defendBanana

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by defendBanana 3y ago
Wikipedia is fairly transparent about how they spend the money. Anyone donating can easily check and donate to their liking. Stop making up random 10% etc. I never understand this obsession that people have with non profit funding. A weird
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by defendBanana 3y ago
Is that the right statistics here though? Billionaire classes ability to spend should be compared with governments ability to spend. This is not same as wealth.
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by defendBanana 3y ago
The few with money are still a fairly large class. They are also paltry in wealth as compared to the masses aka govt spending. It is ok that many of these fails. Some will work (wikipedia, khan academy etc). We should only require that thin
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by defendBanana 3y ago
In your scenario, presumably you are 20% less effective for same pay. So in a way yes but comp does not need to be adjusted.
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by defendBanana 3y ago
With clouds this is not true anymore. They are exactly linear. If you ask for a smaller node they are simply propositioning a chunk of a larger machine anyway. There is a point where the exponential pricing starts, but that point is way out
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by defendBanana 3y ago
Kafka can keep a decent bit of data in RAM using file system pages. Often times you end up wasting CPUs on kafka nodes, not memory i think. https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka/deployment....
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by defendBanana 3y ago
Something that has helped me, in many similar situation is to restate my intent. Reminding myself that my goal is to be a better engineer tomorrow and not really to do a great job right now. I am after getting better, current work that i am