dbaggerman

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by dbaggerman 1y ago
They do mention their OS being out of date. One possible interpretation is they are using packages provided by a Linux distro, and getting up to date may have required a full OS update. If that's were case, it would be easy to see how
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by dbaggerman 2y ago
When I was there NBNCo hadn't really moved into the inner city yet. We did have some kind of financial agreement with the building developer/management to install our VDSL DSLAMs in their comms room. It wouldn't surprise me i
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by dbaggerman 2y ago
To clarify, NBN is a monopoly on the last mile infrastructure which is resold to private ISPs that sell internet services. The history there is that Australia used to have a government run monopoly on telephone infrastructure and services (
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by dbaggerman 5y ago
It's noted in the Effective Go guide: https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#package-names
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by dbaggerman 5y ago
I was a little confused about this as well - until I realised they don't actually specify that this is the Linux kernel. I suspect what they're talking about here is the Windows kernel.
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by dbaggerman 5y ago
The newer weather.bom.gov.au is behind HTTPS. It's fairly javascript heavy though, which might make it hard to index.
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by dbaggerman 5y ago
In that case you would bundle a copy of the CLI utility into your docker container, with the correct version. This also applies to any system libraries your code might be compiled against. Things like shared libraries or CLI utilities are p
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by dbaggerman 6y ago
It's fulfilling the same role, definitely. In our case, the payout is defined as 4-12 weeks of salary (plus 1-4 weeks notice), based on length of tenure. Since this scales with what people earn, there's little need for tech compan
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by dbaggerman 6y ago
I suppose it would be "instead of". Unemployment insurance isn't really a thing here.
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by dbaggerman 6y ago
In Australia it's not negotiable. Our employment laws dictate what severance payment is required if a company is letting people go to reduce costs. Those laws don't apply if the employee leaves of their own accord, or if they are
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by dbaggerman 6y ago
First thing to keep in mind is that the Case Shiller data you linked to only has data up to February. The FSI data is more up to date, but the big upswing was only getting started in late Feb with it being more visible in March/April f
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by dbaggerman 7y ago
AWS already had a web based shell via SSM. This allows native SSH connections using credentials tied to AWS IAM users.
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by dbaggerman 8y ago
It's a different approach to managing risk -- minimizing impact of failure rather than minimizing the likelihood of failure. It's nice to know that you can kill a process and the only impact is that in-flight requests fail, rather
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by dbaggerman 8y ago
The caveat working that way is that you can end up working towards a local optimum, and lose sight of the forest for the trees when it comes to making the bigger algorithmic changes.