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by mandevil 8d ago
At $previousJob we implemented circuit breakers: centralize all requests to the foreign service (every call to service theta went through the service theta client which had some shared state so everything so we could keep track of requests)
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by mandevil 15d ago
According to the artickle, even the Chorleywood technique requires some Canadian wheat- it's just that with the mixers they can get it down to 15%.
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by mandevil 16d ago
This long pre-dates Google. Microprocessors as a whole were a result of the US military industrial complex. The first large scale use of integrated circuits was the Minuteman II ballistic missile guidance system. The lineage that leads to t
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by mandevil 16d ago
At very large $companyIUsedToWorkFor, the accessibility features got a lot better once we hired a blind developer. Once it went from "we have to pass this test" as our only feedback to "Bob did this because it confused his
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by mandevil 17d ago
Flock is Planet Labs name for the mega-constellation of imaging satellites made up of 3U cubesats known as Doves- hence the name for the full constellation. It has nothing to do with the automated license plate reader company.
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by mandevil 17d ago
Is it going to be streaming? On which platform? With the "HBO canceled it, wouldn't even release it to streaming" already in its history I am very unsure that it will even end up on streaming, and so decided to see it in the
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by mandevil 17d ago
My kid (9yo) had seen a couple of Roadrunner cartoons on Youtube, no more than that. e.g. I don't think he's ever seen a Sylvester-Tweety cartoon. It didn't matter, he enjoyed the movie a lot. Beyond the very basics of Coyote
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by mandevil 25d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-cost_Uncrewed_Combat_Attac... is almost a straight copy of the infamous Iranian Shahed for ~$35,000 USD. (Perhaps the US sourced their Shahed from Ukraine, though that, like many thing
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by mandevil 27d ago
Hubble was the result of an open competition between a variety of companies and technologies. But the winners were the people who built the KH-11 spy satellite, who could offer the cheapest and best proved options because of their experienc
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by mandevil 28d ago
Everyone agreed that this (what the court ruled) was the plain meaning of the law up until Kalshi just decided to go for it. They basically did an Uber on the law, completely ignoring how it had long been interpreted and demanding someone s
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by mandevil 1mo ago
Counterpoint: most human CEO's are doing trendslop as well. At least in the worlds I live in (US technology industry, so either megacap public companies or SV-funded startups). It often seems like all of the VCs, CEOs, and large invest
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by mandevil 1mo ago
Because companies can choose their customers, and can choose not to serve some customers because they are too difficult/expensive, while a government can't ethically make the same choice. A government (at least a liberal democrati
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by mandevil 1mo ago
Even companies that primarily sell software to the US Government don't get software like margins. Functionally, the business of selling software to the US Government scales like plumbing and not like commercial/consumer software.
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by mandevil 1mo ago
Fortunately Stripe is in the business of providing a single abstraction over an enormous pit of complexity, so I think they'll be in good hands!
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by mandevil 1mo ago
Yeah, this is also what I see as the main threat to my relationship with my wife: my complacency, taking it and her for granted. We both work hard on our parenting our 9 year old, and our careers, but then you need to spend the time with ea
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by mandevil 1mo ago
I think the point that my friend's mom was making to her was that for a woman (with significantly higher social expectations for the amount of care work and housework) you can only be good at two of the three, because you are a human b
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by mandevil 1mo ago
This is a conversation that ambitious women have been having for decades. To the point where it's a cliche. Having it about men and women is valuable, having it be about them separately I think masks some of the structural problems- e.
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by mandevil 2mo ago
The problem for mortgages is that the headline rate (30 year fixed) was historically low for almost the entire period 2009-2020, as the economy slowly struggled out of the Great Recession and then the rates went absurdly low during the Covi
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by mandevil 2mo ago
I kinda feel like "It's often the fault of the human driver who takes over last second" means it is still Autopilot's fault. It either needed to alert and hand-off control to the user well before the situation got bad- o
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by mandevil 2mo ago
I would be careful with this line of thought: opening a malformed archive that gets you into user space is often the first step in a chain-of-attacks that ends up winning Pwn2Own, so I think that a 8-ish score makes sense for it. It won&#x2
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by mandevil 2mo ago
For all societies before about 1870 at the very earliest, the reason for large families was the very high death rate: a typical woman could expect to get pregnant 10 times, lose five of them to miscarriage, lose two of the five live births
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by mandevil 2mo ago
When you don't know what you're talking about, an option you always have is to be silent. I suggest that you exercise that option next time. At the time I was doing this, it was part of a very large company that quarterly ran audi
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by mandevil 2mo ago
This would be true if they were working from a baremetal Apache server. But they seem to be using a vendor, Cloudflare, for their CDN. And so I strongly suspect that they used their existing Cloudflare account to do it. Just type the countr
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by mandevil 2mo ago
There are rumors that the next step is a TSLA-SPCX merger. Each company has something that Elon wants but is hard to get: Elon has super-voting controlling shares of SPCX, but TSLA is part of the S&P500. Once a company is listed, exchan
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by mandevil 3mo ago
Heh, as a (very white) American I presumed it was America in general today. From what I can see, it seems to be turning into a place where it's all scams, rug-pulls, crypto and sports gambling. This concerns me about the world that my
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by mandevil 3mo ago
The key is selecting officers for competence, not loyalty. This requires all the other stuff in your country to be set up so that the leaders aren't worried about coups from your own military, but the advantage to getting all of that
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by mandevil 3mo ago
Back in the 1950's, as part of a study for putting ICBM bases in Greenland, the US Army built a 2MW reactor (PM-2A) and deployed it to the test base (Camp Century) in Greenland. It powered the camp for about three years, modulo a littl
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by mandevil 3mo ago
Yeah but they were still vulnerable to obscenity charges- in the case you cite Handley took a plea deal and served six months in jail because he was certain that the jury would find him guilty of obscenity (the deal kept him from having to
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by mandevil 3mo ago
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w8942/w8942... Some economists theorize that a long time Mayor of Boston (James Curley) used economic populism (taxing wealthy people of English descent a
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by mandevil 3mo ago
So for housing it depends on the local laws (1), but for labor this has actually been heavily studied, and the general consensus (2) is actually higher demand for native-born labor. All of those immigrants need goods and services, after all

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