AaronM

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by AaronM 3y ago
I live in a small (7000) New England town, and your right. Usually a few good stories a week in our paper that arent school sports.
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When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)(atlasobscura.com)
84 points by AaronM 3y ago|140 comments
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by AaronM 3y ago
Not only that, you can't just have one DBA. You need a team a them, otherwise that person is going to be on call 24/7, can never take a vacation, etc. Your probably looking at a minimum of 3.
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Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts(bleepingcomputer.com)
5 points by AaronM 3y ago|7 comments
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by AaronM 3y ago
That goes back to the trust of his people. He has to trust his CTO (whatever that title is at boeing for their top engineer manager) to be the judge of that. The incentives have to align wrt quality engineering for there to be trust all the
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by AaronM 3y ago
I think the MD merge gets the blame by many, however, it seems as though the shift in the market that started around the same time to optimize shareholder value at all costs is really to blame.
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by AaronM 3y ago
Does the CEO need to know these things? I would argue no. What needs to happen is the CEO needs to listen and trust the technical people that report to him. There is a misalignment of priorities that will never be fixed as long as the prima
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by AaronM 3y ago
The kubecon talk was pretty interesting https://youtu.be/quW8FbW1fVM?si=n-OdIdwdHUCJNQ10
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by AaronM 3y ago
A monopoly would be cheaper in a perfect world with no corruption, and no profit motive/incentive. Competition seems to be the only way in our current capitalist society to reduce the prices consumers pay.
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by AaronM 3y ago
The big challenge that I remember from building a product is making sure customer A never sees customer B data. So all of your messages end up passing some sort of customer identifier everwhere and you need to enforce checking it at the low
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HP CEO Says Goal Is to Make "Printing a Subscription"(futurism.com)
6 points by AaronM 3y ago|4 comments
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by AaronM 3y ago
Maybe he believes that a great business makes more money for the shareholders than a great engineering firm
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by AaronM 3y ago
1.87km/s to reach low moon orbit https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/29861/how-easy-is-... ).
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by AaronM 3y ago
No, just the non-executives.
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by AaronM 3y ago
Is it broken for anyone else the code prints hello world and then some numbers
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The valley of the cheese of the dead(atlasobscura.com)
138 points by AaronM 3y ago|18 comments
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by AaronM 3y ago
Why wouldn't AGI be able to feed itself? Seems fairly reasonable that an advanced enough AI could design and build machines and robots that could produce physical objects
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by AaronM 3y ago
I never liked rudy's bbq for any meal except breakfast. The bowls and burritos are pretty good, and a good value
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by AaronM 3y ago
Lots of studies about marijuana use after legalization. Many point to a reduction or no change in the use by teens. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/health/recreational-marijuana... One could also argue th
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by AaronM 3y ago
The longest journey starts with one step. Its a good first step and your right, more needs to be done than just decriminalizing it.
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by AaronM 3y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by AaronM 3y ago
Yes, just because you say its so doesn't make it so. There should be studies that show when minimim wage or welfare/other forms of assistance increases that rent follows.
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by AaronM 3y ago
Can you point to a single reputable study that shows this would likely happen?
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by AaronM 3y ago
Why would giving everyone basic income below a certain income level immediately cause inflation to match it? Inflation doesnt track directly to minimum wage, which seems to be a very similar principal.
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by AaronM 3y ago
The catch is your limited to a small number of parallel builds (3). Our CI pipeline would take hours to run with that limitation
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by AaronM 3y ago
The biggest issue I have with the plugin is the container takes a significant amount of resources to run. I don't know how that compares to other solutions like github though. Being able to run a really lightweight container in argowf
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by AaronM 3y ago
Yeah, they all came from families that gave them a significant advantage over their peers. They could all afford to fail at entrepreneurship, and not have their life turned upside down by it.
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by AaronM 3y ago
Per the cheat sheet, 1.625 stack inserters can half fill a blue belt at their stack bonus of 7
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by AaronM 3y ago
I think you can make that same argument for many large companies that contribute to OSS though.
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by AaronM 3y ago
I'm not a fan of musk, but your last statement about avoiding a charge, who would charge him? The US isn't at war with russia. Ukraine is the only country able to raise those claims, and they havent afaik.

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