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by gregw2 1y ago
Don't IRS Form 990s (for nonprofits) contain an address? Where GoFundMe could proactively send a check upon receiving a donation rather than keeping it until contacted? (Answer: yes) So GoFundMe uses info from the public accountabilit
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by gregw2 1y ago
Ah, but have they verified how far down the turtles go, and has that changed since they verified it? In the mid-2000s most of the conference call traffic started leaving copper T1s and going onto fiber and/or SIP switches managed by Le
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by gregw2 1y ago
100%
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by gregw2 1y ago
Interestingly, it was "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition" when it first appeared in print back towards the end of World War 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_slang_terms#F... Not to be confused
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by gregw2 1y ago
Thanks for the links and call out on the PCBs! Regarding components, it's not like they are making chips in the same plant as a laptop plant in China either, are they? I guess the question is which components function or cost benefit t
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by gregw2 1y ago
Musk apparently stood up a brand new raw to finished goods manufacturing for Starlink kits in 2-3 years in America/Texas. Non trivial, but doable in niches at least, per a factory engineer: "The main function of this site is to pr
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by gregw2 1y ago
Interesting. It makes sense with Fivetran and dbt being so complimentary, ingestion (Fivetran) vs transformation (DBT). But I still feel like I'm missing, in DBT, capabilities for DB DDL/DML deployment (which I've done from L
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by gregw2 1y ago
The same thing ("it's legal because there's no law saying AI isn't allowed to copy"... happened with search engines and the web when they took over from human curated lists of links. They made copies of websites en
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by gregw2 1y ago
> Most companies like recurring costs compared to capital expenditures. Actually big companies prefer capex to opex and cloud pushed them in the opposite direction of what they'd naturally prefer. But the other advantages you cite
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by gregw2 1y ago
re: "Nobody gets paid to do that" There should be at least some large-company corporate incentive to measure "Bugs vs features"; the former is OpEx and the latter is CapEx, right? (I've been at places where Finance
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by gregw2 1y ago
Salesforce... working hard to become the SaaS-era equivalent of mid-90s "Computer Associates" (CA) ... (Regarding acquisitions of Heroic, Sendgrid, Slack, Tableau, Mulesoft, and most recently Informatica...) For those less-famili
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by gregw2 1y ago
One odd thing about OSCP is that it requires you to use port 80. This sometimes collides with enterprise security policies that you should "never use port 80" (always 443).
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Cool to see you tackle this problem. If I were you though, I'd consider if I'd get more traction with an open source extension of Iceberg format that supports row based reporting and indexes for a unified open source HTAP ecosyste
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by gregw2 1y ago
Political allegiances aside, the naming of the Department of Defense started to rankle me in the bureaucratic posturing after 9/11. I appreciate the Posse Comitatus Act, "the best defense is a good offense", and the rename in
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by gregw2 1y ago
I'm not sure how you implement this such that it couldn't quickly be worked around.
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by gregw2 1y ago
This was very thoughtful essay; I've had similar lines of thinking myself. How will we debug auto-generated AI code? That said, on that topic, the essay overlooks one key point and line of reasoning about debugging, one derived from K
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by gregw2 1y ago
Note that there are "Puffin files" associated with Iceberg which have some overlap with this functionality: https://iceberg.apache.org/puffin-spec/#file-structure
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Why move the data? Why not just enable permissions on cloud sharing a la Snowflake or iceberg?
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I'll bite. The "Computer Associates" of today is... Salesforce. Have they really improved Tableau, Heroku, Mulesoft, Sendgrid, Slack, now Informatica?
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This. https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/Reportonthe...
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ERCOT and the legislature didn't take their regulatory recommendations and responsibilities seriously enough after the 2011 report told them what needed to be done: https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files&#x2
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by gregw2 1y ago
Nice writeup on the different type of NATs. I learned something, thank you! One feedback; I would use a different word ("wrangling"?) rather than "mangling" in your title. Or mention IPv6. The title use of "mangling
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by gregw2 1y ago
To qualify for R&D tax breaks, IIRC having identified qualifying work for a segment of my firm, there must be elements of hypothesis, experimentation, results, etc that I would consider more science-y 'Research' than just turn
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by gregw2 1y ago
My speculative take is that this was not a surprise to the US military and they have been red teaming this sort of thing for years. Remember the strange civilian reported drones near bases, in the US last year (and in prior years?) Drills&#
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by gregw2 1y ago
It's only a Canadian LLM if you ask it what its favorite food is and it says "poutine".
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If you think memes are art too and we lack shared consumption of art due to personalization, you clearly don't have kids into YouTube or Minecraft or Frozen, or ...
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If streaming is 5x as expensive as batch, that might be a factor worth considering.
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There is a very simple but often missed pair of solutions to this REST+sync-state problem. 1) When fetching data from the source (to appear on your web form that someone will edit), ensure that you always also fetch a "version number&q
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Didn't Bell rule out the determinism of "hidden variables"?
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Perhaps I was foolish. I appreciate your point in hindsight. Having setup websites on Linux and on S3 in past work, both years ago, I somehow thought AWS would be easier.... After dealing with trying to avoid using more expensive AWS Amplif

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