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by singron 4y ago
This is how you end up with 8 bosses like in office space. EM, TL, ATL, PM, PgM are all telling you what to do and asking for status updates. I wish there was someone to liase and multiplex all that, but I think they all think that's w
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by singron 4y ago
If it's a VC-backed company, the board member merely represents the VC fund and wouldn't personally enjoy the entire upside of the equity the fund owns. I think it's possible that they would still take $500K risk free today o
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by singron 4y ago
"Bad leads" are often obviously in the wrong segment. E.g. for B2C either too big, too small, or wrong industry. Every business and product are different, so there are no specific numbers you should expect in general. You can some
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by singron 4y ago
re concurrent writes: The issue we ran into was deadlocks when we upserted batches of records within a transaction. E.g. transaction A updates row 1 then row 2 and transaction B updates row 2 then row 1. If you sort so that you update rows
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by singron 4y ago
Where do you work?
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by singron 4y ago
Promising but pre-profit VC-backed companies don't want to raise in the next 2-3 years since there is a huge risk of down-rounds. Everyone is trying to squeeze their runways out over that time period. Unfortunately, if your customers a
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by singron 4y ago
Who did your pentest? Was that your first one? I'm guessing our codebase is older and bigger if you were S20, and we've had several pentests at this point, so maybe they are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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by singron 4y ago
SOC2 is a joke and pen testers usually do a terrible job. Almost all of SOC2 has nothing to do with whether you built secure software. It seems like pen testers usually just run standard scanners, report all the false positives, and then ca
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by singron 4y ago
Sheets has had almost no updates for the last 10 years after getting to its current level of viability. I'm reminded of this 7 year old talk (You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky) where he goes over a bunch of great Excel features that
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by singron 4y ago
Is water $100/gallon in this scenario? What is the price of water where you would decide you aren't willing to pay and society isn't already some post-apocalyptic hellscape? This is the same reason we don't contemplate h
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by singron 4y ago
Individuals buy water from their municipality, which is free to reallocate and reprice at that level. However, the municipality can pay market rates at the wholesale level, where water rights are currently a concern. Is there some business
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by singron 4y ago
Cloud has had over 135-153% YoY revenue growth every quarter since they started reporting Cloud revenue 11 quarters ago. It's amazingly consistent high growth. TAC (traffic acquisition costs) have exploded over this time frame. If you
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by singron 4y ago
Honestly employers have been kneecapping themselves with this. E.g. Google job posts usually post base salary for L3 even if the listing is obviously for L5/L6. The total comp is like 2.5x the advertised amount. Why wouldn't they
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by singron 4y ago
Provisioned IOPS is insanely expensive. Running 256K IOPS is $25K/month. You could outright buy multiple 970 EVOs every day and spend less money.
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by singron 4y ago
RDS tops out at about 18000 IOPS since it uses a single ebs volume. Any decent ssd will do much better. E.g. a 970 evo will easily do >100K IOPS and can do more like 400K in ideal conditions. You can get that many IOPS with aurora, but t
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by singron 4y ago
That's only for ad personalization. If you want to turn off web and app activity, you have to be logged in. The ad industry has had these opt-outs for a while, but you have to set opt-out cookies on about 500 sites, so it's not pr
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by singron 4y ago
I don't think the Taylor rule says interest rates should be higher than inflation. It seems like it's dependent on the weights you pick. Historically it's not been true either. If that is some implication of the formula I&#x2
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by singron 4y ago
Yes. I like to think of the AGPL as modifying the distribution part of the GPL to include direct network access by users. The "viral" part is the same between the two and is still linking code into a single program. AGPL libraries
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by singron 4y ago
If they are laying off their poor performers so they can hire the laid-off from other companies, wouldn't they just be trading lemons? The strategy probably works regardless of macro economic conditions assuming you let go of "lem
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by singron 4y ago
You are probably thinking of issues with networked filesystems like nfs, 9p, or vboxsf where you can't mmap a file and actually share memory. Basically any other real filesystem that 2 processes actually open the same file on will allo
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by singron 4y ago
Yeah. They have had a major layoff every year for the last 3 years. Are they just engineering a kind of forced unregretted attrition? The alternative is that it's just complete chaos in there.
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by singron 4y ago
If you only have W2s and (most) 1099s and make <$200,000 it's pretty straightforward to use free file fillable forms for federal and your state's free electronic filing service. You can also mail the forms in. You just do 1040
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by singron 4y ago
Each addition is linear in d, but there are d additions, so it's already quadratic before you even consider the multiplications. In a power-of-2 base, the result of the multiplication is a constant number of digits (because the multipl
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by singron 4y ago
I looked at a 2GW nuclear facility, and it's about 1 square Km. The reactors aren't too big, but there a lot of auxiliary buildings as well as parking for many employees. I know one building is a training facility that replicates
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by singron 4y ago
It's not entirely dishonest, but it's a huge caveat that their process has 2 parts with an intermediate, so comparing just one part to other processes doesn't make sense. E.g. in one section, they mention that DAC to CO2 is t
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by singron 4y ago
I was wondering why their system didn't break with the migration to systemd, but it's possible that their system is new enough that it started on systemd. That one was huge pain if I remember correctly. I think I needed to rescue
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by singron 4y ago
They are using a ScyllaDB, which is based on lsm trees, so all writes should already be sequential.
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by singron 4y ago
How can this work if you have online or recurring charges? It seems like a lot of work to still not know the balance.
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by singron 4y ago
I think StarCraft2 would launch an old replay with an old executable. If you look around, there is a directory with exes from a bunch of different versions of the game. I don't know if they still do this since it seems quite unwieldy.
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by singron 4y ago
I just looked at the scripts for the last StatefulSet thing I did, and it has the exact workaround in the apply script. I.e. recreate the ss, edit the pvcs, and restart the rollout when there is a volume size change. K8s has really been an

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