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by pid-1 4y ago
2bi USD is like 1% of Google's annual operating expenses.
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by pid-1 4y ago
> Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Yes, you do need to buy books, which gives you permission to read them.
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by pid-1 4y ago
Few understand.
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by pid-1 4y ago
While some economic indicators are bad already, the real issue is core inflation not giving up. The Fed has already signaled it will keep hiking rates until the economy slows down and inflation is controlled. As an entrepreneur/CFO, wo
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by pid-1 4y ago
At this moment central banks worldwide are increasing interest rates to slow down economies and fight inflation caused by money printing during COVID (different countries might be in different parts of their tightening cycles tho). As a com
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by pid-1 4y ago
Hotwiring a car isn't a crime tho (at least in most countries, as long as it's your own car and/or there's consent from the owner)
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by pid-1 4y ago
I'm found of seeing the Fourier transform as a fancy way of changing basis / coordinates, not sure how mathematically correct is that. In high school physics some problems got way easier by redefining coordinates as x' and y&
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by pid-1 4y ago
My first job (2016) involved dealing lots of servers used by telecom providers in many different DCs in different cities. One of my most useful tools was a thumb drive full of old internet explorer, firefox, and Java installers. The 50m eth
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by pid-1 4y ago
Also some compiled code might need to be statically linked to other deps. A practical example: on Windows, try 'pip install tokenizers'.
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Pelé, only player to win the World Cup three times, dies at age 82(cnbc.com)
7 points by pid-1 4y ago|0 comments
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by pid-1 4y ago
Article says that doesn't include WSL / Docker
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by pid-1 4y ago
Rant: last weekend I finished building my teenager dream PC - 12 cores cpu, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB VRAM... GNOME on Ubuntu still managed to crash / hang on a fresh install. Will try Mint / others, but it's a shame the "
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by pid-1 4y ago
Renaissance is a complete outlier. Most hedge funds - including firms that sell themselves as quants - just lose tons of money. I've been in this industry for a while and folks making high returns solo either: 1) Got lucky for a very s
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FortiOS – heap-based buffer overflow in sslvpnd(fortiguard.com)
1 points by pid-1 4y ago|0 comments
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by pid-1 4y ago
For infrequent, unpredictable workloads using something like spot instances on AWS and scaling as needed (including to zero) will likely be cheaper. I think Hetzner and other budget cloud providers are excellent choices for use cases that r
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by pid-1 4y ago
I think Byzantine Fault Tolerance is the name of such propriety (being resilient to a limited number of adversarial nodes).
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by pid-1 4y ago
You can sudo to other users besides root. For installing things, you generally need write permissions to /usr/bin and likes. So you could create an user with such privileges and sudo to that. The real issue, I think, is Linux not
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by pid-1 4y ago
> In making these changes, you might reasonably wonder whether Stripe’s leadership made some errors of judgment. We’d go further than that. In our view, we made two very consequential mistakes, and we want to highlight them here since th
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by pid-1 4y ago
Anedote, but as I got older (>30) being a morning person became easier and easier.
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by pid-1 4y ago
And Consul has some enterprise features, hence not entirely open source.
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by pid-1 4y ago
> Except the billing for cloud services is byzantine and entirely unpredictable. I think AWS is the biggest offender in this area, by not enabling per resource usage by default.
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by pid-1 4y ago
Why would anyone buy that before Windows users are actually using ARM?
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by pid-1 4y ago
wishlist: static page hosting for internal pages (e.g behind IP allowlists, SSO, etc...)
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by pid-1 4y ago
My team uses OKRs in a very lightweight fashion, just to make sure our daily tasks are aligned with long term objectives. We I like ending our semester and being able to break down how much time we spent doing what, from a macro perspective
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by pid-1 4y ago
Wow totally missed that. Cool stuff!
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by pid-1 4y ago
> For example, you can make all these substitutions: >c6g.2xlarge→c6g.4xlarge→m6g.4xlarge→r6g.4xlarge→r6gd.4xlarge A long standing ticket in my personal project backlog is comparing different instance types performance. I'm not s
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by pid-1 4y ago
Yeah after using CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK and k8s + YAML, I'm convinced using a real programing language idiomatically is the correct way of doing IaC. Many languages totally support declarative idioms out of the box
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by pid-1 4y ago
I wonder: if someone trains a model that takes leaked code as input (such as Windows), would MS claim the output code is legal?
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by pid-1 4y ago
- Try to build zig program - Wrong zig version... Ooops Docker is (also) useful because you can declare all your system dependencies, no programing language alone can do that. That said Docker is more or less useful depending on the languag
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by pid-1 4y ago
As much as I love shitting on AWS, at this point I would just retire if I ever need to interact with a server vendor again.

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