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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) would be dwarfed by the cost of modifying them to use that control system." This should be the top comment. Cost is a critical factor. I would also stop riding the bus and drive a Ferrari to work if that option costs as much
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Don't forget rewriting the code in Rust because it's faster and type safe! I also enjoy piling on Rust fanboys,but those of us who had to go through late night troubleshooting sessions to track issues that were ultimately cau
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Old grumpy man: but the the load is low and predictable we don't need autoscale and if load will grow we will just create two more VMs That's perfectly ok, if your deployment costs are irrelevant and/or your company glad
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Why should you want to change this? Organizations tend to invest in their operations if there are significant improvements to be made. This includes things like dealing with problems such as the availability of cassetes, if the legacy
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by rewmie 3y ago
Oh thanks for pointing this out! I completely missed that, but a quick googling led to a couple of reviews posted just a few days ago. https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-um790-pro-review-big... Very impressive machine,
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Knowing people didn't help you get better jobs? I'm not sure you got the point. It really is not about your connections not leading to job opportunities. It's about the belief your job prospects are tied to the number of
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by rewmie 3y ago
I hope this processor finds it's way into a miniPC such as the ones sold by Beelink or minisforum. Having a quiet but beefy tiny desktop with 8cores/16threads tucked away out of sight would be a superb machine to have, and would
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything It's specially too early due to the trainwreck which is Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition. If Musk continues to destroy Twitter, we might see the whole world drop
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by rewmie 3y ago
> At the risk of sounding mean, Threads really is the dumbest place on the Internet. Have you met Twitter?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think attention seeking is either pathological or for making money. For a few decades we've been bombarded with the idea that our career depends mostly on our visibility instead of our qualifications and experience, that our nex
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I'm 44 and I remember back when politics was more or less left out of hacker news altogether. Politics is still more or less left out of hacker news. How many politics-related posts fo you see daily on HN? Zero?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Unless you're posting a show HN, in which case every brother and their mother chimes in with "this is nice but here's my cloud service that does a similar thing but better" sideswipes. I don't understand why yo
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by rewmie 3y ago
The potential value of an investment is in the eye of each investor. You believe beanie babies are a better investment, but Mallet might not agree with you.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is semver: This is a good example of people confusing the letter of the law with the spirit of the law. Semver is not a goal onto itself. Semver expresses a process to help consumers of an interface infer the implications of an up
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (That was my plan when I learned of Topping’s death. Unfortunately, Mallery beat me to acquiring it, and then just planted his ass on it.) That reads as someone who sees it as a purely commercial investment, and is waiting for it to ma
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by rewmie 3y ago
> However, that's just changing where the points of failure are and who gets to do the work when there's failures. ...and more importantly who gets to work so that there isn't a failure.
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by rewmie 3y ago
Monoliths crashing and taking everything down with them isn't news, right?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> that's some _impressive_ blast radius Most of the entries look like batch job processing, either by gitlab or managing jobs in runners. Perhaps authentication, which is mandatory when managing batch jobs including in third party n
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This may be shocking to you, but _all_ code is effectively compiled to "machine code" eventually. I'm not sure you understood the point. It means nothing to claim that deep down it's all opcodes or electrons flowing
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by rewmie 3y ago
> If you have hundreds of millions of daily active users then needing to write a compiler isn't the end of the world. It's not the end of the world because they have deep pockets and a problem domain where preserving the interf
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Facebook had hundreds of millions daily active users before writing a compiler. In other words, Facebook felt compelled to write a compiler when they had hundreds of millions daily active users.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I don't see why there needs to be any coercion. If there is no coercion then your complain boils down to others not sharing your opinion, both in the way they don't reverberate your personal opinion and in the way they expres
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by rewmie 3y ago
> A court found that the government abused its power and infringes on people’s first amendment rights by using its intimidation power to coerce social media to censor free speech of citizens. I'm not sure you read the article you&#x
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Every day is mental pain as I get older and younger folks are above me. It feels undignified, humiliating at times. Age is not a rank. If people younger than you are better at delivering value than you then they should be above you, an
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by rewmie 3y ago
This is somewhat common though.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> What was missing: n) Your old college friends have secured their material needs while you barely make rent. n) a PhD student that joined the program after you just surpassed your number of publications. n) your thesis supervisor just b
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by rewmie 3y ago
> But I cannot help wonder how life might have been different, and if I really did have a chance to change to world. You made the right choice. Life as a PhD student is ultimately a life of poverty and uncertain future. You might get luc
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Right now, your mother/wife/girlfriend [in SF] is subject to being beaten in the street like a stray dog, for want of a cell phone. Right now, your mother/wife/girlfriend is not being beaten. Wouldn't you want
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I know what it means and stand by my point. My sympathies do not lie with street urchins who batter women. You're standing by an illiterate interpretation that feeds on ignorant beliefs. If you stick to them in spite of the info
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) to label a ruthless gang of children wielding baseball bats a vulnerable community. I'm not sure the text you read says what you think it said. I think it's clear and obvious that "vulnerable community" refers

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