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by coldbrewed 3y ago
The OC's perspective (that's me) is that there's a massive power asymmetry between the employed and employer. An employee can (typically) only work for one company at a time whereas an employer typically has many employees. T
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
If you agree with the narrative of shareholder primacy and are looking at short term outcomes then sure, nothing is wrong here. But this means that we're ignoring the harm that was done to the people that lost their income and the disr
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
> standardized packaging mechanisms, matrix testing across supported profiles While this is somewhat true, it's not unreasonable to keep the matrix very small to start with and gradually expand it. People think that matrix testing i
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
> On prem means that someone is administering your application that does not understand it. Which means YOU are administering it but via slacking with your customers infra engineers rather than through your own control plane. I got a fir
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Open source won the browser battle versus proprietary browsers, but it feels like FSF style "free software" is losing the war. Chrome is certainly open source but product development is completely dominated by Google. Google drive
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
> After a person’s iris is captured, the biometric data never leaves the orb, they explain, instead converting it into the IrisCode, which itself is only used to create a verification of a person’s uniqueness through a convoluted system
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Pictures of the RC models show that the bed walls are sloped; that'll eat up a bunch of space if you're moving crates or boxes. The thing that I can't get over is the raised walls on the sides of the bed. The appeal of a pick
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
> James Russell was surprisingly keen to jump on board an experiment designed to persuade people to own fewer cars – especially for someone who has had up to four vehicles parked at his Melbourne home. So we're starting with someone
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I can't comment on infrastructure in AWS, but I worked at an observatory for a hot minute when they used Precision Time Protocol (PTP). Their scheme was to record telemetry from all aspects of the observatory -- hardware state, environ
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Oracle's market capitalization is $298 billion, while Microsoft's market capitalization is $2.6 trillion. If there's anyone that can stave off Oracle's lawyers Microsoft is probably one of a handful that can. Also, I&#x2
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations > Overall, microbiome differences in ASD may reflect dietary preferences that relate to diagnostic features, and we caution against claims that the microbiome
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Per the guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
If you're a dual income/parent household, you have to afford both the house payments and childcare; typical child care costs can be so great that it makes sense for one parent to drop out of the workforce to care for children so y
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
> You must have used some insane electric chainsaw because the ones I've seen take 15 minutes to get through a 2 inch diameter branch that you could snap by hand faster. Maybe that was the case 5-10 years ago but not these days. A b
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Crypto doesn't have to be explicitly stopped or shut down to be consigned to niche cases. In fifteen years Linux went from a hobbyist project in 1991 to a major infrastructure project underpinning the Internet; Golang started in 2009 a
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Prior to LLMs, generating plausible-sounding misinformation took actual effort - not much effort, but the marginal cost was reasonably above free. With LLMs making the cost of bullshit vanishingly close to free we're going to tip into
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
The thing that stands out to me is that the driverless car parked on top of the victim until the fire department arrived and extricated the victim. There are few vehicle-pedestrian crashes where the offending vehicle parked on top of the ve
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
While it's true that the financial discipline needed to protect an emergency fund isn't as prevalent as it should be, it's important to remember that an emergency fund only lasts if you don't experience an emergency. Fro
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I'm really torn about this. Mauna Kea is the best place on the entire planet to observe the galactic center; it has the best seeing (minimal humidity and low atmospheric turbulence) that's not matched in the northern hemisphere. T
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I dislike repeating "enshittification" so much, but behavior like this seems to be spreading at an exponential rate. It seems like there's going to be a steady uptick of torrenting and Usenet as people get fed up and discover
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
It looks like it never took off[1]; I was working on this exact topic this week and just went with multiple vlan interfaces on the host and bridged in container interfaces via multus. Would love to know if there's a better practice flo
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
> In general, the new GCs are optimised to work the least and give the best performance when the allocation rate is neither too high nor too low; the new GCs also reuse memory better than object pools. This a little bit surprising to me