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by solatic 4y ago
I don't disagree with you, I just think it's an orthogonal concern. Arguably, companies reach better decisions (and thus perform better financially) when labor has a seat at the table; better financial performance should (but does
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Employees and board members don't have the same interests in a BigCo. Sure, board members will judge Zuckerberg on whether he's getting Meta to make progress on the goals he's set in agreement with the board, which should ful
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Diversifying reduces risk, period. The question is whether the portfolio is diversified enough , relative to its size. A lack of sufficient opportunity for diversification isn't a problem with the fund, it's a problem with the (i
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This isn't actually true in the modern system; loans are generated by the bank taking a loan from the Federal Reserve at that interest rate, and then applying a markup that covers the cost of KYC, due diligence, customer service, and o
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by solatic 4y ago
If you have a small project and you only need one or two RDS databases in production, stick with RDS. The cost isn't that high and you save a ton in aggravation. Yes you need to set up separate monitoring, firewalling, etc. but it&#x27
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> k8s should run already with automatic node upgrades This is difficult to impossible to do with databases; even if your database has a built-in recovery method for when a primary is taken offline, in such a way that allows for zero-down
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> you are basically suggesting that github, as a centralised system, is better equipped to deal with the distribution of packages than a literal distribution of package repositories? No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm ex
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It's not even close to the same thing. Universities hosting mirrors piggybacked off academic networks; not just the computer kind but the social kind, where professors would regularly meet professors from other institutions at academic
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> I have seen devs scoff at the thought of print debugging, but I recall that in systems programming there are many times you can’t use a debugger or need to rely on other tool. Not just systems programming, but fixing issues in scaled p
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by solatic 4y ago
The problem with writing a shell script to fetch and download NPM packages is that it won't do so in parallel. I'm sure that's fine if you only depend on one or two packages, but dependency explosion is practically a feature
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The biggest problem with getting programs to respect the XDG spec isn't getting programs to move their config file from $HOME/.myproj.yaml to $HOME/.config/myproj/config.yaml. It's getting projects not to store
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Using Mimestream dramatically realigned my expectations of what a snappy UX feels like. Thunderbird is quite slow by comparison. I'm not sure that desktop software should attempt to align with casual users. Most casual users will sti
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by solatic 4y ago
You're describing life under caretaker CEOs, which true to form are a self-fulfilling prophecy for mediocrity. The vast majority of large public CEOs are caretaker CEOs, and it's why working for large public companies can feel so
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by solatic 4y ago
Remote work requires a certain culture and skillset. You must be a good writer, type quickly, be self-expressive online even when not prompted by management. You must self-document and self-promote. Believe it or not, many, many people are
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Implicit is the presumption that the smartest people optimize for wealth, or that the smartest people are good at optimizing for wealth. Outside of Wall Street, "smart" people - academics, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. - are
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by solatic 4y ago
> People are saying that these mass layoffs and the way they are conducted are harmful to society and not as beneficial to the business as CEOs and investors want to believe. If people could dependably and quickly find new employment aft
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by solatic 4y ago
What's the strategy for dealing with persistent data? (Postgres, KV store, whatever)? How do I set that up and connect to it? If you're running in AWS (looks like it), how do I set up private networking with RDS?
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by solatic 4y ago
Abandonware should not be copyright-protected. The process of business dissolution should require sending a copy of all proprietary source-code to customers (assuming the business was not acquired / there is no new owner of the source
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> Now, if you deviate... to one of the new “esoteric” languages, you have to... reinvent the wheel in a lot of areas that you’d otherwise be getting for free. I think this is the key concern. The #1 priority is how quickly Engineering ca
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by solatic 4y ago
Building more luxury housing only creates vacancies in lower-tier housing markets if the wealthy people who bought the new luxury housing (a) move into the new luxury housing, (b) move out of their old housing, and (c) put their old housing
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by solatic 4y ago
The point is that if you can game the system, and the system cannot determine that it is being gamed, then it's a bad system. Who watches the watchmen? In a large-enough organization, the stack ranking system is set by some executive h
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by solatic 4y ago
I read it as the story of someone whose brother (Jeff) has multiple personality disorder, where Jeff's personality split to build a Michelle personality that was capable of standing up to and meeting not only his parents' expectat
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So the conclusion for 90% of the public is... index funds?
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Nope, lots of casual sports teams will have people say, "hey we couldn't really socialize during the game, let's go grab a beer afterwards?". Hiking is similar, "hey let's take a break and eat some lunch."
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To answer without using the word "meaning": Life satisfaction comes from devoting yourself to the pursuit of something that you feel is important. Because it's important, you can see and feel the effort that you're putti
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Parents, educators, clergy, everyone lines up to tell children that they need to study hard, go to university, get an economically worthwhile degree, get a good job, get married, get a mortgage. Questions over whether children have the inde
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Because in the real world, the only transactional relationships you ought to have are ones that explicitly involve money. It's difficult to learn to start to relate to people in a non-transactional manner, but it's necessary to de
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by solatic 4y ago
He talks about using an RI to reduce the monthly bill to under $5/month for compute. But in general, I think you're right. The value AWS offers for traditional architectures is for orgs running the numbers on lift-and-shift, compa
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You're making the common mistake that these parties are about their platforms, not their leaders. It's not so much a difference between Likud and Yesh Atid so much as a difference between Netanyahu and Lapid, with Netanyahu's
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> I would be grateful if they monitor the database for some horrible queries; and, use their knowledge of which deployments made that bad query, to file a ticket to the right team so they fix their code or add an index or whatever is nec

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