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by great_wubwub 3y ago
Once I got laid off via 1:1 call. Once I got laid off via a mass call with HR, they canned my entire department at once (300+ people). Once I got laid off via bulk bcc'd email because I was on vacation and missed the last-minute mass c
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by great_wubwub 3y ago
> just in time manufacturing has the noted weakness of having slack or resilience in the system Did you mean 'having no slack or resilience'? Assuming you did and I understand your point, I disagree with it insofar as it appl
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by great_wubwub 3y ago
It's on YouTube. https://youtu.be/cQP8WApzIQQ And yeah, it's excellent.
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by great_wubwub 3y ago
It would be nice to have a way to submit museums. I'm thinking of https://www.umbrellacovermuseum.org/
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by great_wubwub 3y ago
I don't know about Standard Chartered specifically, but I remember one of the big US banks (I forget which one. JPMC or Goldman Sachs, probably - it was a while ago) telling us that they had more developers than Microsoft. Don't s
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by great_wubwub 3y ago
As someone who knows barely enough to be dangerous, I like this. I'm sure it leaves enough out to make most experts angry, but it makes a lot of sense to me.
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
Huh? What Karpathy are you talking about?
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
LDP gave us BGP-free cores. Don't underestimate how much that changed the game in large networks. BGP converged faster and core routers didn't need to do anywhere near as much. SR is a better way to do that now and LDP/IGP s
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
Yeah, for sure. I'm not saying FRR was always the right answer for all questions, but for a good decade or more it was a pretty solid choice, and particularly with auto-tunnel, it was easy to do. RSVP was far too complex a hammer for j
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
I always broke MPLS-TE into two categories - traffic engineering for bandwidth, and fast reroute (FRR). Bandwidth engineering, like Bruce said, was religion for some people and anathema for others. It saved at least one company from bankru
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
You can already do this with Spectrum ( https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/ ).
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
I haven't done anything with Perl since 4.036 in the late 90s, so I haven't kept up with all the Raku stuff. From that outsider perspective my first reaction to this was "how many languages are they going to turn Perl into?&
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
Yeah. Not everyone who thinks they have a good idea has one, and the way this is structured it's very, very time-consuming to defeat a legitimately bad proposal. It feels a lot like when a conspiracy theorist says "Bildenberg cab
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
IBM pioneered remote work and pulled much the same trick a few years ago, and for the same reasons. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-a-pioneer-of-remote-work-ca...
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
That's an awfully long-winded way to say "go put on a sweater before you turn up the heat".
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
Sure, and you can do BYOIP with cloud providers or CDNs. But then those IPs are trivial to block, and although I've never tried it, I suspect AWS GA isn't set up to constantly rotate IP addresses.
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
I can think of three reasons: 1. ad blockers are still so niche that it's not worth it to them 2. static IP addresses are dead-simple to block in a router or (probably? not a browser coder) in a browser plugin 3. static IP addresse
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by great_wubwub 4y ago
I can't find the option. If I go to the google admin console and click (?) I don't have 'Contact Support' because I don't have an expensive enough Google Workspaces subscription. Is there a way to switch back to l
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by great_wubwub 5y ago
Sure, but I think you have some survivor bias here. How many people turned out some software that they thought people needed but which nobody did? I don't have any examples at hand but it's gotta be a whole lot.
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by great_wubwub 5y ago
"whois jvns.ca This will usually give you the right answer, but it might be an old cached version." Is that really ever a problem? Who changes authoritative nameservers for a domain? This is by far the easiest way and the whole
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by great_wubwub 5y ago
"The main language construct is called a FLWOR expression...an acronym for for, let, where, order by and return." They missed a huge opportunity to call it FLOWR (flow-er as in one who flows, or flower as in the thing that grows).
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by great_wubwub 6y ago
Everybody is talking about clock accuracy and totally missing that devices in the middle of the network path do not care about responding quickly to pings . Middle devices are generally routers or firewalls, and their job is to route and f
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by great_wubwub 6y ago
You really only need the first one.