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by oppositelock 5y ago
There's a new console feature which addresses this, but yes, the previous incarnation was very frustrating. I'd like to see this on all instance types. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021&#x2F
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by oppositelock 6y ago
These complicated setups which we see are complex because they try to save costs by using some part of the cloud. Shared VM resources in the cloud, which is all you really need, are dirt cheap compared to the really simple alternative. Rent
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by oppositelock 6y ago
It's always a judgment call with how to complicate your infrastructure. If you succeed, sometime in the future, you will have lots of engineering resources to manage the complexity of a "web scale" service. However, this leve
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by oppositelock 6y ago
It certainly does. The O2 comes from the air and is heavier than carbon. The carbon comes from the fuel, which is its main content by weight. 1 kg of carbon from fuel + 1.75 kg of O2 from aith = 2.75 kg of CO2.
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by oppositelock 6y ago
It's easy to get an entry level job as a programmer that pays very well, and you will be taught how to be an experienced programmer on the job. Once you are an experienced programmer in a software company, you are earning a lot, and mo
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by oppositelock 6y ago
Luckily, we have alternatives, so their pricing shenanigans can only push people so far. For example, Keycloak is some self-hosted open source software which is a drop-in replacement for any Oauth2/OpenID Connect service. It doesn&#x27
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by oppositelock 6y ago
It depends on what the struct contains. I have developed many Go API's professionally at several companies since Go 1.1, and all my servers and up looking like a server struct with only a few fields - a database, AWS client object, and
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by oppositelock 6y ago
It's a lot more difficult than you make it out to be. I'm a former game engine lead from an Activision studio. The whole engine architecture was my responsibility, testing included. You can easily write tests for all the determini
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I did an early exercise (83b election) when I started at a startup a few years ago, paid about $30k to exercise all my options, granting me about 0.3% ownership. Five years later, AWS made our product obsolete, and company was acqui-hired,
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by oppositelock 6y ago
You generally choose the language which has the libraries and ecosystem which solves your problem. For instance, you'd be silly to use anything but Java to work with Hadoop. This is the pragmatic choice.
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I discovered something amazing when working with some people who were writing HFT software. Why do you need 1TB of RAM in these machines? Because when you're Java based, you want to avoid stop-the-world GC pauses. These trading systems
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by oppositelock 6y ago
You have to put a lot of thought into protecting and backing up production databases, and backups are not good enough without regular testing of recovery. I have been running Postgres in production supporting $millions in business for years
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I have written desktop applications for Windows, OS X, and Linux, and before WebGL was a thing, I took the Win32 source code for Google Earth, made it portable, made a Mac version and then others built on top of that to make a Linux version
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I run tens of thousands of docker images in production, or rather, tens of thousands of copies of a few hundred images. If you do something like this, you absolutely MUST have a local registry. Harbor [1], JFrog [2], and Quay [3] would be t
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by oppositelock 6y ago
The best algorithm that NIST tested had a 0.01% false positive rate and it was uniform across races. Consider an airport like Heathrow, which uses facial recognition widely. 220,000 people travel through heathrow per day. With a 0.01% false
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by oppositelock 6y ago
What does banning closed hardware accomplish? It won't result in equivalent open hardware, except at the margin where it doesn't matter.
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I had a quad 2.5GHz water cooled Mac Pro on my desk, and the OG Intel mac pro, as well as Apple's dev system. I can tell you with 100% certainty, that Google Earth ran faster on the Intel Mac Pro under Rosetta than natively on the PPC
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by oppositelock 6y ago
The original PowerPC on Intel Rosetta was pretty amazing. First, most programs do much of their work inside the OS - rendering, network, interaction, whatever, so that's not emulated, Rosetta just calls the native OS functions after do
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by oppositelock 6y ago
Oh, it's better than that. I've worked with NRO imagery, since they needed private industry's help in building some of their digital light table visualization tools, and in the 1990's, I've seen ~2" imagery whi
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I never said it's found only in those workers, my experience happens to be with workers who come from the more disadvantaged strata of society. You find many, wonderful people with a strong work ethic among them, but the rough living p
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by oppositelock 6y ago
Come on, HN is about weaving a tapestry from tangents to tangents :)
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by oppositelock 6y ago
Why is it embarrassing? This is really a problem which employers must deal with. I think what Tim Bray did is heroic, I think that Amazon exploited workers way too much, all in the name of thinner overheads and lowering prices, which is the
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by oppositelock 6y ago
For some really annoying grunt jobs, you're not going to hire the most disciplined, most educated people with a good work ethic. People willing to do tedious, crappy work have no other options usually, and you also can't be too pi
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I can confirm this, having first hand experience with it. We hired many low-skill workers at a big tech company that you've heard of about ten years ago. These workers received a couple of weeks of training, and then were set to do a r
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by oppositelock 6y ago
That is a fine reason!
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by oppositelock 6y ago
Why would you do this for simple home apps? k8s is complete overkill. At home, there is little reason to drag in all that complexity to host a blog or whatever. Kubernetes drags in a tremendous amount of complexity, background knowledge, an
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by oppositelock 6y ago
I can speak to a few examples specifically. It's planting season now, and high business for nurseries. In Santa Clara County, they're closed by fiat. Lowe's, Home Depot, ACE hardware sell essential things (plumbing supplies,
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by oppositelock 6y ago
Sure, but you're also running a browser at the same time probably with a ton of tabs open as separate processes. Our computers do quite a lot these days, in parallel, and more cores help. Both AMD and Intel are ridiculously fast! You c
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by oppositelock 7y ago
Is there any evidence whatsoever that the current coronavirus outbreak was due to eating exotic animals. Yes, the press has reported that a market in Wuhan sold exotic animals, but it seems this is uncorroborated, and after asking an acquai
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by oppositelock 7y ago
ML hype spawned a lot of self driving car hype, and a lot of promises which can't be delivered in any short time frame. It started with Comma.ai, but others picked up the full ML torch and went with it. Other companies are making stead

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