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by gen220 3y ago
Has anybody here taken this category of drug, lost significant weight, and kept it off after dropping the drug? I've seen great success stories, but I'm kind of nervous of the long-term effects of taking a drug like this for your
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by gen220 3y ago
I guess the issue is that programmers work with a really big context window, and need to reason at multiple levels of abstraction depending on the problem. A great idea to solve a problem at one level of abstraction / context might be
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by gen220 3y ago
> If these tools help to write more code, but do not assist with maintainance, I wonder if we're going to see masses of new code written really quickly, and then everything grinds to a halt, because no one has an intimate understand
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by gen220 3y ago
I think if we fixed the housing crisis and wage suppression, requiring nominal purchases wouldn't be such a significant barrier. Nominal fees are like congestion pricing. If you don't have them, the space loses its ability to fulf
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by gen220 3y ago
Right, but they were serving content that wasn't from R2 as far as I understand from that thread. Not trying to say they that justifies their treatment, only that it doesn't apply to my use case. They were also seeing ~30TB of d
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by gen220 3y ago
I don’t believe anybody on a paid plan has been suspended for using R2 behind the CDN? (I’ve seen the stories you’re alluding to. IIRC the cached files weren’t on R2) In their docs they explicitly state it as an attractive feature to levera
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by gen220 3y ago
That'd be welcome, I'm not really doing it to make money. But reality is a bit more complicated than that. Migrating data + pointers to that data, en masse, isn't super easy (although things like Sippy make it easier). In add
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by gen220 3y ago
It's a loan to the Uber at t=x, issued by Uber at t=y+x. The interest on the loan is legal fees and penalties. When the value of the money at t=x is greater than the predicted cost of interest, and you aren't bound by ethical scru
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by gen220 3y ago
I think it all depends on the volume of data you're storing, access requirements, and how much value you plan to generate per GB. It's certainly quite cheap for a set of typical "requirements" for media hosting companies
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by gen220 3y ago
I'm building a "media hosting site". Based on somewhat reasonable forecasts of egress demand vs total volume stored, using R2 means I'll be able to charge a low take rate that should (in theory) give me a good counterpos
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by gen220 3y ago
I think you've perhaps misread my post? It's marginal revenue attributable to a high-performing SRE (i.e. an SRE who would be able to elevate a product they're supporting from 90.0% availability to 99.0% availability. It&#x
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by gen220 3y ago
> Other tasks that SRE typically does now, generalized automation, provide dev tools and improve dev experience, is being moved to "platform" and teams with those names. I expect it to change significantly. Yeah, this is my exp
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by gen220 3y ago
I imagine the threshold is something like 1 SRE for every $1mm of high-margin revenue you can link to guaranteeing the 2nd "9" of $product availability/reliability.
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by gen220 3y ago
This is human tradition, especially urban tradition. To raise the elevation of the city, and reuse the prior construction as the foundation and basement of the next. The old town in Naples has a section that is contoured in a half-circle ar
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by gen220 3y ago
Just for reference, converting to USD $150k be in the top 6-7% of earners in the U.S. in 2022. Taxation rates vary widely. I budget for ⅓ off the top, living in NYC (this is an overestimate, but common practice) for a post-tax income of $10
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by gen220 3y ago
Any speculation on how big a deal this is for the prospects of Cruise as a competitor in the AV space? As far as I can tell, they were open in 4 metro areas (SF, Austin, Houston, Phoenix). So this is their original testing zone, and 1 out o
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by gen220 3y ago
This is exactly why the "microservices" pattern is usually adopted along with the "monorepo" pattern. IMO, it's a strong anti-pattern to have the former without the latter.
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by gen220 3y ago
I've worked at a place that architected 100s of microservices pretty well, in a similar way that Uber apparently does. Q1: (perf) these tools exist, the buzzword phrase is "distributed tracing". The relationships are actually
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by gen220 3y ago
You’re doing the right thing, but you need to speak their language. In Agile speak, that’s a 3 point spike ticket, for which the deliverable is a detailed set of requirements and deliverables with estimates with considered trade-offs. It’s
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by gen220 3y ago
Just to pile on, I think that adopting bitemporal schemas is the solution. There are various schemes you can employ to keep "archived" data within postgres (e.g. offloading it to another instance accessible behind a FDW). I&#x27
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by gen220 3y ago
Are centralized identity/auth vendors the Adobe Flash of B2B software? Less tongue in cheek, does anybody have a recommendation for a reputable centralized identity/auth provider? Like Mullvad is to VPNs as <> is to OAuth?
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by gen220 3y ago
`mypy` originally had first-mover advantage, `pyright` has late-mover advantage. Now that we're in the mid-to-late stage of Python typecheckers, `pyright` has a better intercept and slope than `mypy`. I think there'll be one last
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by gen220 3y ago
These pages are naturally out of date from the moment they're written. Caveats aside, I use pyright, ruff and black (although ruff will probably one day consume `black`, entirely) – that's it. `ruff` centralizes a lot of the linte
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by gen220 3y ago
Quoting Charlie Munger: > Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. Unfortunately for the original spirit of the internet that they've cashed in on over and over in the previous 25 years, I can't imagine a more Mar
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by gen220 3y ago
HFT is a dance in the shadows of the most highly-regulated practices in history (securities exchanges), I don't think it's a good example of "pure" markets being immune to monopolies. Each of those regulations is a tombs
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by gen220 3y ago
OK, I’ve been cooking this idea for a while, curious to get others thoughts. What if we applied a nominal real estate tax, but applied a differential rate to real estate that’s used for rent seeking? i.e. if you rented your property for N&#
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by gen220 3y ago
> I think about each of the employees impacted by the company's reckless behavior. The "reckless behavior" in the above quote was not committed by the acquirer, but by whoever was responsible for leading + growing Bandcamp
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by gen220 3y ago
C suite types prefer to have a single portal for “all the things” and naïvely assume the price premium they’re paying for AWS is evenly distributed across all their products. It’s also a common assumption AWS is the best in each category. A
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by gen220 3y ago
I think it depends on what you count as "survival". Group 1's long-term success/survival is contingent on timely exits and timely access to future funding, which historically (i.e. during all times + places, except 2008-
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by gen220 3y ago
Some persons are extraordinarily good at discovering big+solvable problems, and at continuously convincing other people that it’s worth burning themselves out in pursuit of it. I think it’s worth pointing out that some projects are worth

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