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by jldugger 2y ago
Wise also previously used Evolve, so it's not exactly random. One imagines the fact that it's cheap explains why it was used by these services and at least partially why it got hit by ransomware.
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by jldugger 2y ago
I'm honestly surprised the area is zoned for residential; the central expressway corridor has lots of industry nearby, including Intel. Plus that apt complex is right next the intersection of a major highway and major expressway, which
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by jldugger 2y ago
Imagine naming your company "Netflix" and saying "naw, the internet is a fad."
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by jldugger 2y ago
> Texas averages ... 2 inches of snow each year. Really? That does not comport with my experience growing up there.
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by jldugger 2y ago
Annual Rainfall per square inch seems like a relevant factor though.
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by jldugger 2y ago
It's still just looking at one server right? If you have a fleet of webservers, or microservices in containers, ELK or similar seems like a requirement.
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by jldugger 2y ago
Because "fabrication" seems worse, if more accurate.
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by jldugger 2y ago
Did Meg Whitman make that purchase, or was it the CEO at the time, Léo Apotheker?
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by jldugger 2y ago
> Stats books are so dry, they don’t have the inclination to share these kinds of stories. It doesn't have to be that way. My pandemic lockdown read was a 10 dollar Stats textbook[1], that comes with tons of classic examples: the Sa
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by jldugger 2y ago
> I don't know what to think about humanity sometimes. If it's any solace, selection bias is a thing. Those applicants that can't Fizz Buzz? They rarely get hired, and are rarely kept on for long when they do get an offer.
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by jldugger 2y ago
One possible explanation is that we require this of our vendors and suppliers, and the easiest way to achieve that is by making it reciprocal. The actual policy wording: > No Third-Party Trading or Tipping. Do not trade in the securities
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by jldugger 2y ago
It's absolutely treated as insider info by policy where I work. It might not rise to SEC enforcement action, but if caught you probably won't have a job anymore...
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by jldugger 2y ago
But that's been known for months now. At one point a bloomberg podcast mentioned in passing that nVidia inventory now has a lead time measured in months. Which kinda sounds like the makings of a bullwhip effect induced bubble[0]. Every
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by jldugger 2y ago
Working at a FAANG, I've definitely seen founders and startup employees chafe at decision making that they felt powerless over. Stuff like legal refusing contracts with GCP due to reasons and then doing it anyways, or coping with staff
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by jldugger 2y ago
I'm just using the terms that show up on my etrade plan confirmations. In lieu of actual dividends, the terms of the grant say the company will issue RSU dividend equivalents, commensurate with what the dividend would have been had it
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by jldugger 2y ago
I don't know about you, but I get dividend equivalents when RSUs vest to cover precisely this scenario.
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by jldugger 2y ago
My expectation is that whatever logic held up last quarter held up this quarter. It's possible the optimal allocation is some of both, but what's the tradeoff that would drive that instead of one being mathematically superior to t
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by jldugger 2y ago
Sure, but why do both and why now?
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by jldugger 2y ago
Once upon a time it was said by Google leadership the biggest cost Google pays is opportunity costs, chiefly in the form of projects and products they don't pursue.
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by jldugger 2y ago
was there a tax law change that motivated this versus more buybacks?
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by jldugger 2y ago
> Dearth of published AI research https://machinelearning.apple.com/research seems to have too many publications to be considered a "dearth" IMO.
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by jldugger 2y ago
> they don’t make their own search engine Curious then, why they keep recruiting search engineers[1]. And why they run a web crawler[2]. And why typing "Taylor Swift" into safari offers a Siri Suggested website before Google. I
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by jldugger 2y ago
Yea, you know your Civ addiction is bad when you hear the 4am birds. And good luck getting to sleep through them.
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by jldugger 2y ago
> I will generally put a hold on both physical and digital copies Ah, I suppose their goal is to nudge people towards cheaper physical book borrowing, not just reduce borrowing overall.
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by jldugger 2y ago
I don't live in Seattle and I don't use that many digital holds; for me most are just video games. But recently my county library added a limit for physical holds. "Wait times" seem to be one of those Goodhart's law
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by jldugger 3y ago
So fundamentally just a ton of locality sensitive hashing, cleverly chosen to match the domain. Still wild that they shipped this in the flipphone era.
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by jldugger 3y ago
Sadly, there's too many idiots with good credentials to rely on self-reported expertise. Ever seen one of those academic lecture intros that wax poetic for 10m about the person you're about to hear from? Can you remember any that
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by jldugger 3y ago
Or if you must, just don't broadcast the Q&A section.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> On that day I learned I can do well writing something out on paper but I can't remember shit when trying to deliver it live. Fascinating. What I learned from your anecdote is that massed practice didn't work, just as the li
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by jldugger 3y ago
> I agree strongly with the bit about not including memes and jokes, to me this reads like nervous energy I think it can work in limited contexts. I've given an internal talk about SRE using the "this is fine" meme, repres

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