manquer

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by manquer 2y ago
> "cost effective" Jet set was a thing in 50/60s Jet travel was viewed as a play thing for the extremely rich . Even today there is staggering 80% of the world population who have never flown in airplane ever in their life
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by manquer 2y ago
> SpaceX exists because of that government's significant funding of the company and the prescient decision to award multiple (fixed-price!) Commercial Cargo/Crew contracts. This was the claim of OP I replied to, Are we not movi
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by manquer 2y ago
It is undeniable that NASA/NROL/USAF contracts and support benefited spaceX especially early on . However their commercial launch business is still considerably larger than what US gov gives them and always has been , it is possib
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by manquer 2y ago
I agree, the only people I would take this pitch from would be ex-founders or at least a CXO or the head of the business unit .
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by manquer 2y ago
Most status page products integrate to monitoring tools like Datadog[1], large teams like github would have it automated. You ideally do not want to be making a decision on whether to update a status page or not during the first few minutes
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by manquer 2y ago
Status page updates with "degraded availability". lol
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by manquer 2y ago
A valuation is a just headline number which have no operational bearing. Their ARR in 2022 was around $400M-450M. Say the infra budget at a typical 10% would be $50M. While it is a lot of money, it is not build your hardware money, also not
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by manquer 2y ago
I can't say for OpenAI, but in general I have seen and used this design pattern to keep consistency of root object output and remove a lot of unnecessary validations and branching flows Otherwise you will to handle the scenarios in cod
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by manquer 2y ago
trailing zero works with integer storage, i.e. old 1234 becomes 12340 and new flight number could be 12345. Mentally if the number has significance for sort order etc, you can think they are like decimals they would be 1234.0 and 1234.5,
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by manquer 2y ago
Technological feasibility is not economic feasibility. We spend a minuscule amount of our resource budget on science without short term profit . There are orders of magnitude of things we can achieve as a species with current technology if
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by manquer 2y ago
there are plenty of industries that revolve around seasonal jobs. Retail, tourism, sports, entertainment, agriculture or even politics. Churn could mean many things, not necessarily a bad sign
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by manquer 2y ago
For me it wouldn't be about the 25k upfront,it is just working with Adobe is incredibly painful, same for Oracle. I really really don't want to work with them in any capacity if i can avoid. If say MS charged the same or even doub
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by manquer 2y ago
> A single customer can't convince Vast majority of the enterprise software was built bespoke or heavily customized for a customer for a long time and still is. SaaS / product based multi-tenant software development becoming po
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by manquer 2y ago
> only operates on that single platform Nope, they aren't ready to pay for another platform that is their choice . If customers paid for linux or mac support there is no shortage of developers ready to cater to that. Unwilling to pa
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by manquer 2y ago
Not just the one. Both old and new testament have lot of violence and mysognistic rhetoric if you read them literally. It may not seem like it today , Christianity is a bloody religion of conquest throughout most of its history, just the la
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by manquer 2y ago
Open source doesn't mean the bazzar, plenty of projects have a cathedral style development. Bazzar works absolutely fine for security, Linux kernel is one project which does this , all security infrastructure uses it one way or another
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by manquer 2y ago
That is what all religious texts and institutions effectively do. Take moral standards of centuries and millennium before and force it on today.
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by manquer 2y ago
> open sourcing everything wouldn't cause any problem That is not what am saying, I am saying open sourcing doesn’t cause more problems than proprietary systems which is the argument OP was making . Open source is not a panacea, it
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by manquer 2y ago
Plenty of fundamental research and development happens in academia fairly effectively. Government has to fund not run it like any other grant works today. The existing foundations and non profits like Apache or even mixed ones like Mozilla
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by manquer 2y ago
> Open sourcing them increases the risk of attackers contributing malicious code to slow down development or introduce vulnerabilities. This is a such tired non-sequitur argument with no evidence whatsoever to back it up that the risk is
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by manquer 2y ago
This phenomenon is not limited to immigrants. It has been observed with many types of groups like say women in corporate leadership The reason being that they had it difficult and therefore it shouldn’t be easy for the next person
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by manquer 2y ago
Perhaps OP means the Cuban Americans who fled before are generally pretty right wing - which is why they were persecuted by far left regime of Castro in the first place- will likely vote for Trump. It is also perhaps possible that those cit
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by manquer 2y ago
> It's hilarious I would hope that humanitarian aid and relief are based only on need and not on any political calculus.
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by manquer 2y ago
> be Microsoft could handle this stuff better and not show a BSOD? How would the OS differentiate between a compromised agent and a faulty one ?. Do you want the OS to continue boot when it is potentially compromised ? That is likely to
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by manquer 2y ago
And what responsibilities do hospitals and 911 centers or the makers of products to these institutions have for running mission critical software properly? At the bare minimum these systems should have been air gaped. Microsoft is not recom
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by manquer 2y ago
> More people die in Texas than California. In total. Not per capita. Also per capita, It is not possible for more people to die in Texas and not beat California for per capita metrics given the lower Texas population.
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by manquer 2y ago
Rather point I think is there technical and evaluation gates companies of this nature regularly go through while contracting, part of that is being able to talk the language of the industry properly . This seems very amateurish for companie
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by manquer 2y ago
No this is a common misconception. He was convicted for falsifying business records nothing else. All the records that were fraudulently submitted were starting Jan 2017. The hush money payment wasn't illegal, hiding it was. It rose to
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by manquer 2y ago
I don’t think he needs to. they will appeal based on the insanely broad immunity ruling and get the conviction overturned on procedural loophole created by the ruling - no evidence from his presidency even for unofficial acts and justice de
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by manquer 2y ago
They even blamed the pilots badly for the accident .

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