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by jacurtis 3y ago
One could argue they actually stand the most to gain and could expand under AI. Everything I have seen so far about AI seems to indicate that you won't want to have one main AI model to go to, but instead there will be thousands of com
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This shocks me too. When I first had to design a system around spot instances I assumed it caps out at the on-demand price. But in practice that is very much not the case. The spot price can routinely go above on-demand, with all the downsi
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by jacurtis 3y ago
To be fair, its also easier than ever before to use spot instances. If you set up an EKS/K8s cluster and install Karpenter. You can configure it very easily to use spot instances anytime prices are available for less than on-demand and
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Wow, never realized that that could be a great money laundering strategy. 1. Take cash, load it onto prepaid cards. 2. Buy GPU instances. 3. Mine crypto. 4. Pay for compute with #1 5. Sell crypto 6. "Clean" cash I just don't
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Utah State's mascot (The college) is also the Aggies. Seems like it is probably more likely that.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> [he] never said that God told him > You're putting words in his mouth Ok... His exact words were: "The Lord has impressed upon me the importance of the name He has revealed for His Church, even The Church of Jesus Christ o
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah all Mormons have whiplash from changing doctrines, rules, and guidelines that change throughout their life. I was raised during the "Hinckley" reign. So Mormon was a term of endearment during the time and embraced. Things lik
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Since we are adding acts of Mormon rebellion and killing. It is worth also adding Mountain Meadows Massacre to the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre tldr: 120 emigrants were traveling by wag
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I was raised Mormon. The whole time I grew up we were told by all the previous prophets to be proud to be called Mormon. It was a sense of pride. But the new/current prophet hates it and said that God told him he doesn't like the
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Mormonism is more strange than most. The leader who started it was literally a traveling treasure digger in 1820's New York. He conned people out of money by going to houses and telling them that they had treasure on their property and
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by jacurtis 3y ago
You are wildly off. For perspective, Microsoft has ~200,000 employees. Lyft never had 2,000,000. You might be thinking 2,000,000 drivers. But I checked that fact and apparently they have 20M registered drivers. Maybe 2M of those are active.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I have noticed that Lyft rides frequently get cancelled, and Uber rides aren't as often (still happens though). I think drivers are preferring riding for Uber over Lyft. It used to be that every driver had both apps in their cars and n
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Lyft is still around. They aren't going out of business. They are just consolidating their workforce. Remember that Uber has had 2 rounds of layoffs already I think. One was for 16% of their workforce and another was for 5-6%. So it is
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I usually enter the car saying "I don't have any cash, only card. Is that ok?" And i've been turned down once or twice. I use cabs a lot, so I could call those experiences extreme outliars.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
In Chicago, the taxis are generally cheaper than Uber/Lyft from the airport. It is about $30 to the city with a Taxi. In the best conditions, i've seen Ubers for $38 to the same place, but it is generally in the $60-80 range. It i
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I live in Chicago and find that Ubers/Lyfts are sketchier than taxis. Not to call a taxi luxurious by any means, but just compared to a lot of the sketchy cars i've had for Ubers I find taxis predictable at least. For that reason,
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I've started taking taxis from Airports instead of Ubers. There is often a line of idle taxis waiting for rides, and then a bunch of people on their phones in the corner refreshing Uber/Lyft competing over the same handful of driv
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by jacurtis 3y ago
They definitely are. When I take Uber/Lyft I notice that most drivers are running both apps. As they get towards my destination they will start bobbing for fares between the two apps. Maybe Uber is paying slightly more for drivers? I d
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by jacurtis 4y ago
In most situations (not all) the load balancer is actually a proxy. So when you type in example.com, the dns points to a load balancer. You connect to a load balancer, the load balancer opens a connection with the desired server (probably s
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Everyone should go upvote the discussion here to let them know how much interest there is for this: https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/5166
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by jacurtis 4y ago
How can you hear something that you can not hear? I'm not trying to be facetious, genuinely curious.
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Even 150k in SF doesn't get you as far as you would think. That person is probably living pretty close to paycheck-to-paycheck. Granted, the average FAANG salary is higher than that, but still I think the general public seems to think
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Yeah I never understood the whole leetcode between positions, even lateral moves that you choose for culture or personal interest reason required another leetcode. I swear it was just there as a dis-incentive to keep people from moving. Do
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I worked on a team that managed the build systems at a FAANG. It was seriously the worst. Teams would come to you and say > "we made this service, we need a pipeline that does this, exactly this way, and we need it.... by Friday, le
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by jacurtis 4y ago
I've worked at the G and hated it. It was too big and agree 100% with your analysis. Money and benefits are great, especially considering how little work is actually expected of you (compared to smaller orgs). I enjoyed always being ab
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Yep, been to a lot of these. We call them "KT" sessions (knowledge-transfer). I shiver all down my spine when I hear "KT". You basically take the person who's been working on something for thousands of hours most li
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by jacurtis 4y ago
The article ended with: > Andrew Sherman has since upgraded his tech on his own boat. > “I bought a Garmin unit because I was so impressed with Sascha’s,” he said. Definitely written to remind us all that Garmin GPS are easy to use. O
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by jacurtis 4y ago
In this case there was no buddy either. Really if you ever need to go the edge of the boat you should be tied in. This is especially true with sailboats since you often work at the edge of the boat doing things like pulling lines or other a
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by jacurtis 4y ago
Thats exactly how I described it to coworkers recently. Its like having a junior developer at your disposal that does all the boring and monotonous stuff. It's not doing anything crazy and new, that's why you still have a job. I&#
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by jacurtis 4y ago
This announcement to me is possible the strongest argument against building your own payments platform that I've ever seen. Next to Walmart, Amazon is probably the largest single credit card payment recipient on planet earth right now,

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