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by crmd 11mo ago
I think USA tech hegemony is perfectly analogous to this Israeli tech dilemma. As a dual American and EU (Irish) citizen, should my company strive to categorically avoid Intel and Nvidia technologies for national security reasons? I think t
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by crmd 11mo ago
it’s a tough infosec situation because the tel aviv-haifa corridor in israel has an enormous amount of computer science R&D going on that gives US companies a competitive advantage. for example, annapurna labs in haifa develops the tech
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by crmd 11mo ago
your data belongs to you, just like our data about you belongs to us.
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by crmd 11mo ago
My undergrad email server at University of Rochester was a two node SGI origin 200 cluster, which is where I learned unix and C, and later in my career, through a series of amazing coincidences, had the honor of working at startups with a f
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by crmd 11mo ago
After all networked smartphones and computers were placed under control of the regime, resistance hackers relied on microcontrollers harvested from ordinary household devices like smart lamps and vape pens to slowly rebuild the covert but r
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by crmd 11mo ago
If my 208V,200A service here in New York City were free for 4 hours a day, I might buy a ~30kW chiller to run during free time and store its output in a big thermos or ice cube. Assuming a COP of 2.5 (small, air cooled), that would be aroun
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by crmd 1y ago
The chairman of my last big company said I was “ungovernable” at one of our last board dinners, so I’m reluctantly inclined to agree with you.
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by crmd 1y ago
Supported by who? Microsoft? If a file server breaks basic Unix tools it should be unplugged and put in the garbage.
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by crmd 1y ago
One of the first things I do after getting an inquiry from a recruiter or friend referral is lookup the MX record for the company’s email domain. It is an anonymous one-command check to see if they’re a Microsoft shop. If they are, it’s eno
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by crmd 1y ago
The quote is from Steve Jobs and is absolutely true. As soon as the first bozo infects your team, they will start hiring other bozos, and after a while your org has regressed to the mean. Therefore you should hold a ridiculously high bar fo
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by crmd 1y ago
I wish to understand the virtue of Amazon culture. It seems that at L6 and below workers are a Taylorism-style fungible widget driven to convert salary into work product, guided to create the most output for the longest time before mentally
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by crmd 1y ago
How is their revenue traffic-dependent?
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by crmd 1y ago
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is not dependent on web traffic for revenue, is a decline in traffic necessarily bad? I always assumed the need for metastatic growth was limited to VC-backed and ad-revenue dependent companies.
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by crmd 1y ago
As 432 Park shows, unregulated development here in nyc does not increase the supply of homes for people to live in but rather the supply of abstract assets for wealthy people to launder and store wealth, for which there seems to be a nearly
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by crmd 1y ago
I grew up reading The Economist, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come find the idea that corporations have the right to use their money to form trade associations and directly lobby the government insane. I can understand how business owners
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by crmd 1y ago
I once had a board member who was also on the board of Ryan Air, and he casually told me a story about when their CEO gave a presentation on adding a credit card -powered interlock on the cabin lavatories. He told them, “They’re my planes a
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by crmd 1y ago
It could be because storage data plane development is a complex and niche software engineering domain, and cloud storage itself is not a high margin business.
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by crmd 1y ago
Take a look at the data storage industry, e.g. EBS and EFS teams at AWS, pure storage, net app, etc. The people there who work on the filesystems and block data path are doing legit applied computer science. I did it earlier in my career an
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by crmd 1y ago
I would love to know how a fire of this magnitude could happen in a modern data center.
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by crmd 1y ago
This narrative reads as USPS headcount that should not exist. The question is if there are in fact postal workers doing extremely out-of-scope things, or if this is a psyop whose mission is to degrade support for USPS.
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by crmd 1y ago
> Users can create videoclips up to 10 seconds long using OpenAI’s next-generation video model, according to documents viewed by WIRED. There is no option to upload photos or videos from a user’s camera roll or other apps. This sounds to
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by crmd 1y ago
Uber proposed $43.00 yesterday for a 23 minute drive from park slope to brooklyn heights in New York City, versus $2.90 for a 35 minute R train ride. I am humbled by how myopic I was in 2010 cheering for a taxi-hailing smartphone app to cre
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by crmd 1y ago
It could have been a dog!
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by crmd 1y ago
That’s a very good point you make. In that spirit, I’ll also restate my original comment in a way more charitable to CEOs: When you factor in trust and leadership/persuasion skills, which are typically misunderstood and undervalued by
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by crmd 1y ago
It was never written down for me. Handshake.
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by crmd 1y ago
Legally enforceable? I have no idea. But if the CEO loses trust in you there’s no way to come back from that, hence the dark power of secrecy.
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by crmd 1y ago
Yes but in the large companies I’ve worked for (IBM, for example), equity grants exist outside the band structure and are negotiated on a case by case basis. You can get life changing amounts of money by being offered a strategic project an
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by crmd 1y ago
This paper perfectly demonstrates two HR axioms I have observed in a 20 year tech journey from IC system engineer to retired unicorn CTO: 1. Total compensation varies obscenely within the organization. It correlates moderately with intellig
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by crmd 1y ago
I had an Onyx back in the day, and I remember one of the demos being a photo of a lion or tiger, and clicking on the photo caused it to warp in three dimensions like a sheet of rubber. Does anyone remember this or am I hallucinating?
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by crmd 1y ago
This fits exactly with how depression feels to me, and appears to manifest itself in me behavior-wise, according to my partner. Def going to give this some thought. Thanks!

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