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by dexwiz 3y ago
Multiple tiers of redundancy. There is usually redundancy within the AZ and then a following copy in another AZ. Usually at least four copies exist for a tenant.
572.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Thought I was getting an article, instead got a teaser and shameless self promotion. Sounds like SBF knew how to attract similar people.
573.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Oh yeah I think I was looking at the other building also.
574.
by dexwiz 3y ago
There are a few towers in Houston, LA, and SF that are taller.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
.NET/CLR has F# and the JVM has Clojure. Both are languages that tends towards FP, but compile to the same intermediate as their OO counterparts. In fact both VMs have a plethora of languages to chose from. You seem to be confusing VMs
576.
by dexwiz 3y ago
I love that a key point is that this drives inflation, instead of crazy inflation forcing people to look for higher paying jobs. /s
577.
by dexwiz 3y ago
That logic doesn’t quite follow because even if overall population is higher, high density living situations are not new. I imagine the inside of a long house in the early evening would have been filled with animal, child, and work sounds.
578.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Appalachia has fires every summer now. They aren’t quite on the level of west coast or Canada, but they still are there.
579.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Except EVE really isn’t interstellar. I can instantly see market data for anywhere and move a hauler across the galaxy in a day.
580.
by dexwiz 3y ago
It sends emails from one server to another, a spammer will find a way to abuse it. A spammer could create a bunch of val's for each of their spam recipients.
581.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Sounds like a fun idea until every ESP blocks you because a bad actor used this to spam people.
582.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Sounds like great advice when working on the bleeding edge, but kinda terrible for general use. If you are constantly undermining your own self confidence in routine tasks be prepared for a depressive episode.
583.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Many Salesforce employees are Siebel alums.
584.
by dexwiz 3y ago
I don’t usually experience motion sickness from webpages, but this gave me a massive headache. Lots of moving pieces at different speeds made my stomach turn.
585.
by dexwiz 3y ago
This is not true. The browser will only repaint when the event loop is empty. A bunch of synchronous DOM updates will result in one rerender.
586.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Yeah I don’t get how anything in a data center can be called edge.
587.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Are you referring to a Cooper pair?
588.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Or maybe heavy metal poisoning. Chemistry can be dangerous.
589.
by dexwiz 3y ago
I feel like one lead would envelope a codebase with these, and the next would strip them all out.
590.
by dexwiz 3y ago
> I have never been sure if HN is invested in commenting on SF real estate because they disproportionately live here, or because they live elsewhere and get a warped news feed that has an interest in portraying SF in a negative light. Wh
591.
by dexwiz 3y ago
For comparison, it looks like it was hovering around 6 million square feet before the pandemic, or ~4.5 Salesforce Towers. I wonder how much of the still occupied space is functionally empty now, or only used a few times a week.
592.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Yeah, very very edge of millennials are under 30, but most are over. My goal post for American Millennials is if they remember 9/11.
593.
by dexwiz 3y ago
By extorting companies to improve their score by removing bad reviews or promoting good ones.
594.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Good luck testing low gravity jumps on earth. If it falls down, literally nothing can help it. Also the pipeline for space tech is decades long.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
The liability for a company when an employee intervenes in theft is too high. It’s much easier to let your employees stand by the wayside and replace the item. Most big box stores will punish employees who try to get involved. You gotta rep
596.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Definitely, all the self driving car companies have been driving around SF for years gathering data. I think Waymo even advertised it “got to know the neighborhood and peoples routines” as part of training.
597.
by dexwiz 3y ago
We are in the midsts of the Third Opium War, we just don't call it that yet.
598.
by dexwiz 3y ago
Look into something Copilot. It can really help with the blank white page problem when getting started on new projects.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
What’s stops the nuclear industry from then requiring even higher quality? Can you get another magnitude of safety? There will always be a window for quality, and nuclear will always be at the top along with other high budget projects.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Author's experience with ChatGPT as a coworker mirrors my own with Copilot. It definitely helps with the white page problem when doing green field work. Its really great at generating config since there are so many examples. Its pretty

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