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by potamic 3y ago
> Writing, reading, updating, or providing feedback on strategy, at a variety of levels What does this look like in more tangible terms? I think many people understand the various managerial aspects of the role by imagining a scaled up h
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by potamic 3y ago
btrfs is awesome. The number of times I bonked my system only to restore it back just like that. Really gives the confidence to experiment and make bold changes to your system.
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by potamic 3y ago
If I may probe, why do you think a distributed db is needed for a control plane store? In many situations, you can tolerate unavailability here and they generally don't reach big data scales.
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by potamic 3y ago
Kubernetes uses etcd's watch to track changes on desired vs actual state of the cluster. It's pretty efficient at watching a large number of entries. I wonder how an out-of-process watcher that queries the database continuously wi
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by potamic 3y ago
#2 and #3 are pretty solid advice. But the rest of them are nothing specific to fintech. I will also offer a few additional points. 1. Never record an amount without its currency. 2. Reconcile all your data all the time. Never let any data
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by potamic 3y ago
An actual in-depth discourse on the same from an authoritative source - https://hanselminutes.com/847/engineering-stack-overflow-wit... I'm not sure what "in-depth" research the poster did on this, but i
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by potamic 3y ago
Is there a good authoritative source for this? My doctor suggested this is not required.
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by potamic 3y ago
Why not just toe socks then? Why do you need two layers?
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by potamic 3y ago
> “Until we break open that cell wall the things inside the cell aren’t available for digestion,” Why do nuts give off a smell then? If everything is contained within cell walls, the aromatic compounds should not escape?
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by potamic 3y ago
Wonder what the conscience of a guy who's willing to assault you into availing his service is, compared to one who's willing to assault you to steal your wallet.
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by potamic 3y ago
You want to look at this - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor...
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by potamic 3y ago
> Cook knows millions of users are worried about their privacy in a world where almost every tech company — that scrum again! — wants to sell your personal data. Apple has no need to sell your data; its percentage is in selling you expen
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by potamic 3y ago
There's so much more you can do on the internet than drone across to corporate. Oh and you got logged out of Kindle.
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by potamic 3y ago
Programs running on your machine have access to much more than the code they are working with.
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by potamic 3y ago
I drove over few highways that had raised reflective markers installed with no other lighting. Worked exceptionally well and the experience was far better than any other road lighting. One of the problems with lighting is that it can be fat
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by potamic 3y ago
Wouldn't recommend at all. Journalist bodies have been warning about the compromisation of Doordarshan by the government. They have stopped subscribing to the Press Trust of India, which is a highly reputed Reuters like agency, in favo
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by potamic 3y ago
It's a domestic report that says nothing about other countries. I don't know what made you think of comparison to Pakistan and Afghanistan, but forgive me if I say this is classic signs of confirmation bias, where people tend to d
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by potamic 3y ago
You have to be living under a rock to not see the continuous degradation of press freedom in the country. You can go through this research for some in-depth review https://indianculturalforum.in/2021/01/08/beh
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by potamic 3y ago
They did discover several galaxies beyond redshift 11 that Hubble cannot see. I'm not in the field, but venturing a guess here that they might want to prioritise getting images of known objects first, because there must be so much acti
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by potamic 3y ago
You are conflating boldness with assholery. You can be one without the other. But the problem is that assholery is what is most visible on the outside, so people tend to attribute any outcome to it. Tim Cook and Satya Nadella for instance a
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by potamic 3y ago
What's the difference between a microservice and an SOA service?
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by potamic 3y ago
Plausible deniability is often, an effective tactic.
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by potamic 3y ago
Individual countries do stupid things from time to time, but what worries me is the global trend where countries are showing a desire to control communication. It comes in the form of encryption backdoors, age limits for social media, monit
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by potamic 3y ago
Youtube is also a social network, ain't it?
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by potamic 3y ago
Wonder why CDs never came with ginormous jackets
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by potamic 3y ago
It's a lock-in strategy. There is zero reason for a language runtime to be opinionated about the database. All the good programming advice will tell you such a coupling is a bad idea. What if you want to move parts of your application
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by potamic 3y ago
It's pretty lagging for me on a beefy machine with hardware acceleration enabled. What gives?
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by potamic 3y ago
How does this compare to the industry?
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by potamic 3y ago
What does it say about your technology if you need a certification to be competent in it? Simplicity and ease of use are no longer its USP? But more importantly, are software certifications making a comeback? There was a time when we had ce
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by potamic 3y ago
To all the countries crying about ageing population and birth rate decline, here is your answer. Open your gates to these wretched refuse from teeming shores. The poor, homeless, huddled masses yearning to make an earning.

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