ars_technician

Paying for Heroku is a little much.

I think the name is just a correlation, not a causation. To put it bluntly, you won't fail because your name is "London", you will probably fail because you grew up with a parent that thought London was a good name for a person.

Changing your name is just hiding the symptom, not the cause.

If you don't have anything to say, why even reply?

If nginx caches for 300s and that's the only reason you are installing pdns-recursor, that's unnecessary technical debt in your production pipeline.

>Jewelry - maybe, but isn't it so desired for jewelry because it is scarce? You could make jewelry out of less noble metals.

You're right, people want it because it's shiny and rare. That makes demand for it. People can and do make jewelry out of other metals, but it's not as "prestigious". You highly underestimate how materialistic the majority of the world is.

Why does it matter where the operator is? How about a ban on killing unquantifiable targets?

Modern fighter pilots can be just as overworked and have about the same risk of dying from being shot at.

Almost, but not quite. The difference would be that the US isn't killing civilians just for the sake of killing civilians to cause terror.

Fighter pilots now have very little risk of being shot down. The only real difference is the cost like you mentioned.

Why let stats get in the way of a feel-good rant?

In other news, pumpers in a pump and dump scheme continue to pump. I can't believe this is even on the front page. What's next? A note from Tim Cook bullish on Apple?

I don't know about calling it a piece of crap. Seems a little harsh. :-)

I agree; however, the Air France incident you are referring to is when the airspeed indicator was locked due to a frozen pitot tube, wasn't it? That seems like a much less blatant failure on the part of the pilots.

>Internal matching; orders aren't being routed to exchanges but if are internally matchable, just reconcile the books internally and they collect the bid/ask spread on both side of the trade.

Doesn't that violate national best bid? Also, a lot of retail dumps market orders, so how do you determine the price to match buy-sell pairs at?

Yeah, it seems like there should be a big red light on the air speed indicator that says it's under the pilot's control.

It brings up an interesting conundrum. The more that pilots use autopilot for approach, the less feel they have for what the controls should feel like at the correct airspeed. However, if we just outright ban auto-pilot for approach, there is more room for human error...

It's a good thing that icky, conservative Baskin Robbins is banned from blue states. Oh wait: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=baskin+robbins,+san+jose,+ca

Not being sarcastic, but isn't that just reddit?

Awesome. What kind of permits were required to divert the stream and dig up land like this?

Do you think it's a valid criticism then to complain about Ayn Rand's ideas when you haven't been able to comprehend them?

I'm tired of this same old implication. My parents made ~25k. They did not buy my first computer, and they did not pay for me to go to college. Is that what you are looking for?

That's not what self-relaince is. Nobody is self-reliant by that definition because even people trained for wilderness survival will die from some mundane thing without modern medicine.

Self-reliance is when you can contribute enough to society on your own to get the things required to live in return without hand-outs.

Without their genitalia exposed would be a start and preferably without spitting.

>It's really the objectivism and the worship of Ayn Rand in privileged and powerful economic/political circles that makes me worry about the future.

Be honest. How much Ayn Rand have you actually read? It's a very common strawman to pretend that Ayn Rand was promoting social darwinism. If you truly are just worried about objectivism, what is it that you have a problem with? People being shunned for harming instead of contributing?

So? Corporations aren't pitching their stock as a currency. A currency isn't something that's meant to be hoarded by a few people. That causes deflation and deflationary currencies are poisonous to the economies because they discourage spending.

How many people do you think are spending their coins vs how many are holding them hoping they will be worth more?

You do realize your same logic applies to looking at a roulette wheel?

You can see that it hit a black number 20 times in and feel remorse for not letting 10 dollars ride all of the way up to 10 million for that run. -25 happiness.

You are making the same mistake gamblers and amateur stock pickers make all of the time. It's really sad and it destroys lives and relationships depending on how many people you also convince this is a good deal.

The crappy part about this is that people can do this to sink competitors. Why bother lowering your prices? Just spend a few hundred dollars to have spammers plaster links to competitors on hacked sites... :(

Yeah, I can't stand to eat food that came from a dented can...

You are wrong. Developers should use random if it's for something security sensitive like generating keys. random will block when entropy is too low, urandom will just continue recycling entropy, which is cryptographically dangerous.

Do you realize how much of a performance hit modern desktops would take if a processor that had to freeze the operating system while it wandered through memory first identifying the operating system and then finding the entropy pool and modifying it?

>Presumably using the same skynet tech it uses to look ahead and see where the rdrand is going to be xored into.

There is no such tech. That's why this is not 'checkmate'. A poisoned random number that generates numbers in a predictable manner is orders of magnitude easier to implement and less possible to detect than a magical processor that changes memory it thinks might be entropy for some operating systems it has been pre-programmed to look for under the assumption that kernel will never change ever. Get real.

>but be sure not to dismiss Firefox based on historical issues.

It's incredible how much inertia there is with that. The majority of the people I know that switched to chrome did it back when firefox was blatantly slower and that's the image that's stuck in their head. It's incredibly hard to remove and to get someone to try it long enough to change their mind again.

Firefox has a tough issue with marketing right now. They need to start a nice "firefox is faster" campaign.