mikesabbagh

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by mikesabbagh 4y ago
I live in a wetland and import 60-70% of fruits and vegetables from California. This is not sustainable
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
Did not switch jobs, but got a huge land (with my amazing IT income) that used to be a quarry. The plan is to pump Carbon in the depleted soil to help climate change and build a fruit forest to share with local community (not doing it for p
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
get a big mirror and make sure you see youreself every day
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
Thank you for all who worked on making the Pi. I learned so much while having fun. I think it shaped my career too. My only suggestion is that they should produce more of them. I placed an order early January for the new pi zero2w, still in
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
github autopilot scares me every time I write code on my personal pc and get those auto-suggestions. I am happy we dont have it at work yet. It is clear writing code will soon be something of the past; maybe it is a bad idea to train our ch
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
it amazes me that hacker news run on a single node. All this work is nice and beautiful, the problem will come when you try to update different components.
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
When I hear this, I start thinking, are they getting called because of too much security?
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
You remember the modular phone where you can replace parts and not replace everything when you want to update your phone? This hardware failure tells you that you need to use the latest hardware to run the latest software.
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
for some reason, i think of the gods that are half human, half animals. They lived forever!! If you can transplant a heart, then new kidneys and pancreas ... we will become sphynxes. Cant wait to see where this will take us in 20 years
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
> Implement firewalls This is the most important by faaaar. Do this experiment: Start a vm on any cloud with an open port 22, and watch the logs of sshd service. You will be amazed at the number of requests with bad credentials that will
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
why do you want to work for Amazon and Google when there are so many great companies that would appreciate you every day (and pay you more)
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
Had similar experience with another large enterprise. I always wondered how come those companies can survive with such friction. Building small internal application was costing millions, 500x more that what you can build as a startup. It to
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
you seem to be very good at your work. I would use the extra funds to create something more teslaic
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
> When I was a kid I never got help from my parents on these projects, and hated the kids who "won" because their parent helped. It took me many years later to understand that those kids were actually getting help from their pa
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
You can grab few books on the topic or attend an online course. Both will give you an idea, or a taste of the different issues at play. But to really learn devops and Kubernetes, you need to work at a company using those tools. Then you sta
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
Maybe instead of paying 100$ for a ton of CO2 captured, add a CO2 tax of few $ to every ton released
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
I just discovered electric bikes lately, and started going to the office on an ebike instead of subway!! I then discovered how dangerous this can get especially at the end of the day when my brain is tired! I thought of stop riding bikes, b
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
you dont need to own an ebike. Bike sharing is already available in many cities and really awesome to use.
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
Best interview questions are open ended general questions. What is your opinion on software security? How would you improve your efficiency? This usually is a great discussion where everyone feels good at the end, but tell a lot about the s
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Musk asks Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of Tesla stock(reuters.com)
2 points by mikesabbagh 5y ago|1 comments
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
> All that said, the joy of doing something for us by us is not something I've encountered in my 15 year career yet I like the "us" in your comment. I worked on many personal projects, the best was when someone else is wor
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
I think the name points to a female, and may be another reason of interest. I know many companies are looking to have females as part of the dev team to improve the ratio.
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China proposes guidelines on internet platform responsibilities(reuters.com)
2 points by mikesabbagh 5y ago|0 comments
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How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage(reuters.com)
2 points by mikesabbagh 5y ago|0 comments
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
I am sure she tried a CPAP or something better suited for her needs. Maybe Sleeping with a mask on your face is more disturbing than sleeping neck high inside a machine. She definitely tried a face mask and determined this machine is better
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
In Europe, tomatoes are Dutch and feed the more southern countries. In North America, Canada imports tomatoes from the US in winter!!
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
another interesting fact: if you see a plant growing on human sewage solids, it must be a tomato plant!! https://i.imgur.com/qByHRvo.jpg
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
> I couldn't work anymore, and it was time for an extended break. From speaking with other people that have gone through this, it seems like the only thing that really helps. Maybe changing teams or company can get you working again
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
> To combat this we wrote a "runWarm" function that kept the API alive at all times. maybe one should create 1 huge lambda instead of several hundred
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by mikesabbagh 5y ago
Conclusion here is to write 1 huge lambda instead of several small lambdas. right?

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