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by lsc 8y ago
>A service level agreement is really a service packaged with an insurance product. Now, such a service may be sold on the very high end... but in the general case, that's not what "Service Level Agreement" usually means. (
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by lsc 8y ago
>A good heuristic is that most high quality items are custom made niche things. e. See, I just don't think this is true. When you get something custom, you get to tune a lot more parameters than when you buy COTS, and if you know
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by lsc 8y ago
>>negative consequences when it comes to performance (write amplification) >If you're using SSDs, not really a concern with spinning rust. This is not true. Raid5 has the same problem with "you must write a unit of x at
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by lsc 8y ago
Huh. interesting. that was not my impression, but I didn't know about the land-grant acts, so perhaps I am wrong. Vetoed by Buchanan - you don't get a much stronger endorsement of a government action than that. It's inte
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by lsc 8y ago
A lot of schools offer certificates, if you are looking for vocational training https://extension.berkeley.edu/public/category/courseCategor... (among others) but my point here is just that college is... not vocat
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by lsc 8y ago
Yeah, but isn't this the problem that the earned income tax credit was designed to solve?
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by lsc 8y ago
>Also check out private schools. My understanding is that private (k-12) schools pay dramatically less than (unionized) public schools. I've had family and friends who taught even at very expensive secular private schools, who then
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by lsc 8y ago
>What is your suggestion for OP where their resume is immediately discard because of no education? Eh, I don't have a degree. My own strategy? I just apply until I find a place where that isn't a hard requirement. I personally
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by lsc 8y ago
>A character popping memes holding an iPhone X will not age well. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If you look at, say, William Gibson and how he talks about brands, especially in his early cyberpunk stuff, it's super dated but also su
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by lsc 8y ago
>I can't think of anyone I know that could do well in the Google interview process but could not get good grades. To get good grades, you must be able to do rote work on time. I did really poorly in high school, because if you don&
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by lsc 8y ago
Lol. I personally didn't get on the bitcoin wagon 'cause I had (well, I guess still have) frozen e-gold. Not that I speculated in it, but I accepted some as payment for services back in the day and never got around to cashing
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by lsc 8y ago
The other thing I want to point out here which I wish I understood in my early 20s is that cash you invest when you are young grows. long-term long-bets of the type your mom would recommend (whole market index funds, real-estate, etc...)
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by lsc 8y ago
>People don't tolerate compiler bugs very well. I'd say there's quite a bit of overlap. I don't see how your first point is related to the second. The goal for most webapps is to get something that works most of the t
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by lsc 8y ago
>Programmers who can write their own compiler are much better C and C++ programmers, because they have relevant background. Sure, sure. But how many companies care about that sort of thing? C is rather my best language, and as far as I
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by lsc 8y ago
Eh, if we want to look at mechanical complexity increasing reliability, I'd point at exhaust valves. Have you owned a vehicle with valves you had to adjust? man, life was different before hydraulic lifters. Adding a fancy complex p
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by lsc 8y ago
As far as I can tell, Docker is a lot like amazon AWS in that the primary reason to use it in corp (I'm talking about corp IT; as opposed to production/customer facing stuff) is that due to the hype, it somehow got past security,
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by lsc 8y ago
>The people I respect want to know the truth, even if it's upsetting or disillusioning. Even if it makes you dramatically less effective? As far as I can tell, the best evidence is that we probably don't have free will in a way
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by lsc 8y ago
> It's as if it's very important to them personally to be able to classify perpetrators of atrocities into two simplistic categories, People Who Do Stuff Like That and People Who, Somehow, Magically, Don't. You don't
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by lsc 8y ago
How do they solve the torrent liability problem? My understanding is that if you download something via torrent, you are also uploading/distributing, and as I understand it, that makes your liability rather higher if the content happen
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by lsc 8y ago
> We can't do this crab bucket thing where we say it's foolish to defend people with some amount of privilege because there's people over there who are worse off--what is the ultimate end of that strategy, a search for the
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by lsc 8y ago
Personally, I am a lot less effective when I work from home. I need the social pressure of being in the office around other people that are working to stay focused. But I've hired some incredible people that I totally wouldn't
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by lsc 8y ago
>Working is taking up more and more of our days. Gone is the 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours leisure. It's going back to "as many hours as you can physically go without sleep" once again. No benefits, no retirement, no
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by lsc 8y ago
> I would argue that at the least it's a little absurd that we're resorting to corporate housing and "work-dorms" for lack of a better term when we could just simply shift more work to small and mid-size cities. Get y
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by lsc 8y ago
corsite (and all but the lowest end datacenters) will sell you multiple power feeds... but you usually have to pay substantially more for those feeds every month than you would pay for the same watts out of a single feed, and my experienc
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by lsc 8y ago
when I was at he.net, the outage reports were all about ATS failures and the like. I mean, switching that much power is serious busines... a lot of the cut-rate datacenters I've been at mostly had power outages when their switching equ
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by lsc 8y ago
The right solution is to get two upstreams and BGP. ... which is unfortunately rather more difficult when you are in a datacenter owned by he.net :( It's possible, though, and I thought linode had done so, I think XO communications i
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by lsc 8y ago
>Would the other providers compete on (non-public) price just to gain (new) market share? It's possible, but I maintain it's an extraordinary proposition, considering Microsoft's overall software ecosystem integration adva
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by lsc 8y ago
> BART and other big city light rail systems are plagued with billions in deferred maintenance because while politicians love ribbon cutting and pontificating they balk when the bill comes due. Yeah, that is part of why I support systems
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by lsc 8y ago
>If I understand the math correctly, BART claims about 126 million rides (2015) and cost $906M (~$7 a ride, comparable to some uber pool fares) I think a better comparison than total cost is how much money they are losing. The differen
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by lsc 8y ago
>Is it, though? Other than the special case of Netflix, it strains credibility that any cloud provider would be willing to give enough of a discount to match, let alone beat, ones own hardware. How would they make money? Right now, as I

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