president_zippy

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by president_zippy 1y ago
You might be right about the hours the teachers work, but they're not doing it to avoid being fired. It is entirely self-imposed stress. Teachers have unions and tenure. I'll help people, but I won't martyr myself in a hospit
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Something about this just reminds me of when I did a literature review in my anatomy class to address the question: "Is running bad for your knees?" I had to decide which of two sets of peer-reviewed publications that contradict e
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Fair enough, but in my estimation that next big thing is gene therapy, and the best way to get involved with it is to become a medical geneticist. I'm sorry to be a buzzkill, but I just can't get excited about privately-funded spa
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by president_zippy 1y ago
But would I pull the Twi'lek headtails??? "Lord, I apologize." -Dan Whitney
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I gotta be candid with you: "anyone fortunate enough to work there" is exactly the kind of arrogance that rubs job candidates the wrong way. A lot of people don't see it the way you do, and you would do well to take a moment
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I never implied that, let alone said it. The only thing I implied is that workers with fewer rights that a U.S. citizen are easier to exploit and abuse. If I refuse to take a work-related call at 3am, the worst that can happen is that I get
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Because RDMA latency is still a lot lower than disk access latency, it depends more on whether or not the control logic can be generalized to distributed scale with some simple refactoring and a few calls to access remote shared memory, or
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Well pardon my saying so, but why don't you?
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Seriously man, I'm asking because I don't know: which filesystems do you recommend instead? I dabbled in CephFS because our data is write-once, but helping computer illiterate research scientists at other universities and national
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Wally is the one Dilbert character I can tolerate in the workplace. He's honest about who he is and what he does. When you know you're in a bloated company run by buffoons, all you can do for your sanity is work to rule and not up
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I like to think I'm halfway decent at my job, and I wouldn't work there once. During undergrad, my landlord working for AMZN on the opposite end of the country offered me an interview, but it was during final exam week. I asked if
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by president_zippy 1y ago
As a shareholder, thanks for going the convertible debt route! I like the fact that the company became profitable but the call option component of the previous round of "senior convertible notes" expired out of the money. Comparat
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Between the engineering staff and the warehouse workers, I wonder how long it will be until they have already fired everyone who ever would have been willing to work there. Even with candidate pools of hundreds of thousands of H1-B engineer
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Given all the good work ZFS does locally, it does make you wonder what it would take to extend the concepts of ARC caching and RAID redundancy to a distributed system, one where all the nodes are joined together by RDMA rather than ethernet
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Glad you had fun doing this! If you choose to take this experiment further and go deeper, you will discover something even more fun: reentrancy. ... That, and how software interrupts work at the kernel level. Happy hunting! EDIT: In anticip
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I wonder how much better the uptime would be if they made a sincere effort to retain engineering staff. Right now on levels.fyi, the highest-paying non-managerial engineering role is offered by Oracle. They might not pay the recent grads as
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I see what you did there, mister :P
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Could anybody with applicable experience tell me how this filesystem compares in the real world to Lustre? If it is decisively better than Lustre, I am happy to make the switch over at my sector in Argonne National Lab where we currently ke
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by president_zippy 1y ago
It's too bad this header-only JSON library doesn't meet your requirements. How much did you pay for your license to use it? I'm sure the author will be happy to either ship security fixes or give you a refund. You should reac
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Finally, I have found someone who understands the purpose of using someone else's tiny header-only C library; someone who sincerely thought about it before looking for an excuse to bitch and complain.