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by hylaride 2y ago
There's different kinds of debt. Many argue "good" debt is debt spent on assets that appreciate or provide income. However, people often forget that it's not guaranteed (see 2008). Some also only measure net debt (the
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by hylaride 2y ago
Pretty much this. In Canada, we have a book called the Wealthy Barber ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealthy_Barber ) that came out in the late 1980s that was a fictional story of a "rich barber giving finan
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by hylaride 2y ago
Not to be rude, but K8s has had some very glaring issues, especially early on when the hype was at max. * Its secrets management was terrible, and for awhile it stored them in plaintext in etcd. * The learning curve was real and that's
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by hylaride 2y ago
If you don't need any of those things, going for a "serverless" option like fargate or whatever other cloud equivalents exist is a far better value prop. Then you never have to worry about k8s support or upgrades (of course,
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by hylaride 2y ago
Because people are beholden to costs and it's often out of our hands when to spend money on redundancy (or opportunity costs elsewhere). It's less true today when redundancy is baked into SaS products (like AWS Aurora, where even
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by hylaride 2y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, which if you are: heh. But to the point, if you're going to build a distributed system, you need tools to track problems across the distributed system that also works across teams. A p
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by hylaride 2y ago
I'm not even British (I'm Canadian), but am a geopolitical nerd. Spitting Image is one of the best examples of satire that's ever existed in the TV era. There was a great documentary where a lot of the politicians who were s
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by hylaride 2y ago
Don’t live in SF, but was a frequent visitor. During the day you’ll be fine if you don’t look like a dumb tourist and mind your own business. Some of SF’s main cultural attractions are in “rough” neighbourhoods like Chinatown. As night f
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by hylaride 2y ago
There’s different meanings to “cleanliness”. A bit of grime is fine. Drug paraphernalia, human feces, and tons of homelessness is another matter.
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by hylaride 2y ago
First of all, I’m enjoying this discussion. I also want to point out that I’m not necessarily advocating for either side in RISC vs CISC (I lean RISC personally), but I’m more pointing out how the market actually ended up and why it (was)
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by hylaride 2y ago
I maintain that no owner of twitter really understood what they had, either before or after Musk. Twitter was really good at news if you knew who to follow and you had direct access to a lot of experts in various fields. They had to put
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by hylaride 2y ago
> We were in the golden years of Java bytecode translations, real-world JITs, and Transmeta (which made a similar bet in hardware). That was the era we were starting to introduce rather complex transformations and optimizations. Computer
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by hylaride 2y ago
I’m saying the latter, that politics succeeded over engineering in the process of implementation of Itanium. The instruction set for it was relatively bloated, indicating that there were too many compromises being made. Writing compilers fo
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by hylaride 2y ago
It's exactly the same as the Ernest Hemingway quote about how bankruptcy happens: Slowly, then suddenly.
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by hylaride 2y ago
I should elaborate on the word "proper" in this context. Intel rarely had the best technology, but it was often "good enough, cheap enough, and available enough" to succeed in the marketplace - this is a lesson SO MANY p
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by hylaride 2y ago
"but it also takes luck to stay in the lead." It's not luck if they were riding momentum that slowed because they shifted away from proper R&D. The fabless companies had nothing but R&D to live on and the costs of out
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by hylaride 2y ago
Suspending the dividend is poetic in a sense. They'd been taken over by bean counters decades ago and slowly pissed away their privileged position at the top of computing. They essentially ended up where Boeing did, but at least didn&
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by hylaride 2y ago
This is mostly immeasurable and unanswerable. They've had lots of good/better tech that's succeeded in the marketplace (Active Directory, DirectX) and hasn't (windows phone 8) for a whole variety of reasons. They have t
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by hylaride 2y ago
Yeah they ran on FreeBSD, but despite multiple attempts IIRC they didn't fully pull off the migration until Windows 2000. There was a relatively honest paper they wrote about the transition: https://web.archive.org/web
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by hylaride 2y ago
The issue isn’t spreading healthcare costs, but that healthcare costs have been skyrocketing, making costs higher whether they’re spread around or not. The price of insulin, which in theory is not protected by patents (there are incrementa
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by hylaride 2y ago
Mission critical use of Linux still needs malware and breach detection software. It's not as simple as switching OS's.
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by hylaride 2y ago
I think Linux took off due to cost. If you're a startup or a web company with razor thin margins, you're not going to go Microsoft (or Sun). Same story with MySQL.
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by hylaride 2y ago
It's a shame. NT did support POSIX, but it was in practice designed to make it easier to port UNIX apps. At co-op job I had back in the day (~2000), I had to fight with Veritas' backup software on NT that wrote to tapes. I don&#
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by hylaride 2y ago
Yeah, I think the only commercial OEM releases of NT that got sold were x86 and Alpha, though there was support for a handful of specific MIPS and PPC machines, I don't think there were any OEM sales of them with it. I do know that onl
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by hylaride 2y ago
I suspect if Apple and NeXT never "merged", the phone market would be RIM vs (a very different) Android, but we'd be worse off. Blackberries were OK at the time, but my god RIM was so culturally conservative and Google at th
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by hylaride 2y ago
There have been studies. In the public transit realm, there was a comparison of the Vancouver Canada Line that was built for the Olympics (an elevated train/subway to the airport) and the Eglinton Crosstown in Toronto (mixed undergrou
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by hylaride 2y ago
15% can still be too much. Alternative music, book, etc stores often have high IP payments that make the business case impossible because 15% is more than the profit margin. And apple doesn't have that 15% for it's music and boo
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by hylaride 2y ago
AFAIK, steam doesn't prevent developers from also allowing their games to be installed outside of steam (if so, then that's a problem). It's the fact that there's no alternative to get spotify, etc onto your phone that&#
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by hylaride 2y ago
1) I'll agree that WSL2 is excellent, but the native "unix" environment of macos has meant that I haven't had very many issues doing work that ultimately runs on linux natively from a mac. 2) This makes no sense to me.
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by hylaride 2y ago
Although I probably have my price, I too otherwise refuse to work for companies that'd force me to use windows. I've been lucky to be able to use macs since 2008 and some of those companies had linux users. Most top tech compani

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