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by jpgvm 6mo ago
Github Actions is a decidedly unserious product, used largely by unserious people. It's always been poo, the YAML is bad, the reliability is bad and the cost is bad. So there is really no redeeming features because even if you tout for
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by jpgvm 7mo ago
No. They have been able to destroy much more important and hardened targets, i.e multiple AN/TPY-2 radars, the extremely valuable AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar, $Bs worth of aircraft on the apron at Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi. Not
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by jpgvm 7mo ago
Pre-war views were very much the status-quo was better than starting a war. Now that a war is started it has to be finished or the GCC is left far worse off with Iran in a much stronger strategic position in the region despite a decimated m
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by jpgvm 7mo ago
Thankyou for your attention to this matter!
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
Sort of? My journey up from Senior/Staff was mostly on the back of proposing and then leading cross-functional projects. Which means I was doing Principal work before being granted the title. To be honest it was (and remains) a huge am
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
VictoriaMetrics stack. Better, cheaper, faster queries, more k8s native, etc. Easy to run with budget saved from not being on Datadog + attracts smart and observability minded engineers to your team.
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
> These are not top tier talent type people, this is work that my mom could do, but Apple can pay much less by bringing people over from India, Pakistan, China to do this work instead of finding Americans to do it. H1Bs are not getting a
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
Bar was lowered massively during the COVID employment boom (with the exception of Apple really). Unfortunately resetting the bar has massive collateral damage but it will sort itself out pretty quickly. All the good ones will be re-employed
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
I interpreted this: > I don’t see any notable difference between immigrant and non-immigrant As your main point. More educated or not doesn't actually matter, whether they meet the bar or not is all that matters no? My over-arching
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
> what % of this labor could be sourced domestically and what actually needs to be imported? None of it? The way I see it is every top tier programmer in America is already employed. I think the inevitable outcome would just be the big m
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
My argument is that the H1Bs meet the bar to be hired at their respective companies. Neither pool is inherently better but availability matters. There are only so many American engineers that meet said bar, they are all either employed or c
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
You are proving my point - FAANG hires the top tier talent, and makes extensive use of both the global talent pool and sponsoring immigration in order to meet their needs. The Americans you work with (along with your other co-workers) meet
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
No. The talent shortage is not a myth. The unemployed/underemployed American programmer that can actually keep up is a myth. Everyone good (without additional baggage) is either a) employed or b) could be employed whenever they feel li
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
> Singapore is a much more democratic country than most outsiders realize Yeah no. In Singapore you have a single party which has used it's constitution, laws, courts and media control to enforce a defacto one-party state for 60 yea
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by jpgvm 8mo ago
People get overfixated on the runners. They don't matter. GHA, Buildkite, Jenkens, Gilab, doesn't matter. That isn't to say GHA isn't poo (it is and always has been poo) but it is to say it's not the actual problem.
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by jpgvm 9mo ago
I'm loving Embassy. Coming from a lot of bare metal C and FreeRTOS it finally feels like embedded is getting a toolchain that is actually modern and better. Some of that isn't just Embassy but the surrounding ecosystem, some highl
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
Late stage capitalism, protracted and targeted destruction of public education and health systems, lack of STEM focus eroding most of their massive lead in innovation, overemphasis on preservation and subsidisation of dying energy vs new en
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
Upvote for Bazel. I think these days I place a lot more value on how well an ecosystem slots into Bazel/friends because monorepos are increasingly more useful and relevant. So nice to see there are good rules for Zig and that folks are
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
You are a great writer. Would love to hear what came next and eventually how you found your way to HN. :)
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
I was talking about the https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e5800/ , it in fact does have eSIM and 2 physical SIM slots.
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
This one has eSIM and dual physical SIM support.
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
Beyond the usual points there are some other important factors to consider self-hosting PG: 1. Access to any extension you want and importantly ability to create your own extensions. 2. Being able to run any version you want, including bein
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
They didn't invent LiPo (and you probably don't want those in a car), nor did they invent LFP (LiFePO4) but they did license it when no one else wanted to and turned it into probably the best EV battery tech you can buy today. The
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
Yeah I think it's likely they get an EUV machine working but with less efficiency than ASML just because of how long it takes to tune these beasts and work out all the kinks. The big brain move is to try leap-frog the whole thing with
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
What exactly can the Chinese government do to hurt you in your own home in America? Now think about what the American government can do to you.
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by jpgvm 10mo ago
They are indirectly. DDR4 fab capacity should have stayed constant as DDR5 was brought online. The mechanism that powers that is usually the top tier brands selling their used fab equipment to China who then keep mass producing the legacy D
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by jpgvm 11mo ago
The BYDs exported to Europe are made in Thailand. So no, they are the Euro spec car.
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by jpgvm 11mo ago
Atto 3 is $19.3k USD in Thailand. So it's really just tariffs and taxes making it that expensive elsewhere.
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by jpgvm 11mo ago
IMO it's maybe the best suited language to AoC. You can write it even faster than Python, has a very terse syntax and great numerical performance for the few challenges where that matters.
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by jpgvm 11mo ago
RIP Burger. Thanks for all the epic games and stories.

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