AitchEmArsey

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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> What is the "cultish LP dance" here that is weeding good people out? The "culture fit" interview process focuses on leadership principles, so lots of questions like " tell me about a time when you went above an
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
From within AWS, it just feels like we push people too hard. Service teams are too small relative to their goals, sales teams have unrealistic growth targets and also double as support for needy/incompetent customers, and professional
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> proper oracle soliton I know this was a typo, but the idea of Oracle upselling someone on a quantum field theory based solution to a string matching problem amuses me greatly.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I'd say if those people are not being utilized to improve the product, then yes it is a waste - who is to blame for the waste is a different matter, but management is the obvious place to look.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I cancelled my subscription last week precisely because of the poor UX. It really pisses me off that they charge what feels like a disproportionate amount (certainly more than I've ever spent on music elsewhere), offer a very simple se
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
It is a sign of the trying times we live in that I saw the extra "z"s in your post and instead of assuming a typo, I immediately think of Russian hackers infiltrating this platform.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
If you haven't read it already, I'd suggest checking out "Superforecasting" by Tetlock and Gardner. The "Good Judgement" project by Tetlock is likely to be of interest: https://www.gjopen.com/
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
That concept has fallen out of favour in HPC, but it'll be interesting to see if it makes a comeback. As recently as 2016, an SGI UV3000 rack-scale SMP machine with 16TB of RAM was the sort of thing you'd see on a trade-show floor
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I understand how it works; I'm trying to find a "vote with your feet" solution as an alternative to screwing over poorly paid employees by not tipping. The most obvious way to do that is to favour restaurants where tipping is
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
When I saw "tipping in advance" I thought of Starbucks, though I'm not sure how much that is opportunism and how much it is now an expectation just like a restaurant.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
You can't say "you went into an establishment with cheaper prices and knew this was a requirement" when there is no actual choice - it applies everywhere as far as I've seen; it's not like I can pause my business tr
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
What you are describing is "mindfulness" exercises; basically a modern take on meditation. I have the app "Meditation Studio" which consists of some softly-spoken people talking you through breathing exercises and relaxa
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Nuking someone is a definitive, MAD-triggering event. Causing a radiological disaster "accidentally" would be entirely consistent with the "stop hitting yourself" diplomacy Russia has undertaken since moving against Ukra
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I remember meeting a senior AMD engineer a few years ago who deflatedly said people there were happy as long as the stock was above $12. Bet he's a bit cheerier today!
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Agreed. I never really got hooked on Docker itself, but Swarm is well-scoped and easy to use without sacrificing too much; I'd argue the vast majority of k8s users would be better off with something simpler, and Swarm fits the bill nic
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I already use Obsidian (paid version as I want to use it for work too, and to support the project). My interest in trying an alternative is mostly just curiosity.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Looks great - so much so that I assumed it would be for Apple devices only, so congratulations and thanks for the Linux support. I'll try it in a bake-off with Obsidian, but the main down-side for me is "notes stored on our server
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> BTW, are there out there any on premises multi-user HPC clusters with Docker running on the nodes? The vendor ClusterVision (EMEA, went bankrupt then returned to life) used to offer a cluster deployment option based on OpenStack+Docker
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Your two positions are really not far apart from a third party perspective, but throwing in claims like "unnecessarily divisive and seeking for flame war" just seems to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I subscribe to the Economist too and perceive their reporting as still being reasonably libertarian without venturing into tinfoil-hat territory, but being in the UK I guess I get both a different balance of articles and also have a differe
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
(Saving the article to read later) My first thought on seeing the title: my experience is that this is a causal loop; the key is not to focus on how good/happy people are at their peak, but how to reverse a downward spiral where decrea
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
They probably can't, which is why I'm pessimistic about the idea being viable - unless there is some way for the application to be open-source and quasi-federated; for example with people/companies/communities hosting th
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I'd pay $5-ish per month for social media if it came with no ads or data harvesting - just a more privately scoped version of Facebook with some of the useful bits like event scheduling and discussion groups. Of course the problem is g
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Competition between profitable businesses is one thing, loss-making startups paying 6-figure salaries for shitty tools is quite different - particularly when the latter company ends up with a billion-dollar valuation for reasons totally div
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> "I don't know why we're doing this, it's going to cost a lot of money and make things worse." I'm a step outside the domain so not totally confident in my own cynicism, but I feel like this phrase could be
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
The closed nature of MacOS and Windows means that you have no guarantees (and no audit mechanism) to determine how much the machine is passing your data back to HQ. As the post very clearly states, most people don't need to care - but
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Literally never seen instructions directing me to use an .env file; seems like a pretty weak straw-man to enable shilling yet another "startup serving other startups" unicorn wannabe.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
No neck issues, but lower back and core muscles are a problem, simply from too much sitting. Physio sessions gave me some tips for how to relieve the pain when it flares up, and going to the gym for the last couple of months seems to have h
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Evidently "free" has other costs, like "we're going to delete your stuff and there's nothing you can do about it". So on balance I'd say paying for something is a pretty good deal.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
This is an article about how to write theoretically better code (from a CS perspective) for a scientific use-case - but that is not the same thing as "better scientific code". For most purposes, the effort a scientist will go to i

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