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by solatic 2y ago
I respectfully disagree with Matt Levine's framing. Yes, confidential information belongs, in a statutory sense, to the company, and using it for personal gain instead of company gain is a kind of theft, similar to an executive who use
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by solatic 2y ago
Individuals are free, in their research, to access sources of information that are available to all other market participants, even if that information is usually out of reach for most people. The canonical example is using satellite photos
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by solatic 2y ago
It's insider trading, just with a different class of insiders (i.e. first level of insiders are people associated with the company itself, and the second level of insiders are Wall Street traders with access to non-public pricing signa
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by solatic 2y ago
> When we were dropping drone bombs on ISIS, was ISIS any threat to the US mainland? Yes it was. The primary threat is the illegal drug trade, you know, the one that results in more than 100,000 overdose deaths per year in the US. The dr
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by solatic 2y ago
When you never step foot inside a grocery store, it's easy to think that the price of takeout is just the normal price of food; that the "luxury" kind of food you don't eat all the time are the Michelin-star type places;
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by solatic 2y ago
As a 10x engineer, hard disagree. The modern stack is just too large. Sure, building out an MVP can be done by one 10x engineer, because basically any prototype can be built by a single engineer. But making the UX aesthetically beautiful, a
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by solatic 2y ago
There's no such thing as "the market", there are market segments that abstractly represent groups of people with similar characteristics. Charging different prices to people in different segments is standard business practi
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by solatic 2y ago
> This happened to me literally just an hour ago when I wanted to put a DSL in a field in a config file. json-schema (the "config" schema) doesn't let me write code to validate this and reject it. You can embed DSLs in CUE
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by solatic 2y ago
"Configuration" languages are fundamentally necessary and it's tragic that people don't understand why. There are declarative and imperative paradigms. Software engineering layers them on top of each other. Frontend devs
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by solatic 2y ago
I get the argument that YAML is here to stay and we need to live with it as a configuration language. I can buy an argument that environment variables are best for configuration with less than 10 knobs, and YAML is fine when there's a
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by solatic 2y ago
Sure, but the Kubernetes cluster itself, plus its foundational extra controllers (e.g. FluxCD) are basically static and therefore should be configured in Terraform.
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Buying wholesale and selling retail isn't arbitrage. Wholesale pricing is cheaper precisely because it is a bulk price. There is an overhead to selling individual units. A retail operator adds value by introducing individual unit liqui
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by solatic 2y ago
You can express this in Terraform, it's just a little more contrived. You release your changes as Terraform modules (a module in and of itself doesn't do anything, it's like a library/package), then your Terraform worksp
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by solatic 2y ago
> If you're using a language like Go, you need to have either the Go compiler toolchain installed or prebuild binaries for every permutation of CPU architecture and OS that you want to run your infrastructure on. This doesn't s
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by solatic 2y ago
> I imagine reverting changes in a mutable environment is indeed quite hard to get right (and what you are hinting at?) I guess you're not managing any databases then? Because you can't just treat those immutably, you have to m
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by solatic 2y ago
Terraform added tests somewhat recently: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/tests
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by solatic 2y ago
> My experience has been that most of the people configuring these systems don’t know how to code, and configuration languages is their gateway I don't really disagree but this is such a pessimistic, NIH-syndrome viewpoint. Feel f
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by solatic 2y ago
> If you really do think that Terraform is code, then go try and make multiple DNS records for each random instance ID based on a dynamic number of instances. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can do that in Terraf
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by solatic 2y ago
Pretty similar reason, customers use Azure so the incentives are in place to run more things on Azure. Case in point at work: we need to set up Azure infrastructure per-customer. Hitting the Azure RM endpoint from outside the Azure network
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by solatic 2y ago
I think OP is trying to differentiate between Azure APIs, which are unbelievably slow and horrible, and the UI design itself - the layout, the font, how one screen will flow to another screen, what links to what, how it would be laid out in
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by solatic 2y ago
Agreed. The "monopoly rule" (i.e. Hasbro Monopoly board game, not an economic monopoly) of company building - that you must build evenly to succeed, trying to make large improvements in say Engineering and Sales but no improvement
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by solatic 2y ago
In broad strokes, take AWS for example with us-east-1 being in Virginia and us-east-2 being in Ohio, respectively, and wondering how to fuel future East Coast expansion, West Virginia would offer similar latencies in a deep-red state (meani
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by solatic 2y ago
Hegseth is planning 8% cuts to the DoD per year for the next five years: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/02...
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by solatic 2y ago
> Nothing about this bed should depend on off-site servers. Nothing about the product should necessitate a subscription fee. I'll play the Devil's Advocate here. If this product isn't controlled by a remote server, it eit
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by solatic 2y ago
Can't believe the sense of entitlement in this thread. I guess people think bandwidth grows on trees. For residential usage, unless you're in an apartment tower where all your neighbors are software engineers and you're all b
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This is all besides the point that Terraform's biggest weakness is refactoring large workspaces into multiple smaller workspaces. Transitioning IDs from one workspace to another, at scale, is annoying to say the least. The only remot
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Half the time when Western people say they want to move to a different country for economic or political reasons, what they really wish for is to expand their country's borders, take the newly acquired land for themselves (for free or
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by solatic 2y ago
Honda is bigger than just automobiles, they also hold the lion's share of the two-wheeler market (motorcycles, scooters). They're a far way from dead.
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by solatic 2y ago
No, not necessarily. You have databases like Kafka and Elasticsearch that can benefit greatly from elastically adding additional nodes as needed. You now have Kubernetes Operators for lots of databases that help with quick HA failover when
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by solatic 2y ago
I can imagine an architecture where companies run their stateless services on some cloud-managed EKS/GKE/AKS and their stateful databases on this LTS Kubernetes distribution. Upgrade the stateless service clusters once a year by b

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