ghshephard

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by ghshephard 1y ago
About 20 years ago I was working in IT, and I was responsible for the physical build out (from a shell) of 599 North Mathilda, Sunnyvale - The foundations and outer walls/roof were up - but nothing inside. I had responsibility (working
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by ghshephard 1y ago
If you are comfortable with making a commit 1-3 year commit - you can get 27-50% discounts at pretty much any spend I think. https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/
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by ghshephard 1y ago
There are a ton of different discount options - large customers typically get between 50-60% discount based on committed spending, and AWS is pretty flexible around how that commit lands (they will allow roll overs even if they say they won
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by ghshephard 1y ago
I'm intrigued. I've been using virtualenv in numerous companies for about 8 years, traditionally wrapped in virtualenvwrappers, and now in uv. UV doesn't change any of that for me - it just wraps virtualenv and pip downlo
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by ghshephard 1y ago
Nowadays most cloud customers jam their racks full of absolutely vanilla (brand is mostly irrelevant) 128 vCores / 64 physical cores, 512 GByte servers for ~$18k - w/100 GBit NICs. That Sun 4500, maxed out (with 10 Gbit/Nic
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by ghshephard 1y ago
They bury/obscure a quite important detail in this article: | We were still running on the older Intel Xeon E5 processors, ... | Moving to the more modern Xeon Scalable processors showed major performance gains for our server applicat
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by ghshephard 1y ago
Antonio Meucci invented the Teletrofono around 1849 and filed a patent for it in 1871. I know this mostly because it was a big deal in a Soprano's episode.
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by ghshephard 1y ago
uv is venv + insanely fast pip. I’ve used it every day for 5+ months and I still stare in amazement every time I use it. It’s probably the most joy I’ve ever gotten out of technology.
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by ghshephard 1y ago
There are roughly 20-25 major IaaS providers in the world that should have close to dependency on each other. I'm almost certain that cloud flare believe that was their posture, and that the action items coming out of this post mort
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by ghshephard 2y ago
I think you would be quite shocked to discover how many millions (10s of millions?) of nodes at hyperscalers and adjuncts are configured with Chef. > For the stragglers not yet primarily on Kubernetes and Terraform In my experience - yo
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by ghshephard 2y ago
o3 mini wasn't so much a most advanced model, as it was incredibly affordable for the IQ it was presenting at the time. Sometimes it's about efficiency and not being on the frontier.
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by ghshephard 2y ago
I read the letter and it looked like pretty much the first negotiating position of any lawyer. Regardless of what you think, convince the opposition that you are prepared to litigate to the end of time.
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by ghshephard 2y ago
I haven't heard that definition of "Regulatory Capture" before. I mostly thought it was just when the regulators are working for industry instead of the people. That is, the regulators have been "Captured." Th
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by ghshephard 2y ago
I don't get why there would be any risk of polluting the local community. Just create a second-landfill, properly lined - in exactly the same way thousands of landfills each year are created near to the first one - then just run
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by ghshephard 2y ago
Even better - and I kid you not - the first notice I had that my door no longer accepted my key was when I came home one night and there was a new digital lock on the door. It was late, and thankfully I was able to find some details in my
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by ghshephard 2y ago
The new thing in Corporate controlled apartments is they have your apartment fully set up with remote telemetry, which also means they have WiFi Hotspots installed in all units. From there, they track things like the hot water tank, water
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by ghshephard 2y ago
Passkeys aren't susceptible to phishing. 2FA TOTP is. Also -your seed/token can be trivially stolen from a password manager. Getting the passkey private key somewhat more challenging.
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by ghshephard 2y ago
In all fairness regarding his comment about Netscape - anyone who invested in Netscape at the IPO (and certainly before the IPO) at $2.9B - made a ton of money on the Internet. On the last day of trading, after the AOL exit 4 years it w
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by ghshephard 2y ago
I apologize - the point I was trying to make and failed, was that there were no (able bodied) grown adults working those jobs like Mcdonalds 30 years ago. These are entry-level jobs that require no prior experience and no job skills, an
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by ghshephard 2y ago
WSL2 + Ubuntu. It's either MacOS or Windows in BigCorp with all the Okta/Crowdstrike/... stuff they require - and I like the apt-get convenience. Most of my time is in Tmux anyways. Over the last 15 years the client side
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by ghshephard 2y ago
> Good, a job that cannot support biological needs should not exist. There was a time in the not so distant past, that close to 100% of those "Minimum Wage" jobs were held by teenagers and youths with close to zero market value
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by ghshephard 2y ago
Plus 1 on this - I've probably had direct responsibility for managing fleets of roughly 50,000 linux hosts - never seen an immutable distro. We usually just burn a fresh image of whatever mainline ubuntu is offering every week or two
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by ghshephard 2y ago
I vividly recall in the late 80s, sinking a huge chunk of my total net worth at the time (just out of high school) into dBASE IV. I had made tons of money doing small consulting jobs on dBase III+ - knew it inside and out, and was looking
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by ghshephard 2y ago
Not bad - < 20 minute outage. Good work. Will be interesting to hear what happened. This is one of those services that honest-to-goodness needs a heck ton of 9s
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by ghshephard 2y ago
... And it's back.
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by ghshephard 2y ago
Lot of stuff hosed. CDN issue? https://downdetector.com/
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by ghshephard 2y ago
Definitely hosed. https://downdetector.com/status/okta/
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by ghshephard 2y ago
If you do a lot of work in an area that o1 is strong in - $200/month effectively rounds down to $0 - and a single good answer at the right time could justify that entire $200 in a single go.
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by ghshephard 2y ago
That would explain improving performance, but I don't actually understand how that would improve efficiency. Particularly at the high end where they quote 6.74 Gflops/W .
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by ghshephard 2y ago
Trust me very much not for cough drops. (The thing is - when doing expense reports - it usually was pretty random which line-item you grabbed for some things - there were two or three categories that might make sense. Not so with that m

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