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by samcday 7y ago
I recently started a new position at a company that is using Gitlab. In the last month I've seen a lot of degraded performance and service outages (especially in Gitlab CI). And then I see stuff like this that makes me scratch my hea
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by samcday 7y ago
I had a coworker who came from Facebook and told me similar stories. We all hear about the exciting engineering projects and stories coming out of Facebook. But the IT side of their org is held together with various off the shelf enterprise
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by samcday 7y ago
This article was entirely too negative, and neglected to mention some of the best outcomes from this project. Like the fact that BER is the world's most environmentally friendly airport: https://www.der-postillon.com/20
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by samcday 7y ago
I don't think this is at all analogous to speech. For example, you might be entitled to say whatever you want under free speech protections in the US, but that doesn't mean you're allowed to walk up to random people and shout
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by samcday 7y ago
I think the name is great. It's weird enough to stand out from the pack, and it also communicates one of core benefits of the database versus the competitors.
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by samcday 7y ago
You're kinda just stoking my paranoia here. I hadn't dug too deeply into whatbuying "carbon offsets" for flights (as a eco-conscious consumer, that is) actually entailed. But I suspected it was basically just planting N
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by samcday 7y ago
I think it’s hard to justify running your own setup in 2019 when you can get Linode/DO for 5$ a month. Sure, CPUs are cheap and (if you’re lucky enough to live somewhere that’s offers it) consumer internet can be absurdly fast. But if
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by samcday 7y ago
Sarcasm or not, I found the follow-up response with the Harvard Law School article quite interesting!
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by samcday 7y ago
So Facebook is under an increasing amount of scrutiny and calls for regulatory pressure. Amidst all that, they're still brave/arrogant/oblivious enough to launch something like this. People are going to read history books abo
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by samcday 7y ago
Yeah, my suggestions were just spitballin'. I have exactly zero experience formulating good public policy :) I find it fascinating though since I have no illusions that even the best policy nerd is ever gonna come up with an optimal so
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by samcday 7y ago
You make a compelling case as to why regulation can be problematic! I can't find any part of your assessment that I disagree with. What do you think about reforming how we regulate though? You point out that the revolving door problem
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Why SpaceX Is Making Starlink(youtube.com)
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by samcday 7y ago
Does something like this ordinarily receive an extremely in-depth and public post-mortem?
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by samcday 7y ago
> Also, defective materials are caught much earlier in the manufacturing process through quality assurance methods, before they become airplanes. Okay so maybe this is an apple's to oranges comparison, but I thought of the story how
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by samcday 7y ago
I was trying to just state the facts, and pointed out ways to interpret this current piece as over-hyped. I also tried to not paint a graphic picture of what the "MAX controversies" even were, in order to avoid appeals to emotion.
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by samcday 7y ago
I don't think I've answered my own question at all. I certainly am biased one way - I think Boeing should be regulated more. I thought my bias would be stated well enough by how I worded my original comment, so I didn't expli
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by samcday 7y ago
Here's the thing. I don't doubt that since the controversies with the MAX earlier this year, a great deal many people at Boeing are taking a hard look at everything around them and figuring out how to do better. I'm also sure
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by samcday 7y ago
You make a great point. We have a lot of sci-fi that's been conditioning us to the idea of a world shared with a large cast of robotic members. I'm a geek who loves those kinds of fantasies. Yet, when I saw that fancy robotic espr
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by samcday 7y ago
Not sure if OP or anyone else who thought along similar lines will see this follow up, but I was mulling the original comment over some more and I know why I reacted so strongly to it. When I think of the word terrorism, and I'm sure m
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by samcday 7y ago
I know most of the initial applications of Spot are going to be industrial or law enforcement / military. But I'm sure these are gonna start showing up in commercial and even retail settings, probably sooner than many of us have t
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by samcday 7y ago
How much have you used GraalVM? I'm curious to know if it really works like that in practice. I've read what it says on the tin a few times and been impressed, but haven't actually sat down and played with it yet. The skept
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by samcday 7y ago
This is actually the best rebuttal I’ve seen so far, thank you. I still think it’s unfair to compare a drone inside restricted airspace (and notified well ahead of time) to an explosive device in the terminal. But I can certainly see how th
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by samcday 7y ago
Finally, some good news this week! Unless someone wants to poop all over my very reductive take on this, I'm going to treat it as proof that peaceful demonstrations in the streets still mean something (sometimes).
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by samcday 7y ago
Okay, thanks for restating. 1. Yep, I somewhat agree. So can you please clarify your stance as to whether the current climate change situation is another example? 2. Yep, and I sincerely hope China also pulls their heads out of their collec
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by samcday 7y ago
So what you're saying is, the fact we were wrong about how long it would take to recover proves that the whole thing was a farce? Your data says nothing to counter whether the ozone hole was actually a major problem (spoiler: it was)
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by samcday 7y ago
Bah, to hell with your boring moderate stance! I would much rather have endless debates with others about why MY hammer is better than their hammer, and ignore the fact that maybe not everything is a nail ;)
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by samcday 7y ago
You made a similar point about China in one of the other siblings. But now you've expanded it to the point where you're contradicting yourself. On the one hand, you're saying that trying to tackle climate change in the UK is
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by samcday 7y ago
I think the problem here is many people have heard that statement, but are choosing not to believe it. Instead they're reaching for UK legislation and straw mans to paint XR as a bunch of eco-fascist terrorists. The only thing that giv
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by samcday 7y ago
I wish more of the comments here were like this. Most of my comments are rubbish troll-bait, I'm glad people like NeedMoreTea exist. Someone who can calmly and rationally make a series of excellent points grounded in fact and history :
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by samcday 7y ago
But I guess nothing I say here matters because I clearly don't actually believe any of it and I'm just virtue signalling.

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