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If you’re tracing Crash back to Magnolia, keep on going until you reach Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993). Magnolia uses a similar template, just weighs it all down with more melod…

This is a good idea. It seems like it would help eliminate a lot of the inherent guesswork in feature forecasting (as I've experienced it). "We have lost x amount in annual recurri…

Agreed. If Grafana alerts supported templated variables I would migrate a decent chunk of my monitoring stack. But without templated variables the alert system feels half baked and…

What hardware did you settle on?

Fair to say that Star Wars is more psychological than philosophical?

It's a hard problem to solve that doesn't need solving. Glorifying the complexity of the challenge shouldn't distract from the questionable ethics of endangering lives in the pursu…

It seems a strange notion to restore nature with advancements in technology. Restore it to what, how it was before technology? It is a nice thought, I guess, but it won't be Nature…

I'll concede that Cohen is a Canadian songwriter. It's interesting to me, though, that he launched his music career in New York.

Haha... Valid point. I'd have to explore the intricacies of Canadian songwriting before I could confidently make the assertion, but my feeling is that Cohen's songwriting falls in …

Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon, there is no sens…

As much as I love Bob Dylan, I wouldn't have been upset had Leonard Cohen been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He's written two novels, several volumes of poetry, and, of c…