nonameiguess

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by nonameiguess 6y ago
I don't think this is a fair characterization of why containers are a killer app. Full-OS virtualization was a killer app for hosting providers because it enabled multi-tenancy, allowing you to oversubscribe physical resources knowing
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
Caller ID was first trialed in the consumer market in 1984. Hell, the first patent was filed for it in 1969. The international standard was defined in 1993. It's been around longer than people remember. Plus, we had *69 in the 90s.
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
The analogy is with the dichotomy in incentives between teams that have to win now versus teams trying to build for the future. Some companies need you to hit the ground running because they are presently making no money and need to get a p
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
I didn't buy my first mobile phone until 2007, but I was definitely a hold out and the last person I knew to finally give in, effectively because it was required for continued employment.
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
I think we miss that many of the issues faced with getting software-driven systems to accomplish anything in the world is constrained by the interface with the world more than it is by anything computational. Alpha Go can beat the best huma
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
> If we set aside our morphological prejudices against spatially distributed group entities, we can see that the United States has all the types of properties that materialists tend to regard as characteristic of conscious beings. This d
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
I think this is the opposite of how FAANG or FAANG-like companies treat the hiring of SWEs. They don't want people to specialize in any particular area. They want engineers who can be freely moved to whatever product line or team has a
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
I think people miss that you don't need to ace these interviews to get hired. It's just more data points that allow them to probe the exact depth and breadth of your knowledge, as well as your general thought processes and how you
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
This happened to me yesterday trying to buy Starlink Beta after getting the email from them that it's finally available in my city. I followed the link and couldn't fill out the credit card information. The form fields just didn&#
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
There are plenty of good answers addressing the reality that gaming doesn't use anywhere near the same aggregate energy as mining, but to me, the more important difference is that currency of some kind is critical infrastructure. Civil
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
Not really, but I was young and stupid. Whether it ends up being worth it depends on how it works out for you. I ended up with significant and permanent spine injuries and I'm lucky as hell I landed in a knowledge industry where I can
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
This guy is deluded about the meaning of his product. I was a Waze user. It saved me a few minutes here and there getting to work, and that was worth the $0 it cost me. If he ever forced an employee to miss even a single kid's soccer g
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
As you might imagine, working on a classified program means you're working for the government, so your company's profitability is inherently a function of the lowest bid mechanism for contracting - to an extent, as we proved they
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
I wanna upvote this so many times. I used to work in geointelligence surrounded by some of the world's smartest people doing some of the most amazing work I will ever see. We were doing things with pixel data that Google is still at le
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
"Make Genre an int instead of string to save space, but then bake the same strings into the String method of Genre anyway." I don't understand why you would ever want to possibly save space in a database at the cost of consum
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
Something else to keep in mind is you can trivially eliminate crime with a sufficiently vast and committed police state. Put an officer on the street per non-officer resident. Allow them to stop and search any person randomly at any moment.
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
First off, thank you for posting this, but it should be clear that I was never trying to make the opposite argument that I personally have any special insight into why the murder rate changed. I just want an investigative article looking in
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
This is a woefully incomplete analysis. This is likely largely the fault of poor reporting of homicide details or at least no uniform data structure that makes it easy to aggregate categories between cities, but most homicide is domestic. T
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
My Internet suddenly stopped working in the middle of a work day a few weeks back (I work from home) and I tried to call Spectrum to diagnose the problem and all they could tell me was the account holder canceled the account, which was clea
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
Making it illegal for businesses to transact in a cryptocurrency may be technologically impossible, but most transaction volume in a country is likely to be accounted for by large institutions and the government itself, which are going to f
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
The US intelligence community actually keeps a clone of Stack Overflow that is updated every 12 hours and copied to servers on the classified version of the Internet so that people developing classified software can use it without needing t
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
I would have never even thought to check until reading this, but apparently I make more than both the mayor of Dallas and the governor of Texas? I'm surprised they aren't paid more than they are. I suppose people who go into polit
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by nonameiguess 6y ago
My company is headquartered in Cupertino, CA and I live and work in Dallas, TX. The obvious pros are I don't need to commute or really drive at all, I can work from bed (probably doesn't matter to most, but I've got 10 screws