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by ottumm 2y ago
The beginning of the article should put your mind at ease: > To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if
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by ottumm 2y ago
If I was working with someone who had been working in the organization for 18 years and was also the CTO, and they replied promptly with a better communication channel to use, I would personally really appreciate that.
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by ottumm 3y ago
Is Jerry killing independent George? And does he even care?
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by ottumm 4y ago
The devil has enough advocates, Keanu.
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by ottumm 4y ago
Matt Levine has an excellent overview of the liquidity / solvency question: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-10/ftx-is...
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by ottumm 5y ago
Yeup.
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by ottumm 7y ago
I think you might find this seminal paper interesting and relevant: https://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf From the abstract: > The concept of one event happening before another in a distributed system is examined, an
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by ottumm 8y ago
Hi, I'm an engineer at Thorn. You're right, it is unusual. It's also a big part of our strategy to attract, and keep, top talent. And that goes for talent across the organization: our fundraising, our marketing, our product m
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by ottumm 9y ago
And they say romance is dead.
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by ottumm 9y ago
Very true. It's also an almost unbelievably basic design error to make in a distributed system.
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by ottumm 9y ago
Did anyone else find this disturbing: "Chapar used UDP, but did not handle packet drops because it assumed the network layer was reliable."? This is a serious case of missing the forest for the trees.
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by ottumm 10y ago
I’m a software engineer at Thorn. I don’t work directly on the research or data science side of things, but I work closely with those who do and they take it very seriously. Here’s some more detail from our website: https://www.w
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by ottumm 10y ago
If you're interested in getting involved you can fill out a survey here: https://www.wearethorn.org/digital-defender-survey/ I'm a software engineer at Thorn, and I can assure you this is not just PR. We are
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by ottumm 10y ago
I wonder if the fact that you can restore a removed app (via the App Store) means that Apple will be able to update built-in apps independent of iOS updates.
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by ottumm 10y ago
You should read more Hemingway.
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by ottumm 12y ago
I believe you can use IRC clients to connect to both HipChat and Slack.
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by ottumm 12y ago
Are changes that you make in Inbox reflected in Gmail? For instance, if you archive (sweep?) something in Inbox is it also archived in Gmail? Are clusters related to tags?
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by ottumm 15y ago
IBM -- Emeryville, CA BigFix is a highly-scalable systems management solution that was recently acquired by IBM. Located in Emeryville, CA, the BigFix engineering team is responsible for building a distributed framework to discover problems