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by rswail 3y ago
There's no consideration of the other "killer app" for VR/AR, porn. Porn is what got VHS to succeed over Beta. Porn is what got CC payments working online. Porn drives a lot of Twitch and other platforms. Apple won'
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“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your th
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Interesting if this becomes an AWS "region", because I would have thought that independent power supplies for the different AZs are part of the promise of what an AWS region/AZ is about. But if the data center(s) are all gett
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It's like the Japanese tradition of eating KFC on Christmas. Asia has adopted a lot of the Western holidays, in the same way that Lunar New Year and Diwali and Eid have been adopted in the West. It's one of the better aspects of g
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by rswail 3y ago
For years I've said that programmers need only two courses to learn how to program: 1. Time and Date programming; and, 2. Debugging. #1 leads naturally to #2.
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Have a look at the latest commit and the level of change. Effectively the internal commits while he was working for AMD aren't in the repo, but the squashed commit contains all of the changes.
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IaaC is one of the worst acronyms ever. Infrastructure should be declared , not coded. Say what you want. The tool then builds that, or changes whats there to match. I've tried Pulumi and understanding the bit that runs before it trie
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by rswail 3y ago
Times have changed. If you have C# programmers and they can't do it in Entity Framework/LINQ, then they can't do it.
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Two different measurements (time and Atlassian development processes) that are orthogonal. Anything Atlassian does is mostly quite late and its integration story is so pathetic that it's unsurprising. Try to have a bitbucket pipeline t
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We switched to JIRA around 2005 away from IBM enterprise web software, because it was a breath of fresh air. So on the standard tech hype cycle, that sounds about right.
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We are a reasonably large AWS customer and our account manager sends out regular emails with NDA information on what's coming up, we have regular meetings with them about things as wide ranging as database tuning and code development&#
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by rswail 3y ago
That sounds like the app needs some serious surgery.
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by rswail 3y ago
If you're not using GP3 storage that provides 12K minimum IOPS without requiring provisioned IOPS for >400GB storage, as well as 4 volume striping, then you're overpaying. If you don't have a reserved instance, then you&#x
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by rswail 3y ago
Aurora supports standard Postgres clients. So moving to/from Aurora/RDS/own EC2/on-prem should be a matter of networking and changing connection strings in the clients. Your operational requirements and processes (back
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by rswail 3y ago
It's more interesting how cloud services are sold like any other consumables or corporate services. No one runs their own electricity supply (well until recently with renewables/storage), they buy it as a service, up to a pretty h
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by rswail 3y ago
> Auto makers seem obsessed with controlling the spare part market It is a major source of revenue and allows for markups to be optimized for brand. A lot of parts are shared across lines within a manufacturer and across manufacturers. M
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by rswail 3y ago
JetBrains is a privately held company. This is their 3rd CEO in 25 years of existence. Each CEO has been sourced internally. They have a solid set of products and brand in their market, they offer comprehensive coverage of their customer&#x
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by rswail 3y ago
Except that specialists (in particular) hate uploading results into the government EHR. They want to review test results and then communicate with the patient, and the only way to do that is to not upload the results. I had to talk to the p
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by rswail 3y ago
If you use Macports (much more consistent than homebrew and much more attentive to the way MacOS works and MacOS SIP etc works) then installing the GNU utils ports gives you a standard GNU environment, so pretty close to Ubuntu/Fedora
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by rswail 3y ago
Lesson from GE: Financial engineering is not engineering. Further lessons from GE: * Gaming the system internally or externally is something a CEO needs to actively manage and defeat, not reward. * Trying to turn businesses based on contrac
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by rswail 3y ago
Trains have had a deadman switch for literally centuries now.
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It's arguable that it shouldn't make a lot of money, but it should be properly funded. What funds TfL is basically fares and city and central government taxes. Ideally the taxes fund the improvements and fares fund the operation
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by rswail 3y ago
It is very very very unlikely that they would build an underground pedestrian station that had walls that reacted to heat, unless it was to absorb heat in case of fire. I'd also think that plastic resins are not the best thing to be re
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by rswail 3y ago
Answered my own question on the additional cursor, Esc takes you back to a single cursor. Great way to make a list. Start with a number, make your list, then use the additional cursor to add in a checkbox.
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Cool, been looking for new tools to help collect the mess that is my notes. Nice and simple, as a tool like this should be. A few questions after playing for a few minutes: * Where are the notes stored? * Can I delete a block easily? * Afte
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I'm trying to introduce SRE as a practice in to my organization. We don't have anywhere near the safety requirements of aviation or medical or power generation software, but our operations do affect thousands of people around the
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The destruction of Qantas as a quality airline is entirely driven by exactly the same MBA/shareholder-value bullshit that destroyed Boeing and others. Financial engineers should be banned from operating businesses. They are not focused
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For my rest apis I define a fixed endpoint /versions that returns an array of json objects that looks like: { “version”: “1.2.3”, “href”: “https://host/1.2.3”, “not_before”: “2000-01–01T00:00Z”
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Semver and this are orthogonal. Semantic versioning is about the semantics of an interface (rest or otherwise). This is about the version of the underlying implementation . “LTS” of a semver api is driven by backwards compatibility, so i
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Programming is still a craft, not engineering, or manufacturing. A software house should work like bespoke tailoring, or fine cabinetry, or glass blowing. There's still no better training for programming than the equivalent of master&#

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