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841.
by foobiekr 4y ago
The difference is that the corporation can die. Not so government programs.
842.
by foobiekr 4y ago
The difference is the 10,000x slower performance if you move the actual DB transaction leader for the shard to over-the-wire access. Anything can be anywhere if we ignore latency and throughput.
843.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Caches aren't the same. In the shard-in-memory case, the shard is the thing serving the queries, meaning it's not a cache it _is_ the live data.
844.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Hence "the data persistence part."
845.
by foobiekr 4y ago
At one of the companies I’ve worked for the H1b and associated limits was getting significant enough that there were tons off meeting about what to do and so on. At one point a guy was getting pretty heated about it so I asked why we didn’t
846.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Strong agree. there are vast, massive cost savings and performance advantages to be had if the model is that a shard of the dataset is in memory and the data persistence problem is the part that's made external. The only reason we are
847.
by foobiekr 4y ago
I have always assumed this was some nonsense about strategically being distant from other companies in the segment. Cisco for example starts their FY first in August, so kind of random vs the calendar year.
848.
by foobiekr 4y ago
There is zero evidence that crypto acts as a hedge against the dollar. It has basically mostly tracked the dollar denominated stock markets.
849.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Was going to sign up but the lack of transparency about how to cancel is pretty obnoxious.
850.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Unfortunately it seems clear that openai trains gptX on common test questions. They still fail novel ones.
851.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Microsoft dealt with with the too-rich-to-work problem and the founders-and-earlies-lost-interest problems in the 80s and 90s. "FYIFV" (despite being a bit of a tech urban legend) and "Quietly Vesting Disease" (QVD) and
852.
by foobiekr 4y ago
I am curious why you find it cheaper than AWS. Are you sure the application didn't change and was at the same scale? In my experience, GCP and AWS are within a tiny % of each other.
853.
by foobiekr 4y ago
A big issue for Canada is that the government focused on resource extraction.
854.
by foobiekr 4y ago
But never, ever in a taxable account.
855.
by foobiekr 4y ago
And how do you know the signing keys are legitimate? Are they in a hardware root of trust for a high security, completely locked down device that can’t be rooted to sign whatever? Is the CA that endorsed them trustworthy? There is not a tec
856.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Company well known to be unethical with a long history of unethical behavior behaves unethically. The only people surprised, briefly, are the Uber employees who work hard to quickly forget this to justify continuing to work for Uber.
857.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Including forcibly treating people who refuse treatment?
858.
by foobiekr 4y ago
“Well intentioned” does not actually describe the strong IT companies that support actions like this to try and recapture value. European big tech companies like Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia and so on are not fans of open source since it negati
859.
by foobiekr 4y ago
If car sales are so bad why are prices so crazy? I’ve been putting off buying a new car for two+ years and everything is completely insane or impossible to buy.
860.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Most orgs, including mine, also have the experience of a cassandra cluster simply melting down. That was more common ten years ago, but it is pretty much chaos when it happens. If the non-SQL distributed databases, I found FoundationDB to b
861.
by foobiekr 4y ago
The authors could not have even imagined the crazy new innovations in mud balls that microservices would create. And much harder to address.
862.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Agreed. Reading this in 1999 actually explained everything I’d seen and everything I would see. I’ve read a lot of papers but this is the one I see in real life every week for 22 years.
863.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Agreed. My next car will have CarPlay. It’s great.
864.
by foobiekr 4y ago
You should consider that the other manufacturers have demonstrated absolutely no software acument at all. What should be amazing in 2023 is that the SW is total crap in the typical car. It's not that Tesla is good. Tesla's in-car
865.
by foobiekr 4y ago
This isn't really true. IBM/Motorola need to own the failure of POWER and PowerPC and MIPS straight up died on the performance side. Sun continued with Ultrasparc. It wasn't that IA64 killed them, it's that they were get
866.
by foobiekr 4y ago
https://kaitai.io/ Worth a look if you are writing binary parsers.
867.
by foobiekr 4y ago
I realized not long ago that all I really want to do is walk all day maybe listening to audiobooks sometimes. That’s my retirement plan until I get bored with it.
868.
by foobiekr 4y ago
with a lot of hesitation and even regret I agree with this assessment. obviously, it's a matter of degree, but competence means paying customers because their output is externally visible and incompetence - nice or not - doesn't.
869.
by foobiekr 4y ago
No, it really is the quality. The issue is entirely the massive pool of unqualified engineers. The single biggest issue most US companies have is they try and hire in India the way they hire in the US. The smart companies actually "hi
870.
by foobiekr 4y ago
At one point, the company I was working for, had the errata for a high performance embedded CPU from a startup. The errata alone - printed as a manual - was bigger than the entire Intel manual stack for the dual core chip we were dealing wi

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