jakewins

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by jakewins 3y ago
In a different life I did some freelancing, and worked on an app that had a really bad outage at midnight local time on a seemingly arbitrary Thursday. The first HTTP request that arrived to the company front page after midnight crashed. Ev
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Or latex/rubber ones, see the recent thread on degloving injuries in /r/construction (content warning: severe hand injuries). Perfect for construction work, travel and sports like lifting, climbing etc
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> window panes appeared to have been warped by the thermal heat Are there kinds of heat that are not “thermal”?
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For ~95% of my work travel, Starbucks solves this already for me though.. I guess if you’re in a line of work where you travel often, stay long, and the destinations are not where your employer has offices, like maybe sales, devrel, that ki
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Well yeah, Lexus are Toyotas? It’s the brand name Toyota uses for their luxury cars
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What does the scammer get out of it, is it a way to “take over” someone else’s order flow by being the sole supplier of some good?
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I realize this isn’t what you’re arguing for, but as a cautionary anecdote on this topic: Paul alludes to it in his post about Healthcare.gov from the other day, but this was apparently one of the major parts of the failure there - endless
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I re-read the chain and don’t follow your argument. Do you mean that your original point was about deployments to begin with? FWIW I work in a microservices shop for a global app in an extremely regulation heavy industry, and we run a singl
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I’ve done this at times in Python and C#, I really really miss Go or - better - Rust style errors there. But, exactly like you say, you end up fighting libraries - particularly the standard libraries, and it ain’t a fight you will win. In t
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My experience with pretty much any consumer company is the opposite? They generally help out. Random example: I had an expensive Sonos speaker just the other week that broke in a move across the Atlantic. Sonos support helped for nearly an
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I work on building VPPs. Two interesting problems that come up: - Counter-factuals; you're often paying someone to not do something, and it is really, really confusing and hard sometimes to measure whether something didn't happe
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Aye but y'all are way ahead! I get to hack on software that bids into DSO-level circuits for NODES up in Norway. I imagine Norway is seeing a lot of the issues - and opportunities - that having high EV penetration brings, so a good pla
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A useful/horrifying pattern on this topic: you can use UUIDv1 as a prefixed id, giving you a way to generate tagged IDs in a system that uses UUIDs. You set the node field to a broadcast MAC address, and use that as a namespace/pr
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Yes, the OP is explicitly talking about case 1, and the quoted GNU docs are as well?
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by jakewins 3y ago
Can you be explicit with what they are missing, I’m clearly missing it as well? OP says please have —help post to stdout, GNU guidance posted above says exact same thing?
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People keep quoting me these studies they think show CEOs have no effect on company bottom lines. I keep sending them Craig Morgan playlists on Spotify back. “Chugga-lugga-luggin’ five miles an houuuuuuuurrr”
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New CEO took International Harvester from 4th largest US firm to bankruptcy(en.wikipedia.org)
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Yeah the article uses terrible numbers, like the rate of the share of homeless is what they are talking about right? I looked up the homelessness numbers from the 30s, in absolute numbers it was about 4x what it is today - 2 million homeles
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It's been a breath of fresh air this summer to pull out New Relics agent libraries from several of our apps and have them replaced with OpenTelemetry dittos with auto-instrumentation turned off. No more outages because NR's .NET a
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Most of the heavy artillery RDMSes at least, eg Postgres let’s you mount arbitrary HTTP resources as tables, which you then can put views over: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
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There are real issues and unknowns here, you are right - but you also have to maintain perspective and scale. The rare minerals and metals we are using to drive the transition are not being combusted into the atmosphere like gasoline additi
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Before you write these holier-than-though, I-know-the-plight-of-the-common-man comments: check your intuition, are the things they told us in school growing up in Northern Europe still true? I used SE salaries because this is HN. What does
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The disability insurance that was included with my US job was significantly better than the one I have now. If I was let go I would retain health coverage through COBRA. Let’s be clear: The US health system is a shit show, it’s just not - m
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All US full time positions include health insurance, the insurance included with a good software job is, in my experience, miles and miles better than the one I now get in Scandinavia.
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I think you can do this math yourself pretty fast: US median software eng salary is about $170k/yr, German one is $80. Both will include full health benefits etc. With 5 weeks paid vacation in DE and 2 weeks in US, that would be $170k
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Ask HN: What are the best books on floor plans and interior design?
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> I'm not really sure why the Wh exists It never really clicked for me how silly this is until you said it, so I went and looked it up. It turns out it's kind of the other way around; the watt came first: It was originally defi
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Rooftop solar in Australia is now cheaper in some jurisdictions than transmission per kWh. Meaning, if I tried to build a nuke or any other centralized generator and I gave the electricity away for free, rooftop solar would still be cheap
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What legal jurisdiction are you saying this was a rule in? I’ve never heard of this
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Dan Luu also says rename is not atomic, at the bottom of this post: https://danluu.com/file-consistency/ I've wondered ever since I read that what the first bullet there means. It can't be what you're sa

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