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by davedx 3y ago
Come on LOL. Falcon 9 is an orbital booster that's landed dozens of times on US soil. Suggesting this spacecraft has achieved some kind of world first is totally ridiculous and diminishes the actual achievement.
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by davedx 3y ago
Whew lots of negativity here! Think this is super promising of what the future holds. Not known many people who enjoyed working in call centers.
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by davedx 3y ago
Vercel are high on their own supply
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by davedx 3y ago
Pretty incredible paper. They statically calculate distributed workloads across the inference compute cluster. This is the technology behind https://groq.com
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Software-Defined Tensor Streaming Multiprocessor for Largescale Machine Learning [pdf](wow.groq.com)
3 points by davedx 3y ago|1 comments
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by davedx 3y ago
SQL is pretty great, but for some things (I thought the example in the readme was decent) it can be quite cumbersome. Stored procedures are very imperative (and hard to debug, depending on the platform IME). This seems like a more functiona
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by davedx 3y ago
Get outside, go hiking, climb a mountain! That’s my big offline plan for this year and I’m excited to do it. The world is way bigger than technology and the Internet. It hasn’t really gone anywhere
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by davedx 3y ago
Yeah similar story here. Basically if you start programming 10y before your peers of the same age then it’s logical you’ll be more productive and knowledgeable. Maybe a lot of “10x engineers” are just guys who gave themselves a huge head st
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by davedx 3y ago
Yeah. Testing your backup works can be almost as much work as setting the thing up in the first place, too, but you do need to do it
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by davedx 3y ago
This is an oversimplification, but! Dumping postgres to a file is one command. scp the file to a different server is two commands. (Granted you need to setup ssh keys there too). I have implemented backups this way. With sqlite you only nee
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by davedx 3y ago
React and NextJS, although technically part of the same sub ecosystem, have very different approaches to DX, backwards compatibility, marketing and commercialization...
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by davedx 3y ago
> Magical, not magic - I really don't want it to feel magical either. I like explicit behavior and I think that is my problem with the whole wrap everything in observables approach. It's too magical. Don't worry - they hin
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by davedx 3y ago
No, but again, that sounds like a lot of complexity your average startup does not need. Multi-az? Why?
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by davedx 3y ago
I’ve implemented such a process for companies multiple times, bro. I know what I’m talking about.
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by davedx 3y ago
All that infra doesn’t integrate itself. Everywhere I’ve worked that had this kind of stack employed at least one if not a team of DevOps people to maintain it all, full time, the year round. Automating a database backup and testing it work
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by davedx 3y ago
I’ve used most of these technologies and the sum value add over a way simpler monolith on a single server setup is negligible. It’s pure insanity
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by davedx 3y ago
Utter insanity. So much cost and complexity, and for what? Startups don’t think about costs or runway anymore, all they care about is “modern infrastructure”. The argument for RDS seems to be “we can’t automate backups”. What on earth?
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by davedx 3y ago
Octopus tentacles are semiautonomous
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by davedx 3y ago
Ugh what next, farm chimpanzees for their meat?
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We Revolutionize Production of Plant-Based Ingredients on Earth and in Space(interstellarlab.com)
1 points by davedx 3y ago|0 comments
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by davedx 3y ago
It's crazy but it just might work! Even if I never use this, it's incredibly refreshing to see a genuinely new approach to delivering applications. Some of this feels subtly like Smalltalk. Some very interesting ideas here: https
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by davedx 3y ago
I found the person who wrote the article on LinkedIn
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by davedx 3y ago
FWIW I tracked down the company, it's ExodusPoint Capital Management. I think the story is true given by what I found with some basic googling.
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by davedx 3y ago
I had my first child in my mid 30's, and one of my friends started when both him and his partner were in their 40's. No regrets, but the biological challenges can be very real -- my friends had to use IVF for both their pregnancie
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by davedx 3y ago
Ha I tried reading I Am a Strange Loop and found that meandering and verbose too. Didn’t finish it. He really labors the “greater than sum of parts” point for example. Ugh
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by davedx 3y ago
Gravity’s Rainbow. I never finished it. It’s more like One Hundred Years of Solitude though; GEB isn’t fiction
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by davedx 3y ago
The entire notion of a 'habitable zone' is also very over-simplistic. Europa is quite probably 'habitable'.
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by davedx 3y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Netherlands Freelance Senior Software Engineer. Front-end, Back-end, Data engineering, Infrastructure. Highly experienced (10 years+ freelancing) with a great track record. I can build your startup's products a
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by davedx 3y ago
I think it depends where you end up, but where I currently work we almost mandated that devs at least get familiar with how to use it, if not necessarily use it in everyday work. It's just too useful and valuable to omit. What I'v
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by davedx 3y ago
He's cemented his position as dictator-for-life, and also shown that he will actively interfere in publicly traded companies. That matters a hell of a lot.

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