NathanKP

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by NathanKP 5y ago
This is my personal opinion, though I do work at AWS: It's not that real time counting is difficult, it is that the amount of compute resources and electricity that would be needed to power real time billing at AWS scale would be astro
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by NathanKP 5y ago
Let me use an analogy: Imagine that you are walking by someone and accidentally elbow them in the ribs. They double over in pain, and exclaim loudly that you hurt them really bad and you should apologize. Now you could get defensive and say
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by NathanKP 5y ago
That's the thing though, it doesn't matter whether you think something is "actual racism". It matters whether the person on the receiving end thinks it is racist, or racism adjacent. And making fun of people's names
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by NathanKP 5y ago
You aren't making the point you think you are. All you are doing is showing that you lack empathy for how others feel. And that is the fundamental problem: it isn't about what you think you are doing, it is about what other people
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by NathanKP 5y ago
You are halfway there, but now think a bit further. Imagine if you were working at a job, but you are stuck with immature coworkers that are making fun of aspects of your culture, making fun of names that are similar to your own name, or si
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by NathanKP 5y ago
> lack of multi threading That aspect of Node.js can actually be a very good thing for serious backend work, as it encourages process decoupling using API's. Decoupling ends up scaling better later on: you build a distributed system
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by NathanKP 5y ago
The goal of most platforms is to get more adoption and more users. People who post hateful, weird, and/or borderline illegal content are mutually exclusive with the vast majority of other "normal" people. When the majority of
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by NathanKP 6y ago
I suspect that at least some of the bots use web server response times and response codes as part of the signal for ranking. If your website does not appear capable of handling load then it won't rank as highly, because it is not in th
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by NathanKP 6y ago
> It makes a lot of sense for the average person to prioritize family building in their early 20s I'd say it used to make sense before the late 1970's when wages started stagnating. As the gap has grown the average person in th
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by NathanKP 6y ago
AWS employee here. When I was an AWS customer I was also often surprised by the quality of the support answers. Now from the other side I can explain why: even on the cheaper support plans it isn't uncommon for difficult questions to m
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by NathanKP 6y ago
On the pattern day trading rule its also worth noting that you are exempt from that above $25k on Robinhood. As I watched the subreddit over the past few weeks I saw a lot of folks happy that their account was now no longer subject to the p
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by NathanKP 6y ago
My personal opinion: I don't think Parler is about political left vs political right. There are plenty of folks on the political right who also don't want to be associated with QAnon, insurrection, death threats, and the other stu
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by NathanKP 6y ago
It looks to me like its in the same vein as Pokemon Cards, Yu-Gi-Oh cards, etc. Very few people actually "play". They just collect for the sake of collecting, and they buy out of fear of missing out on exclusives. It isn't a
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by NathanKP 6y ago
I don't think we are disagreeing here, I'm just saying that I see a future where poor people have to rely on tepary beans to survive as pretty dark. We are talking about a wild crop variety that has lower yields, so that could abs
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by NathanKP 6y ago
> as long as people have access to land and seeds we can eat well. and > we are looking at a future with at best greatly reduced food variety for the vast majority of the population, and at worst outright starvation for large portions
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by NathanKP 6y ago
Well I'm not very effective at convincing people because I'm not getting paid to do PR here (well actually I do get paid as a developer advocate to convince people to use AWS... but that's a totally different subject). But I
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by NathanKP 6y ago
Just to be clear I'm opposed to Monsanto as well. I think that Monsanto is likely the company that plans to do some actual evil with GMO. But Monsanto shouldn't be the only face and implementation of GMO. We need way more GMO rese
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by NathanKP 6y ago
Farmers have already been pushing the genetic envelope of their crops for thousands of years simply by exerting evolutionary pressure towards bigger, tastier, and more drought tolerant crops. Every time a farmer decided to grow more of the
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by NathanKP 6y ago
It's part of a broader anti-science reaction that we need to keep a close eye on as a society. See also antivaxxers, antimaskers, etc. USA has a serious anti-intellectualism problem (and to be honest a religion problem as well) and thi
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by NathanKP 6y ago
> the unintended consequences of drastic policies are economic hardship, creating a new generation of homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, and deaths of despair. None of these things are inevitable. For example China arguably implem
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by NathanKP 6y ago
Any large company is going to frown heavily on using references to some sketchy third party dev's repo. Large companies don't like that and it rightfully raises all kinds of appsec concerns because @dessant could easily change the
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by NathanKP 6y ago
If someone chooses to endanger their neighbors by bringing dangerous, explosive materials into a densely populated living area that shows a very bad decision making process at minimum, and at worst malicious intent. That's something th
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Additionally the FBI were called and Marak was charged with reckless endangerment for the potentially explosive bomb making materials found on the premise, including potassium nitrate, magnesium powder, sulfur powder, copper powder, aluminu
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by NathanKP 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at AWS and this is my personal opinion. I've seen growing levels of AWS contribution back to upstream projects over the past four years. Teams start out by operating a piece of software at scale, whether it is Redis,
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by NathanKP 6y ago
> should naturally select the least deadly This only works for diseases where symptoms and being contagious are concurrent. In the case of Covid-19 we know that humans can be contagious without experiencing negative symptoms. The potenti
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by NathanKP 6y ago
> "everything I have is yours" You must have missed that part of the story. The hardworking son who stayed home has been working on the family business, growing it, and is set to inherit everything including all the growth that
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by NathanKP 6y ago
We know for a fact that DDT has a serious impact on wildlife. Humans aren't special. If something is causing tumors in wildlife as DDT did then it will cause increased cancer risk in humans as well. And studies have shown that DDT trav
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AWS Copilot CLI(aws.github.io)
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by NathanKP 6y ago
Exactly. This is more than just a single Docker container, this is all the architecture necessary to have a highly scalable, high availability setup where you can dial up the number of Docker containers as high as you want at the press of a
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by NathanKP 6y ago
It's not just the HVAC system itself, it is the supply chain to operate the HVAC as well. There is waste heat from the power transmission system to get power to the HVAC unit, waste heat from the power plant that produced the power, wa

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