samhw

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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, I appreciate what 'auto' and 'scaling' signifies. I've implemented an autoscaler on a huge Kubernetes cluster in the past. That's precisely where my doubt comes from. I was about to write out a huge examp
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, I'd agree with that. But even then, it would be more valuable if it committed to at least some meaningful, non-platitudinous positions. Something with which at least one person on the planet might disagree. Not "it would b
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by samhw 4y ago
> maybe you need optimization query but not to deploy databases, migration and that Well, how do you indicate to it that you want to create a database? Does the database read your mind too? How do you indicate that you want to provision
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by samhw 4y ago
I can't make sense of lots of this. - Without self-replicating grey goo, infinite scalability is surely more a property of some kind of networked computer rental business (like AWS) rather than a database. - What does 'serverless&
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by samhw 4y ago
How on earth is TikTok a competitor to Netflix?!
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by samhw 4y ago
I dunno. I'm not so unhinged about it as the guy above, but I do share some of his exhaustion at the ideological box-ticking of these TV shows. I'm left wing and I believe everyone deserves equal rights and equal respect, but I fi
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by samhw 4y ago
> fear it ending suddenly without resolution I don't mean to sound like some "well akshuallyyy"ing Comic Book Guy figure, but you must realise it's not real life? If it's a Poirot-type mystery where the entire pa
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by samhw 4y ago
I don't know why this would even be paid from company money. If I Epsteined my flight-attendant-cum-masseuse, my company would not pay for that. I don't think I would want my company to pay for it, given the privacy/leaking
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by samhw 4y ago
If you change programming languages based on random comments from loonies on the internet, I don't think you're ever going to stick with a language long enough to implement hello world...
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by samhw 4y ago
As far as I know, we do lifetime licenses in the UK, aside from photo licenses where the photo has to be renewed every 10 years (which can be done online). However, our driving tests are quite different from those in the US, in that they ac
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by samhw 4y ago
Also, eight seconds sounds like a terrifically long time for it to take effect. That's tens of billions of CPU cycles, billions of arithmetic instructions, millions of disk seeks, a hundred or so page loads , a dozen "knock knock
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by samhw 4y ago
> I guess what you're saying is that apprehension about the motives of of corporate executives is so irrational, it's akin to a psychological problem. No, that wasn't what I was saying there, but coincidentally, yes, I wou
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by samhw 4y ago
I think that definition is right, but only where 'simplest' factors in the probability of each premiss, not just the aggregate number of premisses. And yeah, on that reading it's trivially true, but something's being tri
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by samhw 4y ago
Consider what we see if there isn't enough information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons And on a totally separate note, consider what we see in DeFi.
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by samhw 4y ago
I can't see why Occam's razor wouldn't apply: don't postulate more entities than are necessary to explain the facts. Specifically, there is no reason to postulate some kind of anti-Firefox elements within Cloudflare when
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by samhw 4y ago
Honestly, do you want a BigCo job? Would it make you happy? The experience of being a tiny cog in an unthinkingly vast machine is more alienating than you might think, even if you like the money. I think lots of those who stay on long-term
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, it's clear these people have never hired for a company. I've sat in on a thousand hiring committees, helped design these processes, all that boring shit, and the idea that someone would say "let's do Leetcode chall
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by samhw 4y ago
> Maybe what Rust needs is a “build a program with lots of allocations” and then “whittle down allocations with smart use of references” section of the book. Rem acu tetigisti. This is what needs conveying. I think with Rust people are o
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by samhw 4y ago
>> This is what generics are for in most languages. > That goes exactly opposite of this optimization, and is just entirely orthogonal. What does that mean? Also, how is it "exactly opposite" and "orthogonal"? M
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by samhw 4y ago
This was hilarious. I hope it was meant to be. I liked the parody of the deluded man who thinks he's the best and that no one recognises his genius - maybe it was a bit on the nose, a bit too cliché, but nevertheless. It was a nice tou
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, this is the obverse of why I don't go to the US. I know the guy upthread was smarmily pushing the "oh, it's just because you CAN'T get a visa / get a job / figure out how the fuck you're meant to ap
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by samhw 4y ago
Bugs? Roll back. Bugs are generally proportional to LOC, not number of deploys - given that's a DevOps variable and not a programming one – so the only relevant difference I can imagine is less chance of a multi-bug, multi-factorial, m
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by samhw 4y ago
Haha, fair enough. > not that they were wearing a clan hat to work If so, I'd go with "refer them to Uber or Coinbase" perhaps..
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by samhw 4y ago
If it's 'bold and flagrant', then probably "don't hire them" would be a pretty good rule.
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by samhw 4y ago
This is absurd. Don't entrust an online service with the only copies of important data if you don't want to lose it. Even in the most statist society imaginable, making it a criminal act to 'fully ban' a user from a &#x2
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, you never know if the backup is really working, or if the deletion might (in some obviously-deeply-flawed logic/architecture) get streamed to the replica/backup, etc. I'm not taking a position on the workplace ethics is
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by samhw 4y ago
Indeed, as are the graphics we're discussing.
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by samhw 4y ago
Ah, sorry for the late response. Respectfully, I think it's a bit dishonest that you've linked to one very specific subpage for one specific office in Seattle, presumably the one page you found which contained a lot of white peopl
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by samhw 4y ago
Ah, right, thanks! That wasn't actually part of the statement they quoted (/posed within quotation marks), whence my confusion. Edit: Or is the point that 20% of floor workers in total do become managers, but that's precise
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by samhw 4y ago
Hmm, there were some absurdities when I was on the team, but I wouldn't have identified that as one of them. I'd characterise the service count as possibly slightly overboard, but not the deploy count: making changes super-increme

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