lclarkmichalek

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by lclarkmichalek 3mo ago
Isn’t it a fairly natural (and useful) capitalist outcome that as prices rise incentives to increase supply increase? What’s technocratic about responding to a demand change?
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by lclarkmichalek 8mo ago
Hilarious. The code being produced previously was crap - it was just your crap. Baseline agents produce something similar, but can at least be guided, durably, towards producing less crap code.
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by lclarkmichalek 11mo ago
In absolute terms, yep. In marginal terms, not so much. See also: paradox of value
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by lclarkmichalek 1y ago
Highways are pretty safe. The road is designed from start to finish to minimise the harm from collisions. That’s not true of urban streets
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by lclarkmichalek 1y ago
I think if you regulated coal on a linear no threshold risk model, you'd find the costs to be somewhat closer.
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by lclarkmichalek 1y ago
There's also the converse argument, to governments that look to infrastructure as the secret to all prosperity - America succeeds without infrastructure, somehow.
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
Natural monopolies exist, for sure. Your insurance example is odd though - insurance markets are generally highly competitive. The recent cases where we’ve seen a loss of competition in the market (CA home insurance, for example) have been
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
The usual issue is the addition of control loops without much understanding of the signals (CPU utilization is a fun one), and the addition of control loops without the consideration of other control loops. For example, you might find that
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
What does this have to do with the topic being discussed?
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
There is a limit on reliable usage of the FS. Call it what you want. The user doesn't particularly care.
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
It does happen in prod. Usually due to virtual FSes that rely on get_next_ino: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/13/1078
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
I think a fair few of them were created because they knew a bit too much about FOQS
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
You rather explained the value prop of this product then. The benefits of isolation without the 1 business day wait.
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
Personally, there's no way I'd want a customer initiated operation to trigger something like terraform or mess with DB schemas. On the security side, it would significantly complicate the permissions structure from the application
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by lclarkmichalek 2y ago
Doesn’t astronomy already use TAI, which has no leap seconds?
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
Penalties for being on your phone while driving are fairly different between different countries. In the UK it's 6 points and £200 if you're caught. It's a fair deterrent
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
The impact on the energy market always seems a tad misstated in these articles. Datacenters are often funded through corporate power purchase agreements, committing them to purchasing power directly from the generator over periods of multip
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
Never used Bazel in my life, so while I can appreciate your passion, I guess I don't share your perspective. Generally the pattern I've seen has been providing a skylark interface to allow folks to define rules or configurations,
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
In a competition with sky/starlark, I feel skylark would win here. “Safe subset of python” is what a lot of people presented with this problem want, and skylark gives them almost exactly that. OTOH, curious to see what advantages Pkl g
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
I mean, they can and should be both. Local decisions can be cheap, and very simple to implement. But global decisions can be smarter, and more predictable. In my experience, it's incredibly hard to make good decisions in pathological s
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
This still isn't what I'd call "safe". Retries are amazing at supporting clients in handling temporary issues, but horrible for helping them deal with consistently overloaded servers. While jitter & exponential backo
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
I wonder why they didn't do that in the 14 years since VPCs were introduced?
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
Bronze age collapse wasn't exactly great though.
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by lclarkmichalek 3y ago
It models wiggling forward. It models wiggling backwards. And occasionally it models fucking itself. That’s it.
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by lclarkmichalek 4y ago
Unbundling is a real thing, with some pronounced second order affects. The first order effect of charging for in flight food service and checked bagged is purely redistributive, but rise of low cost, heavily unbundled airlines has increased
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by lclarkmichalek 4y ago
Setting up a hardware platform of this kind that is useable in production costs significantly more than a couple of million
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by lclarkmichalek 4y ago
There are also things that are unmitigated improvements.
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by lclarkmichalek 5y ago
A bit before my time, but maybe a physical capacity order, to a non fungible pool. The infra is quite different now (mostly to avoid this kind of inefficiency)
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by lclarkmichalek 5y ago
I mean, that's not true in the general case. That'd be incredibly wasteful. (Work at Meta, mostly on capacity)
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by lclarkmichalek 5y ago
There are an incredible number of websites that have incredible read:write ratios. I would suggest doing everything you can to avoid writing to the database on every request.

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