Tehchops

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by Tehchops 8y ago
> In the second half of 2019, IBM will open the IBM Q Quantum Computation Center, located in Poughkeepsie, New York to expand IBM’s commercial quantum computing program, which already includes systems at the Thomas J. Watson Research Cen
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by Tehchops 8y ago
The sentiment is correct, but there are a number of caveats depending on the nature of the work. Dealing with any data that is defined under a compliance policy of some kind, for instance.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Too bad Planetary Annihilation was a poorly optimized, buggy, under-delivered piece of shit on Windows too.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Did some investigating when this was initially announced and we were considering moving. Like most anywhere else, desirable areas(good schools, near water, access to public services) in Vermont are just as expensive as elsewhere, on top of
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>experts >people who drafted the law Pick one. Whatever passes for tech journalism these days left ZDnet long ago. It's kind of a joke to expect an objective take on whether or not this law allows judicial overreach from one of
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Does the intense radiation not interfere with communications to the drones/robots?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
That does seem pretty intense. To be close enough to get that dose I'd imagine thermal/blast effects would be incredibly high anyways, rendering this chip pretty useless.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
How many developers are actually versed enough in C/C++ to deal with it? Is re-writing everything in Rust really the answer?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
The political climate and the absolutely horrid public school funding are doing far more to drive educated white-collar workers away than arbitrary measures of "excitement" ever will.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
That's actually the most secure way to use a computer, so maybe he's on to something? ;-) All joking aside, color me shocked a policy-maker has 0 experience with $thing they are writing policy for.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> 2018 - 280k Well done. When I hear "enterprise", I'm assuming C#/Java?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> Oracle Fair point.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
RIP Red Hat Linux. Can't think of any company I'd want less to be a steward of CentOS upstream. Looks like Ubuntu is about to get much more serious consideration for production workloads.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I think it's less about the screen time, and more about what's on the screen. Echoing some of the existing comments: Games and sites today are vastly different than they were 20 years ago. Games like Civilization, Quake, Diabl
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I worry there are long-term implications to the exodus of intellectual capital from academia -> industry. However , I don't blame anyone who makes this obvious choice: A)Years of underpaid, thankless, exhausting work, for a... frac
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by Tehchops 8y ago
HN hug of death?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> a major US city with a lower cost of living Offset by an insane tax rate. Highest effective in the nation. Also, any actually desirable place to purchase a house is going to be just as expensive as anywhere else minus the tech hubs.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I feel like Kubernetes solves a lot of problems. I don't feel like any of them have to do with personal hosting/blogs. If you really want to go simple/cheap for that, why not eschewing compute entirely and go serverless/
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Our company is currently hiring an SRE in EMEA. US(Seattle) based. Full remote.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Can we stop linking to BI paywall.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
We already used up your bandwidth quota?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>Actually it is hard. Most of your peers and yourself may be familiar with the quirks, but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. AWS's docs are terrible. Others being worse does't change that fact. I think you've conf
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Anything in that article address the highest effective tax rate in the nation(and it's not close)?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>Easier than AWS, that's for sure You finding it hard != is hard >Getting HA to actually work in AWS is a nightmare of proprietary configuration and obscure documentation Strange. I have no problem with it. Most of my peers don
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>AWS is not the solution for every task. For self-hosting/personal stuff? Sure, EC2 is not cost effective. But you've just described a pretty powerful server for self-hosting, and you've left out a decent chunk of context
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I think Sam's comment is important: >Note it is important to have full perspective on costs here... All too often I see the "AWS is too expensive" circlejerk devolve into a flat cost argument. It is absolutely more expen
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>Meritocracy should be the paramount consideration in all things, and possibly a small consideration of diversity of ideas and beliefs, but not diversity of skin color or genitalia. >If all of the most brilliant astrophysicist minds i
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>with a strong rule of law Not so certain these days.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work. I've always wondered about this. When you depen
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I see you there, Ubuntu desktop :) Interesting he's using a mbp box as a monitor stand. On to a more serious note: is this kind of computing work sped up with GPUs?

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