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by hvb2 3mo ago
Keep your ops people happy. Help them when you can, it's the fairest way i would say to not have to be on call. It also makes them feel like they're not on their own. You're all on the same team. Not sure if upper management
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by hvb2 3mo ago
> Of course there are massive problems and inequities we're solving, of course! But that's always been the case. Relax. Breathe. Put it in perspective. You're just not someone who has to deal with these problems. Are we so
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by hvb2 3mo ago
Some people are in it for the challenge. Someone else's outage? Yeah I'll happily help diagnose it, analysing and figuring out where the issue is can teach you a lot of things. For the record, this was never at night. Late in the
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by hvb2 3mo ago
> Even if they make it to prod, they won't survive long... I don't think that's an acceptable way to treat your users. If something is trivial to prevent, do it.
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by hvb2 3mo ago
> but being fueled by massively excessive taxes in the USA Not excessive taxes, a political choice to spend a lot of the revenue on defense. And anyone who wants to reduce military spending will get asked: "Don't you support ou
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by hvb2 3mo ago
Why would those fixes not be batched up? So fix 20% of those and do one round of testing?
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by hvb2 3mo ago
> In general I'm not a big fan of unit test on simple websites, they do not give any real value compared to effort And then your site gets more traction, features are added, things are refactored. And now you're looking at wha
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by hvb2 3mo ago
The maintainers that wrote those tests will have experience you won't get out of a rewrite. I think this is also where the real work is. A rewrite is one thing, that you can show off with a flashy blogpost. The maintenance, for years t
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by hvb2 3mo ago
Types are a safeguard, they rule out certain errors. So using them is mostly for maintainability, and especially in large codebases and teams that becomes a thing. I think that comment is clear in that he likes to work alone which for probl
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by hvb2 3mo ago
Fine, bad example. The point being, people light fireworks in places with extreme fire risk. And don't you dare tell them they cannot. None of your business is the kind response
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by hvb2 3mo ago
> But this is none of your business. I live in Germany, where everything is regulated by well meaning people. Assuming you haven't lived in the US I think you're severely underestimating some of the stupidity going on. So let&#
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by hvb2 3mo ago
The only thing you can fault them for is for how long it took to switch to liquid cooled. The leafs are fine cars but you're paying for being an early adopter. I bought one used in 2016, used it as a daily commuter till 2025 and then s
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by hvb2 3mo ago
Legislation only exists because some people won't be good people without a stick involved. So, in general, I think your expectation is valid, but that's not what you use the stick for. As an employee you want to be able to draw th
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by hvb2 3mo ago
If you think that's business, wherever you are is a place where I don't want to live. Yes, companies do have to do things in order to appease regulators. But typically that's where a regulator says what they need them to do a
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by hvb2 3mo ago
> and are facing a broken OAuth implementation. Or didn't bother to read the spec to understand why it's non trivial. Things like this are complex because attacks will force it to be. Also, the broken implementation might be an
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by hvb2 3mo ago
Assuming they've hosted you for 3 full years, I wouldn't mind the 10 euros. Even small sites need all infra to work. The fact that your site is small only means it costs less in transfer.
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by hvb2 4mo ago
> But it’s not crazy to argue for “energy abundance” where the market just picks the cheapest energy on the market Except that there's externalities not priced in. The consequences of those are becoming increasingly visible and very
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by hvb2 4mo ago
I don't understand why datacenters especially shouldn't be able to run mostly on renewables. This won't apply to every datacenter, but the AI inference ones especially, should be seeing most demand during the day. So what&#x2
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by hvb2 4mo ago
You might want to read the 3rd paragraph of this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Skydance_Media_and_P... Read that timeline and then see if you're still convinced that they didn't at least see
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by hvb2 4mo ago
I don't disagree with you but every country is different. Australia gets a lot of sunshine and is sparsely populated, so plenty of room for solar anyway. This is not the case everywhere though. It can be a good example though of how yo
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by hvb2 4mo ago
> before finding I signed over rights to my landlord to make candid porn of me and all his other tenants. If the law says you cannot do XYZ, your landlord can state otherwise in whatever verbiage but that's all void. This is why goo
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by hvb2 4mo ago
> Despite the gap, Bezos is slowly gaining ground. He's flying passengers and he's winning government contracts. He's flying passengers? They stopped new shepherd and that was suborbital to begin with. You can't comp
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by hvb2 4mo ago
There was graffiti as well so others had already found it
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by hvb2 4mo ago
> Where you can get nearby fairly easy like base Las Torres, you'll have plenty of people doing just that. Are you sure it's the accessibility or the fact that Torres del Paine, which is very famous, is next door? I get what yo
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by hvb2 4mo ago
Just saying, anyone calling themselves an example is someone I'll ignore (but I'll reply to explain the rationale) This is the mentality that says that if your company goes bust, you didn't work hard enough. Sometimes effort
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by hvb2 4mo ago
And you pay for this, how? Because typically that would mean taxing something more. I've seen those kind of proposals as ballot measures that get voted down.
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by hvb2 4mo ago
You can't add more trains if the schedule is full to the brink. You would need to add train tracks, and that requires big projects
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by hvb2 4mo ago
Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405718
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by hvb2 4mo ago
Aren't those other browsers still required to use the safari rendering engine? I might be years out of the loop if I missed that changing lol
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by hvb2 4mo ago
Your analysis of the whole rise of AI is that people with access to capital will lose relevance??? So the most capital intensive industry we've ever created will put less power in the hands of those with capital? I'm sorry, I have

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