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by finnh 2y ago
Yes, I've been throttled many times by S3. My largest database is ingesting ~5PB/day and that turns into a lot of files in S3. At one point we changed our S3 key scheme to not have hashes up front, which unlocked some simplicity
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by finnh 2y ago
This has happened to me so many times. Especially in the distributed database I work on ... "hmm maybe I need to let the experiment run for longer, this data is noisy so it probably needs more time to show a trend line".
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by finnh 2y ago
(may have been autocorrect, but just fyi "pseudocode")
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by finnh 2y ago
What's weird is my pediatrician here in Seattle uses kg for my ~10 year old kids' weights but inches for their heights. Why the kg? They always translate to pounds for discussion, but the record is in kg. It was always pounds an
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by finnh 2y ago
A Memory Called Empire was so good! Seems like nobody has heard of it.
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by finnh 2y ago
Definitely don't read the most recent one, Translation Space. It's some very bad "I like you but I don't know how to say it!" YA-vein tropes and the climactic scene is, essentially, people walking around a circular
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by finnh 2y ago
Not a beaver, but close: an otter wreaked repeat havoc in the Sun Yat-sen botanical garden in Vancouver, eating many valuable koi: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-godf-otter-part...
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by finnh 2y ago
https://gaming.kinesis-ergo.com/product/freestyle-edge/
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by finnh 2y ago
Zappos founder Tony Hsieh was addicted to nitrous. It sounded real bad! He ended up dying in a house fire while locked in a basement, in a situation that had "bizarre suicide" written all over it. I've certainly enjoyed a huf
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by finnh 2y ago
I don't disagree about any of this, but it's also true that pill mills were a very real part of the early trajectory of the opioid crisis.
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by finnh 2y ago
He will earn ten million merits in no time!
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by finnh 2y ago
Opioid epidemic disagrees that only the rich can get shady Rx written.
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by finnh 2y ago
JFK's sister Rosemary was lobotomized. Because her dad was an asshole, basically.
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by finnh 2y ago
love the writing in this "In physics, there's a word for 14 orders of magnitude of attenuation. It's called zero, i.e., you will measure nothing." Lots of great sentences in here as noted in the other comments.
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by finnh 2y ago
I'm glad you couldn't tell! It's basically tongue in cheek, as the question is silly to begin with. And of course eggs predate chicken, eggs are seriously old technology. Back to the tongue in cheek: there is something easily
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by finnh 2y ago
Also I think by definition a chicken is a bird that hatches from an egg (among other defining characteristics). So th egg must have come first, as a chicken-like creature that didn't come from an egg wouldn't be a chicken.
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by finnh 2y ago
I welcome the day when the US stops devoting enormous amounts of useful real estate to bank branches. They are a sad simulacrum of actual street life, taking up tons of space to advertise a bank and contributing to high rents that preclude
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by finnh 2y ago
Thanks for explaining something I've never understood. I still think it is silly, tho - it makes sense only if each driver always wants vents pointing at the same place. my preferences change by season, by day, by hour, so needing to
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by finnh 2y ago
I agree in that I don't think explaining a write off is a problem, per se. But I do see Amazon taking a long term view of their real estate investment and saying "OK we have it in our power to make this payoff" which dynamic
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by finnh 2y ago
I think it explains some of Amazon's choices, as they made multibillion dollar bets on office space and real estate in Seattle.
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by finnh 2y ago
200 dollars for an MRI with no referring reason is inexpensive for sure. Where is that?
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by finnh 2y ago
From my own adventures in colocation, i came to conclude that data centers are Narnia, in the worst possible way: you enter to perform what feels like 30 minutes worth of work, and somehow 8 hours pass before you see the outside world again
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by finnh 2y ago
this seems to come up often on HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41547946
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by finnh 2y ago
"gorse multiplier" wins today's "best transcription error" award, IMO category: edit-distance-two
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by finnh 2y ago
One step closer to the tunnel-mapping drones in Prometheus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-eduvo904
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by finnh 2y ago
The quoted section is about net revenue, which in this article means total revenue minus the payouts to creators. In other worse, revenue minus COGS. It's a valid comparison.
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by finnh 2y ago
wow! That was honestly even worse than you made it out to be.
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by finnh 2y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Excellent book, a thought-provoking read for sure
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by finnh 2y ago
We cut a french drain into a below-grade room a few years ago. I was definitely happy to pay someone else to do it - cutting the concrete alone was a nasty piece of work and only the start of the job. Plus the unexpected footing running ben
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by finnh 2y ago
That gum you like is coming back in style.

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