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by solatic 2y ago
> The only time I’d ever consider an LTS anything at this point is for early-stage startups that just cannot pay that cost. You're touching on the deeper truth here. Ultimately you are forced to touch production all the time for at
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You cannot simply "ignore" market forces (you might as well propose to ignore the laws of gravity, it's basically the same, consumers will "gravitate" to the products they find most attractive). In a free market, th
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I agree that conferences like re:Invent are a waste of time and money on the HN crowd, who are anyway self-motivated continuous learner types. But the vast majority of large company payrolls are stacked with 9-5 types who clock in, clock ou
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Unable to unagree with doubleplusgood reasons
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Catching Medicare fraud likely requires a level of automatic data anomaly analysis that's simply beyond all the participants involved, both in terms of getting access to the actual databases and in getting the qualified manpower to bui
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That's a nice excuse for pessimism. But the way you think about the world affects the way you interact with the world. If you think that people suck, you will eventually treat them that way. And you never know which person you pissed o
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Database design fundamentally trades off the speed of acknowledging writes with durability/availability (these are the same thing at scale) guarantees. If you need to guarantee that a change has been replicated globally then you cannot
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Government fiat currencies have fundamental value because their taxes are denominated in their fiat currency, while their fiat currency is used to compensate the public sector for their labor. If you, as a private citizen, want to avoid the
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Current example from work: an extreme single-tenant architecture, deployed for large N number of tenants, which need both logically and physically isolation; the cost of the cloud provider's managed databases is considered Too Expensiv
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That's the same pessimistic perspective. When SOC2 requires that commits be tied to reviews to show that work was visible and approved by management, and not just some cowboy engineer putting who-knows-what into production, but the con
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I left security work for a similar reason. In most companies, Security isn't there to collaboratively build more reliable and dependable products that protect customer privacy, bringing in a useful perspective of how things can go wron
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Not being willing to throw out bad/unused features is a different trap that organizations fall into. The amount of work that goes into, shall we say fortifying the foundations of a particular feature, ideally should be proportional to
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And how do you propose filtering them out? There's a reason why college students are using LLMs, they're getting better grades for less effort. I don't assume you're proposing selecting students with worse grades on purp
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Everybody has a limit to their capacity To Care About Things. It's not fixed in stone, people can care about more things and more deeply, but at any given time it's essentially some finite capacity. A glass-half-empty mentality (l
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The way to balance security and freedom is with a hardware switch. By default, keep secure boot etc. But if someone opens the case, takes out the battery, and moves a little switch on the board? Start with a fresh, unprotected context. Beca
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Of course, and you're free to ignore the emails from whoever they assign to you as an account exec. Half the time, the account exec didn't even write the cold email themselves, it was some service that blasts the cold emails for t
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> Chances are, I signed up to see if your tool can do one specific thing. If it doesn’t, I’ve already mentally moved on and forgotten about it. So, when you email me, I’m either actively evaluating whether to buy your product, or I have
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And you can get desktop workstations with similarly high core counts and RAM. You're missing the point. Your strategy can either depend on whether or not you can afford to buy out larger and larger vertically scaled servers, or you can
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> Think about CI/CD setups, where users diagnose their copy-pasted CI/CD by doing print-style debugging over the network with a layer of intermediating VM orchestration. Ridiculous! I don't think the author understands the
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Wouldn't prisoners come back from the firefighting, regret having made the decision, and tell other prisoners that they were afraid for their lives and they shouldn't volunteer; that they wouldn't be volunteering again? Would
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True, but it doesn't trigger when you hear about the fire in the abstract. It triggers only once you are face-to-face with the smoke and wall of fire.
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> That is messed up. A "visit" or two are often all that is necessary to convince folks to pay protection money to gangs. Protectors always have a perverse incentive to remind people what they need protection from. One shouldn&
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> To me it's the part where prison is apparently even worse than risking your life fighting fires for free. Makes perfect sense to me, even if the prison was a five-star hotel. The human mind is hard-wired to want to explore and ge
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> If there is a good culture and collaboration the infrastructure as code, the advocates, etc will come naturally. People will find a way to collaborate. But not the other way around, these won't fix the culture. Sure I'll agre
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The argument isn't so much that you can reach across and do everything independently, it's that seeing the underlying code makes collaboration easier. Sometimes it means you copy/paste links to the code into Slack to ask abou
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> DevOps is a flawed concept... conflicting interests... the conclusion is that they just don't want to collaborate/communicate. Wrong! This tendency is exactly what DevOps explains is the natural state of affairs without DevOp
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Makes me wonder. If it's illegal to deploy bot protection on unsubscribe links, and there are massive lists of leaked email addresses available, surely someone has tried to mass-unsubscribe tons of email addresses from tons of mailin
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I really wish people could ditch the "introvert vs. extrovert" framing. As a label, it is not helpful for anyone's personal growth. People think salespeople are some kind of natural "extrovert". I hate to break it t
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Help me understand - you build on top of AWS, which charges $0.09/GB for egress to the Internet, yet you're charging $0.05/GB for egress to the Internet? Sounds like you're subsidizing egress from AWS? Or do you have acc
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I dunno, Kubernetes has a query language, it's called jq. As in, kubectl get pods -A -ojson | jq -r '.items[] | ...'. Cyphernetes seems simpler perhaps but it's not the 10x improvement I need to switch and introduce a ne

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