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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Which seems pretty self-serving, and at the very least, premature.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
A minor quibble: It’s Jevons Paradox - the last name of the economist who formulated it is “Jevons”
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White House Orders Pause in All Federal Grants and Loans(nytimes.com)
13 points by ojbyrne 2y ago|4 comments
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Is it too conspiracy-theorist to notice that the timeline for this matches the $TRUMP grift that added significant $billions to our new president’s net worth?
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
The ancient Rome vomiting thing is a myth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Also you think with their fancy AI coding they could update their dates to the future or at least disable the page for a past dated session.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
I have been told (at a FAANG) not to fix those kind of code smells in existing code. “Don’t waste time on refactoring.”
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
I find the piling on of the DMV to really be a cheap shot. In a sense it made the entire rant seem like another example of someone not caring.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Presumably there will be nag screens and innumerable dark patterns. So you will end up paying to stop the pain.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
I switched from SWE to SRE in my fifties. The perception is that neckbeards take a long time to grow.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Maybe this? https://www.ctoservers.com/nvidia-dgx-station-a100---quad-nv... £ 80k
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
I think you meant "less than one generation behind." Or as the article you linked to says: "Taiwanese law limits domestic chipmakers to producing chips abroad that are at least one generation less advanced than their fabs at
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
“alphebatically” is used 3 times, and otherwise no typos that I noticed. So I wondered if it’s a term I’m not familiar with.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
The kid was 17. A little googling shows that Hamlet and Macbeth are on many high school curriculums. Do they fall above or below your line for an acceptable amount of incitement?
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
As with most novel hardware since the dawn of computing, there are ways to emulate it. https://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
The word “tenure” was left out. It took me a second to guess that.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Presumably referring to Project 2025. So 2025?
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
When I was doing PERM, I was also WFH. HR told me to put 2 postings up in my apartment.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
I was left wondering if anyone has ever finished “Infinite Jest.”
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Obligatory link: https://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-...
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
If you confine yourself to self-help and “business” books you’re going to run out of things to read.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
The discussion is about Diego Garcia.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
$10k to build, prototype, no timeframe for public release. I wonder if the purpose of this demo, strategically, is to make competitors (Apple, Snap) give up.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
The best framework has been available for a while: https://sre.google/sre-book/being-on-call/ https://sre.google/workbook/on-call/
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Maybe? This isn't a product, it's a prototype. It costs $10k to build. https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
This article says 70 degrees: https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
It’s been a while since I’ve lived in Toronto but I’m pretty sure neither of your points is correct. I believe you’re thinking of Ontario Hydro, though it looks like that’s been privatized and/or split up.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Also this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_(1775)
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
Indeed, some US residents do travel outside the country occasionally.
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by ojbyrne 2y ago
They are moving to San Jose, which is a city. It may not be as cosmopolitan as SF (certainly not as compact) but the differences have narrowed some in the last decade or so. Not to mention that it has a larger population than SF.

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