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by davewritescode 4y ago
Anytime I see an alternative to Elastic search on HN my first thought is how much of a shame it is to use something other than Lucene for text search because of just how powerful it really is. Elasticsearch is a pain to tune and partition,
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by davewritescode 4y ago
I'm going to push back (slightly). Simplicity is great, I 100% believe avoidable complexity is the enemy of good software. Sometimes the complex solutions are complex for a reason and simple has a way of working until it doesn't.
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Monitoring is super important++ But the nice thing about using an already resilient system like K8S is that pod crashes won't cause your customers to not be able to work and you can fix the issue in the background instead of having to
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by davewritescode 4y ago
That’s not the way it works in my experience. If you have a family health insurance is cost prohibitive if you live in the US. Nobody pays you extra because you worked at Google 10 years ago, the way you get the 2X consulting gigs is makin
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by davewritescode 4y ago
I don’t think it’s a bad time. I suspect a lot of the layoffs have more to do with the value brought by particular employees versus their salary. During COVID salaries spiked and big offers were extended to mediocre candidates. The job h
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by davewritescode 4y ago
These types of ML approaches seem to always break down in the face of adversarial input. Security folks are going to have a field day if we’re not careful to make sure that people really understand the limitations of these types of systems.
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by davewritescode 4y ago
I just don't understand how this keeps happening?
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by davewritescode 4y ago
> I failed to convince them to undelete my account (the deadline is currently 2 years), but there is an HN support incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866#18717279 . A lot of companies have a habit of keep
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by davewritescode 4y ago
I understand that but I guess my question is other than another layer of access control to prevent mistakes, what am I actually getting. I know AWS has fixed this now, but in years past we paid a ton of money in KMS requests from s3 for the
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by davewritescode 4y ago
What’s always been unclear to me is how much I actually gain from providing my own KMS key use with S3 if at the end of the day my private key is available to the s3 service. I would only use client side encryption/decryption if I had
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by davewritescode 4y ago
> And then there's in house software creation, vs everyone else. Software makes their use of their motors more efficient. You think automakers don't know about software? You do realize that what the ECU has to do to keep intern
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Sorry for the late response but thank you so much much for showing me this
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Believe it or not most passenger cars won’t run on ethanol unmodified these days. Even running on 50 or 80% ethanol blends usually requires custom ECU maps to run. Let’s not even talk about all the things in the fuel system that seem to ha
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Avgas 100LL is going to be around for a good long period of time. Not a single local airport around me locally has rolled out the new fuel yet so I’m not sure I believe your point about airports wanting it ASAP
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Golang has burned me more than once with bizarre design decisions that break things in a user hostile way. The last one we ran into was a change in Go 1.15 where servers that presented a TLS certificate with the hostname encoded into the CN
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by davewritescode 4y ago
> This narrative is flawed for a few reasons. Firstly, the stock market crash affected all companies, not just TSLA. TSLA has been absolutely hammered above and beyond most other stocks. There's not many companies that are down 70%
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by davewritescode 4y ago
I don't know why any of this is surprising. I don't know anything about the personal politics of any other major automotive CEO and my guess is that it isn't by accident. These companies know their asking their customers to
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Personally I think it’s ok to reflexively question complexity on a vast majority of projects. Most engineers get excited about engineering stuff, that’s a good thing but in my experience, a ton of premature optimization can happen before y
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by davewritescode 4y ago
This is precisely the road Mazda appears to be taking. When they introduced the CX-30 electric lots of folks were disappointed with range. If the rumors are to be believed, Mazda will be introducing a rotary engine range extender with som
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Westworld was cancelled without an ending as were some of the other shows on this list like Vinyl which was cancelled after 1 season. Personally I liked both shows at times but I kind of get why you'd not want to steer viewers to dead
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by davewritescode 4y ago
I think you’re exaggerating quite a bit. Language models have been evolving for years. The problem I have with GPT is that is wonderful at confidently writing things that are completely incorrect. It works wonderfully at generating fluff.
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by davewritescode 4y ago
> I’ve also seen morale being slowly killed by people who _thought_ they were doing this, but were _actually_ just argumentative defeatists. Yes, I've also seen this as well. At some point you need people who will go off on a limb
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by davewritescode 4y ago
I personally think you it’s very difficult be an SRE who doesn’t come from a software engineering background. To me an SRE needs to come from a background that includes extensive coding and architecture experience. To me, the worst SREs ar
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by davewritescode 4y ago
The problem is with buying cars site unseen. I follow some car groups that revolve around tuning BMW engines for lots of power. It became a meme to post before and after pictures of heavily modified, drag strip/race prepped cars and
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Frankly I'm completely shocked to see that mIRC still gets updates. That said, this is basically what mobile developers do constantly. When you buy a "lifetime" license the software basically gets abandoned and a new version
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by davewritescode 4y ago
The author made it fairly clear why he thought they were let go; they weren't in the critical path anywhere. The only rationalization is that Wall Street is punishing meta for spending too much on R&D related to VR and cutting cost
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by davewritescode 4y ago
How? You get severance until March the only difference between US and non-US employees is the technically the date that employment ends. Everyone is paid through March anyway.
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by davewritescode 4y ago
Colima or Rancher Desktop seem to be what most developers at my place of work have coalesced around these days. Colima is a little but lower level but works very well. Rancher Desktop had some struggles a while back but most of the develop
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by davewritescode 4y ago
If you're strictly rooting for the United States to keep it's lead on the rest of the world (which I unapologetically am) then you do your best to to attract the best and brightest wherever they are.
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by davewritescode 4y ago
> Was there any alternative to 6B people in the developing world offering to sell their labor and environment for less than the 1B people in the developed world? Arbitrage opportunities cannot go on forever without being outcompeted The

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