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by dap 4y ago
There’s no data in this article. In his recent book, Ron Lieber argues that the actual price paid hasn’t gone up nearly so much as the sticker price because of the increasing ubiquity of merit aid (which is terribly named). How does that f
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by dap 4y ago
I don't understand your confusion. As you said, if people don't like something about the system, they can push for change. A first step in pushing for change is pointing out what sucks about the status quo, right? (If you'
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by dap 4y ago
So much this. To me, this reveals the deep hypocrisy of the standard anti-abortion position. I get that many folks consider birth control unethical and sex ed undesirable, too. But aren't they at least lesser evils? If one's p
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by dap 4y ago
Is it not more accurate to say that the court interpreted the Constitution as _already granting_ that freedom? Unrelated to that: > We have legislatures to make freedoms the law, if they'd do their jobs for us. Yes, but it's im
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by dap 4y ago
It’s a funny thing about simplicity. It’s easy to make something simple by foisting the complexity on the consumer. A lot of Go’s features are simple in that they take few words to explain, but using them uncovers so many edge cases that t
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by dap 4y ago
This is a good point!
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by dap 4y ago
You do, but it seems pretty good even taking into account opportunity cost? My calculations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31105389 Someone else said it better in a different subthread: https://news.ycomb
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by dap 4y ago
I got a quote last fall in the SF Bay Area for a system: - 6.4 kW (16x400W panels), microinverter-based (little to no maintenance expected in 25 years) - estimated to produce 8,500 kWh in year 1 - the panels are warrantied to produce 86% in
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by dap 5y ago
Yeah, I don’t think it’s just lazy or social habit that causes people to do this. Particularly when it’s an outsider (eg a sales person in an engineering team’s chat room) in a situation where some response is expected (eg a work environme
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by dap 5y ago
I’m not sure about that list. I’ve used partial indexes and users defined types with CockroachDB
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by dap 5y ago
How would you fix the query or indexes here? The CTE seems clearly a hack, effectively functioning as a hint. It doesn’t seem like it counts as fixing the query. I’m skeptical of this rule of thumb. I’m sure people misuse hints. But if some
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by dap 5y ago
> The Google engineer had a great defense in this article: >> "[People are suggesting] if you can't get driving directions and road closures right 100% of the time, you shouldn't offer any. Surely that would be a wor
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by dap 5y ago
As I get older, I’m increasingly skeptical of the idea that many markets are competitive. There’s so much overhead to so many businesses, plus heavy use of price discrimination — it doesn’t feel like a lot of the stuff I buy comes from a co
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by dap 5y ago
This happened to me too! Only it was a large public company. Employee stock purchase plan was 10-15% discount. Between Thursday afternoon purchase and Friday delivery of shares, company announced earnings and shares dropped like 20%.
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The Tech Cold War’s ‘Most Complicated Machine’ That’s Out of China’s Reach(nytimes.com)
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by dap 5y ago
There are at least two other reasons I prefer small (paginated) requests. First, it’s much simpler to define meaningful latency SLOs. If requests take roughly the same time, I can say that requests (or even requests “of this type”) should c
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by dap 5y ago
I assume they meant that the existing federal holiday observing MLK‘s birthday should be moved to the existing Election Day, So that election day is off for most people, and we still observe MLK, and there can be no objection to an additio
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by dap 5y ago
I’ve heard this before but I’m skeptical about this approach. It’s got to cost close to 2x to develop and maintain two stacks — if they’re sharing a lot, that would defeat the point. Then you’d have two stacks tested about as well as the
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by dap 5y ago
Have you tried monitoring GitHub Actions? It’s not uncommon for me to find that actions just don’t run for some reason. The docs are so incomplete that it’s hard for me to know why.
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by dap 5y ago
People said the same about the curveball.
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by dap 5y ago
Are you a baseball fan, out of curiosity? MLB parks are all different dimensions and even shapes. Grounds crews maintain the local fields differently from each other, sometimes to the advantage of the home team. Colorado plays half their ga
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by dap 5y ago
I have wondered a lot, though: does that mean other people would love it too? Could it be that it's somewhat unusual (it is), and that its unique qualities are super clear to everyone, and so the people who buy it love it, and the peo
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by dap 5y ago
I get that this is a real problem, especially in tech support. And this write-up is better than others I've seen. At the same time, I think people referencing this don't seem to understand how self-centered this perspective is.
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by dap 5y ago
On the other hand, doesn’t that mean that a workload that inserts new sortable uuids would experience lots of contention, while one that inserts random uuids would better spread load? (This is probably more significant in a distributed dat
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by dap 6y ago
It depends a lot on what you’re doing. In my last role, keeping the Postgres database in memory was absolutely not an option, and we ran into major issues related to physical I/O.
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by dap 6y ago
I think you’re right that OSS is a customer requirement in many domains today. But I think the consequence isn’t that companies will open source despite the AWS threat — it’s that tremendously valuable software will never be built in the fi
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by dap 6y ago
Well, I suggested an option. That doesn’t mean companies have to choose it. But to be honest, it’s somewhat surprising that companies are willing to take on the risk of unbounded financial liability if someone makes a mistake.
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by dap 6y ago
I think that’s true, but that’s a reflection of what people considered important when they built it. It’s not the only way to build things.
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by dap 6y ago
I have seen similar stories with AWS. It’s somewhat shocking to me that there’s no way to ask to get cut off above some dollar limit. Is every customer risking unbounded liability?
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by dap 6y ago
> I think the election of Trump may have made it possible for these cultural problems to come to light, the same way that (for example) women speaking up about sexual assault can empower others to do the same. > I personally think man

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