Spooky23

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by Spooky23 1y ago
Thanks for the update, Pavel.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
This thread is a great example of how engineers by nature are tempted to add complexity to nearly any scenario.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Nuclear doesn’t work in a market based electricity market. The capital costs are high and it’s difficult to make money if you aren’t paying down those expenses. IMO, the old style regulated public utilities were cheaper and more reliable.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Climate patterns are changing. My kids will retire with the cheap old farmland we bought that I’m planting black walnuts on. Upstate NY was ideal maple syrup production territory for years. Now, we’ve changed from USDA Zone 5 to 6, so the r
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It’s family dollar. They don’t care about customer satisfaction and the cost of reliability is cost. The stores are in the hood or middle of nowhere. The customers don’t have many options.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
No doubt -- there are plenty of downsides to running your own stuff. I'm not anti-AWS. I'm pro-efficiency, and pro making deliberate choices. If there's a choice is spend $10M extra on AWS because the engineers get a good vib
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I don’t think it’s paid shilling, it’s dogma that reflects where people are working here. The individual engineers are hammers and AWS is the nail. AWS/Azure/GCP is great, but like any tool or platform you need to do some financia
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by Spooky23 1y ago
What's deceptive? What in the term "Full Self Driving" makes you think that your car will drive itself fully? It's fully capable of facilitating your driving of yourself, clearly.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Paul Tagliamonte sounds like a nice guy who has thought about these issues at length. He's reached the second level of DNS enlightenment: "There's no way it's DNS". Finality will arrive, and Paul will internalize th
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Even when the assumptions are correct, you’re depending on people doing their jobs correctly. Over the years, I’ve found shockingly bad failures, usually on areas of internal networks where there is ambiguity as to what internal org is resp
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Spoken by someone without knowledge of motor carrier regulation. That’s not a dig, few people are. States are incredibly bad at regulating commercial entities. The Federal DOT contracts with a few universities (or at least they did) use e
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by Spooky23 1y ago
In a major US city? More a coping mechanism. I was caught up in an evacuation situation on Hilton Head Island where a hurricane turned unexpectedly and the island was evacuated. We were literally packing up to leave for our scheduled depart
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by Spooky23 1y ago
People getting MRIs frequently have bigger fish to fry. When my wife was under cancer treatment she had them frequently. Risking some minor reaction, which in her case was disclosed many times, was well worth the value in managing the acute
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Nobody has proven that not taking an action is safe.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Unlikely. Private equity is swooping in, especially in places like New York that have taken bizarre regulatory stances against gas. In my area, about 75% of the HVAC companies have been swept up. Prices are up 75-150%. I got my gas furnace
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The real cap is the operator ultimately is accountable. When a software defect kills a bunch of people, the robot operator’s owners will subject to a way lower level of liability. Airlines have international treaties that do this. An object
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Flying is the “easy” part. There’s a lot more wood behind the arrow for a safe flight. The pilot is (an important) part of an integrated system. The aviation industry looks at everything from the pilot to the supplier of lightbulbs. With a
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I disagree about the fixing, because ultimately self driving services will have political power to cap their liability. Once they dial in the costs and become scaled self sustaining operations, the incentive will be reduced opex. I think th
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I think a “true positive” is an issue as well if the protocol to manage it isn’t appropriate. If the kid was armed with something other than nacho cheese, the provocative reaction could have easily set off a tragic chain of events. Reality
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I’m reporting you to the nearest IEEE branch.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Most customers of both use O365. The zoom fascination is pretty weird. It’s literally Webex 3.0 without Cisco bullshit. Slack is pretty awesome. It wouldn’t factor in selecting an employer, but that’s just me.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
You can’t get elected if you don’t count the votes. That requires a joint session of congress. If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens. Any number of emergent events may
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Funny how joining a college club is more notable to this individual than “enslaver”
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Cool. I did that with qmail in 1998 on a couple of Ultra 5s. Try managing a calendar or booking resources.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
You’re probably doing something cute with your network filtering or EDR.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Dev tools, sure. Self-selecting yourself out of the office/email toolset used by 90% of companies seems like a weird flex.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It’s not the homeless population, it’s more to do to with the folks who own the apartments. Local politics and local real estate are birds of a feather.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Sure, if your blog or whatever goes down who cares. But otherwise you should thinking about disaster planning and resilience. AWS US-East 1 has many outages. Anything significant should account for that.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Usually the older ones are easier to fix. It's never going to be new of course, and even stuff like the insulation will be degrading with time. I'd argue that in general, refrigerators are one of the few devices that came out of t
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by Spooky23 1y ago
They suck balls. The trap is you need Microsoft support training & strategy. If you buy unified and open a sev a, they just fuck around and assign an engineer from Antartica who works from 3AM-6:20AM Mongolian time, then reassign at 6:1

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