JohnMakin

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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Have you considered the fact the majority of the US is not designed for public transit, or it doesn’t exist at all? Most cities aren’t even walkable let alone practical for bike transit due to long distance commutes and lack of infrastruct
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Let’s do a thought experiment. let’s say you find and can mine an asteroid full of rare earth minerals worth a quadrillion dollars, and you then flood the market with your yield. is this asteroid’s yield still worth a quadrillion dollars?
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
gamblers who like to martingale bet strategies often run up huge sums without ever doing the sane thing and cashing out
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
seperate applies in different state files? I establish hard loosely coupled separations here and it’s been fine as terraform wrapper around helm. I’d rather run ci jobs around gitops + charts using whatever your preferred flavor but current
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
I hope there isn't, because if there is, it has a lot of implications that are unpleasant to think about.
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
If his goal is being released from prison, via swaying public opinion towards him to get a presidential pardon - he would do himself a lot more to that goal if he would be willing to let go of the delusion that what he did was not a crime,
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Yea, I used to believe this too, and still sort of agree - I got so tired of the argument in maintaining k8s infra in terraform I gave up and wrote what is essentially a terraform wrapper module around helm. The charts break terraform quite
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Am reminded reading this of an esteemed and since passed away colleague who had written windows driver code since the dos days and may have had decades of insanely archaic knowledge die with him - when working on a difficult piece of window
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
The gateway api people have clearly won and I can’t truly complain because I’m not a maintainer, but I have contributed in the past to a nontrivial part of the tooling built off this ecosystem. The issues with snippets/annotations are
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
If you struggle with any of that (a lot of what you listed is not strictly necessary to running managed kubernetes, specifically EKS) you are also going to struggle with a lot of other things on AWS, or wrangling a VM setup at any kind of s
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
> I still don't totally get why the shift happened when it did. Five years ago all three camps were doing fine. Now the VM+systemd crowd has basically disappeared from job postings, serverless stayed niche, and K8s just won. > &
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
At the outset of my career I was lucky (in a way) to have the veil ripped forcefully off of my face as to the ugliness inherent in the VC backed tech world. I was believing I was working on something very important as one of the initial hir
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
You do not live in a democracy or anything close to it. It's a constitutional republic, but the representatives are bought and paid for by people who do not have the public's best interest in mind. I do not accept responsibility f
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
I got downvoted probably for tone which is my bad but what I’m laughing at is this person doesnt seem to understand why people pay for aws, it’s certainly not the laughably bad console or the buggy control plane. it’s the reliability guaran
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
"I want an open source AWS" with $500 budget made me guffaw
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Not necessarily. Not every job is shipping features that are visible to customers, or even to management. You see this pattern of "make fire, put it out, get rewarded" a lot on devops type teams, almost always by the lead (IME). O
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
The reasoning for AI driving layoffs never really made sense to me. My company is hiring more than ever before - the rationale being two main things - one, strong hiring market == cheaper, stronger hires, two - we are seeing efficiency gain
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
They're scavengers, I think scavengers are wired to eat whatever is available at the least expenditure of energy.
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Thanks for linking this, I had been wondering what the heck I had observed. It was really interesting. I love watching them. I almost always see something new (for me)
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Yea, what creeped me out, is this must have been done before, and got whatever effect the bird intended. hard to say what it’s motives were of course but they’re smart enough to know what they are doing
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
I've read there's also a social aspect - crows are extremely social creatures, as are humans, and other highly intelligent animals like whales. That does seem to be a common denominator. Regarding that, I'm reminded of anothe
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
I was guessing just a general preference towards anyone in their area. I have certainly never done anything harmful towards them.
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
> You are working against human nature if you think most people are not going to feel more comfortable talking about private matters This is reframing the discussion a little bit. I said up thread, certain things need to be discussed in
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
A little larger than a golf ball.
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
One of the craziest behaviors I have seen was from a murder of American crows in a big city area sidewalk I walk down frequently - occasionally, I have observed homeless and vagrants throwing stuff at them, because sometimes they sleep unde
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
I am not against 1 on 1's, but making that a regularly scheduled thing as if that adds value is kind of what I am arguing against. If people don't feel comfortable voicing something unless it is in private to their manager, that
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Why does this have to take place in a meeting? Why can't it be in a team slack? What value gain do you give talking an engineer through what's bothering them? Are they not capable of that independently of you? A middleman's v
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
> There were some regressions in the model’s responses to user discussions about suicide and self-harm, and room for improvement in some areas of child safety. Someone had to make a decision somewhere this is an acceptable regression - w
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
Someone like this may be skipping steps because to them the steps may be so obvious as to not need to be explained, and they are giving more benefit of the doubt to the interviewer than they should. your framing makes it seem like arrogance
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by JohnMakin 4mo ago
physics has nothing to do with the reliability of a service, or login outages.

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