karlkatzke

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by karlkatzke 3y ago
Data has "gravity" -- as in, it holds you down to where your data is, and you have to spend money to move it just like you have to spend money to escape gravity.
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
This isn't a loophole. This is by design. AWS wants you to use specific services in specific ways, so they make it really cheap to do so. Using an endpoint for S3 is one of the ways they want you to use the S3 service. Another example
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
In my teens, I had so much ability to process all kinds of stuff that I would pay attention to too much and get too distracted, and as a result, I would turn up music loud enough that it consumed the rest of my attention so that I'd st
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
Magnets. How do they work?!
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
We believe that babies' lives should have rights after birth, too, and if you look at infant mortality rates in states that whose politicians are against abortion, you see that obviously a fetus's right to live ends at birth.
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
I’m apparently still known for my snark during a reply-all storm at TAMU on an internal mailing list, 15 years ago.
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
There's a lot of other things I'm going to die from before I die from artificial sweeteners.
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
> Meanwhile, HVAC guys near me charge $700 to run a thermostat wire 5 feet. Yes, in many areas that’s what it costs for a worker and helper to not be able to work on another more profitable job to do the job for you that only takes fifte
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by karlkatzke 3y ago
Turns out some of those things that got broken outside of the company were important and people cared about them. Funny how things that work great in software development don’t work great when applied to the real world, eh?
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
Good. Needs to happen. Was talking to our HVAC repair dude. He makes as much as I do with a high school education and two years of trade school. Adjusting for age, he definitely makes more than I did at 34. No reason to send kids who want t
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
A bunch of Google’s lack of focus is their internal management culture and nothing will change (and google/alphabet will not be worth being a customer of or being investing in) until the culture problem is fixed. Google only promotes e
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
Also seems to have gotten a crew list from the CommutAir’s CASS or possibly from other airlines as part of the shared deadheading crew list, which includes crew addresses and employment information. There were also prod AWS credentials in t
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
> calling a staffing emergency saying all hell is about to break loose That memo is specifically about ground operations at DEN, and specifically because of the arctic weather conditions and a high number of sick calls and ramp agents th
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
Funny, I’m not a police officer either, and I’ve somehow managed to go my entire life without being in ANY situation where a gun was pulled. Maybe you should re-evaluate your personal risk level and reconsider choices you’ve made in your li
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
More delivery drivers are murdered every year than police officers, but you don’t see people rolling around with “thin bread line” bumper stickers.
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
They don’t. Employees are responsible for checking the math of the scheduler. in the case of pilots, the employee has liability in this situation as well as the airline. Especially in situations where there is bad weather nationwide, employ
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
I liked DSP but it was a bit lacking in complexity once you got past the point of dedicating entire planets to pumping out, say, sphere structure. There's only so large you can build a sphere. Now, Workers & Resources, Soviet Repub
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
Lots of good advice already, but if I can make another one -- find a different type of company to work for/with. Not all companies are, can be, or need to be the go hard get big get out YC companies. I don't really like or work fo
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by karlkatzke 4y ago
It's scary enough in a 400hp/3600lbs RWD car. Even with traction control enabled, the car likes shaking it's ass any time you tap the gas and turning the wheel on anything remotely slick with power in will break the traction
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
It also glosses over that arctic land isn’t usable for agriculture. There’s nowhere near enough fertile soil in former permafrost. The areas that did have fertile soil are now deserts or covered in salt water. It really comes off as disinge
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
What’s funny is how much property values and rent have risen in the US in 2020 to 2022, when population growth has been flat due to Covid. (Population has increased 1 million in that time, from 331.5 million to 332.5 million.) obviously, ne
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
Imagine trying to pay for fuel with a cargo hold full of Rubles.
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai had already almost disappeared before the eruption. A picture taken two hours before the widely publicized explosive detonation showed that the 2015 eruption products, which is really the north north west side
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
Considering that the link is an anti-vaxxer, probably bias.
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
People aren't as densely packed in most parts of Texas, so it might be explainable that way. A lot of the state is also hay fields instead of food crops that are more intensively controlled for pests. But I've noticed a big change
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
The #1 career field that died of COVID during the pandemic is restaurant cooks.
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
No. Wrong. Incorrect on all accounts. A rabid bat absolutely will bite a human, will fly into a home seeking water, will be down at a human level because they no longer fly well, and most bats are so small that the bite won’t be noticed if
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
One of my funniest work experiences comes from a coworker who had a question about an obscure RHEL 5 thing long after RHEL5 should have been abolished, him googling it, and finding an answer I had posted about a decade before when RHEL5 was
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
<sarcasm> Well, I don’t know about you, but I personally try to give all my workplace memes creepy incel sexual overtones. I kind of have a thing for the head of HR . . . </sarcasm>
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
At the point a pilot is considering declaring an emergency, they should do so. Once they have declared an emergency, the insurance company owns the airplane, and the pilot should be focused on preserving as many lives as possible. This is a

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