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by erulabs 4y ago
You’re not wrong but… “I refute it thus” kicks big pile of old books “it remains for us to live as though it were not so” is a wonderful line.
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by erulabs 4y ago
I mean, I understand the engineer part of me that says hey, it's a widely used public API, don't shut it down all at once you dick. But there is another part of me that wonders if all these folks who say "I have 100k tweets a
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by erulabs 4y ago
I’ve been chastised before for suggesting “there is no humanitarian crisis” when engineers (like myself) are laid off. A strange “I deserve to be employed like this” vein, which is natural, but wrong.
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by erulabs 4y ago
A vast distance between “Can do” and “would be cost effective to do”, I think, although I’d be curious what the numbers look like versus other storage systems. The article immediately mentions it would create jobs - so my bet is on “not eve
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by erulabs 4y ago
Probably an array of primary key id INTs which are allowed to bypass some check function. Add Alamedas account ID, gg.
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by erulabs 4y ago
Or the implication that the middlemen keeping the prices high is somehow a good thing?
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by erulabs 4y ago
The lack of references combined with the “I was arrested for pointless virtue signaling protest” lead in doesn't make for the effective argument the author thinks it does.
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by erulabs 4y ago
I've chatted with a few folks who have spent their entire lives working in climate science while being employed by the oil industry. They're some of the most moderate, intelligent, considered people I've ever talked to. And m
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by erulabs 4y ago
Well said. "I don't know how to play in your fantasy world, since you have not developed it very well" is perfect, consider the saying stolen!
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by erulabs 4y ago
Additionally, and this premise is somewhat debatable, the people there didn't think they were installing a dictator. They thought they were protecting democracy somehow. Insane, mistaken, stupid, laughable.. Lots of words better de
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by erulabs 4y ago
I can’t be alone in being peeved at the misuse of “far right”. AFAIK no one on the right in modern US politics is espousing monarchy or totalitarianism (or at least they think they’re against totalitarianism). Obviously these terms are rela
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by erulabs 4y ago
Hah, exactly. It's not that you can't accomplish all the same things as k8s with your own bash scripts - it's that k8s exists to replace all your custom bash scripts !
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by erulabs 4y ago
Aside from the allegations: good. Carta is one of those apps that is so unusable and broken and somehow valuable it leaves me bewildered and depressed. Not aside from the allegations: whoa, gross.
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by erulabs 4y ago
They're a hosted version of Vitess, which is sharded MySQL (and more), which is generally a pain in the butt to implement / gets built in-house at major tech companies over and over. Planetscale is doing for Vitess what Fastly doe
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by erulabs 4y ago
Awesome work! I'm loving planetscale for lighting a new fire under the butt of MySQL again. Have been demoing Vitess (Planetscale's underlying software) and have only positive things to say so far - the Kubernetes operator is wond
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by erulabs 4y ago
If you want to take the next step past docker-compose, I strongly recommend Skaffold instead of moving backwards to supervisord.
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by erulabs 4y ago
> Nothing can make nothing Is the implication that technology (like blockchain and digital currencies) and financial operations (like brokerages and exchanges) can create no legitimate wealth? Because I might humbly suggest this forum, w
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by erulabs 4y ago
Hope is everything. The ability to sell yourself a story about future success determines a huge portion of the human personality. If you stand in San Antonio, Texas, surrounded by shuttered shopping malls and half-built-and-now-abandoned pr
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by erulabs 4y ago
> Sealioning refers to the disingenuous action by a commenter of making an ostensible effort to engage in sincere and serious civil debate, usually by asking persistent questions of the other commenter. Never heard sealioning before, &qu
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by erulabs 4y ago
Is there a name for that field of study? I was reading about taking newly discovered comet orbit timings and correlating them to thousand-year-old Chinese astrology documents - fascinating. The entire idea of relating myths to geological&#x
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by erulabs 4y ago
You're not wrong, but I doubt very many people who think the Illuminati exist are Catholics. One can be a Christian without being a Catholic - and it only adds to the self-reenforcing narrative: If Christianity was taken over by a shad
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by erulabs 4y ago
Somewhat related, but amusing: "Ask Siri" includes a ~1/6000 chance of "Siri, flip me a coin" returning "The coin landed on its edge!"
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by erulabs 4y ago
Ostensibly, to support candidates they think will have a positive impact on society. Naive maybe, but it is a possibility at least that people donate honestly to support causes they think are good.
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by erulabs 4y ago
That’s the cynical take, sure. But you must acknowledge there is a non cynical take. I’m so inclined to believe this is influence buying until I see that presented as the only possibility .
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by erulabs 4y ago
Regardless of if congresspeople were or were not “acting on behalf of FTX”, I find this style of argument absolutely counter productive. I know nothing of Company or Congressman. Congressman does something that benefits Company. Implication
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by erulabs 4y ago
I disagree strongly, and I currently run an infrastructure team. Things break because of changes to the system. Assuming the entire infrastructure team wasn't fired, it should be dramatically easier to keep the service online assumin
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by erulabs 4y ago
I think people miss the point with the "tell me what code you've written in the last 6 months" task. The idea is hopefully not to qualitatively quantify anyones work - the idea is to find folks who have nothing whatsoever t
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by erulabs 4y ago
Retool was in my YC batch and the founders were very smart and driven - impressive product and insane growth. As a founder, very impressed. On the other hand, as an engineer, Retool depresses me immensely. Tech debt accumulation is incredib
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by erulabs 4y ago
As a companion to this, I grew up somewhat militantly Atheist (and consumed Dawkins like skittles), and had a very hard time accepting faith in a reasonably way until I read Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan Peterson. I
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by erulabs 4y ago
I’m sorry, maybe I grew up too poor to understand that, but no - believing you have the Midas touch crosses you off the genius list all by itself. The primary lesson of most of humanities literature is to be aware of hubris. Failing lesson

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