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by sargun 3y ago
Meh, I never went to college, and I'm not at all close to my family. My closest friends almost all came from people I worked with at one point or another. Many of them moved in 2020+ away from the SF Bay Area, which sucked. It's i
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by sargun 3y ago
Yeah, often times, it wouldn't actually be getting a beer. It'd usually be going out and getting a coffee. For a while, I'd have coffee runs at 2 or 3 PM and take a walk with people.
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by sargun 3y ago
I’ve noticed that post 2020 (“pandemic”), that socialization in industry has shifted. I think it has to do with remote work, or the change in employee-employer labor relations. I’ll admit, it’s hurt me a lot, and three years on, I feel like
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by sargun 3y ago
I believe CA has tried to ban gas based leaf blowers: https://www.cnet.com/home/yard-and-outdoors/loud-gas-belchin...
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by sargun 3y ago
What were you using Falcon in, and for what?
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by sargun 3y ago
ha, I don't know how dance turned into stay. Brain decided that was better than dancing I guess.
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by sargun 3y ago
"Enjoy the party, but stay close to the door." https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/572952707788505088
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by sargun 3y ago
Deadline based scheduling actually lets you do super clever things like "time-shifting" -- you have 10 jobs, that each take 10 seconds, and the deadline is 300 seconds out -- you can fit them in between other jobs. In addition, if
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by sargun 3y ago
I’m curious who is bankrolling this effort. According to the article, he founded “Holiday Swap”, and that gave him the cash to start Global Airlines. I could only find one investor. That being said, based on what I’ve gathered, he might be
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by sargun 3y ago
I use a lot of “modernist” or “precision” cooking techniques, and I feel like these would be perfect for the blind. 1. Take meat out of packet and break into single layer on quarter pan 2. Put into Anova precision oven at 160F, sous vide mo
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by sargun 3y ago
Probably more likely to get around customs / export restrictions.
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by sargun 3y ago
It sounds like the other person tampered with the computer. Either by swapping HW, or adding their own iCloud info. I believe at least with older MacBooks, if you swapped the logic board, it’d effectively remove any kind of association with
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by sargun 3y ago
I would love to see how many other engineers want to live in non tier one metros. I’d be even more curious about a demographic breakdown. As a brown person, being in a non tier one has been uncomfortable.
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by sargun 3y ago
Yep. You lose sockopts (trivially restorable), async ownership (less trivially restorable, but with some kernel patches, it’s possible), and epoll registration (which omg, wtf.). The other problem is that we found runtimes that would immedi
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by sargun 3y ago
I made a Terrible decision of a project at Netflix. The idea was that you could swap out an IPv4 (AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM) socket with an AF_INET6 one. Turns out actually doing this with the Linux kernel is exceptionally difficult. You can
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by sargun 3y ago
My opinion of lower tier cities is that they don’t have a lot of infrastructure (See: public transit, decent internet, etc…), lack certain kinds of development (bars, coffee shops, restaurants that accommodate diets), and they tend to lack
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by sargun 3y ago
Right, but hiring, building a team, getting them performant — takes time. Apple can do it as a skunkworks style operation, probably better than most other companies out there, but such an undertaking would be a multibillion dollar hole that
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by sargun 3y ago
I will place a bet against Apple successfully launching their own general purpose Google competitor successfully before 2028. Search is incredibly complex and expensive to build and run. Apple lacks the server side chops to build super low
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by sargun 3y ago
Why did you both move to non-top tier cities? Wouldn't both living in a top-tier city make sense?
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by sargun 3y ago
So, I believe this has been under research since ~2015 at Microsoft. Bill Gates had invested in nuclear power and introduced the idea. It seems like a good idea. One problem that pops out is that even with a large, geographically distribute
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by sargun 3y ago
I feel pretty strongly against the idea of immutable infrastructure when you're "infrastructure" (shared systems, running other people's software), but this article isn't about that. In my observation (and in datase
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by sargun 3y ago
What, more private, communication method, do you use?
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by sargun 3y ago
At a big company, unless you have some serious lubrication, the first 12-18 months are spent landing. Usually you have to land your big changes in a planning cycle which are usually 6-12 months. This often means, for your first ~2 years, yo
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by sargun 3y ago
Early versions of the bill had Ketamine in it. It was villified as a "date rape drug". I don't remember why MDMA got removed, but babysteps if my guess.
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by sargun 3y ago
There was a security personality who said (roughly, paraphrased), the following: > The biggest weakness and strength in security is loyalty and ego. Nation states can do things that private corporations can't. Appealing to ego is a
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by sargun 3y ago
You have to assume that you have nation state actors working at your organization at sufficient size. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to work around this assumption, because anyone can be compromised at any time.
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by sargun 3y ago
I never really understood how usenet works. There are usenet servers, and you post to usenet via these, right? Given there are O(100s) of servers (at least), I assume that the protocol between these servers is not full mesh, and there'
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by sargun 3y ago
Mullvad has been chopping away at system transparency for a little while: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-fut... -- Effectively, a mechanism by which their servers can perfo
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by sargun 3y ago
This seems great. Waiting for the HN hivemind to bring down the kabosh and tell me why this is bad.
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by sargun 3y ago
In your opinion what should pollution be measured as a function of? If you choose not to measure it per capita, then every country, no matter how large or small will be measured equally, setting up perverse incentives for smaller countries

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