donavanm

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by donavanm 2y ago
Interesting. It sounds like “all” service state management (admin config, infra, topology) is discoverable/legible for meta. I think that contrasts with AWS where there is a strong DevTools org, but many services and integrations are
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by donavanm 2y ago
Im really interested in the implied restriction/focus on “code changes.” IME a very very large number of impacting incidents arent strictly tied to “a” code change, if any at all. It _feels_ like theres an implied solution to tying run
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by donavanm 2y ago
> They all seem to have some weird genesis as data transfer gateways (looks like a local network share, but really sends data back to S3 or some other cloud store), and they all seem to have weird compromises… Yes, but Id say they _shoul
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by donavanm 2y ago
> Apple, like all the other cloud companies does not delete anything. This is patently false. Ive literally, personally, implemented safeties and mechanisms to responsibly remove customer content multiple times. Ive worked for both Apple
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by donavanm 2y ago
I cant speak to content recommendations; I worked on the “backend” infrastructure storing bytes and delivering bits. But in that realm yes absolutely. Any CDNs #1 job is to route an end user request to a nearby (or otherwise optimal) datace
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by donavanm 2y ago
Yes, i was referring to “live only” and not VOD/“low latency hls” cases. This is a decade ago but my examples off hand are things like video game, game shows, and contests. Was definitely a category, infrastructure looked a lot closer
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by donavanm 2y ago
Live has a _huge_ advantage in the storage side. In a purely "live" sense all of the content is temporally synchronised; every viewer is requesting approximately the same segments at the same time. Store the current chunks, and th
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by donavanm 2y ago
I believe the source of the charges was this incident https://collective.flashbots.net/t/post-mortem-april-3rd-202...
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by donavanm 2y ago
Im not making the connections the top comment is. Her SPQR books are nice alternative history from a real historian. At a guess the parent comment is referring to some cultural aspects based on earlier roman and not our current judeo-christ
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by donavanm 2y ago
Heres a similar example, apparently a french cannon used as bollard on the south bank. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/F...
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by donavanm 2y ago
As another semi-obscure “spy” series check out the british production _The Sandbaggers_. Very lecarre-esque story that reflected the inanity and stakes of the cold war, written by a RN officer.
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by donavanm 2y ago
> Unless they have private Apple silicon based servers for their own training needs? Id be SHOCKED if so. Its been 15 years, but I was there when xserve died. Priorities were iphone > other mobile devices >>> laptops > dis
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by donavanm 2y ago
Encoding should also depend on the user. Base 32 (crockford & rfc 4648) has a nice unambiguous alphabet for compact representation and explanation of why. However if your users are speaking aloud you might want a word list representatio
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by donavanm 2y ago
Its the same thing as “flying standby.” The gate agent will issue boarding passes during or shortly after everyone else hasboarded based on remaining non revenue (“dead head”) seats being available.
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by donavanm 3y ago
Im in Sydney as well. I suspect the immediate effect of rates shook out in Q2/Q3 last year when there was a big dip. Since Q4 inner west-ish prices are up another 10% for properties Im tracking. Clearance rates are still around 70%, th
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by donavanm 3y ago
Has Silver Oak changed much in the past 20 years? It’s been a long while since Ive lived in CA, or really been “in to” wine. But I do recall quite liking silver oak as a “go to” cabernet circa 2000-05, alongside compatriots like jordan, rid
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by donavanm 3y ago
Yes. PEX is a specific type, and general term for, modern polyethylene supply tubing. Both materials and labor costs are around half of residential copper. Unless you have a really specific reason new plumbing is going to be PEX supply and
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by donavanm 3y ago
A “fun fact” for another Australian. As of this month at least one if the big four is doing serviceability assessments based on the PAYG gross income. WRT your other foreign income/asset comments its much less nefarious. The local ba
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by donavanm 3y ago
David mentioned it but SQS `MessageGroupId` can get you really far on fair-ish work from the queue. Its effectively a virtual partition key for the queue. Set your customer id, resource id, etc as the MessageGroupId and use that to do the w
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by donavanm 3y ago
This is very uninteresting and way behind the big cloud vendors high density installs. Theyre just saying “when power/cooling limited use a form factor that optimizes your remaining constraints, like RU.” So yes, 2p & 3p edge sites
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by donavanm 3y ago
huge +1. I havent worked in the encoding/delivery/CDN space for a few years but BAM was great. They aren't "pulling an HBO" as far as I can tell; they skipped the painful build your own platform from scratch learnin
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by donavanm 3y ago
The OP is confusing things a bit by conflating "yield to maturity" with "interest rate." Yield to maturity is the total return for the bond holder if they hold until it matures. That includes market/auction price,
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by donavanm 3y ago
Hey Max & Thibault, interesting approach. It seems like you're going for after a specific feature and (unintentionally?) pulling in some product areas that are very hard businesses. I believe youre reusing existing saas and framewo
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by donavanm 3y ago
My partner is a biologist, finishing up a bio/chem phd specifically on detecting nano/microplastics in situ and their genomic effects. From my exposure to her work everything there is marketing speak. BPA is just one plasticizer t
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by donavanm 3y ago
PA Semi was 2008 or so, and Intrinsity in 2009-10. In both cases they came with (more or less) working products, an existing relationship, and coherent engineering teams with an active development pipeline. Its fair to say the intel modem f
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by donavanm 3y ago
I cant comment on individual teams or the business and accounting practices of Amazon. I would ABSOLUTELY say that, at a minimum, every director or principal engineer needs to be familiar with costs and _should_ understand their P&L. Se
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by donavanm 3y ago
I appreciate the inversion/melding of the data model and compute. Im curious to know your perspective on two parts: How would multitenancy fit in to rama? Using your mastodon example, providing “hosted mastodon instances as a service”
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by donavanm 3y ago
I apologize up front if I completely misunderstand your intent. However ... > Amazon (the product) really only has sellers, buyers, and products, with maybe a couple more behind the scene for logistics. Is a comically bad hot take that i
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by donavanm 3y ago
You get similar properties/challenges in lots of multi consumer storage scenarios. I learned lots of similar lessons working on CDNs when it comes to object distribution and access rates. If youre interested go search for some of the p
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by donavanm 3y ago
I think youre slightly underestimating the prevalence of fixed term loans. While 30 years is most common to the US and nordics there are lot in the 5-10 year range globally. I vaguely recall something like 30-50% of loans being this type of

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