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by g9yuayon 3y ago
The whole article reads like what I don't like is immoral and what is immoral justifies my action (to a certain degree, at least). So, I really don't understand: why do techies still even go to the city? Just leave it alone and co
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I'm not sure why people find studying fundamentals in school useless. And I don't think ChatGPT is the answer to in-depth learning. My experience is that it is the fundamentals that are the most valuable that a college can give to
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> how do I give more virtualized compute to people without hiring more expert server and networking admins I put these into the bucket of productivity and low cost. And this issue arises when we need to scale our business, in particular
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
It'll be dull if your team has more people than real work. It'll be dull if your team can't articulate what the problem it solves or why it matters. It'll be dull if you are solving a problem that has better solution som
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
IBM Mainframe was an answer when computers couldn't vertical scale fast enough. Cloud is the answer when our systems couldn't horizontally scale fast and reliably enough. So, the real question is: can we really scale our need of c
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I always feel amazed that Euler wrote faster than people could publish or understand his work, even after he became completely blind.
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I don't think it will be effective. The root cause is not PE, but human nature: greed, complacency, myopia, and etc. We can outlaw PE, but Boeing can simply invent another way to maximize their profit at the cost of product quality. It
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
Ken Thompson in the most recent Sharp Tech podcast also talked about the management style of Boeing after their merger with McDonnell Douglas. They mentioned that when Boeing's HQ was still in Chicago, their CEO boasted that the HQ was
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I'd like to add another one: I don't need a separate NodeJS (or whatever engine) service to build my service dashboard. Before NodeJS got popular, backend engineers like me simply put web assets into a folder in my web app, so my
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
A friend of mine works in Boeing as a data scientist. His team has 10 people. Two of them can write code for analytics and models. The other 8 "manage projects", whatever that means. They spend their days creating processes, manag
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
A big concern I have with Tesla is that I have no alternative service providers. When Tesla charges one $2000 to fix a broken gear, the person would have no choice to but to accept it.
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
This reminds me of Dave Sobel's book Longitude, which tells a fascinating story on how John Harrison created the first reliable marine clock. Such stories humble me and make me deeply appreciate the ingenuity of mankind to conquer the
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> For me it's not the bad plot decisions, it's the tone. Every movie has the same "feel" to it. It's a milder version of the "algorithm optimized" tone of eighty percent of YouTube videos. Almost like e
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
Thanks, it should be duel. Updated accordingly. I kinda think that quantitive change in energy output will lead to qualitative change in the form of fighting. In addition, it's hard for me to relate to fist fighting among superheroes.
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
Me too. It's just that I don't want to escape into the world of the villagers in Wakanda, where owners of stealth jet and energy shield fought on rhinos with spears, and a handful of people lived like royalties but I would live li
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> 2023 had a lot of big-budget bombs. Ant-Man, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Transformers, The Flash, Fast X, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Shazam!, and the Marvels all underperformed somewhere on the scale from "disappointment"
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I remember in the hay days of XML, someone made an article that discussed why XML is really just a language of S-expressions. This article seems argue something similar. P.S., S-expression or not, XML-based DSLs are horrible. I don't k
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
A trajectory topic, I find Quora's quality deteriorate over the years. What's bizarre is that the Chinese competitor of Quora, Zhihu, is way better than Quora. Case in point, search "estimate parameter size of transformer mod
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I would assume so too, except that initially De Beers was arguing that natural diamonds were more pure than the lab-made. When lab-made beat every criteria, 3C and whatnot, created by the diamond cartel, the cartel started to argue for impu
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> I, as a European, cannot fathom how anyone would spend a significant amount of money on an engagement ring It's all thanks to more than 100 years of marketing campaign and tight control of supply of diamond by De Beers. People did
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> College will not prepare you for the job My personal experience says that this is a misconception: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/267s49/comment... My college taught me essentials tha
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> the 1 billion row benchmarks are run on a single, uncompressed 50 GB CSV file. 50 GB should be stored in multiple files. For a generic OLAP db, maybe. In this case, though, a single file fits one of DuckDB's use cases: analytics o
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I thought the post is #1 on HN because people here are genuinely interested in the topic and would like to at least examine the paper and discuss the merits of it.
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
Yeah, within AWS. I'm not sure about other parts of Amazon
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> AWS support is so nice, you can't believe it. This reminds me of the fond days of having weekly customers calls. We develop AWS services, and we answer our customer-support calls directly. No middle man. Just techies to techies. A
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> At Amazon, practically every service is built on top of AWS - a proper vote of confidence! Not only this, but practically most, if not all, of the AWS services use DynamoDB, including use cases that are usually not for databases, such
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I owe my thanks to this site too. When my team was designing our hexagonal system for geographical analysis back in Uber, I referred to https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ a lot.
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
My experience back in Netflix too. Elasticsearch (we didn't use the L or K) plus query engine on S3 with a catalog was more versatile and way cheaper than Splunk. Nowadays we get a slew of performant OLAP storages that can be used for
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> If there was any feature that would sway existing Golang developers to switch to Java, it would be this. Not sure about this, but a trajectory question: why does the Go community have so few concurrent containers but Java community do
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
It means they are still courses instead of seminars, and they are not necessarily cutting-edge research materials. Many of the courses are taught to senior undergrads too.

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