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by mmt 8y ago
> autoscaling saves money when your demand is really spikey Indeed. I've found the spikiness ratio (if that coined term makes sense) to be 2x-10x for AWS in general, and I was wondering if you (or anyone else) had a sense of how muc
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by mmt 8y ago
> In general, in the tech world I find the biggest supporters of "X should be its own job" are either the people who do X -- or train people to do X That strikes me as a characterization with more cynicism implied than necessar
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by mmt 8y ago
> Enums are also ordered, which can be useful in certain circumstances. Are they ordered in a way that's different from an integer value that's a foreign key into another table? The main difference I can perceive is that the o
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by mmt 8y ago
> which is relevant since he was using AWS Of course, in that case, one is so limited by Amazon's specific hardware choices, if not by virtualization [1]. The OC didn't specify AWS but did mention MySQL, instead of Postgres, wh
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by mmt 8y ago
> If I can move CPU to the frontend from the db, that's a win, because scaling database servers is harder than frontends. This may only true for data manipulation that's necessarily [1] more CPU-intensive/bound than I&#x2F
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I'm an academic, and I feel underpaid and over-monitored(theguardian.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
AFAIK, it's legal in the US, too, but I'm not sure what point you're making in the context of the sub-thread. Typically, the decision to convert to contracting is between the worker and management, excluding the worker's
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by mmt 8y ago
> There is more underground distribution (medium voltage) in Europe because cities are denser and older and there's less space for overhead lines. Do you know if the existence of other relatively large, underground facilities, namel
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by mmt 8y ago
> do we say other types of engineering doesn't create the wealth? Yes, at least according to my strawman. Perhaps a better differentiator is creator/maker rather than "engineer", since it can be (and has been) argued
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Red fox genome assemb identifies regions assoc with tame and aggressive behav(nature.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
These assertions may be true if the business is sole-proprietor owner-operator, but, beyond that, the assymetry grows quite a bit, including what I posit is a huge step function when the executives are no longer majority owners (or even are
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by mmt 8y ago
> workers get all the fruit of their labor rather than a fraction of it Be careful what you wish for. Risk is important, and if the "fruit" is zero, that's undesirable, too. We're seeing this in a microcosm of the &qu
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by mmt 8y ago
> Software salespeople need to bring in 4-5x of what they cost. Lawyers and consultants are often tasked with bringing in 3-4x their cost. Why should engineers be any different? I'm not making the argument, but I suspect the argum
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by mmt 8y ago
So 15-30 minutes (assuming you got your "start here" number tickets essentially right away after opening) according to what the DMV measures, presumably at an off-peak time, which means, for a 69 minute average, with an even distr
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the original rule recognizes no exceptions, and certainly not on something so broad as an entire category. It may be that much narrower exceptions could exist, but future-proofing sounds like it could simply be justifie
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by mmt 8y ago
> or at least, they trust their knowledge of infrastructure solutions better than their coding abilities Or we trust our knowledge of such solutions more than even your (anyone's) coding abilities :) I realize, of course, that you
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by mmt 8y ago
That was already 75 minutes waiting for opening (irrelevant if you were still the last person in line at opening, but I very much doubt that). How much longer before you were actually served?
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by mmt 8y ago
> Passports are also handled through the mail / online. For the first one I had to get the photo counter signed by a ‘respected member of the community’ who’d known me for 2 years That sounds similar to how it used to be possible, i
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by mmt 8y ago
> My use of "simply" wasn't expressing the idea that the details of running such a business are trivial, but that it's an everyday thing that's been invented and not some speculative or impossible or unbelievable
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California lawmaker accuses DMV of 'fudging' online wait times(sfgate.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
It varies by state. Some (like Arizona, IIRC) are very mail/online-heavy. Others, like Montana, at least partially outsource the vehicle registration function to the counties. California keeps it all under one central bureaucracy. The
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by mmt 8y ago
> If that was the case, then couldn't someone simply establish a perpetual entity to invest and sell their average returns to people with shorter time horizons? > Like a corporation that sells annuities? They exist, of course, bu
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by mmt 8y ago
Time (aka risk) matters. The fact that certain assets only have a "guaranteed" return over periods of 30 years or longer significantly limits the kind of people that are willing to flock to them.
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Psychological Safety in Operation Teams [pdf](usenix.org)
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How Config Info for World's Largest Domain Name Registrar Was Exposed Online(upguard.com)
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Secret DMV office near California Capitol serves lawmakers and their staff(sacbee.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> brain structures that we usually associate with it That's just human (or, more generally, mammalian) exceptionalism/bias. As a sibling comment helpfully linked, there's now research showing that avian brains create/
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by mmt 8y ago
> But I'm very skeptical that I could "train" them to start exchanging items for food. In captivity a crow's intelligence can be especially fostered and trained because there's no other source of food to distract
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by mmt 8y ago
> Cars are expensive but aren't investments; they're depreciating assets. There's a case to be made that the two aren't mutually exclusive. Sure, by the traditional definition of "investment", a profit or ga
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's just not worth it for any commercial profit-driven company. I don't think that conclusion follows. Rather, I think that conclusion is too narrow. In this situation, the astronomic overall cost of such software would over

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