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by donavanm 3y ago
> I wish I could still easily buy real borosillicate glassware. You can, in NA and ANZ at least. Last I looked “lock & lock” storage containers were still borosillicate instead of soda lime. ISTR that there are a few other similar an
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by donavanm 3y ago
For context the largest tech companies in the world spend in the range of $5-20M on lobbying each year. So these crypto cos spending $1-3M is either very high or in line with expectations, depending on your perspective. For AMZN, my employe
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by donavanm 3y ago
Theyre not set “in” concrete. The rails are still connected to the sleeper/tie via a fixing plate/spring/shoe, allowing horizontal movement between them. There are still gaps with the concrete bed for that thermal expansion a
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A huge amount of flavor comes feom the different esters, which are associated with different yests and techniques https://winning-homebrew.com/esters-in-beer.html
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by donavanm 3y ago
I have some experience with previous AWS IAM policy language and evaluation, but not cedar directly. Some context that might help: C2a: think of the use case around a centralized policy & identity store with lots of independent services
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Im not in the US, but here in Australia this would smell of “trading insolvent” and is a short path to piercing the veil/personal liability, fines, and prohibitions against serving as directors or officers for everyone involved.
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by donavanm 3y ago
See also Tia Blake for a younger lady who popped up, did a fantastic album, then more less disappeared after a couple one off appearances. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tia_Blake
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by donavanm 3y ago
In english its a near homophone (sounds the same as) “I helped apple recognize speech.” Its a joke about working on language recognition and still getting it wrong.
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by donavanm 4y ago
Im a principal at AWS. Ive worked across similar org sizes in the past. If we were having coffee Id ask who you report to, as org charts matter to perception. Why your input isnt (apparently) valued for business & technical strategy. Wh
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by donavanm 4y ago
I havent followed it recently myself, but immediately after undergrad its a 18-24 month “post study” visa. Then either a grad program or sponsored work visa. And at that point you should have the 3 yrs in australia to qualify for PR. ISTR t
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by donavanm 4y ago
Yes. My partner is doing a phd at USYD and teaches undergrad chem & biology. A personal friend is a professor there. Every class has a very sizeable number of foreign students on a spectrum of dont-care-why-should-I to cant-follow-the-b
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by donavanm 4y ago
Very similar interface to S3 multi part uploads and (IIRC) google cloud storages equivalent. Relatively easy to put that composition & resumption logic on the client side.
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by donavanm 4y ago
I always saw it being close to 7:3 with non recurring hardware cost to mrc facilities & power on 3 year depreciation for major markets. That said all of the big cloud providers SHOULD have a structural advantage on all of those dimensi
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by donavanm 4y ago
Once deposited it’s no longer your money. The bank has a liability to you equal to the deposited amount, but you have no more control of those (virtual) dollars. That’s an asset for you, but this action is not your “investment.”
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by donavanm 4y ago
Citation needed. Explain how calmain “mostly owns” the US egg industry. According to the usda there are on the order of 325m laying hens in the us. calmain says they had about 45m laying hens last year. Please explain how that is the majori
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by donavanm 4y ago
The feds “dual mandate” is "maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." There’s too much employment at the moment, imperiling price stability and forcing their hand on interest rates. Inflation expe
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by donavanm 4y ago
As others have mentioned your question doesn’t cleanly map to what a “cdn” really is these days. The minimal requirements for even the most basic content distribution cache or NS setup is pretty significant in time and capex. In my experien
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by donavanm 4y ago
Huh. Ok, I admit I’m a bit surprised by the counter example but fair enough. My experience was more competing with them for the big dollar “enterprise” accounts I described.
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by donavanm 4y ago
> the whole reason [existing users] went to Linode was to avoid incumbents. Sounds like you just identified a tranche of customers Akamai doesn’t care about. As everyone else in the comments is pointing out Akamai doesn’t want your $1
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by donavanm 4y ago
>the goal is to ... drive some improvement. One aspect that I like to emphasise is the systemic or second order aspect. Yes, doing a retro/rca/post mortem/coe to prevent reoccurance of the same problem is good. Better is t
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by donavanm 4y ago
Re: TLS you dont require private keys on every L1. You can proxy session setup to smaller & more restricted fleet holding the certs. Pass back the negotiated session. IIRC there are public proposals/examples of this. Youll probably
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by donavanm 4y ago
I spent a couple years in CDN & DNS land. Every meaningful CDN I know of is bespoke, but they all take very similar approaches to common problems. There are good publications and papers from fastly and facebook circa 2012 to 2016 at eve
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by donavanm 4y ago
Some “fun” reading from austrac and friends https://www.austrac.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-07/sa-br... “Shockingly” real estate agents and solicitors arent covered by AML/KYC here. I believe th
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by donavanm 4y ago
AFAIK only existing iCloud users on apple OS devices can use private relay. Apple doesn't need/care about the content of your session (it's routed through 3Ps). But what they can do is drop support for your icloud account, wh
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by donavanm 4y ago
At certain points its not “useful”, but mandatory to simply keep functioning. Even small failure and change rates are untenable as device and port counts increase to Very Large numbers. How do you maintain millions of devices? Think on the
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by donavanm 4y ago
As an fyi here in AU there are a handful of chicken facsimiles based on pea protein. Theyre “ok” to cook with, but tend to be a bit dry and lacking in binding agents in my experience. Not quite as good as the wheat gluten and soy products y
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by donavanm 4y ago
Nah. Its mostly in the article header points. Many/most airlines preserved status, rolled over qualifying miles/trips, and were quite good with retaining certificates etc the past three years. I kept my delta diamond status even t
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by donavanm 4y ago
Exactly this. Eliminating variable modes and especially additional work or slower paths during a state change like a failure. Another classic is debug logs. Turning on additional logging when your system is under stress is a great way to
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by donavanm 4y ago
Just use their list of "assets" to illustrate your point. In descending order from the back-of-the-envelope balance sheet of doom: SRM $2,187M "other ventures" $1,475M GDA $1,150M SOL $981M MAPS $616M FTT $553M Anthropi
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by donavanm 4y ago
> How do you do that if you're managing a team of 5? Law of large numbers at higher org levels, not individual teams. No one is hitting a specific 5% or 20% on a single team. Even at a sr manager scope with 25-50 people it's no

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