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stephengillie

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About stephengillie

My day job is to download random programs suggested by people I haven't met before, and post "hot takes" about them on the Internet.

Opinions are those of Gilgamech Technologies.

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    Comment #18362492

    > Every resident and employee will have what amounts to an Ethereum address, which they will use to vote on local measures and store their personal data. Maybe repurpose the pods t…

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    Comment #18361569

    They could have combined their similar goals and pooled their money.

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    Comment #18359864

    Similar article, 190+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352506

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    Comment #18359815

    Subtitle tells the whole story: > A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bit…

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    Comment #18359462

    > After all, if someone knows (or thinks) that they’re getting a great big helping of medicine, they might act in various ways—whether consciously or unconsciously—that have the ef…

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    Comment #18343342

    Collecting the rounding leftovers into another bank account was the plot of Office Space.

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    Comment #18343321

    Bit of a typo in the title. Original: Advantages of Using R Notebooks For Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

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    Comment #18343315

    So it's pronounced "Sagittarius A-asterisk"?

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    Comment #18342822

    NFL and other leagues have streaming on their own sites now. NFL is $75/year for all games on-demand.

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    Comment #18342790

    > Astronomers call it Sagittarius A * (pronounced “A-star”). Why do astronomers call the black hole "A Star" when they know better than anyone else that it's not a star, but a blac…

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    Comment #18342667

    If web browsers could interpret another language, would you make the same argument against it?

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    Comment #18342656

    Last year, I wrote a small single-page app engine that takes a JSON representation of HTML, and writes it to the DOM to build the page in the browser. The entire app is described i…

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    Comment #18342607

    We need an internet of firewalls. I dislike tech legislation, but sometimes I think all networked devices should be required to have an internal firewall.

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    Comment #18340635

    I haven't worked with arrays for years. Sorry for the mistakes.

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    Comment #18340327

    Musk missed, and his car is headed for the asteroid belt instead of Mars.

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    Comment #18339794

    If we send a Voyager-sized probe to Alpha/Beta Centauri, could we use a similar gravity assist to slingshot around one of the stars? How good is our aim across 4.4 light years?

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    Comment #18339719

    I get RAID 01 and 10 mixed up all the time. These names are too similar. Please understand that I meant the better of the 2.

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    Comment #18338658

    Multiple "0" drives can be added for further redundancy.

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    Comment #18338638

    Do other manufacturers produce this size of drive? It's difficult to source from 3 vendors if there's only one making the product.

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    Comment #18338595

    Powershell has Compare-Object, which will diff .NET objects. It has the convenient alias "diff". JSON can be converted to .NET objects by ConvertFrom-JSON. So you can import 2 JSON…

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    Comment #18337758

    This is one reason why RAID 0+1 is a best practice, and RAID 5 & 6 are no longer recommended. It takes too long to rebuild the array, leading to a multi-failed disk situation.

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    Comment #18337367

    Diffing JSON as text must be painful. Diffing JSON as data should be somewhat simple.

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    Comment #18336427

    You're thinking of the 35th Rule of Acquisition - Peace is good for business.

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    Comment #18336271

    I recently got a Jupyter Notebook, and found it's a large JSON document, with some sections in markdown and some in Python. A browser could omit the Python, and an interpreter coul…