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by aetimmes 3y ago
It's a psyops campaign run by DevOpsers/SREs to enable them to actually write code instead of being 100% ops.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
People do what they are incentivized to do. Engineers are incentivized to increase profits for the company because impact is how they get promoted. They will often pursue this to the detriment of other people (see: prioritizing anger in alg
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by aetimmes 3y ago
Communities aren't monoliths. The groups of people who criticize real tangible languages and people who have the skills to critique the design of abstract language design don't necessarily overlap.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
Maybe not MIT, but there are many universities whose bottom lines are significantly impacted by the success of their sports programs and the television deals that come with them.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
Anecdotally, you are wildly incorrect.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
What an amazing series. My favorite bit has to be the Love's Labor's Lost bit at the top of ep. 3, followed by an excerpt from A Bit of Fry and Laurie that makes a joke at the expense of folks like John Barton that he's able
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by aetimmes 3y ago
But what is most important is that he was correct about vanishingly few of them.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
Social media is a service.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
With forced RTO and "hardcore" mandates, it's difficult to find 6+ hours of time to interview at other companies (assuming there are any open visa sponsorships available).
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by aetimmes 4y ago
Anecdotally, I know several people (outside the tech field) who have told me that they get value specifically out of product-based FB/Instagram targeted ads, to the point that they don't _want_ to install ad-blockers for those sit
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by aetimmes 4y ago
It's very straightforward. If you have money, you're allowed to be stupid. This is clearly the policy of Twitter 2.0.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
It's amazing how many wrong answers there are in this thread. This is the only correct one.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
Anecdote, but: I've seen a previous employer blackball a hardware vendor because of terrible BMC support.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
I think there are several TCO issues you'd run into here: - vendor lock-in: anyone who has worked at a shop running Sun SPARC machines when they got purchased by Oracle can speak to the pain involved with negotiating software licenses
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by aetimmes 4y ago
It sounds like those engineers did good work.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
The $4M/day figure was based on the aforementioned $1B/yr in interest payments.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
It depends on what you (or OP) mean by "one machine". There was a HPC cluster at Princeton when I worked there (which, looking at their website, has since been retired) that was assembled by SGI and outfitted with a customized Lin
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by aetimmes 4y ago
(Disclaimer: ex-Twitter SRE) > There’s a bunch of other basic features of Twitter like user timelines, DMs, likes and replies to a tweet, which I’m not investigating because I’m guessing they won’t be the bottlenecks. Each of these can,
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by aetimmes 4y ago
It's directly tied to the $1B/yr in additional interest payments being incurred by the debt used to finance the acquisition. Twitter pre-Elon was profitable. Twitter post-Elon is bleeding cash.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
> Infamously, Twitter did not even remove reported CSAM until after Musk purchased the company and fired the director of Trust and Safety Source on this? Anecdotally, the reaction of everyone I know working in law enforcement to the Musk
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by aetimmes 4y ago
I had been looking for this specific quote for months; thank you for surfacing it!
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by aetimmes 4y ago
"Services you didn't build yourself" include Kubernetes and Docker, and "system dependencies that you might not have touched before" include glibc and and the Linux kernel. The sentence you quoted is true of damn ne
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by aetimmes 4y ago
Both of my parents have had cancer, but neither were the rare types seemingly caused by CHS (melanoma and kidney cancer). Certainly worth keeping an eye on, though.
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by aetimmes 4y ago
Another story on the topic: https://www.nj.com/news/2022/04/a-mystery-in-colonia.html Including an anecdote from finding a radioactive rock in the school in 1999: "But when the teacher moved to an unrema
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by aetimmes 5y ago
Threading is local to a machine; task queues are generally a solution to distributing a large number of tasks across many distinct compute nodes by using some remote network service (redis, rmq, etc) to track the progress of jobs.
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by aetimmes 5y ago
Because then you have a snowflake service with a non-standard environment and still haven't solved the problem for all the other services that are still on Mesos.
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by aetimmes 5y ago
> People must be held accountable to have good incentives to reduce such outtages in the future. Holding specific people "accountable" for outages doesn't incentivize reducing outages; it incentivizes not getting caught
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by aetimmes 6y ago
Hmm - what's the overlap between your definition of "bare metal" and the current definition of "embedded"? I will say, this comment section is the first time I'm hearing about "bare-metal" meaning &qu
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by aetimmes 6y ago
I recently set up a homelab of ~10 k3os+k3s nodes on NUCs. Setting up MetalLB on top of the base k3s installation made exposing services on their own IP addresses pretty dead simple.

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