Eridrus

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by Eridrus 1y ago
This was a major issue, but it wasn't a total failure of the region. Our stuff is all in us-east-1, ops was a total shitshow today (mostly because many 3rd party services besides aws were down/slow), but our prod service was large
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by Eridrus 1y ago
I dunno man, what part of the AWS experience leaves you thinking the software is amazing? It's good enough, but there's no real evidence it's the best, simply the largest.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Yeah, it's nonsense. I think the core problem is that innovators typically only capture low single digit percent of the value they generate for society. Bell Labs existed in an anomalous environment where their monopoly allowed them to
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Despite people mocking the parallel, I think it's actually pretty apt. RHNA is basically a socialist planning exercise because people were unwilling to stomach a market economy for housing construction and demanded state control throug
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by Eridrus 1y ago
So it's better to hardcode your specific library name and deal with the same issue after people have reverse engineered it and started depending on it anyway?
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by Eridrus 1y ago
The note about economists and data science in the article felt weird, because data science as a title was invented to get non-CS PhDs to do analyst work because they wanted smarter people doing it. The point of hiring an economics PhD in in
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Ah yes, gambling, a thing that has never before been popular.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
A saner design would turn this optimization into a documented flag that anyone can opt into.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Nice anecdote, but if you follow the links in the post you will see this is the minority of these issues: "Altogether 71.5 percent of the PCs failed the RAM test and 14.66 percent the TPM test." https://www.theregister.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
The articles about this tend to be misleading in that most computers failing the minimum requirements are failing the memory requirement not the TPM requirement, which is a lot less dire of a situation than having to replace your CPU since
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by Eridrus 1y ago
GOOGL is up like 25% over the last few weeks after they resolved the DoJ lawsuit about Search bundling. Clearly there were some investors who thought that was a material risk to the business. Tesla is clearly a meme stock though, and an exa
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by Eridrus 1y ago
This seems like an argument against the state in every form, you could say the same thing about the government collecting taxes, having a police department, courts etc. Unless you are a committed anarchist though, you likely see a limit to
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Has performance of ANTLR generated code gotten better? I'm sure some of this was bad grammars, but I wasn't thrilled with what I got out of ANTLR ~15 years ago
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by Eridrus 1y ago
It's usually fairly obvious when people have just seen the solution before. But also, interviews are fuzzy and not at all objective, false negatives happen as well as false positives. If you want people to know about these things you s
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by Eridrus 1y ago
These tests are programming tests, but also effectively IQ and conscientiousness tests in the same way that most of what people learn in college is pointless, but graduating with a 4.0 GPA is still a strong signal. I will say, IME, it'
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Constraint solvers are also often not applicable to the real world either. Many formulations scale in a way that is completely unusable in practice. Knowing how to get tools like Z3 or Gurobi to solve your problems is it's own skill an
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by Eridrus 1y ago
I don't have a predetermined opinion on whether it is good or bad for cash to be untraceable. I think arguments for privacy are pretty poorly argued and often come down to "isn't the idea of someone watching you icky" wh
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Nobody here is actually even arguing about the proposal here, just repeating platitudes and analogies. I don't actually care about this topic at all, but people should do a better job of defending their positions.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
If you start from an assumption that there should be no regulation, then your conclusion will be that there should be no regulation. That's not actually an argument for anyone who doesn't share your assumptions though and is large
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by Eridrus 1y ago
I think the case for why strong encryption is important is much clearer than why untraceable financial instruments are important and I don't think it's super compelling to argue that these things are actually the same, even if you
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Humans are also incapable of knowing whether their output is correct. We merely convince ourselves that it is and then put our thoughts in contact with the external world and other people to see if we actually are.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
This is a fairly common view, but it overstates people's rationality abd assumes you have perfect information, leading people to pretty conspiratorial views. Often the actual answer to things not making sense is that most things in the
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Someone should really make a utility to make this easy if Microsoft won't do it.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Not sure if you wrote this article and I appreciate an engineering desire to undersell, but if this is faster than what people actually do in practice, then the takeaway is different than if it is slower, so I think you're doing folks
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by Eridrus 1y ago
My understanding was that many of the fixes for speculative execution issues themselves led to performance degradation, does anyone know the latest on that and how this compares? Are these performance hit numbers inclusive of turning off th
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by Eridrus 1y ago
If you feel insulted being asked to write a binary search that sounds like you have a bit too much ego at work.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Yeah, I think this is misclassification based on UDP port. If you take their random source ports (21,925), ~0.004% come from any single port, which lines up with what they said was "Other" traffic. The numbers don't quite w
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Why not depend on package1>=0.4.0 rather than specifying an explicit version? Then uv will upgrade it to the latest version. pyproject.toml is meant to encode the actual constraints for when your app will function correctly, not hardcode
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by Eridrus 1y ago
This is a very cynical read of the data. Most of the companies discussed here are still too early to have an exit. If you look at the early batches (which are the only ones where all the companies are dead or exited), then more than half of
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by Eridrus 1y ago
I do mean this seriously. YC manages truly incredible returns, and you can just... join those companies after they have gotten the YC seal of approval (or any other signal you like). Unlike a VC, you do not have to "return the fund&quo

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