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by jedberg 1y ago
Nowadays I'd agree with you, UTC is probably the best bet. But back then, it wasn't.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Actually, back then, 18 years ago, most people expected your servers to be in Pacific or Eastern time, depends on where your company was headquartered, because none of us really had global technical workforces back then. We all pretty much
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by jedberg 1y ago
There are many solutions, but when you're actually running a site with millions of daily visitors and one person focused on ops, you do the easy thing, not the right thing, unless those happen to coincide.
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by jedberg 1y ago
> Just use UTC folks unless you have a really good idea why you shouldn't. If my whole team is based in Pacific Time, I'm gonna use something close to PT so I don't have to do hard math when reading raw logs. If we're
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by jedberg 1y ago
I've told this story before, but it's super relevant here. When I set up all the servers for reddit, I set them all to Arizona time. Arizona does not have DST, and is only one hour off of California (where we all were) for five
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by jedberg 1y ago
Usually they require training and experience to do so. You can't just drop a fresh college grad into a job and expect them to do it.
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by jedberg 1y ago
> What matters to me is, if the "AGI" can reliably solve the tasks that I give to it and that requires also reliable learning. How many humans do you know that can do that?
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by jedberg 1y ago
To define AGI, we'd first have to define GI. Humans are very different. As park rangers like to say, there is an overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans, which is why sometimes people can't open bear-proof tras
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by jedberg 1y ago
Nah, it's more than that. My very boomer parents just sit on the couch doom scrolling all day, and they were late getting smartphones. Although they also got us Ataris in the early 80s and internet access in the late 80s, so they were
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by jedberg 1y ago
"The new legal drama TV series “Cupertino” was just announced as part of CBS’s 2026-2027 season, as reported by entertainment trade publications Wednesday morning. The show ... is set to star Mike Colter (“Luke Cage,” “Evil”) as a lawy
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Bay Area tech startup will play the villain in a new TV drama(sfgate.com)
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by jedberg 1y ago
Hah, I briefly worked in that building! Never dealt with the MDF/IDF though, was just doing software at that point.
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by jedberg 1y ago
You tell the inspector. Point out that the hallway is 25cm short of code. I'm assuming since they are using metric they aren't in the US, but at least here the contractor can't say no the inspector without losing their lice
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by jedberg 1y ago
I knew this title looked familiar! It was required reading when I took Searle's course. I always thought it funny that CogSci majors (basically the AI major at Berkeley in the 90s) were required to take a course from a guy who strong
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by jedberg 1y ago
You're suffering from survivorship bias. You know that old adage about the bullet holes in the planes, and someone pointed out that you should reinforce that parts without bullet holes, because these are the planes that came back. I
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by jedberg 1y ago
It wasn't Equinix, but I think the vendor was acquired by them. I don't actually blame them, I appreciated their security procedures. The five minutes usually didn't matter.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Just to test the security, or...?
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by jedberg 1y ago
I like how the height is measured in metric but the temp is measured in imperial.
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by jedberg 1y ago
I don't know the exact details, but I know that hits to their website do count as reports, even if you don't click "report". I assume they weight it differently based on how you got there (direct might actually be more
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by jedberg 1y ago
Way back when I worked at eBay, we once had a major outage and needed datacenter access. The datacenter process normally took about 5 minutes per person to verify identity and employment, and then scan past the biometric scanners. On that
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by jedberg 1y ago
Some AWS services are only available in us-east-1. Also a lot of people have not built their infra to be portable and the occasional outage isn't worth the cost and effort of moving out.
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by jedberg 1y ago
It's both. They count a hit from google as a report of that site being down. They also count that actual reports people make.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Tell cloudflare it's abusive, and they will block it outside your account so it doesn't count against you.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Great! Let me know if you need any support with it.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Yeah, that's why we don't have one. :)
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by jedberg 1y ago
So does taxing income, since we don't let people deduct most of their expenses. If you want to make people spend money, you'd implement a wealth tax.
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by jedberg 1y ago
They wouldn't, those people would have to file like usual. But the vast majority of filers (something like 90%) only have forms that the government already has, and takes a standard deduction.
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by jedberg 1y ago
The IRS knows enough before tax time to auto-file about 90% of American's returns. Because 90% of people only have a W2, maybe a mortgage (which they know), and take the standard deduction. The could send 100% of people a bill that yo
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by jedberg 1y ago
> Gemini 3.0 is one of the most anticipated releases in AI at the moment because of the expected advances in coding performance. Based on what I'm hearing from friends who work at Google and are using it for coding, we're all g
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by jedberg 1y ago
Not exactly. It's the dominant outlier . Entertainment is not the largest sector in LA, but it's the most unique. Finance isn't the largest sector in NYC, but again the most unique. Tech in SF may actually be the biggest

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