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by devonkim 7y ago
I don't think he's the _only_ one but his typical campaign messaging puts an awful lot of effort into addressing poverty and lack of opportunity in manufacturing which is interpreted by many on the left as pandering to the alt rig
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Data centers and the contracting companies’ overhead of managing them. If they’re not that great at it, you lose a lot in terms of availability, business agility, etc. Like, imagine using Softlayer as your provider except even worse. You ha
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I see that your company managed to become the kind of unicorn we all would actually care about. In a system where growth takes precedence over taking care of people and building employee loyalty, something seems desperately wrong
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by devonkim 7y ago
I was young and am a mere hardware and server nerd at heart so I wound up down the cloud / DevOps / SRE or whatnot path unfortunately a little too early and it's been quite fun. Embedded has been consolidated into a bunch of
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by devonkim 7y ago
I'm a former embedded software guy and I can explain a bit more. Hardware is extremely capital intensive, takes a long time for any return, and the margins tend to be pretty mediocre. Around the mid-2000s many embedded developers wound
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I'd give up my job and bring him his coffee every day if I could spend that much time with him
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High availability setups are absolutely required to upgrade / patch running databases as well without significant downtime. The engineering and business costs in time to try to work around these issues are from the 90s and have no plac
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by devonkim 7y ago
High availability Postgres setups are a minimum for a production system and a staging system to understand how your system behaves during a failure event. These failure scenarios should be tested not necessarily on every commit but often en
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by devonkim 7y ago
To be fair, I see this in the US as well and IMO the problem is that we have many generations of managers that have learned about management based upon 20th century manufacturing and military (the biggest and best studies in management come
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by devonkim 7y ago
It’s done around the world, I don’t understand? Koreans use the German word for work arbeit for a part time job, for example while using handphone and sometimes say a Konglish term that uses hand in Korean and English phone. I believe Hong
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by devonkim 7y ago
Oh, not saying that’s how it should be. My current situation is such that infrastructure is the majority of the production issues and we’ll call developers on the rare occasion something serious happens relating to their code. Our platform
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Most software engineers simply hate being on call and the software being developed can be pretty mundane unless you’re working on cloud native tooling perhaps. It is a rather narrow area of software engineering honestly, but IME software en
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I was in Atlanta for a few years afterward (not my choice honestly) and wound up back in a much better situation and same location than I started before my move to Asheville. It was a humbling experience that I may not have gotten if I had
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by devonkim 7y ago
The stock market is oftentimes regarded as a leading indicator for the broader economy and is why it’s a strong indicator oftentimes. I’m not quite sure if there’s any causal relationship in any way though.
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Newer versions of the x265 encoder for h.265 / HEVC video standard get significant speed-ups. I believe Handbrake was recently updated for it.
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by devonkim 7y ago
This almost seems like a hit piece that’d be written by my rural Appalachia in-laws that cry out in amazement that I don’t get multiple acres and a water supply for a $500k property instead of a studio apartment and believe that everyone ma
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by devonkim 7y ago
In the DC area it’s super duper expensive compared to Philly and has pulled further from it as Philly hasn’t boomed as much. In comparison, Seattle used to be a lot closer to Philly in overall cost of living back in the mid 2000s (still mor
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by devonkim 7y ago
I knew about the Denver area’s potential at the time but the high real estate prices were a problem. Part of my objective was to get years ahead of a big boom and save money before it got too bad, and I managed to do that fine in Asheville.
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by devonkim 7y ago
Optane is at $5k for a 1.5 TB drive while the OP quotes $18k for 1.5 TB of RAM. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-stor... Being able to reach 12 TB+ with something like Optane
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While each node of a server farm of these can be relatively cheap by enterprise budgets, an entire cluster of these machines is not (at $200k+ that’s the budget for an FTE, after all). Which is why I’d want to check if an Optane drive could
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by devonkim 7y ago
I took a pay cut to work remotely in Asheville, NC (about the most remote, stable, infrastructure-enabled city I could find next to Chattanooga, TN) and while the community was great and living costs were much cheaper, this kind of plan was
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Almost all the price-market comparisons from decades ago forget utility value of monetary and the shifting of disposable income for non-essential goods and services. Houses then cost the equivalent today of perhaps $80k as well. A better co
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With cloud options available for both Elasticsearch and Splunk these days difficulty of setup / ease of use may be better evaluated from the client perspective. I’ve setup both ES and Splunk in the past few years and it’s not terribly
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We have accounting records for the Mesopotamian civilization to the extent that Michael Hudson decades ago got a doctorate in economics for his work analyzing the debt ledgers in cuneiform. His work was instrumental for getting Iceland out
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Lockheed has a great deal of their MFA keys compromised because the factory that manufactured them had been breached for a while and nobody had noticed. Supply chain attacks are performed constantly against large, known entities and this ca
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I got a 3900X and the Asus X570 workstation board to make sure I'd be able to support ECC RAM within basically a couple hours after I made that post. My needs are video encoding and virtualization setups needing lots of cores so this m
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Bankruptcy is more correctly letting you get away from obligations to creditors with lesser terms to the creditors than originally agreed because you can no longer pay it back. I think there’s nothing very close to this for technical debt b
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Physically impossible, no, but external GPUs definitely work right now with Intel processors but even they have their limitations related to usability moreso than technical issues. I have one now with a 1080 Ti off of an Intel NUC and not b
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This reminds me of a previous company that paid consulting fees to have their Postgres configuration tuned. When the hardware was upgraded nobody knew to review the memory settings. After a series of production outages we realized that the
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by devonkim 7y ago
Both my comment and the one I responded to specified "At the moment" which is fairly specific and implies that it's subject to change. Of course things will be different in 3+ months and bugs and supply chain issues get irone

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