triangleman

> it seems like they aren’t enthusiastic about residential deliveries at all

That is actually the case: Fedex started as an overnight delivery company and only got into Ground in order to round out their service. Ground is actually based on a network of independent companies branded as Fedex Ground but I believe almost no one in that division actually works for FedEx the corporation (compared to the original FedEx Express which is all corporate employees).

Compare to UPS which has always been ground-first delivery network and then got into overnight long after FedEx proved it could work.

You had me until you mentioned the Facebook fine. $5 billion, assuming it stands, is a lot of money and a good deterrent against the kind of behavior FB was engaged in. No shareholder would be happy that their company lost that much money. And before someone retorts with the fact that the stock went up the day the fine was announced: shareholders could be happy that the uncertainty is over, but still not happy with the fine.

It's still a drop in the bucket compared to, for instance, closing the SUV "light truck" efficiency loophole. Which one was more politically palatable? The one with the grand gesture and minor actual savings of course. Forgive me for getting a little cynical about government policy, it must be that weird anxiety creeping up again.

Also you need to take into account the total manufacturing cost of the light. I believe that only recently have some LEDs (and not good ones with a decent spectrum) reached parity with incandescents in terms of TCO.

Finally, I would look at the market for computers and find how much government intervention it took to advance the technology in that industry. Why would the market for light bulbs be any different? Businesses had already switched to fluorescent for cost savings, why can't consumers be allowed to make similar cost/benefit choices?

That's all well and good but why do the men have to pay the dowry? Used to be the woman's family was responsible for that, now they just have to pay for the wedding!

They will also theoretically degrade back to graphite over time, the way ice degrades to water at room temperature.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_basic_phase...

Crazy... So did the salesman at the jewelry store go into a whole speech about the "5 C's" of diamonds? (Clarity, carats, etc.) Can't believe how quickly he disappeared when I told him "oh sorry I'm not interested in a diamond."

It's perfectly reasonable to complain about the government banning incandescent bulbs. For a drop in the bucket of energy savings, they took away a choice that many people preferred in favor of mainly fluorescent bulbs which are an environmental hazard. Thank God for decent LED lights in the last few years or the irony would still be pretty thick.

It's a great example of poor environmental policy and you dismiss criticism as "weird anxiety". It's not weird to dislike other people forcing you to make choices that they think are for your own good.

Yes that is quite the anachronism these days.

So, if you're trying to grep through 100+ mb zip files on a shared folder (windows box) is the most efficient way to do that to use ansible or the like to remote in to the server and run commands there? Of course it could use cpu so that could cause problems if it's a production server.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone with experience in this area.

So then, what is the one liner to preserve the filename rather than get a new deduped.txt?

Also how do you apply that command to the next file using shell history?

Are you sure this is the case? Perhaps it's only storing the hash of the lines? If not then how do you do that?

IME this one-liner can churn through 100MB of log lines in a second. Other solutions like powershell's "select-object -unique" totally choke on the file.

You can put AWS Engineer on your resume.

Does the webflow save to a git repo?

You got anything else? I am not really impressed by those stories.

Actually the four Gospels fit nicely into the order of the four beasts of Revelation: the lion (Matthew), the calf (Mark), the man (Luke), and the eagle (John).

I'm sure you know what the 5th Amendment means to our culture and thinking without having read the whole constitution. In fact it's an amendment, the actual meat of the constitution is largely unknown to most of the population and mostly irrelevant to most of our culture. (If you are not American, sorry)

So read the most relevant OT books and get on with it! Genesis, Exodus, Duteronomoy, Ruth, a little of the major prophets, Job, Proverbs 8, Psalm 22,23,91 I think? I'm probably missing a lot but seriously it's not needed if you want to understand NT context. I mean the rabbinical culture that Jesus was dealing with in the Gospels was based on a side-conversation the Jews were having about the Torah, not even about the Torah itself. So you'd have to read the Mishnah as well if you really wanted the full context.

I think it's safe to say that analyzing any historical work requires a bit of back referencing. I believe I watched Spaceballs before watching Star Wars, and I think I enjoyed Star Wars more because of it. Can't say for sure, it was a long time ago.

I think Peter Lynch said that.

No, they have other tools for enterprise, or in some IT departments buy third party tools off the shelf for this purpose.

What an unfortunate blunder by Boeing.

Until this episode I was deliberately looking for 787's and such when booking international flights, despite what I had heard about the batteries, because I thought Boeing had to be just that much better than Airbus and their unintuitive UI's that I heard crashed AF447.

And now all that good will is gone.

You might consider hitching your wagon to the term "JAMStack"... I have been playing with Hugo and the experience is great.

Uh, you sure you linked the right article for China?

That's very interesting, thank you.

I have the cat5e throughout the house but in a ring topology as it was wired for phones only. RIght now I just have two points connected end to end. Next step is to think of a clever way to use the 2 unused pairs to support another 100BaseT and create a fake hub and spoke topology. This G.hn standard might be a good way to get even more performance out of this setup.

So, are you ever going to open source stockfighter?

My understanding is that of all schools of economics, the Chicago school is the least disconnected from reality, in that it rightly recognizes its own "dismal" science as a social science first.

In fairness it feels rather arbitrary and counterintuitive of a spelling rule.

No, he's adding this email dump to his DB. And I don't exactly understand why, I mean is there any evidence that this mongodb was actually harvested? Other than by security researchers.

New Coke was a wildly successful strategy by Roberto Goizueta to 1) Reignite the public's love of Coca-Cola (taking it off the shelves for three months), while at the same time 2) Reformulating "Classic" Coca-Cola to use HFCS which tastes slightly different from the sugared version. It was such a ballsy and creative move, I can hardly believe it really happened.

Betamax was technically superior to VHS, and was at the center of a Supreme Court case that ruled home recording to be fair use. It lost out to VHS in the marketplace for various reasons, so it's a good case study of a business failure for sure, but not because the product was bad or ill-conceived.

I recently helped interview 4 internal candidates for 2 openings on my team. One question I asked all of them is "how do you feel this job will contribute to your personal development/career?" It makes a huge difference if you can answer this question, because it's totally possible to get candidates who don't actually want the job but are just applying as a matter of course. Then they may struggle in the job or leave. You want someone motivated to do the job, you really do, or you will be doing them and yourself a disservice.

Blizzard released a client with an output accessible to machines, but still preserving fog of war. See here:

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcra...

Here's what I want to know, were these agents developed from scratch a la AlphaZero in chess, or did they have to create a number of abstractions in order to get the AI to start learning the game? In the initial demonstration they could hardly get the AI to mine minerals or do anything. How did they make the jump to actually good play?