lazyant

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by lazyant 4y ago
maybe look into Unitarian Universal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
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by lazyant 4y ago
any manual undocumented change may lead to hard to debug problems, an example in these comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389882
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by lazyant 4y ago
> My point is, both code and YAML are completely wrong solutions to the problem. Look at configuration file formats for 20+ year old programs as an example of good configuration. (Hint: none of them are either YAML or code) I take config
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by lazyant 4y ago
The Chinese Room Argument holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot have a "mind", "understanding", or "consciousness",[a] regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the c
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by lazyant 4y ago
reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
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by lazyant 4y ago
In chess, Grandmasters draws are terrible for spectators. Maybe they should penalize with less than 0.5 points or like in Linares, with cash or not inviting back.
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by lazyant 4y ago
"it laid off thousands by email" I know that the laying off thousands is the worst part but I also saw some people taking exception to the "by email" part (as inhumane or something; what's the alternative? also of c
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by lazyant 4y ago
I was interviewed by Karat for an SRE position and I found it a joke. Questions like "a web server goes down but the site stays up, why?" - me: "well, define 'down', also is there a caching layer in front?". &q
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by lazyant 4y ago
I only see one failure here: not using ISO 8601 for dates.
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by lazyant 4y ago
Some companies require or encourage them (HashiCorp, Shopify for ex)
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by lazyant 4y ago
Quick thoughts: - System design interview changes depending on the company. At Facebook the interviewer said one sentence in the whole interview to me, no feedback or anything, so be prepared for nasty ones. At Google they hate if you u
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by lazyant 4y ago
can we have "best of both worlds" for inserting a lot of data quickly, to have an unlogged table for performance and a trigger to copy data to another regular table for permanence?
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by lazyant 4y ago
https://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/B075MMHYMK/ref=acr_dp_... top result in Canada
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by lazyant 4y ago
I disagree. A 20-30 min interview that filters 37% of candidates (for his case) while selling the company to the other candidates is the most effective interview in the whole interviewing pipeline, saving a lot of time downstream. The alter
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by lazyant 4y ago
they are about the same btw (~10% difference which is fine for the purpose of showing measures relatable to people)
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by lazyant 4y ago
> They delegate the decision to various managers below them From causal reading about the Big Tech layoffs, own/second hand experience etc, large layoffs are decided at the Director level at least (VPs in the case of Google iirc), a
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by lazyant 4y ago
as a non-native English speaker, it initially read as (something boat) causes (father/son) to (go overboard)
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by lazyant 4y ago
60% 1 star ratings on Amazon (failing device), still no peace of mind but better than nothing :-(
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by lazyant 4y ago
thanks! (some of these ideas are not possible to implement in the current setup but I can explore some of the other ones)
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by lazyant 4y ago
This is another example of a scam in Amazon https://www.amazon.ca/Portable-Reusable-Ultrasonic-Cleaning-... , the best seller product in its category and it's not anything ultrasonic but a little vibrating motor. The 5
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by lazyant 4y ago
> - A few python books from No Starch Press (notably those authored by Al Sweigart) Yes for example https://nostarch.com/inventwithpython and https://nostarch.com/big-book-small-python-projects
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by lazyant 4y ago
> how their work ethics share the same ability to resist deformation as their play habits "We work hard, we play hard" in case anyone missed it :-)
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by lazyant 4y ago
Automation is not only about saving time in each iteration but about saving a lot of time and headache (downtime, money) when you introduce a manual error (plus it has many other benefits like other people can execute the task, auditability
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by lazyant 4y ago
Texas has less zoning regulations and it resulted in more roads, parking lots and dependency of the car.
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by lazyant 4y ago
web site still terrible, I still don't know what Casa Bonita is.
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by lazyant 4y ago
> - China will attack Guam then Okinawa within 5 years. These bases need to be destroyed as part of its invasion of Taiwan China will attack the US (Guam and Okinawa are basically US military bases, Guam being US territory as well) on th
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by lazyant 4y ago
HackerOne and 2FA everything is biggest bang for the buck imho. A sensible approach to SOC 2 certification (the real security part, not the checkbox part) is good to fill in gaps and think about overall strategies.
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by lazyant 4y ago
and this is a bad thing? sounds like micro-entrepreneurs to me
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by lazyant 4y ago
> The US is statistically overdue. Rather the opposite? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by lazyant 4y ago
https://devopswithdocker.com/

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