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by kelp 5y ago
Unfortunately it's also not just resources that cost money. A couple of fun billing surprises I've seen. 1. A bug in a system that uploaded quite a lot of data to Amazon S3 caused it to hit the S3 API to the tune of about $10K&#x
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by kelp 5y ago
I’m not sure what dimensions you are considering 2x the specs, but Mac laptops with an m1 beat any PC laptop on CPU performance, battery life and heat output. Yeah, you can get a PC with more ram, more storage and a bigger GPU.
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by kelp 5y ago
People moving around inside of a country is also a source of demand. The price of condos in San Francisco dropped 10% with COVID-19. The prices in the Tahoe area are up about 20 - 30% over the past 12 months. The demand moved to single fami
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by kelp 5y ago
In the US, we invented zoning, mostly to exclude black people from white neighborhoods. And now we use it to prop up property values and continue to keep poor people out of wealthy neighborhoods. Now I'm speculating, but I wonder if Ja
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by kelp 5y ago
What alternative news sources would you say are more reliable and truthful?
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by kelp 5y ago
Also funding the research is one way to ensure the results are shared.
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by kelp 5y ago
The trouble is if you need VPC peering then it requires a dedicated VPC, dedicated k8s, dedicated instances. Confluent currently only offers one instance size, so that dedicated offering can't be scaled down. PrivateLink allows for sha
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by kelp 5y ago
It's been 10+ years since I tried CPAP, but I could never get to a place where I'd sleep through the night with it on. I'd always take the mask off in my sleep. I tried more than a half dozen different masks and I could never
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by kelp 5y ago
It still competes for fab space and raw materials.
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by kelp 5y ago
I'd love it if there were automated tickets for this. But California can't even get it together to allow automated speeding tickets, a bill for this just got killed. In SOMA in San Francisco I'll often hear motorcycles drive
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by kelp 5y ago
Having done both, I think I mostly agree with you. And I'm a big proponent of having your engineering team focus their efforts on building and maintaining the product you are selling to customers. Avoid doing undifferentiated work. Out
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by kelp 5y ago
Yes and, it depends. Last time I was procuring racks of servers, it was about a 6 week lead time, sometimes more. So yeah, you have to do a lot more capacity planning, and probably keep capacity in reserve for things that are unexpected. I&
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by kelp 5y ago
Also in my experience, on-prem infra, on relatively cheap gear like Dell servers is highly reliable. Yes, you have to plan, yes you have long lead times to get new gear, DC space, etc. But once it's running, failure rates are pretty lo
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by kelp 5y ago
I don't know how every company does it. But I led the datacenter and networking teams at Square from 2011 to 2017. In that time we went from 1 DC cage with 4 server racks to 4 US DCs, one in a Japan and a couple of network pops. A bit
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by kelp 5y ago
What I know from talking to former Dropbox insiders is Drew really wanted to be running a consumer company. He really resisted a push to SMB and Enterprise, even though, at least to me, that seems like the obviously better business. So not
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by kelp 5y ago
In my experience it's pretty common to stretch your infra out much longer than 18-24 months. Often finance has a 3 year depreciation schedule, and depending on your needs, you can keep existing workloads on existing hardware for many m
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by kelp 5y ago
That sounds right. But then I'm having to compile all the packages I need, which makes it even much much slower than brew when binaries are available.
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by kelp 5y ago
I dislike it because it’s really slow to do everything. Even printing help text is slow. Contrast with pacman on Arch, which is incredibly fast at nearly every operation. Unfortunately I’ve found all the package managers for macOS to be lac
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by kelp 5y ago
This reminds me of how Steve Jobs would talk about the need for liberal arts influence in technology. I feel like so much of this blockchain and cryptocurrency stuff is made purely looking at the tech, with either no thought to the actual i
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by kelp 5y ago
I currently have two plots farming and it looks like this: Farming status: Farming Total chia farmed: 0.0 User transaction fees: 0.0 Block rewards: 0.0 Last height farmed: 0 Plot count: 2 Total size of plots: 202.674 GiB E
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by kelp 5y ago
In dollars, almost certainly not. Maybe in number of BTC that traded hands?
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by kelp 5y ago
I have similar memories of lilo. Kind, unassuming, and helpful. Me and some college friends had a small channel back in the early 2000s, and lilo would occasionally pop in and say hello. He was always nice. At the time I wasn't sure ho
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by kelp 5y ago
Was trying to find evidence for this and it doesn’t seem like NASA agrees with you: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/what-will-solar-cy...
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by kelp 5y ago
There are some minor tweaks to what port range syntax is acceptable: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade69.html
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by kelp 5y ago
First, I worked at Square from 2011 to 2017 and have been very invested in the company and the mission. Second, I was super interested in Bitcoin around 2010-2011. Doing a little bit of small scale mining myself. I've since become very
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Jack Dorsey claims Bitcoin incentivizes renewable energy(twitter.com)
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by kelp 5y ago
As someone who has access to and regularly works with (pays) tax professionals and financial advisors, I've yet to be able to take advantage of much, if any, way to avoid paying any tax. Most of the things I'm aware of, and have b
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by kelp 5y ago
I'm glad this is being shared widely, because I agree with it. That said, I have to snark a little about it, because I was in high school, in the 90s, when I came to the same realization about why the death penalty is wrong. So this se
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by kelp 6y ago
Ryzen 5 5600x and Ryzen 7 5800x prices / stock have about equalized lately. So they are pretty easy to find at MSRP. You can currently get a Ryzen 7 5800x from many major retails for MSRP. The Ryzen 9 5900x and 5950x are harder to get.
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by kelp 6y ago
It seems to be a net negative to society to me. One of those cases where a small group gets rich, while everyone else pays the externalities.

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