnect, become congested or have random interference.

This is amplified on the cloud, but it should also be well known by anyone that works with the cloud. These things are well documented, although I could see why you don't really look for it until you have issues with it.
A raspberry pi would also be more than enough for many use cases and can be hosted for ~$40/year: https://raspberry-hosting.com/en/order.

I'd have one (or more) already if I didn't live on the opposite side of the world to the data center.
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There is one in Berlin named Funkloch. Literally translates as radio hole, meaning an area where you can't get a signal. There's a pun in there too in that Lokal means pub, so you can read it as Funk Pub.
>An event for which the timing is unpredictable may "at this time" have only a 5-percent probability of occurring during the coming month, but a 60-percent probability if the time frame is extended to one year (5 percent per month for 12 months).

If the time frame were extended to two years, would the probability be 120%?

The correct probability is:

1 - (1-.05)^12 ~= 0.46

Hard to credit a text about cognitive biases that makes elementary mistakes in probability.
Art is a form of expression.

Software is a form of expression.

The two are vastly different forms of expression.

Personally I don't think that Art should be part of the process for a STEM degree.

That said, it benefited Steve Jobs and Apple greatly to merge the two.
As someone from a place in the Rust Belt that's well in the triple digits of this 150-city ranking, I think I have a little insight.

The problem isn't a lack of smart, ambitious kids. It's not bad schools. There are even multiple universities.

The problem's that the smart, ambitious kids mostly choose to move elsewhere after HS or college. Even for the ones that want to stay, the local economy and job market isn't that great.

We need to improve the level at which you attract/retain both educated people and well-paying jobs for them. How do we do that, given that both are at fairly low levels and it's something like a chicken-or-egg problem?
> People should not be inviting themselves into the room or home of a coworker, period. People should not be trying to get cozy, let alone try to date, people they have only casually met, especially if there is a power imbalance between them or if there is absolutely anything at stake in the professional relationship.

Yet the majority of marriages after college are formed exactly that way - a guy asks an acquaintance (not generally a friend) from work on a date.

If women want to fix the fact that men do all the legwork in starting relationships, and don't like that men do so in a way that offends them personally (even though most women seem OK with the system) then they're free to demand other women take up a bit of the slack.
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So he hacked a smart gun and the result was.... a regular gun. How is this supposed to be dangerous? He can't fire it over the internet or anything, just disable it's lock. It's like "hacking" an elevator by stopping it: it just becomes stairs!
People really need to catch up on the 5th amendment.
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"Whoever is making a move should be hyper conscious of any signs of discomfort on the part of the recipient and should go the extra mile (or ten miles) to provide many more easily available "outs" than normal. In normal dating situations if an advance is not welcomed that's fine, two peers had an interaction, someone made a minor mistake, and probably no one will get hurt. In a dating situation with all the complexities, minefields, and pitfalls of a work environment if an overture is made that is unwanted that almost certainly means that the person making it fucked up royally. They failed to read the other person, and they made them uncomfortable, and they complicated their professional relationship."

So easily said than done. You make it seem that "making a move" is so clear, but it isn't. Many times people are not even "making a move" and someone will think they are "making a move" and then get uncomfortable. It is very hard to realize that you are making someone uncomfortable when you aren't even thinking in that direction and the recipients (for a lack of a better word) aren't being vocally clear. In such a case, I'm siding against the one that wasn't vocally clear.
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Some people's masterpieces are a colossal waste of time. Not everyone can make a hit even if they are doing the exact same thing.

Also quite a few masterpieces were just buried or hidden away. And even more masterpieces are work of easy more than a single person really.
For some reason, my Windows 10 install reboots itself regularly. Or sometimes it freezes so the only solution is hard reset. That I'm not going to blame solely on Windows, but still, that's what I'm observing.
We hit the IOPS limit on AWS many times, both on VMs and SQL instances. The solution was always to artificially inflate the size of the underlying storage, as you get 3 IOPS per GB on persistent disks (the other option was to buy IOPS, but this somehow always turned out to be way more expensive).

This issue was on a "pros" section when we decided to move our operations to GCP, when you get 30 IOPS per GB on persistent storage, so 10x more than on AWS. One way or another, if you really need _a lot_ of IOPS, you better stick with a local (ephemeral) SDD storage – just bear in mind it will vanish along with your VMs.
I've enjoyed reading Jane Austen, but saying that Mark Twain "never learned to appreciate satire", well, I can only suggest you read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Or, really, almost any of his works.
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If social media produces widespread depression (based on the studies posted by other commenters) it can well become a health hazard, albeit not as damaging as smokes.

>Or he can be educated to understand for what is useful, and for what not, and what are the risks. Abstinence education doesn't work.

I don't disagree outright but unfortunately all the education in the world still makes a person vulnerable against societal pressure. If you are a non-smoker in the 1940s, you still have to breathe smoke wherever you are. If you are a non-user in the 2010s, your social life (especially if you are young) is highly likely to be negatively impacted.
> have quite literally heard people talking about these things as "the way we'll close the gender participation gap", as in, they'll burn men's careers until things equal out.

Where? Any transcripts/ video?
These rules are perfectly fine, but you don't cover wrong or premeditated accusations which is the key problem here. Most people here know what sexual harassment is, but don't know if the accusation was true or not by seeing some anonymous blog post.
Sounds like eye-for-an-eye logic. Why the same?

Also, just for rape, or for any crime? If I falsely accuse the President of treason, and he is found innocent, should I be convicted of treason?
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> Yet the majority of marriages after college are formed exactly that way - a guy asks an acquaintance (not generally a friend) from work on a date.

Do you have any evidence of that at all? Because to me it sounds simply made up. A quick google, and the first link I got back also seems to disagree.

https://mic.com/articles/112062/the-way-most-people-meet-the...

It amazes me how much people push for responsibility for their actions - but for some reason when it comes to this topic its: I can't help myself, this isn't fair. I must impose a sexual relationship on my co-workers when the feeling strikes me.

And this alternative false excuse of pretending like these are "just misunderstandings". The absolute vast majority (even going by whats been in the news) are completely blatant, repeated, inappropriate approaches.
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Ironically, film from captured balloons was of such quality that it was used by the Soviets to take pictures of the far side of the moon: https://www.damninteresting.com/faxes-from-the-far-side .
wow this looks amazing! I finally decided that i must get off iTunes and have been hoping for a terminal based software. I cant wait to try it out.
so you are saying that a STEM degree gets jobs that pay better than most jobs that don't require a degree at all?

If you compare your average non-computer industry STEM job to something in Medicine, law or business... I think that STEM, outside of the computer industry, just doesn't pay that well, and it's kind of disingenuous to advertise it as a path to financial well being to young people who are so poor that they have to look at education as a monetary investment.
Adding on to this: iOS doesn't play mp3 for mp4 containers either. Encoding media to play on an iDevice means resorting to AAC, which doesn't have as good licensed codecs.
So if everything is already an art, why include it in the acronym?
Right this second: https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/dedicated-servers/

$50/month 24GB ram, 16 threads, 2TB HD, gigabit uplink (20TB/month free).

It's not hard to wait until they have a sale and/or coupons and/or pay upfront yearly to get a similar config for 30-40.

(disclaimer: these servers are pretty "unmanaged")

Or packet gives you a completely "cloud/api-driven" experience that's still on bare metal and reasonably priced compared to AWS or DO.
While the article is factually correct, the tone strikes me as being disingenuous. The problem seems to be that the servers were running on gp2 disks, which offer a performance baseline with free short term bursts based on credits collected. The author has just realised that for consistent throughput, they would have to choose provisioned throughput and pay accordingly.

This isn’t some conspiracy by AWS, though. It’s all in the documentation and isn’t even hard to find. If you want X ops per second baseline with occasional bursts you pick option A, or if you want consistent Y ops per second you provision and pay for Y. Read the manual - not having read the docs or explored the console is not an excuse to say that a service provider is being shady or rent seeking.
Being part of a project that utilized 5 dedicated severs at some point in time, I hear you.
This is not an excuse. Stop. Just stop. An acquaintance is not a coworker, period. It's not even a question.

Most of the time an acquaintance is fully empowered to tell you to fuck all the way off if you make an unwanted advance. And their life goes on as normal afterward. The equation is vastly different if people are coworkers, especially if there is any sort of difference in authority, seniority, connectedness, or anything whatsoever on the line (deals, employment, career advancement, mentoring, opportunities, etc.)

Even something seemingly as banal as interactions between coworkers who are perfect peers with the same level of seniority and authority in a company and work under widely separated management structures is potentially problematic. Because of the pressure to "not cause a scene" or "not hurt anyone's feelings". As I said, it's not about not doing it, it's about being absolutely, positively ensuring that everyone is 100% fully empowered to respond to an advance with absolutely zero fear of any negative repercussions no matter how minor.

Sure, many marriages are made between people who met through work, but many people already follow these rules, it's the people who don't that are the problem. Ask all of your female friends, if you have any, how many of them have been sexually harassed in some way at work. I don't have a single female friend who has not experienced it, because it's absolutely ubiquitous. That doesn't mean every guy in the workplace is doing it, it means that it continues to be tolerated and ignored enough in the workplace to make the few who do it be able to harass a huge number of people. It has to stop, and the way it stops is with changing the norms of what is expected behavior.
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Oh God no. The last thing in the world I want is to all of a sudden have to be publishing a ton of marginally useful crap or spend time reviewing others' marginally useful crap being sold as contributions because they have to publish. Or working with students. Why? I already have my big ideas, I have enough education and experience in the field to do stuff on my own, I just need a lot of time to hack on stuff and experiment.

I know I'm not the only one.
> Image a day in your life without coming across an ad

I have had such days. I read a lot of stuff online, and I have adblockers. My entertainment is supplied by books and TV, where I watch either channels like Netflix or recorded shows, where I can skip through commercials. It's not exactly not encountering ads - and I surely encounter billboards when I drive around (though I don't think I can recall any of them, the mind filters them out by now), but it's pretty close and I'm sure I've had days where I didn't see ads. The thing is, they didn't feel much different from the days where I saw some.

> society, that overproduces things and where a large part of your survival depends on your skill to sell

That is preferable to the society which underproduces things and where large part of your survival depends on you skill in finding how to satisfy basic needs - food, shelter, etc. I'd rather watch ads than be hungry. My deepest hope is to always live in the former kind of society - where productivity is so high that it's ok to spend resources on convincing people to consume stuff. I've lived in another kind of society - where people spend resources on finding way to get decent food, clothes, books, etc. and where ads convincing people to consume some luxurious goods could not be taken but as a cruel joke. I'd much rather take the overproducing one.
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