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by lamontcg 3y ago
I've been on an incident call that Jeff Bezos hopped on to listen into. The "IC" (we had some different name like problem management engineer or something like that) did not ask him to get off it.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I wrote configuration management software. Mocking the filesystem was a disaster. It worked much better to take the whole system that was responsible for modifying the filesystem and just "dependency inject" a real file or direc
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I like that this article was about solving the problem and not lecturing the person that they should have done it all up front before it was ever successful.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yep, and I've seen code shipped that passed all its unit tests but the interface between them was subtly wrong so it violently failed to work at all after being shipped. Had to write functional tests to make sure it all worked togethe
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by lamontcg 3y ago
CIA is probably teaching the Ukrainians to build cheap, small drones and presumably they're building prototypes in a lab somewhere.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Reddit understands that its biggest value is as a gigantic pump and dump forum to dump their bags onto.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> HashiCorp's financials don't look terrible Uh, what? 2023 revenue was 475.89M, gross margin was certainly good with 381.47M gross profit, but then you look at 678.76M of SG&A and then operational losses are (274.3M). Ever
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> In both codebases I’ve merged PRs without any tests and frequently see others do the same. And the world didn’t end and no one shed any tears and the products are still some of best I’ve ever used and the codebases contain some of the
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah that's the biggest issue in testing software. In a perfect world someone would stop and refactor the entire codebase to make every object perfectly unit testable. In the real world, you have to pick between expanding the system un
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Similarly, if you go looking for compression support in Rust, there's none in the standard library. I have no idea why that is considered a criticism. Compression support is the kind of thing which is going to evolve over time and
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Rubocop in Ruby has the great trailing commas in hash literals debate. That is what has solidly convinced me that programming languages themselves, like the compiler, absolutely need to fuck off with the rigid style proscriptions. There doe
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The Apple Maps 1.0 release was a complete shitshow but it has quietly gotten better than Google Maps by this point. But the average google maps user is still mentally living back in 2012 and still thinks that Apple Maps sucks as hard as it
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by lamontcg 3y ago
IIRC, the algorithm on HN deliberately punishes submissions which have more comments than upvotes. It uses this as a flamebait-detector.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I might be familiar with hyperbole as well and don't need to have it explained to me. You're still failing at your own principle.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The OP didn't use any qualifying words, I would be happy to take the other side of this argument if they did. You're also lecturing me about a stance that I normally take and agree with. Apply your own logic to me, steelman my p
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Or change the laws and standards and have Boeing retain all its camera footage for all its planes permanently.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Weird how nobody cares at all. We're definitely in some kind of mini-bubble in economic optimism at a minimum. I suppose this could be the ignition point of a melt-up in an AI/crypto-led actual stock bubble. I'm sort of unwil
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> they can't reason at all. I'm pretty sure this is it. They don't understand even negation to begin with. In this thread someone asked an AI to output images of stereotypical American soccer fans and it drew all the Seat
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> the local impact of a crypto mine is very one-sidedly positive—large amounts of cash injecting into the surrounding economy, particularly the energy sector and everyone who works in or profits from it. driving up costs of electricity d
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"liberating"
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I think the people who are plugged into avherald.com and trying to prove how much they know about aviation are in a worse state, because they're missing the fact that through MCAS and the plug blowout that Boeing's culture really
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah after the MCAS incident showing a kind of malice and the door blowout showing incompetency, I'm perfectly happy to start treating Boeing as guilty until proven innocent on these incidents. They haven't really been behaving i
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by lamontcg 3y ago
You need to have reddit admins that are paid employees of the company which meta-moderate. And you need to build out systems to give them information on the users so that they can make moderation decisions. You need to build out anti-bot i
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'd be happy to debate with anyone who has even watched an online virology course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGhmZX2NKiNktEViriylQ... Just spend 25 hours watching videos so we have a common language about
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Measles and Chickenpox are both airborne, although they’re not respiratory the way Covid is. But their respective vaccines are vastly more effective. Natural infection with Measles and Chickenpox are also vastly more effective at preve
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> This may well be true, but I’ll be far more likely to believe it when there’s an mRNA vaccine that’s anywhere near as effective as the best old boring vaccines. You mean like the influenza vaccine that is only about 50% effective and y
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US Jobless Rate Hits Two-Year High Even as Hiring Stays Strong(bloomberg.com)
3 points by lamontcg 3y ago|1 comments
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by lamontcg 3y ago
In addition to everything covered above: US company can't imagine someone would take a foreign vacation away from their job for more than 30 days.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I think the NTSB would probably love to interview to the crew who actually used the tools--even if nobody can figure out which exact team used the tools on this exact plane--they probably wouldn't so much as incriminate themselves as t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Companies are totally allowed to have no conscience I don't think companies are going to form a conscience any time soon. We need to deal with the fact that they're best viewed as being inherently sociopathic and regulate the

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