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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Any financial mechanism that can move money across national boarders while evading regulatory requirements like "know your customer" seem useful for criminal activity. That's the case even if it was not a design goal. It&#x27
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Or something like Neal Stephenson's novel "Fall". [0] It's a fun story but you can feel there's a lot more to uploading yourself to the cloud than the book can cover. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
EKS and GKE are good products. We run a competing platform for ClickHouse on AWS and made the same decision as ClickHouse Inc 3 years ago and for very similar reasons. Kubernetes requires investment to run well, especially if you aspire to
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
That's amazing airmanship in an amazing aircraft. The first C-130 flew in 1954. They are still in service today, almost 70 years later. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-130_Hercules
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Was just coming here to post the same link. Definitely a "hold my beer" moment.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> This sentence specifically, is not true. If your EC2 instances are in the same VPC but different AZs the data transfer is still free. Your assertion is not true. We run intra-VPC services across AZs and they are billed for network traf
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Intra-region markup just isn't that much anyway. It's typically $0.01 per GB across AZs. [0] If you ingest 1 TB of data (a lot of data) into a MySQL instance and replicate it to a replica in another AZ, that will run you $10.24
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Nice summary. The lack of profitability in database companies that have IPOed in the last decade is striking. This article highlights the challenges that MongoDB has in growing Atlas revenue. In fact, the analysis feels optimistic--cloud us
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Your interpretation correct. It made me really mad, and I didn't write clearly. My comment was definitely below average for HN.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Have you lost enthusiasm for programming and learning after ChatGPT? Quite the contrary. ChatGPT may or may not be useful, but it demonstrates that AI will be an intellectually stimulating topic for decades to come. One of my kids is
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
You can still see the ash layer from the soon-to-be-Crater Lake eruption hundreds of miles away on hillsides and in gullies. [0] It's as much as 8 inches thick in the Okanogan in Washington State. That's 400+ miles away. [0] http
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Readers who bought electronic versions of the writer’s books, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before the controversial updates have discovered their copies have now been changed. I like HN because we make an effo
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Oh? How successful do you think the US constitutional mechanism has really been in protecting free speech? And by "free speech" here, I mean exactly the broader sense, not constrained by a narrow constitutionalist view. Overa
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This is a fair point but any discussion of free speech should be grounded with examples of systems that help maintain it, of which the US constitutional regime is one. Not all such regimes have worked, as the French Revolution demonstrated
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Leaving aside HN loving the idea of Big Tech being weakened by becoming Relatively Small Tech, I don’t see how this is in Alphabet’s or YouTube’s interest. What might instead generate more value is to spin out Google Workspaces (aka do
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
That description has been around for a while. Here is one of many examples: https://web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/ThePlan.htm
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Same here. I remember vi commands as finger movements on the keyboard. Example formatting a block of text is !}fmt but I can't remember it except as a sequence of key presses. It was hard even to get the actual sequence of characters
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I'm insatiably interested in most technology but learned vi and vim commands largely through typos.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Bertrand Russell is great. He's an outstanding philosopher in his own right and thus equipped to be a great interpreter of others. If you tire of that there are always his tart opinions on philosophers like Nietzche.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's really good. The most interesting part for me is toward the end where the article adduces evidence that Tessier-Lavigne rather than simply retracting instead wrote later papers that swept the earlier conclusions under the rug. The
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Mendacracy does have a funny feel because there's an "a" where my brain wants to see an "o" instead. Most of the Greek prefixes had an "o" e.g., aristos. Can anyone think of a counter-example?
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> The bug was identified quickly in part because some flight crews noticed the weights didn’t seem right and asked for manual validation of the figures. Actually there were such guardrails, so the system had multiple manual checks built
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's safe bet that one of the major side effects of AI technology is to oppress defenseless workers in large enterprises. In part this is an unintended consequence. Reading between the lines of the article it's clear that the ente
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This type of judgment call by a single person has also helped avoid nuclear war on at least two documented occasions. [0,1] Again, food for thought. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar... [
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Does this mean machine translation is no longer permitted? I would guess that's by far the predominant form of AI-generated content on the net today.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
That was an impressively quick call based on ability to reason about unexpected behavior of the system. It should give pause to anyone who wants to take the human out of the loop in safety critical software.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
My company has operated a cloud for three years that now manages hundreds of ClickHouse clusters on Kubernetes. We use the Altinity Kubernetes Operator for ClickHouse, aka "clickhouse operator," which we wrote and maintain. I was
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I don't live in Austin but for me the town died a little when the Armadillo World Headquarters closed. [0] I hitchhiked from Michigan on college spring break to visit. The Police were playing that night. It fully lived up to the legen
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This was a very thoughtful article. Thanks for posting.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> The worst part of this is that everyone at GitHub is now forced to use Microsoft Teams. On the plus side it means that some people will welcome a layoff with severance.

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