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by harrall 1y ago
I might have given blink-182 as an extreme example but $80 for tickets is still selling for a lot more than the $7 cash at the door that I paid when I saw them in a tiny skate shop 10 years ago. Many bands don’t make it all of course, but I
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by harrall 1y ago
Most of my concert tickets are still priced around $40 inclusive, after taxes and fees, and from the likes of LiveNation, Etix, DICE, AXS, and so on. All my friends that complain about the rising cost of concerts tickets don’t realize that
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by harrall 1y ago
I know friends in a similar boat. Ultimately you can get very far if you are naturally talented technically and socially. But if you are normal like most of us, you are lacking in one or more areas and going to school (or attending conferen
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by harrall 1y ago
I used to write a ton of SQL and I could write a query for anything you asked for, no matter how incompatible the schema was to your request. My first step was to look at the data using the UI. Then when I tested my queries, I also just ran
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by harrall 1y ago
I don’t know about her but when I found what I really actually liked, I looked forward it every day, no matter what challenge it gave me. And it’s still the same excitement every day 5, 10, etc. years later. I suppose I’m saying is that whe
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by harrall 1y ago
Using a UI to explore data is like looking at the picture instead of someone describing the picture with words.
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by harrall 1y ago
SQL Server is technically very, very good. But they charge you an arm and a leg for the pleasure, but it can be worthwhile for enterprise.
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by harrall 1y ago
I once did an international camping and backpacking trip like this where we had everything down to a minute. The key is to check your watch after you complete any activity. For example, you read that a 1000ft climb hike takes 2 hours and yo
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by harrall 1y ago
Most of the the heap dump will be filled with stuff like java.util.String!blahjava.util.ArrayList! Though the heap dump would have messages in flight at the time. It's obviously not as useful if you are just trying to grab messages for
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by harrall 1y ago
But usually when I buy something, (e.g. someone to change my oil), it’s so I don’t have to think about it anymore. To me, that is not “buying love.” I buy so I don’t have to do any work.
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by harrall 1y ago
IMO ecosystem, tooling and support is what makes a language mainstream. Having a domain is something that comes afterwards. e.g. * Ruby had Rails * PHP had mod_php and a strong Apache-oriented community * Java had strong support from Sun *
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by harrall 1y ago
While that is true, you also end up learning foundational concepts which are frequently common between fields. You get a major head start when learning. For example, when learning electrical engineering, you might be forced to get good at v
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by harrall 1y ago
It was something to do with consumer releases (e.g. product launches) so we had to handle extremely sudden bursts in traffic. We leveraged the CDN heavily but I had to drill down and dive deep into the specifics of our CDN and our stack. On
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by harrall 1y ago
Read your CDN docs very carefully on how it processes requests. Make sure that your CDN does request coalescing. At my previous job, I became responsible for handling >350,000 requests/second and I dug so deep.
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by harrall 1y ago
In every transit-heavy city that I have been to, you have both an extensive highway system AND an extensive public transit network. But on the Internet, people are either BAN CARS or BLOCK TRANSIT. In reality, I want both.
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by harrall 1y ago
People buy at the frontier because they can afford the housing there, even at the severe loss of amenities. Especially if the next 20+ years of their life is going to be driving their kids to sports games anyway.
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by harrall 1y ago
Yet I see tradesmen who have started their own contacting businesses and poorly paid software engineers who somehow just make Wordpress themes. At the end of the day, people need to discover themselves and find what they excel at. Who am I
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by harrall 1y ago
Setting up telemetry is really easy if you’ve done it before and it’s a learning opportunity if you haven’t. I have Dockerfiles from 10 years ago for Grafana and a time-series DB so basically you learn it once and you can bang out basic tel
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by harrall 1y ago
To support your point, I live in the complete opposite of a food desert but I know a lot of people who don’t know how to cook… like not really. “Cooking” to them going to Trader’s Joes and buying one of those frozen packs. If I gave them a
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by harrall 1y ago
You're asking for something that is supported in X.509 but OpenSSH wrote their own certificate exchange standard that does not have support for those features. HTTPS uses X.509. OpenSSH has no interest in supporting X.509 or, AFAIK, fo
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by harrall 1y ago
My Prusa Mk3 had perfect prints too and now I have a Bambu P1S. I got a budget printer in 2017 and that’s when I learned that tinkering was not for me.
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There’s also some self-selection here. If you go to another place and someone lets you stay with them, they are probably in a good place in life. You are selecting yourself to meet with happier people. You won’t be making as many friends wi
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by harrall 1y ago
I swear 70% of my value at work is pointing out details like this during meetings when no one else will… before we build it.
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It’s cool that I kind of knew where each letter was going to be. I actually liked typing on the YouTube app on the PS4 controller. Wasn’t super fast but was one of the fastest typing on the controller for me. I find one limitation of typing
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Yeah but people will put 40 lines of code on a slide and read through it, expecting that it will explain the underlying concept while I’m trying to parse a ton of code in front of my eyes. Most of the time that I am presenting technical mat
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by harrall 1y ago
Can someone explain to me how I read it wrong? I read it as 2 cousins are in an accident and 1 of the cousins is the son of the surgeon. What was the contradictory statement that I missed?
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by harrall 2y ago
I like to re-try everything a new way occasionally even if I've been doing it one way for 20 years.
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Screens can't often do full brightness on the whole screen so if you come across a video or image that is supposed to have a higher contrast ratio, the system will darken everything and then brighten up the pixels that are supposed to
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by harrall 2y ago
Google invented the technology. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need OpenAI was the copycat. If Google had patented this technique, OpenAI wouldn’t have existed.
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I notice people tend to argue about X when it's actually a proxy argument for Y, but they don't know themselves that it's Y. Y is a legitimate concern or fear, but X may not be. But everyone wastes each other's time argu

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