jrockway

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by jrockway 3y ago
Remember that you run a lot of untrusted code on your single-user desktop through Javascript on websites. Javascript can do all those side channel attacks like Spectre and Meltdown.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Is Amex completely closed loop? When I worked at Bank of America circa 2010 we issued an Amex card. No idea if that is still a thing or not.
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's a little bit of a gimmick. If you can't get fresh coffee to every location on earth, at least you can dilute the flavor with pork juice. That said, mixing stuff with coffee does have precedent. Espresso mixed with milk is s
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by jrockway 3y ago
In 1994 we were seeing this all for the first time. Everyone had intrusive thoughts like "how big can I make a pop tart fire", but very few had the ability to make digital photographs and upload it to the Internet for all to se
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by jrockway 3y ago
I'd expect Apple to refund the cost of the phone and mail a box to send the faulty device in for recycling. Making a defective product should not be free.
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by jrockway 3y ago
The crazier the reproduction, the more interesting the bug. A trivial bug isn't an interesting. A bug where two edge cases interact to do something more than the sum of parts is quite interesting. You learn something about the edge
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by jrockway 3y ago
The non-pro threadrippers also use ECC now.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, I mean, these companies are at the end of their "startup" lifecycle and are now just ordinary big companies that exist to chill and produce dividends. When you hear "Amazon", think "IBM". When you hear
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by jrockway 3y ago
I noticed at the beginning that cars are driving on the right side of the road, but in Japan they drive on the left. The AI misses little details like that. (I'm also not sure they've ever had a couple inches of snow on the groun
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by jrockway 3y ago
That's why I'm saying it's a questionable company. Would Docker have been as popular if it was closed source $100/month/seat? Would Docker have been as popular if they had registry pull rate limiting on day 1? No
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by jrockway 3y ago
Unlikely. The Velcro trademark has been so far gone for decades that I doubt there is a single person on the planet that knows it's the name of a company and not a generic term for hook and loop fastener. The next company you'll
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by jrockway 3y ago
It sounds like it's still in the phase where it costs $10,000 per rice grain to grow.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think they're having trouble selling the actual tool, though. Docker turning the screws on Docker Desktop users has resulted in a lot of people saying "we'd rather just switch to Podman". I think the place where you&#
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by jrockway 3y ago
I also don't know why HN is so upset about people willing to help out in the threads. The way I see it is, if you talk about your product on HN, inevitably someone will remember they have a support inquiry while HN is open, and ask it
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by jrockway 3y ago
I played with this a tiny tiny bit when ChatGPT first came out. I fed it Amazon descriptions and then asked questions about it. It was pretty good at understanding the manipulation that sellers do; I remember being especially surprised ho
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's hard to tell how meaningful the reviews are. I have used AWS, GCP, DigialOcean, and Linode throughout my career. Every single one of these, through no fault of myself or my team, messed up and caused downtime. Like, you can get
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by jrockway 3y ago
Kubernetes on AWS, GCP, and Linode are all controllable and well-trodden. I definitely understand the comparison between Kubernetes and fly. You have couple apps that are totally unrelated, managed by separate teams, and you want to figure
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by jrockway 3y ago
It depends on what the 6 cores are. Like I have a 8C/8T dedicated server sitting in my closet that costs $65 per the number of times you buy it. (Usually once.) The cores are not as fast as the highest-end Epyc cores, however ;)
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by jrockway 3y ago
I feel like everyone is guilty of something like that. Nobody wants to understand how the existing system works, they just want to rewrite it from scratch ;)
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by jrockway 3y ago
I made my bike as light as possible because I had to carry it up several flights of stairs to my apartment. Being lighter makes that easier and applies less friction to deciding whether or not to go out for a ride. (I live on the 1st floo
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. I feel like I can talk my way out of anything, but if there's a correct answer that exists without thinking, I'd love to know it. Not for interviews, but for In Real Life performance ;)
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by jrockway 3y ago
I kind of doubt it. Right now Microsoft is paying money to distribute it to people (Github). Code signing is not really any stamp of approval from an "app store" type agency, it's more of a self-certification thing. It&#x2
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, that's a pretty interesting question. For long-lived connections on networks I don't trust, I arbitrarily set the timeout at 10s. On networks I trust, I set it to one second. Looking at 99.99%-ile connection times on my p
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by jrockway 3y ago
What empire does the US have? Are you talking about Puerto Rico and Guam ?
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by jrockway 3y ago
Rent stabilized apartments increase their rent by ~3% a year. That seems fine for keeping up with costs. You also have to keep in mind that the required work becomes more efficient over time. An example I've noticed is that in times
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, it's the same as selling a rent-stabilized building today. No, you can't kick the tenants out when you sell. You often sell at a significant discount because of the problem to profitability that the tenants pose. This i
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, the 12% figure quoted isn't what you get at a payday loan place.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I grew up in the suburbs. My town had pretty much no commercial base. The next town over had a huge mall. They had much better roads, a much better library, a sports complex, a swimming pool complex, the list goes on. It was obvious to
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's expensive these days. I lived in one of these buildings for 11 years: https://www.bhsusa.com/brooklyn/brooklyn-heights/60--66-clar... Now the set of 4 buildings is on the market for $25,000,000. If yo
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by jrockway 3y ago
Personal loans are like 7% right now. Or at least that's what Amex quotes me every time I log in.

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