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by jpgvm 4y ago
My best ever manager was both. Radically transparent but also a human shield against the onslaught of political bullshit that was going on. He made it clear what we were up against, stood tall for us but also told us when he did all he coul
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by jpgvm 4y ago
As of right now? Do nothing. I have plenty of liquid capital to outlast a 2-3yr period of unemployment if the worst happens. Very unlikely but possible hence why I keep the cushion I have. If however there is a big recession and a big marke
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Truth be told I don't interview anywhere with this sort of bullshit process anymore. For the first 10 years of my career sure, I put up with the shit - like many I had no other choice. These days? Fuck it. My rules for switching jobs t
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yeah this is true but it's heavily reliant on volume, on low volume Stripe came out on top last time I looked. I still went for a merchant account though, much less business risk and I can walk down the street and ask my small business
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Step one is to have your lawyer do the talking, this instantly sets the correct tone regarding how serious this is to your business and how serious it will become for theirs if they continue to ignore you. Second step is to collect all the
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Standard merchant gateway that has a relationship with your business bank. Ensure you procure that relationship through your bank with someone you actually speak to, ideally face to face but atleast on the phone. You pay slightly more than
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Thing is I looked at the 8K side by side with my new 4K LG G2, I genuinely couldn't see the difference in 8K Dolby Vision content running natively vs 4K on the G2. (which is why I took the LG home instead of the 8K Samsung I was compar
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I don't think I will ever need 8K. When I got a 1920x1200 display in circa 2004 that was pretty beast but I could still see pixels, I knew it could be better in theory even if it was already so much better than what else was on the mar
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by jpgvm 4y ago
It doesn't show they are a scam. It shows they are useless to most people because fiat does what most people need, just better. Crypto has actual use cases, just those use cases usually revolve around not being able to trust your count
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by jpgvm 4y ago
RIP King.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yeah that is fair. I think the contention I have with it is those runtimes generally don't save time or money but come with more constraints - constraints that usually lead to poor architecture decisions. Examples I have seen include:
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I have moved multiple latter stage startups off of them thus I am intimately aware of all of their capabilities, limitations, etc. You should calculate the $/CPU/RAM of such platforms vs k8s on spot/pre-emptible instances and
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by jpgvm 4y ago
So less so decisions I have made but I have made a career out of correcting such mistakes. I'm a database systems guy fundamentally so in the previous ~3-4 companies I have worked out my main achievement has usually been coming in and
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Well I wonder sometimes. Like you don't build a building and then stress test it... so there must be some fields where simply adding the 30-50% margin for error is good enough.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
FEA is used for design assistance usually, not considered good enough for verification in aerospace at least (not sure about other fields). i.e you can design the wing for a certain loading using FEA to model but then a proper test needs to
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by jpgvm 4y ago
My personal opinion is that we should acknowledge what was done wrong unto them and do our best to support those that are disadvantaged through no fault of their own. However I draw the line at ignoring or being more lenient when it comes t
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Not really? Then again my town was predominantly German Lutheran when it comes to the oldies and they are much more reserved. Even if they held those opinions they would keep them to themselves. My experience with crime and indigenous folk
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by jpgvm 4y ago
If you weren't living here during this time you may not have been aware that Abbot + Morrison being elected resulted in a distinct change in what was considered "acceptable" discourse. The reality is it definitely emboldened
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I'm not talking about having a discussion with them. I'm talking about attending highschool in a country town with 30% indigenous population. Also I'm acutely aware of what their people have endured. I personally don't f
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Pretty unfortunate and disrespectful. Sort of emblematic of Australian bogan culture however. For some reason Australian teenagers are among the worst in this regard. As someone that grew up in country Australia this really doesn't sur
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by jpgvm 4y ago
If you mean the case in the article? Almost no chance. The drawings were deep in the tunnel system which itself is essentially in the middle of nowhere.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Architecturally no. Operationally based on folks I know have (or continue to) worked there in the past suggests they are much less likely to be popped. Something about having higher calibre security folk seems to make major breaches much le
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yeah they don't burn coal, they are hoping to transition to natural gas and we shouldn't stand for that shit. That is literally the whole point of my comment.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Nope. They love solar and wind because both result in a grid that for the forseeable future requires peaker plants. Usually LNG which they see as their greenwashed future. They hate hydro for the same reason they hate nukes, they are too da
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yes read The Manager's Path. When you are done with that focus on finding yourself a mentor. Leadership skills are even harder to wrote learn than engineering chops. A mentor will help you be more retrospective and find the areas you c
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Truth be told if he was he MVP they would have won. Instead he contributed substantially to France being down 0-2 in the first place, a deficit if they were without they would have won handily. His defensive work rate was worse than Messi w
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Because all commercial enterprises operate on timescales too short to be relevant to long term climate and energy needs. We should have state owned power generation, transmission and storage. It makes the most sense and can function optimal
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by jpgvm 4y ago
So many folks overlook the impact of China on todays energy landscape. First of all renewables. People keep talking about how solar is now so economical and it's price has fallen 90%+ in a decade. How did this happen when US and Austra
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I think most important aspect is experience, the second most important would be leadership. There is little point being a principal engineer if the intuition and experience you can bring to bear aren't embraced by your team so the soft
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I'm working on no-code stuff at Glide. Specifically building our infrastructure to support millions of customer tables. :)

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