klooney

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   by klooney 1y ago

   I mean, who is going to volunteer to be the Amazon Stowing John Henry?
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   by klooney 1y ago

   > discouraging 1 dimensional applicants Often when you look at the other dimensions, it's a way for the admissions office to smuggle in criteria that other people find objectionable.
3. 213.▲
   by klooney 1y ago

   So many jailbreaks seem like they would be a fun part of a science fiction short story.
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   by klooney 1y ago

   More unmaintained internal vanity projects that don't work, forever.
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   by klooney 1y ago

   I'm glad to hear it still works!
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   by klooney 1y ago

   https://github.com/coreos/fleet I feel like fleet deserved more of a shot than it ultimately got.
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   by klooney 1y ago

   > The increased focus on Chinese domestic products aligns with Beijing’s broader policy objective known as “Delete America,” Catchy
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   by klooney 1y ago

   If your service is running in AWS, use the native IAM identity loading from ECS, EKS, EC2, etc. If it's your laptop, set AWS_PROFILE and let the SDK load the temporary creds from ~/.aws. If you really really really need to use sta
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   by klooney 1y ago

   > China will definitely blink first. I'm not sanguine. I think their leadership prides itself on being tougher and smarter than American leaders, and I think when they look at the results Canada and Mexico have gotten, complying wit
10. 220.▲
    by klooney 1y ago

    Isn't that generally an arms length thing- the boosters give the money, not the university?
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    by klooney 1y ago

    > And when hope was actually something people might consider voting for? A link to an American politician, of course.
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    by klooney 1y ago

    I know a team that had their Kafka cluster fall over, and they couldn't get it to stay up until eventually their LOB got shut down for being unreliable. I don't know if they were especially bad at their jobs, or their volumes were
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    by klooney 2y ago

    > A person could QA a T-shirt or QA the Netflix app Netflix famously fired all their QA people and requires their devs to do test automation.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    I mean, wasn't this ZIRP Google? Chrome, Android, Project Zero, etc.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    It's going to be interesting and chaotic watching retailers hold the line and then break. If you have big purchases you wanted to make this year, now is the time to get them out of the way, before the next round of price hikes and shor
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Korea used to have substantial auto tariffs. Every nation with an auto industry does. Tariffs are/can be effective, you're just not supposed to tariffs everything on a whim.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    > LIFO principle for layoffs, newest employees are let go first. Stack ranking not possible Newer employees often see this as incredibly unfair.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    They make great kids bikes, for the record. Not too heavy for them to lift.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    It competes with CDNs, is the problem- once you use one, they take care of the caching, and you don't need to run your own. People with global customers need a CDN, and they're to cheap to build your own.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_... they do have a bunch of hardware startups, mostly in socal. https://a16z.com/american-dynamism-50-2025/ is their splash page, t
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Is Gavin Newsom the alt-right podcaster in question?
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Nobody is going to dump millions of dollars into a factory when the tariffs could be revoked at any minute, and definitely will after the next Democratic administration. Plus, the coordination problem is bigger than any one widget factory-
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    by klooney 2y ago

    > thanks to its technology and finance industry There's been a great sucking sound from all the electrical and mechanical engineers switching to writing CRUD apps because the pay is double.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    https://www.econtalk.org/susan-houseman-on-manufacturing/#au... People normally show a slowly increasing graph to claim that the US manufactures more than ever- but it's primarily because of hedonic adjustments fo
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    by klooney 2y ago

    > The U.S. already manufactures warships, though, and we’re already by far the best at it. We very slowly build a small number of incredibly expensive ships. For any other value of "manufacturers warships", Korea or Italy are b
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    by klooney 2y ago

    When people say they get 500k they mean they get paid 200k in salary and got 300k in RSUs, with the details mixed around the edges. ICs aren't getting 500k salary except in a few rare cases.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    I feel bad for Lesotho- 50% is tough.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Are there Chef Habitat users in the wild?
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    by klooney 2y ago

    It's how you keep the riff raff out.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    At least for made in the USA garments, the joke is always that the actual labor is still people from the third world, making less than minimum wage- they're just in LA instead of Guatemala.