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by hylaride 1y ago
There is currently a bit of an early shift back to physical infra. Some of this is driven by costs(1), some by geopolitical concerns, and some by performance. However, dealing with physical equipment does introduce a different set (old fa
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by hylaride 1y ago
My god, AI crawlers probably train on Hacker News, too. The vibe coders sure are in for a shock in 2-6 months... :-D
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by hylaride 1y ago
There's a world where Sun did what you hoped (became a systems company) and created Joyent in-house. However, hyper-scaling means going fast and cheap before good comes along. Sun's habit was fast and good and that's an ext
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by hylaride 1y ago
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has to contact us" -Bill Watterson (via Calvin & Hobbes)
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by hylaride 1y ago
You could also achieve this in practice by just not using us-east-1, though at the very least you should have another region going for DR.
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by hylaride 1y ago
Not all the tech is the same, but I wasn't specifically referring to the batteries (I did say the Chinese have innovated themselves). But it's an open secret that there was a lot of "turnover" at the Chinese Tesla plants
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by hylaride 1y ago
In some ways the IBM mainframe line is an amazing piece of engineering. My understanding is that the emulation layers can even emulate hardware bugs/issues from specific lines of long-dead equipment so that ancient code (that was writ
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by hylaride 1y ago
I'd be surprised to see a mass-scraping bot behind a NAT gateway. They're probably using public lambdas where they can't even control the egress IPs (unless something has changed in the last 6 months since I last looked) and
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by hylaride 1y ago
For Starlink, maybe. However, I'm sure nuclear submarines operating in the arctic (and the US Navy in general) as well as forward operating US bases, would love and be willing to pay for Starshield to cover everywhere.
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by hylaride 1y ago
> Tesla mostly focused on the American market anyway. Not true at all. In 2023, before the brand became toxic, they sold more cars outside the US than internally. They were a huge percentage of the market in parts of Europe, especially
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by hylaride 1y ago
The worst aspect of AWS is that once you get to a certain size, you can negotiate bulk agreements, especially for things like bandwidth. At a previous job, we cut our bill down by quite a bit this way, but it was annoying to have to schmoo
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by hylaride 1y ago
IIRC, Microsoft wrapped a good chunk of the BSD code with it's native implementation of the Winsock API (I may be misremembering and the BSD code may have only been in the NT or win32 code - it's been decades and I'm pretty s
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by hylaride 1y ago
Fair points, but there is hostility to fixing a lot of those historical rules for the same reasons. Long-standing business practices is another can of worms, especially ones as international as shipping.
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by hylaride 1y ago
I'm not sure how it is in the US, but in Canada a huge amount of low-income benefits are directly tied to filing your taxes. Most Canadians experienced this in our college years when we got GST (our VAT) refunds due to being low-incom
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by hylaride 1y ago
Many laws also exist specifically to keep industries afloat. The complicated tax code keeps many lawyers and accountants in business.
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by hylaride 1y ago
If AGPLv3 was slapped onto everything back then, the likelihood of linux/open source being where it is today would be an order of magnitude less. A good chunk of the original windows TCP/IP stack was ripped from BSD licensed code
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by hylaride 1y ago
I did the same, but with iSSH (which I still mourn).
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by hylaride 1y ago
Some things never change. I remember ~20 years ago a bunch of expensive F5s suddenly showing up to our offices because the CTO and enterprise architects were convinced that irules could solve all their performance problems for something tha
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by hylaride 1y ago
IMO, it should be "if village votes no, they're top of the list for brownouts/blackouts". NIMBYism is 99% wealthier people pushing the costs (visually or literally) of modern society onto others instead of bearing it the
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by hylaride 1y ago
I think we sort of agree, but have different lived experiences (no doubt because we're in different countries). The crux, to me, is that healthcare isn't as patient centric as it should be, either because of "greedy" hea
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by hylaride 1y ago
> After Stallman launched the GNU project, the emergence of GNU licensed kernel for x86 architecture was inevitable. It just happened that Linux became that kernel. Had it not, the GNU project folks led by rms would have inevitably made
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by hylaride 1y ago
> People and their loved ones don't want to experience death. It's often as simple as that. People also don't want (their loved ones) to suffer, especially needlessly. (I want to also stress that I'm not advocating t
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by hylaride 1y ago
I suspect the medical industry is so heavily regulated that it is very difficult for doctors to recommend non-treatment or risk being sued into oblivion, though maybe it depends on the country. Here in Canada, before assisted suicide was le
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by hylaride 1y ago
Ah, I think you're right. I was quoting from memory, but it's still a strange separation.
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by hylaride 1y ago
> past Federal governments have said "hey look this is stupid let's just merge the regulators so we can do one good job instead of 10 bad jobs" but politics got in the way. It gets messy. Ontario is the de-facto "leg
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by hylaride 1y ago
JunOS from Juniper is also based off of FreeBSD (I think they're moving to Linux, though) as (were?) NetApp filers (they made heavy use of the Berkley FFS snapshots back in the day). FreeBSD was popular for many appliances, especially
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by hylaride 1y ago
If you live in a dense area with lots of APs and regularly get performance issues, power line networking will provide excellent ~400Mbps connections that are more than adequate for things like video calls unless your power cables are ancien
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by hylaride 1y ago
> so far all of the other ones have failed horrifically. Uh, what? Other systems have their problems, but they're varying levels of functional, and the health and life expectancy of the populations in most other developed countries
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> This doesn't make any sense. Going going to a random shop to buy a rain jacket is inevitably going to be worse than doing careful research and ordering from the cheapest retailer. Moreover after you bought your first rain jacket,
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by hylaride 1y ago
To add to this, remember that YOUR CAREER can and will transcend layoffs, bad bosses, bad companies, etc. With few exceptions, the network you build with the good people you work with are a thousand times more valuable than your current ro

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