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by coredog64 9mo ago
FWIW, the employees in question are at least in the 90th percentile of US salaries if not 99th percentile (L5 is ~ $250K, L6 is ~ $399K, and L7 is north of $500K)
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Walmart is particularly bad for this: The employees do the picking and they have giant carts that monopolize the aisle. You're stuck waiting for them to scan and bag 8-10 popular items before you can get in there and grab the one thi
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by coredog64 9mo ago
There's probably 5 CVS locations (and 3 Chase private banking lobbies) between your subway stop and your apartment :)
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by coredog64 9mo ago
> I'd like to point out that IBM still dominates the large, billion-dollars worth mainframe market Companies continue to pay the IBM tax, but the way IBM writes support contracts incentivizes customers to work very hard at moving wo
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Amazon has device management but still allows developers to install software via `brew`. Windows is slightly more locked down in that user's don't have admin by default, but there's a very low bar to clear to get it temporar
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails uses a purpose-built model to look for safety issues in the model inputs/outputs. While you won't get any specific guarantees from AWS, they will point you at datasets that you can use to evaluate the pr
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Not even then, because search wants to show you something and it will just randomly grab ad placements to make up the difference.
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Having previously owned a Chinese car (Great Wall H5, bought new), I'm on the fence about buying Chinese cars. Initially it was a great car -- lots of features and they used high quality OEM parts (e.g. a Mitsubishi engine). However,
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by coredog64 9mo ago
The powertrain packaging for vans is much tighter than for trucks. Who amongst us remembers removing the interior to change sparkplugs 6 and 8 in a GMC Vandura? Even if you're not going to do the knuckle-skinning work yourself, the pa
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by coredog64 9mo ago
I don't know that I would describe NPR as "great". One specific example that sticks in my mind was a story they did about firearms. The host kept using the word "automatic". Knowing something about firearms, it w
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Have you ever listened to NPR and not been subject to Gell-Mann amnesia?
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by coredog64 9mo ago
CDK's twin problems are that it compiles down to CloudFormation and that AWS did a terrible job at supporting languages other than TypeScript. The latter is theoretically fixable with a native FFI library that is called from each lang
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by coredog64 9mo ago
In my experience, the AWS UI is actually pretty good at keyboard usability. The biggest issue with the UI is how long it can take API calls to fill in the data, and that would be the same for both the browser and a TUI.
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Union employees have negotiated healthcare into long-term contracts, making it hard for those employers to switch. (Feel free to read up on so-called "Cadillac plans" during the original ACA negotiations for more details). The s
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by coredog64 9mo ago
Serious question: How do organizations deal with having git on the critical path for deployment? Current employer actually prohibits this due to frequent outages in the git plant.
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by coredog64 9mo ago
It's my dream that one day I'll be able to run an AWS VPC that only has IPv6 for the private subnets and then I'll never have to worry about managing the address space or how many IP addresses each ALB consumes.
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by coredog64 10mo ago
Technically, is there a reason AWS can't support allowing sophisticated users to run arbitrary extensions in RDS? The control-plane/data-plane boundaries should be robust enough that it's not going to allow an RDS extension
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by coredog64 10mo ago
The Salt River enabled the Phoenix area to be an agricultural power house long before Columbus arrived in America. The Pima practiced irrigation agriculture and were using their crop surpluses to trade far and wide. What's problematic
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by coredog64 10mo ago
You are, of course, aware that the current US single payer system (Medicare) subcontracts their administration to private health insurance companies ? And that the "overhead" typically discussed when talking about Medicare doesn&
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by coredog64 10mo ago
The article's TL;DR is that the economics of 30-year old P&W4090 engines make these airframes even less useful to United.
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by coredog64 10mo ago
It's not in this article, but I have a vague recollection from other discussions that the actual x-ray diffraction image was taken by one of Franklin's graduate students.
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by coredog64 10mo ago
If they were taking a loss, they wouldn't run a crapton of internal workloads on Graviton.
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by coredog64 10mo ago
Funny story: When I was at AWS, I found that the easiest way automate instance data collection was by using the Vantage website code (it's on GitHub). The cobbler's children have no shoes.
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by coredog64 10mo ago
In 2022, entry into the top decile required a net worth of $1.6M. My gut says folks in the top decile are over-represented here on HN. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p70br...
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by coredog64 10mo ago
> A similar fate befell Dr. Rosalind Franklin, the chemist excluded from the Nobel awarded to her colleagues James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins for the discovery of DNA. Franklin's name is a link to a paywalled Medium
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by coredog64 10mo ago
I wish AWS all the best, but I will say that their developer-facing software doesn't have the best track record. Munger-esque "incentive defines the outcome" and all that, but I don't think they're well positioned
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by coredog64 10mo ago
Aside from the alleged "culture war" aspect, looking at the 2024 report you can see that the category "Asian" is at 36%. Roughly 5% of the US population can tick the "Asian" box on the census. There are a lot
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by coredog64 10mo ago
> but limiting H1B is likely bad for the US Assumes facts not in evidence. It's clear at this point that there are massive abuses in the H-1B program, and remedying those abuses will absolutely mean limiting the H-1B. And that&#x27
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by coredog64 10mo ago
True, but they wore out the casting infrastructure and probably should have stopped in 2001
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by coredog64 11mo ago
> For health insurance, it should be a simple subsidy for those who can't pay out of pocket. Some industries must be regulated, even in a capitalist free-market country. Health care, prisons, law enforcement, defense contractors, ba

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