erulabs

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by erulabs 1y ago
Been an SRE and DBA for almost 20 years and the only truth in tech I firmly believe in: use whatever you want in a new project. Build fast and get it out. Once you have paying users, hire old dads like me to move you to Cassandra or Vites
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by erulabs 1y ago
Sort of wild that a small improvement to relay log processing could almost certainly offset one’s entire lifetime of carbon. I mean, I’m genuinely happier with a tiny latency reduction but it’s still wild the scale at which MySQL operates.
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by erulabs 1y ago
Laws are laws and their age has no bearing nor does it make them irrelevant. The constitution is “from 200 years ago” too.
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by erulabs 1y ago
> Finally, achieving the goal of a smaller trade deficit will likely be painful While true, this is economics in a bottle. A world war would also "likely be painful", and one would require factories on-shore and a devalued curr
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by erulabs 1y ago
You're going a bit far with "no longer worth anything" but indeed, if the entire world holds a particular nation-state's currency, and uses it to exchange goods and pay down debts, then it gives that nation-state tremend
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by erulabs 1y ago
dog - fur = Aegean civilization (22%) huh
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by erulabs 1y ago
These perverse incentives run at the heart of almost all Developer Software as a Service tooling. Using someone else's hosted model incentivizes increasing token usage, but it's nothing special about AI. Consider Database-as-a-ser
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by erulabs 1y ago
a 1% chance of making a billion dollars is worth 1 million dollars.
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by erulabs 1y ago
Software engineers, I love yall. To see the light at the end of the tunnel. To see some glorious perfect paradigm that maybe could be. I envy you. I grew up in a datacenter. Leaky air conditioners and diesel generators. Open the big doors i
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by erulabs 1y ago
Any projected intercept for earth yet? Feels like it might be quite beautiful on reentry assuming you’re in the right (but not TOO right) spot.
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by erulabs 1y ago
Yes but it's worth understanding the executive branch (which according to this administration includes all federal agencies), in its constitutional form, is more or less just an extension of the president. Conceptually they all &quot
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by erulabs 2y ago
Swapping an enterprise’s cloud provider is at least a 6 month endeavor and that would be with all hands on deck, I estimate two years at least and that’s still with significant tail wind. While things are crazy, best bet is to hold tight
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by erulabs 2y ago
It really depends on the task. If you have 1 massive job, Ray sucks and doesn't provide table stakes. If you have 50M tiny jobs, Ray and kuberay is great and serves as the backbone of several billion dollar products. Good for the goose
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by erulabs 2y ago
Ghost kitchens instead of community gathering places. 100 year old bar space used to stack outgoing uber-eats orders instead of for people to meet and chat. More plastic waste used on packaging. Fewer home-cooked meals. More time spent in f
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by erulabs 2y ago
The fact that sitting in at a nice cozy almost 100 year old bar and talking to your neighbors does not entice you is the problem I'm attempting to fix with a little good ol' fashion social shaming.
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by erulabs 2y ago
My favorite ~75 year old BBQ place here in Pasadena has half the bar (where you'd sit and eat and socialize if you were eating alone) reserved to give space for all the take-out orders and uber-eats pickups flowing through. I see singl
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by erulabs 2y ago
It took me awhile to realize but the intro song is also a game you can play with your kids. They're basically doing musical chairs. Then like you mentioned virtually every episode is a non-screen-time game you can play with your kids.
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by erulabs 2y ago
Tailscale also allows you to issue valid TLS certificates (`tailscale cert`), which is crazy useful for certain local development tasks, EG developing SSO for a mobile application where the SSO provider mandates TLS and the mobile devices d
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by erulabs 2y ago
at what point does short term thinking "for decades" become, you know, long term thinking?
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by erulabs 2y ago
Finally a scaling wall? This is apparently (based on pricing) using about an order of magnitude more compute, and is only maybe 10% more intelligent. Ideally DeepSeeks optimizations help bring the costs way down, but do any AI researchers w
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by erulabs 2y ago
You sort of have to use both. OCR and LLM and then correlate the two results. They are bad at very different things, but a subsequent call to a 2nd LLM to pair together the results does improve quality significantly, plus you get both docum
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by erulabs 2y ago
Yes, but if you think some vast swath of voters should be able to participate in the election of representatives, you're ditching the democratic part.
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by erulabs 2y ago
Shopify runs on AWS so if Amazon is trying to take control of all online shopping they sure are awful at doing so. They actively enable some huge number of non-amazon online retailers to exist.
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by erulabs 2y ago
"democracy is sacred and there is no higher value" and "people who vote poorly shouldnt be allowed to vote" are said so often, and so closely together, that I think people just actively lie to themselves about what demo
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by erulabs 2y ago
It seems odd to me, abstracting a bit from society as is, that architecture isn’t the main occupation of nation-state level entities. It’s like the single most important defining feature of the cities and yet totally under explored. Anywa
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by erulabs 2y ago
The more I learn about Kepler the more I believe that he alone advanced humanity several decades or possibly centuries. His incredible drive to prove his own theory, and then his ability to put that theory down and to match one to the evide
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by erulabs 2y ago
Ultimately someone has root permissions. Re: federal agencies, in the United States, that someone is clearly, constitutionally, the President. Article II of the constitution vests all power of the executive in the person of the President. T
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by erulabs 2y ago
That would be a noticeable difference!
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by erulabs 2y ago
Heh yeah to be clear I'm not saying the consequences won't be catastrophic. I'm saying that the gambit does have a success criteria: If we nuke half the federal government and there are no noticeable differences, then the p
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by erulabs 2y ago
The flip side is that if dismantling a federal agency doesn’t break anything, and doesn’t cause near universal outrage, perhaps the federal agency can/should be dismantled at least temporarily? Obviously a dangerous game to play, but

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