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by pwinnski 4y ago
Stretch. By all that anyone anywhere might hold holy, STRETCH! You can be strong or you can be weak, so long as you're flexible, so stretch.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm with you in spirit, but I think this verges on letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Ideally we'd have really narrow streets, so much less parking, and many more amenities for pedestrians. Realistically, replacing a go
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> early adopters were heavily subsidised for the risk they were taking This is amusing. I mined eight bitcoins in the very, very early days using my standard off-the-shelf windows PC with no GPU. It was agonizingly slow, but it worked ju
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's the nature of ML models--nobody is 100% sure what it understands until they try something and get results. It was given a lot of tagged data: 600 million captioned images from LAION-5B. So if you want to know what it might sup
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Linus' statement are applicable to the kernel only, and if we're using tube analogies, he was talking more about situations where the train is underway and something fails. The Rust way would be to panic, train stops in between st
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I told my 12-year-old this joke last week, and she laughed out loud. Then again, she had just (again) made an off-by-one error in her Python code, which she had variables named "stuff" and "things."
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Right, and that time was before he signed a $44B contract, which was the price offer.
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A: You are causing harm. B: What did you get done this week, tho? And here are the cheerleaders saying B is right, B's a hero, B's our man. Leaving whether or not Parag Agrawal is worth the suit he wears for another comment, he wa
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Amazon publicly stated that they ran their own business on AWS, and however much of an exaggeration that might have been, it gave people the confidence to try it out. The reasoning was clear: if AWS handles Amazon-scale business, they can
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by pwinnski 4y ago
So both wrong and stubborn about it. You clearly have a goal other than effective communication, and I wish you well in pursuit of that goal.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You haven't asked for feedback, but here you go anyway: If you're wanting to write proper English, you should first write English correctly. For example, sentences begin with capital letters. Your parenthetical word should have be
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by pwinnski 4y ago
English is such a marvelously flexible language, and yet you've stretched it beyond common understanding still. > For what paper scarcity is concerned... > For what text amount... is concerned... I don't think this construct
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think you have it backward? Although to a certain extent, books have lasted so long as a technology that the two meanings have become intertwined. Movies used to come on VHS tapes, now they come on DVDs or via streaming. Music used to com
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by pwinnski 4y ago
A university library would be the last place I'd expect to see people reading books. Try a non-university library, an airport, a beach, a coffee shop, poolside, or any number of other places, but university libraries are for studying a
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When my eyes reach their limit with computer and phone screens, I reach for my Kindle Paperwhite. That one screen, with its matte surface and side-lighting, lets my eyes relax.
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> They really had no choice about that part. Hello from Texas, where electricity providers are free to pass on absurdly-high energy prices to customers, regardless of whether those people can afford to eat or not.
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For the US, Google Trends reveals that Clojure's heyday came in 2013, and it has been on a decline since[0]. It never really reached the interest level of Scala, and of course recently Rust is consuming all the air in the room. Except,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Cui bono ? The argument about "who benefits" is going to go on for quite a while, but I'll agree with you that this doesn't seem to benefit Russia at all. If all actors involved were perfectly rational, Russia would be
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> An old joke is that there are only two hard things in computer science: cache validation, and naming things. Way to ruin the joke! The joke is that that are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's my former company now, but the answer is: For the initial workload that we migrated from the datacenter to AWS EC2 instances, we still had the existing DevOps people, and while they said things were a little easier, they were st
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My suggestion to you, then, is this: instead of making blanket statements and allowing for a teeny-tiny exception for edge case, try to remember that the market is FULL of those edge cases. Almost the entire education market, billions of do
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When it was first announced, it wasn't clear it would end up being so esoteric, but I remember that Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Rob Pike were working on it, and maybe Brian Kernighan too? Timing-wise, it was too late for what the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Right, so maybe 750 developers? If that? Some companies are heaver on product and customer success headcount than others, but I would not be shocked to find out they had quite a few less than 1000 developers and developer managers.
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The above was hardly my first comment on this thread, so no, I'm not saying that. However, OP has talked to humans, and apparently those humans--with access to more info than we have here--believe OP to be a scammer. (Or don't c
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Right, which is why I can't imagine moving from AWS to self-hosting. Having to hire a full set of Ops people to manage what AWS is managing for me would hurt.
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So we have gone from a categorical "not cheaper" to "almost always not cheaper," except for two circumstances, no, three. Progress! At my last company, providing SaaS for the education market, moving from a datacenter to
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by pwinnski 4y ago
On the contrary, self-hosting is only cheaper under some circumstances, which is why when those circumstances are met, it becomes a story worth a post on HN. Whether economies of scale, or the efficiency of managed services at scale, or use
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That same logic works up and down the line. If what you need is disk storage, then you are limited to dedicated hosts that provide something akin to S3. There are some! But that's also true when you want a database that isn't sqli
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You think AWS doesn't have enough lock-in now? And yet maximum profits come from keeping customers, not driving them away. There's no such thing as a managed service so proprietary that it can't be essentially cloned by anoth
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> Ok so you save money on the monthly bill Right, you understand, but maybe you don't really understand? If you work at a company large enough, and with enough DevOps, NetOps, Ops people to go it alone, and can get favorable lease

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