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by gopalv 5y ago
The infra was on-prem, so it was planned in advance and ops folks who had on-call rotations every day etc & that was rented out by the hour to the game teams (a chargeback model). The salaries and hardware cost was paid for even if the
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by gopalv 5y ago
In 2012, I was working on a migration from EC2 to on-prem & was working on infrastructure building for zCloud. The cost factor was huge, the switch out of EC2 literally paid for itself in a lot of ways. The work was very interesting, be
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by gopalv 5y ago
> the human body has defense in depth The complement system[1] is somewhat of an amazing look at how inanimate parts of our immune system are like little circuits and circuit breakers in chain reactions, completely triggered at random (
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by gopalv 5y ago
> Sacramento doesn't get talked about in tech circles and sites like this and related articles, because it's not supposed to be the "next sexy tech town", but in reality is a lot of people have moved here since the pa
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by gopalv 5y ago
> can actually drop fuel consumption by 70%, every passenger and cargo jet in the country will look like that in no time. That is true if it had an actual reduction in total fuel spend over the journey. This promises a ~70% reduction in
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by gopalv 5y ago
This is a great list of things which you do use a lot as you get into a job, but not at all when doing class work. Version control is the most common thing I have to teach interns in general & that too remote version control usage - par
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by gopalv 5y ago
> People often say, if you think you can colonize mars, colonize the Gobi Desert first, as it is 10,000 times easier. If we're talking about population living on earth, that argument makes sense - from a population pressure standpoi
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by gopalv 5y ago
> more susceptible to attacks from national governments The attacks don't need to be on the currency, it can be on the privacy. The ledger is like a giant warrantless paper-trail of who paid whom. As a side-note, how would I reject
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by gopalv 5y ago
> This was probably used as a pretext in a power struggle. The article has a specific quote which would indicate there's some disconnect between the average board and this ceo. >> He believed that he and the company were too f
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by gopalv 5y ago
> can someone smarter/more educated than me explain to me why practically I would prefer this over a computational solution? Practical effects always feel better over computational ones - in terms of feedback. Which is weird to say
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> People who think being alone is great are right, I think the critical part is the "only thing" in the quote. The same thought expressed as "she makes me happy" and "she's the only thing that makes me happy
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by gopalv 5y ago
About 17 years ago, I had to solve the same problem, but since I used regexes, I had two problems at the end of it - memory usage and performance. /* RFC2396 : Appendix B As described in Section 4.3, the generic UR
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by gopalv 5y ago
> On top of that, doctors here have created a craze for remdesivir, resulting in a blackmarket for it. So this was shared by someone who claims to be an ICU doctor in Delhi - the prescriptions are not being written because they are medic
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by gopalv 5y ago
> why I feel so much healthier when I'm fasting regularly. Considering this is Ramadan and fasting is pretty much on-topic, I notice a big difference between the religious fasts and the self-regulated ones. The ramadan fasting witho
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Most people are not under a risk, it has 99% survival rate In my circle, there's a friend who has lost his sense of taste and is immensely depressed about losing the ability to tell the difference between steak and spam. He can st
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by gopalv 6y ago
> if we’re very, very lucky and tales of a glorious civilization somehow persist that long — who put it there. I just finished reading "Motel of the Mysteries" [1] and the Treasures section of that talks about the sacred seal o
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by gopalv 6y ago
> people like me are creating a lot of value, please acknowledge it. Also there are no downsides to this accumulation of wealth That is an overstatement of the article, but the article is actually defending the rise in inequality as a na
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by gopalv 6y ago
> the WHERE syntax is clearly presented as the main way of inner joining tables. As someone who debugs a lot of SQL, I prefer the ON clause for one major reason - it is easy to notice it if it is missing. So there was a customer who had
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by gopalv 6y ago
> How has this backfired, I'm curious? .. > I'm imagining that the future-you's fail to seamlessly slot-in, and management types don't have an appetite for broken eggs on the way to an omelette, when they already h
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by gopalv 6y ago
> I'm basically in a job that is quite important for my org, I get compliments for good job, but I hate most aspects of my daily work There's a class of "crystallized intelligence" jobs which are about what happened b
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by gopalv 6y ago
As someone with a weird sibilant that doesn't seem to compress well, I want to say that it goes across as "sɪkɪks" and I got used to saying "double six" on the phone. So I would say "seven nine double six"
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by gopalv 6y ago
> We see Tesla struggle with this, But, Toyota and Honda have this down to a science like no other manufacturer A lot of us overestimate what can be done in a year, underestimate what can be done in five and can't even guess what ca
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by gopalv 6y ago
> I'm a former infantryman and ... let's just say I'm _extremely_ skeptical of this kind of technology The question is how integral can you make this, without retraining everyone for it. For this to be successful there nee
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by gopalv 6y ago
Most interesting think about this ETF is that it has possible positive exposure to an eventual SpaceX IPO. When SpaceX does go IPO, I'm sure Ms. Wood will be first in line to pick up some to roll into this ETF - so I think of this like
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Can multiplexing be disabled via `sshd_config` The multiplexing you can disable on the server-side is a different multiplexing, but also another useful ssh feature. If you have a workload that involves sort of firing off many commands
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Now my relationships with coworkers can feel more transactional. That is not just about personal relationships, that applies to work effectiveness as well. There were hundreds of conversations over a month I had, which came from someon
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by gopalv 6y ago
As a summary, switched from scala → java, ant → make, removed GWT, Lucene, Hibernate, Velocity, Tomcat etc. This needs a (2012) on it, but it looks like that got hugged to death already [1]. [1] - https://web.archive.org/web
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Say I'm doing a drawing/game app and creating a few hundred heap objects a second that need to get garbage collected. Was literally my job ten years ago to optimize this and I was struggling with a GC'd language with a p
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by gopalv 6y ago
Reading this code almost makes me want to think about how differently I review Java than C or C++. ch = ++index < strlen ? str.charAt(index) : 0; If I saw that code scattered across in some java code, I would immediately be like -
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by gopalv 6y ago
> Some are pushed into management because they’re the most competent IC on the team. So Plato's Republic describes how this comes about since ancient times, I wrote something a bit more detailed[1] about it. But here's the TL;D

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