devonkim

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by devonkim 2y ago
I don’t really see the software ecosystem catching up that quickly is the thing. Sure, we have some support for hardware like Google’s TPUs and Coral but the field’s practitioners and researchers are oftentimes so behind the curve of genera
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by devonkim 2y ago
Xtreme marketing was absolutely going on back then - remember the Mountain Dew ad campaigns? Yeah....
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by devonkim 3y ago
Any long-lasting solution requiring continuous investments is going to require more impact on the people side than the technical side. Hiring maybe one or two technical wizard asshats at a company may work for a bit but can’t scale in that
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by devonkim 3y ago
Also read something casually that (I am suspecting probably falsified but a new one at least) that plastics were found in a lot of cardiovascular deposits following autopsies.
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by devonkim 3y ago
A lot of the point of the experiments is specifically to provide for evidence that critics tend to have about what poor people do with money. Because a great, great many people basically believe (falsely) that poverty is essentially a choic
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by devonkim 3y ago
FWIW, Kreator, Scorpions, Destruction, Sodom, and basically every other German metal band probably have better English than most native speaker groups for the past 40+ years. Americans in particular seem to do quite poorly at speaking other
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by devonkim 3y ago
Maybe I’m a bit misguided but talking to sales and marketing folks historically marketing is like sales at scale.
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by devonkim 3y ago
Sports teams may be a very poor example because they’re similar to movie stars - the workers are _also_ the sales folks in those labor markets. Not a lot of engineers have the kind of influence to bring entire swaths of investment and inter
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by devonkim 3y ago
One thing I found a bit unsettling about some products is how manufacturers can say they support a standard when they’re really using it as a basis for a proprietary lock-in strategy. I didn’t realize the standards were so loose until I sta
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by devonkim 3y ago
Given that single use plastic bags are rather difficult to get recycled in so many metro areas (I remember reading a single digit percentage of it is even recyclable) it’s not clear if it going into the trash instead of recycling is not a h
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by devonkim 3y ago
I’m going to go on a limb and say that a fetus will be counted under interstate commerce jurisdiction of the US Constitution so there will be a federal law level decision on whether abortion is illegal or not if one doesn’t exist already. B
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by devonkim 3y ago
What I was looking at was a different manufacturer’s product which talks about how they use vegetable oil which seems intriguing. I’m going to use the espresso wax / stain and see how it turns out with different numbers of coats https
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by devonkim 3y ago
Hardwax oils are also used but oftentimes have quite bad VOCs. However, I’m familiar with at least one manufacturer that has low/no VOC oils which certainly shows it’s possible but perhaps there’s a good technical explanation for why V
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by devonkim 3y ago
I’ll never forget the time a network engineer escalated a ticket of his to me on the infrastructure side (think L4+ support) that a developer threw his way saying that his web pages were loading really slowly and that this was a high priori
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by devonkim 3y ago
I don’t understand how front end devs can get so far without learning how to use the developer tool console now standard in every major browser. How can one not learn about a POST vs GET when things like request caching and back button comp
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by devonkim 3y ago
Sounds like an argument for Starlark perhaps?
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by devonkim 3y ago
Except much of the alt media ecosystem of grifters and influencers are precisely providing people what they want to hear and raise massive amounts of money doing so. They oftentimes do not think they’re grifters because they feel they are r
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by devonkim 3y ago
That kind of rhetorical mental gymnastics is quite often what happens when we debate people that have a vested interested against a commonly held and supportable belief. The problem I see is that skepticism and contrarianism are commonly co
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by devonkim 3y ago
Last I remember as of at least 7 years ago Google et al were using custom NIC firmware to avoid having the kernel get involved in general (I think they managed to do a lot of Maglev directly on the NICs) because latency is so dang important
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by devonkim 3y ago
From what I’ve heard of and used myself LINQ works pretty well as an embedded DSL because it’s more like a language extension with some solid semantics rather than a classic embedded DSL that is not terribly far from transpilers
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by devonkim 3y ago
And at this point I’m starting to see that for long term health reasons there is basically nobody except those with specific injuries that should be sitting for hours at a desk. I used to get some back and neck pain on occasion and now that
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by devonkim 3y ago
Software ecosystems like libraries and frameworks have completely different propagation and remediation mechanics compared to federated systems like core Internet backbone routers and switches is the thing. Try as we might conceptualize oth
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by devonkim 3y ago
I’m having some nightmare flashbacks to the “plugin” ecosystems of various PHP CMSes including WordPress
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by devonkim 3y ago
In Python the comma acts as a tuple creation operator inside parentheses with no other context like function invocation. Also, last I remember in JS a trailing comma meant the creation of an extra array element that’s null so I became condi
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by devonkim 3y ago
The actual staffing of DCs is rather sparse for hyperscalers and are typically outsourced if not prime DCs to a few companies that also do it with fairly low headcount. Hyperscalers in particular currently can’t scale out very easily necess
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by devonkim 3y ago
The point of short sessions last I saw is not necessarily for technical reasons but for helping with legal reasons. That is, it means to lawyers that an authorized user could not have performed actions outside of a certain time window. This
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by devonkim 3y ago
If there's a lot of thankless, mundane work for the majority of projects that seems rather routine from what I've seen described thus far across multiple decades, so this seems quite ripe for some form of automation sans projects
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by devonkim 3y ago
The most appropriate group of folks may be those that already maintain software for the OSS community. The skillset more resembles trades where time and experience matters substantially more than any intrinsic talent or overall intellect to
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by devonkim 3y ago
Isn't this what part of the point of cryptographically signed artifacts such as via GPG is for anyway? Historically Linux package managers explicitly avoided using TLS / SSL for distributing binaries over networks because they wan
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by devonkim 3y ago
I am really confused by the communication thread and am interpreting that the toddler is somehow in charge of running the infrastructure as a joke. Yet I can’t see it as either a joke or serious. I’m a native English speaker but sometimes I

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