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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It is not inept. People aren't however pointing out the actual switcheroo here: by the definitions everyone was using just 48 hours ago SVB was not systemically important nor did it post systemic risk. That designation was meant to b
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It's an in extra cost that the government is forcing people to pay against their will, in order to achieve social objectives decided by the government. It's a tax and making banks act as the collectors doesn't change that. I
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Using a narrow/full reserve bank.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Surely the whole point of AWS credits is that you're paying a vendor with them.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Stop carrying water for these people. They didn't say "we don't know", they said clearly that masks won't do anything and even advanced explanations for why that was e.g. people touching their face. This meme that s
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
A non sequitur is a statement that has no connection to the previous statement. The sudden failure of SVB UK is due to the group taking on excessive risk. The person in charge of risk management at SVB UK is therefore highly connected, an
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Downvoted and flagged within minutes. Apparently there are plenty of HN readers who don't want others to know what SVB UK Head of Risk was doing with her time instead of managing risk. At least with SVB USA their head of risk had the d
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Isolated ... or not. Damn this situation moves fast.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
At SVB UK, which is isolated apparently. Not that it reduces the impact of the image ...
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You could argue that ending zirp isn't a normal policy action because zirp itself was totally abnormal and crazy. There's also the issue that svb did these things due to the massive flow of money into tech caused by the lockdowns
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Do you think that would make any impact at all when they'd be looking at a $400M difference in hardware costs? People these days act like you need 5 PhDs to plug in a computer, it's insane.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
None of these are the gotchas cloud people seem to think they are. The answers look like this. Who's going to be on-call: the same people who are on call now. HW failures don't need special on-call people. Who is going to build&#x
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It's not like they want complexity, it's the latter: the "nobody ever got fired for buying AWS" problem. They stated it explicitly. They're terrified of anything counter-cultural or that seems to be going against th
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You speak like clouds never have downtime, or don't charge you for space and power. Look at the article - that one company would needed to have paid more than their entire revenue to AWS for worse hardware . They'd have spent $40
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
So don't buy them, rent them. There are plenty of points on the spectrum between buying your own HW and EC2.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You asked for specific examples of where these metrics matter, the web is clearly a specific example.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You're welcome!
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
But recall that Java was once pushed heavily in the form of applets, where code size and download time are critical. That's why Sun developed pack200.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Um yes, of course can you see cancer. Just search Google Images for tumour to see many disturbing images of cancers. This stuff was taught in high school when I was a kid, how can you not know this? Cancer is so obvious it was being diagno
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That's inherent to any GC algorithm. More CPU time = less RAM usage because garbage is collected more aggressively. I don't understand why you think that JS, a JIT compiled GC'd language, doesn't warm up and doesn't
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Read the other threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088919 "SVB is our bank, I got in touch with a member of the senior team there and got the following message to share. (My own interpretation is I'm c
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Download latency is important in many contexts.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> Node is slower but since it's single threaded they load balance a bunch of servers and in practice it's just as fast when considering the developer productivity This sentence doesn't make any sense. It can't be bo
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Of course there is cold start. Both Node and Deno use JIT compilation just like regular Java, which means they warm up. JS code will use more RAM than Java for equivalent constructs, not less. You may be fooled though, by the way that the
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That's what libraries like Quarkus, Helidon etc are.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Try compiling a program that prints Hello World to the console and see how many bytes it takes in both source and shipped form. JS/TS will indeed win every time in those metrics.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
A good reason to treat researchers with more scepticism. > we should also never trust oncologists, because oncologists only exist if cancer exists. Cancer objectively does exist and we will conclude this even if we ignore oncologists.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Trans women also report that the hormones they take make them act and feel more feminine, so if women are more likely to feel that way given the exact same circumstance as men then you'd see the same results.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It's a country with 20% of the population of the USA. That's not exactly a tiny country. > If the EU or US were proposing such a law, you should take it seriously Judging from a few quick searches, there are more Facebook emp
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That's a novel take. What justifies Win32's claim to greatness in your eyes? Do you mean by the standard of the time, or even today?

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