quirmian

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by quirmian 5y ago
Probably hosted on Azure :p
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by quirmian 6y ago
I’ve played piano for the last 20 years, starting off initially with a teacher and going through the usual sheet music pieces. I used to think as you do for the longest time - “The important thing is to have fun!” I still believe that, but
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by quirmian 6y ago
“Hundreds” = 225 in an organization of around 100k employees. smh
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by quirmian 6y ago
I have a similar day job, and would love to start consulting on the side. Legal and worries that it could be seen as “conflict of interest” prevent me from starting however. How do you manage that?
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by quirmian 6y ago
I would compare population numbers and percentages. India has 1B people. Uk is less than 10% of that.
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by quirmian 6y ago
I believe this is exactly what slot reservations in BigQuery achieve. Instead of paying on-demand pricing that is determined by data read, you purchase a fixed number of “slots” that are shared by queries running within that particular proj
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by quirmian 6y ago
That twitter handle is far from an unbiased source. Again, my question here is - Who decides that the reason someone has chosen for their conversion is “wrong”, for what is essentially an individual’s choice. I for one trust nobody but myse
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by quirmian 6y ago
The slow judicial system is the biggest weapon that the government and other large entities with money have. Not everyone can afford to put their lives on hold for 3 years while a court case slowly winds its way up to a judge.
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by quirmian 6y ago
Re. conversion - nilsocket, do you believe that every individual has agency in choosing their religion? Or do you believe that these choices should be made for them by “those that know better”? An analogy, do you think that your occupation
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by quirmian 6y ago
And this statement here (one I’ve heard before from others as well) demonstrates one of our biggest problems (speaking as someone who grew up in India) - and makes my blood boil. Without respect for the individual and individual rights, Ind
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by quirmian 6y ago
GSuite is not just gmail - it also includes docs, sheets, slides, meet etc.
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by quirmian 6y ago
I can see how Secure boot solves real security problems. And I am definitely not blaming Ubuntu here. However, it’s unfortunate that the Secure Boot technology (or maybe this is a licensing thing) by default does not make prescriptions, and
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by quirmian 6y ago
I see arguments (like one of replies to your comment here), that you can turn off Secureboot - so simple, much wow. Not all firmware allow you to turn off secureboot or enroll your own keys. You’ll see plenty of this on bios-mods.com if you
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by quirmian 7y ago
Of course you can. Does your website get the kind of traffic google does?
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by quirmian 7y ago
This looks very similar to products like Apache Nifi, Apache CDAP and Google Data Fusion. When would I pick prophecy.io over the others?
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by quirmian 7y ago
Where can I get good quality forex data from?
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by quirmian 7y ago
My point is that stating “out of model risks is what kills you” is a tautology. For systems where known risks are modelled, it’s highly likely that any “fatality” or equivalent events are controlled for. If you were to then look at the “fat
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by quirmian 7y ago
> For example, in AWS, a webapp with a single Region approach using multiple AZs will give you higher availablility, but similar costs to a single AZ approach. Whether your costs are similar or not depends on the amount of inter-AZ traff
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by quirmian 7y ago
This is a tautology, because if the risk was successfully modelled, it would not be able to kill you.
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by quirmian 7y ago
Lack of strong family ties. People blame lack of public facilities and health care, but at the root of it all, it’s the missing safety net that family provides. This is the number one difference between some of those incredibly poor places
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by quirmian 7y ago
Interestingly, I think we saw (seeing?) a version of the same playbook being used at AWS - see the debacle around the AWS managed Elasticsearch service.
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by quirmian 7y ago
> Dropping their original paying customers When a Cloud company acquired a product/service for integration into their platform, I would hope that that includes transitioning to a Cloud friendly consumption based model. If that means
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by quirmian 7y ago
Two intellectually low quality points that get made for almost every google related news item - 1. “When will Google deprecate this feature/product/service?” 2. “None of Google’s acquisitions have done well”.
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by quirmian 7y ago
> children’s comedy novelist Do you also consider HHGTTG to be a toddler’s bedtime story? - A butthurt Discworld fan in his mid 30s.