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by perrygeo 4y ago
Feels like a thinly-veiled symbol of class status. Or maybe a proxy for salary. The IT guy at an auto garage - not a tech worker A janitor at a software company - not a tech worker A data analyst at software company - now THAT is a tech wor
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by perrygeo 4y ago
It's an article about stock prices. The US stock exchanges close at 4 p.m. Eastern time on Friday. Aside from opinions and speculation, what has changed re: First Republic's stock price since then?
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I've seen people confusing "Big Tech" vs the SVB depositors. And confusing SVB vs the general concept of Silicon Valley itself. And confusing bailing out SVB vs making the depositors whole. I have zero hope that America will
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I understand his point from a computer graphics perspective, even if that didn't stand up to the test of time. But why is it written with so much bluster and claims of generality? Pixels are also a data modeling concept (without a grap
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> there's a biological aspect to a lot of mental health issues in workplaces how do you explain the same phenomenon occurring in remote workplaces? I agree there's a biological aspect to it. But it's clearly "contagio
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Obviously software does run on distributed systems. It just has to use different hardware and software instructions. Many have tried to abstract away the difference between local memory and distributed memory but there's very few succe
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> The worst part of these methodologies is that there's no evidence that they work. I think it's worse than that. The management that promotes these bastardized "Agile" methodologies are often hostile to any empirical
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by perrygeo 4y ago
This. Some product folks know their industry well and have actual hands-on experience building something in the same ballpark. They are a joy to work with. Even if they don't do their job particularly well, you can ask them real questi
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by perrygeo 4y ago
This doesn't resonate at all with me. If anything, the most disengaged decision makers are often the ones to resort to micromanagement to cover their incompetence. They don't have the skill or context to make the actual impactful
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The article ignores the fact that caffeine increases fat oxidation, allow you to burn stores of lipids that would otherwise be unavailable - literally giving you access to an extra pool of physical energy. Since all energy produced by the b
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Keep in mind that WHO recommendations go well beyond alcohol's role as a carcinogen. Alcohol has widespread and significant negative impacts across many of internal systems [1]. Even compared to "hard drugs", alcohol is a dan
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by perrygeo 4y ago
General question about this wave of tech layoffs: Has anyone done a breakdown of what roles have been cut? Is it management or product or engineering? Senior or junior? My general sense is that every company is rushing to trim some fat whil
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Install a plugin that blocks all your problem sites. I'm using "Impulse Blocker" on Firefox and it's helpful to break the habit. You can easily turn it off and waste time on HN if you want to... you just need to do it in
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Accurate. If the conversation revolves around cutting the absolute cloud budget, perverse incentives kick in and people will start naively "cutting" costs without thought. Producing value always has a cost. In a functional organiz
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I'd say we have a fairly good existing theory that explains modern package management: Conway's Law. We self-organize into communities of practice and select the package management strategy that works best. Reaching across communi
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Rows are generally written to disk in the order they're inserted, whether you have a timestamp or not. It's just how database IO works. If your index happens to be in a different order (the position in the index is uncorrelated to
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Because B-tree indexes are ordered, rows likely to be adjacent on disk (written in time order) are not at all adjacent in the index and vice-versa. There is no "hot page" in the cache representing recent records; the index node yo
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the clarification. Gun safety etiquette dictates that the handler is always responsible for their own ammo. Alec the actor should definitely not get a free pass. I didn't realize there were criminal ramification
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by perrygeo 4y ago
One approach is - don't. The front end visualization of data is scale dependent and you can often build systems that are order of magnitude faster by aggregating/filtering the data server-side to a resolution that's appropria
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The actor wouldn't. The producer who let live ammo anywhere near a set would. He's being charged as the head of production, not as the actor who was unfortunate enough to pull the trigger. The fact that he's both is just a cr
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I'd love to see someone pitch their startup idea to ChatGPT and Copilot with as much specificity as they would to a developer and see how far they'd get. My guess is that the prompt engineering required to make that work and resol
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Maybe not, but do you think the next Russian oligarch in line is going to be friendlier to the west? Putin is likely to look like an ally in comparison.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
"I love and accept myself, exactly as I am" and "I am a person striving everyday to improve in multiple dimensions" are not mutually exclusive! It sounds like a paradox but I think that's a result of our imprecise l
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by perrygeo 4y ago
It's way too early to declare victory over Putin's energy blackmail strategy. US fossil fuel production (specifically LNG) saved the winter. US production remains high but ROI is dropping, quality is dropping (e.g. an increasing p
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by perrygeo 4y ago
My first thought was "what kind of oil?". It matters. The clean burning, energy dense stuff was turned into fuel from the start. The rest of it is barely fit for a cigarette lighter. But beyond that, not all plastics come from cru
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The 32 bit integer primary key issue is so painful. I went through that once (we got the migration completed before the PK maxed out but it was a nail-biter) and I never want to do that again. I'm a strong proponent of 64 bit integers
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by perrygeo 4y ago
A good discussion of why using Deref to simulate inheritance is considered an "anti-pattern": https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/anti_patterns/der...
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Nice article, but I'm not sure I like using the Deref trait just to make code "cleaner" - it does the opposite IMO, making it harder to understand what's going on. Deref is convenient for builtin "container" ty
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Exactly. We have plenty of examples of past civilizations experiencing similar economic conditions, slavery, etc. So why didn't e.g. the Romans have an industrial revolution of this scale? Coal (and exploitation of fossil fuels more ge
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by perrygeo 4y ago
An important skill is being able to distinguish between "stuck due to lack of technical knowledge" and "stuck because of inscrutable bureaucracy". The first, you can research, experiment and rubber-duck your way to a sol

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