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by specialp 4y ago
There is a danger too to encrypting your data with non built in KMS key: The key can be deleted and your data can become irrecoverable. KMS has a waiting period of 7-30 days when it is deleted but it is up to you to alert yourself of the fa
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by specialp 4y ago
I am not sure if you ever dealt with a very entrenched system that has been in place longer than you have been alive, but it is not easy. It is also not easy to hire to deal with these things. Especially at government rates which are lower
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by specialp 4y ago
You just don't want to be in the position you are in now to start. I am currently in a similar position that you are in. Where you get spread really thin due to your specialist role in just about anything. If you don't want to be
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by specialp 4y ago
There is another aspect too. It completely breaks your body. Electricians get carpal tunnel worse than information workers by constantly squeezing lineman pliers, knees get shot. Your career path is work like that and hopefully before you g
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by specialp 4y ago
He was asked to address some questions and make revisions. He was so aggravated that his paper was subject to peer review at all that he withdrew it. But his subsequent submission to another journal did incorporate some of the referees conc
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by specialp 4y ago
The Netherlands has absolutely nowhere approaching the density of NYC. Even Queens has a density twice that of Amsterdam, and Manhattan 7x. If you see NYC on garbage days the streets are lined with mountains of bags. Each corner would have
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by specialp 4y ago
The difference with American Football is although there have been subtle changes in the rules, it has been mostly the same for over 50 years. With esports (like in the case of Overwatch) they do not have that lifespan. So unless you are som
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by specialp 4y ago
It looks clean because the developers are also the people behind dry-rb. However, I made one production service in Hanami and never again. They put clean syntax above all else. This results in a TON of metaprogramming with very weird result
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by specialp 4y ago
Agreed strongly. I would rather develop on Linux as my development environment will not be destroyed on updates, and my applications run on Linux based systems. The only thing that saves MacOS from being completely unworkable is that there
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by specialp 4y ago
I agree 100%. As I got older and my father died and other older family members I realized that I was taking for granted my family and all of the energy around me it generated. The things that made me happy such as working, traveling and hob
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by specialp 4y ago
I was at that talk by David which is the first link. Highly recommended watch, he is such a good presenter. The way he went full circle there and had the room in raucous applause at the end was something I never forgot.
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by specialp 4y ago
Well yes it does require some dedicated PMs, owners and leads. If you are a smaller operation that does not have this, sprints might not be as beneficial. But if you are working for anything at scale as a developer, sprints aren't nece
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by specialp 4y ago
I had an extremely fussy colicky infant. I never thought that noises would help him sleep. But I noticed he would sleep if I was holding him and talking to someone. One day he was overtired and screaming because he could not sleep, and I tu
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by specialp 4y ago
Infants especially sleep BETTER when there is noise and people around. For an adult noise means something is possibly coming to harm you and your family at night so it awakens you. For an infant, lack of noise means abandonment and the resp
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by specialp 4y ago
N900 was also the first phone with a full on browser capable of running any site. Other phones then were not able to run full JS. Also the resolution was higher than other phones.
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by specialp 4y ago
Yes Heroku was so far ahead of its time, and they could have been a leader in this field. They didn't even tie it in very well with Salesforce CRM as well which would have gained them cloud business. Free tier is probably the only thin
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by specialp 4y ago
3d printing is amazing but it is not extremely precise. At the end of the day you are extruding plastic from a stepper motor controlled head not much different than extruding glue from a glue gun (I know about other mechanisms but this was
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by specialp 4y ago
Cash has to be physically sent somewhere else. There are already restrictions on large amounts of cash (> $10000) where large transactions must be reported to the government, and it must be declared entering or exiting the country. This
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by specialp 4y ago
Eliminating mosquito breeding grounds is the most effective approach of mosquito control. They do not travel very far, have a massive reproductive ability, and have a relatively short lifespan. Larvacides in standing water do stop larvae bu
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by specialp 4y ago
The USA could easily decide they would like to restore 50% of the forest by reclaiming farmland and exurbs and planting back trees. In 50 years it could be a large wild forest. Perhaps not old growth like before. So what is stopping this? I
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by specialp 4y ago
It doesn't and I am not advocating cutting down all the forests. But it is very easy to have had already done it, reaped the benefits of being an agricultural/economic powerhouse and then tell a developing country that was not goo
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by specialp 4y ago
The United States once had one of the largest forests on Earth. The Eastern Forest covered almost everywhere east of the Mississippi. 2,560,000 km2 of forest. Now it is largely gone. Replaced with farmland and sprawl. So it is hard to criti
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by specialp 4y ago
Finding the root cause of an unprecedented disaster might not reverse the history of that disaster, but it would help prevent future similar disasters. Now we are clearly aware of the costs. It isn't a distraction to look into the caus
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by specialp 4y ago
One thing lost on people is the "for-profit" motive is not solely with insurers or plan providers. Medical practitioners in my experience are extremely motivated to provide as many services as the insurer will pay for regardless o
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by specialp 4y ago
I would also be interested in what would be the alternative not in the cloud? AWS deployments can get complicated due to the IAM rules, networking rules, security groups. But if I told someone, bring up a stack like that on bare metal, and
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by specialp 4y ago
He might actually have to make this deal. I thought for a while that he had no intention of actually buying them. He just wanted to stir the pot with Twitter. He would then back out, and say something like "Taking these funds and now p
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by specialp 4y ago
I am not referring to multiple homogeneous consumers processing a queue. That is fine. You have a pool of consumers that can pick up from the queue. That is still considered one entity/actor. The people here are proposing having multip
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by specialp 4y ago
This just blows my mind too. The pipe analogy is apt. Using logic to dispatch to whatever pipe -> consumer you want is the way to use queues. Turning it upside down and using properties of the queue to have consumers decide what they wan
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by specialp 4y ago
If you could name even one I would remove the "dogma". I cannot think of why anyone would want to do that. And if someone did want to do that they would have to have a very compelling reason to complicate what is usually an easy t
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by specialp 4y ago
I guess we can debate the semantics of it because it is technically possible. But it is terrible design to have a SQS to many different consumers. If someone did that I would reject it on review. In any proper usage of SQS it is many to o

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