stormbeard

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by stormbeard 3y ago
> Internal restructuring of the company may even take you from working on backend web apis to distributed databases. This isn’t true. I’ve worked in multiple FAANG companies’ infrastructure orgs, including distributed kv stores, as a SWE
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by stormbeard 3y ago
How do you know if these LLMs are stating facts instead of hallucinating? Also, where would these things learn about new topics?
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by stormbeard 3y ago
There's not much context here that explains why this is noteworthy. Arena allocation by itself isn't anything to write home about- is anyone able to explain why this is special?
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Ask HN: Is there a need for distributed systems/infrastructure consulting?
3 points by stormbeard 3y ago|2 comments
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by stormbeard 4y ago
They won’t be able to enforce it effectively, IMO. It’ll be similar to the US laws against exporting cryptography software.
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by stormbeard 4y ago
Sign in to what? Jellyfin doesn’t have an org behind it to even make an account with. It’s all hosted on your server.
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by stormbeard 4y ago
This sounds a bit like you want Factorio or Satisfactory.
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by stormbeard 4y ago
This can't be the reason- lots of datastores let you customize the compression scheme of various subsets of data.
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by stormbeard 4y ago
Care to share some examples for the people who don’t share your opinion?
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by stormbeard 4y ago
What about infrastructure teams? Not all work is product work.
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by stormbeard 5y ago
My photographed documents go on Google Photos and I can just use the image search. I pay for it and don’t really care if Google sees it all- I get what I need.
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by stormbeard 5y ago
As an AWS employee, you’re under too much artificial deadline pressure to address technical debt like this… let alone engineer a service properly in the first place.
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by stormbeard 5y ago
You can just play classic and go back to the good old days.
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by stormbeard 5y ago
Don’t you feel the need to set down roots of some kind? I would want a regular group of friends to see, a relationship, community… Doing something like this seems like it would prevent any kind of close relationships.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
What did the teachers even DO to be heroes? It's not like they tried to turn these kids' lives around or something. They didn't even to the bare minimum of their jobs... They basically just showed up to work and rubber-stampe
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Let's say there's a software tech lead and they've been code reviewing patches from a junior software engineer at your company. There are no tests, no CI to validate it, and it probably doesn't even compile... That tech
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by stormbeard 6y ago
From my experience, people say "Modern C++" to mean C++11 and newer. That was a real turning point and when I started to see that phrase used.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
I was going to say this exact same thing. Their executors are also more widely adopted and worth mentioning: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Exe...
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by stormbeard 6y ago
This is replacing a 1-hour phone screen with a 6-hour project. You're still going to rule out a bunch of good people who will refuse to spend that much time on a first-round interview.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
I understand the frustration with recruiters, but this is ridiculous. The vast majority of people are not vindictive enough to change professions to recruiting just so they can torture candidates. Don’t add to the toxicity of the internet w
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by stormbeard 6y ago
I've done my fair share of algorithmic hoop-jumping and have worked at a few of these companies over the last 10 years. I'm not convinced that the people performing these interviews are able to tell how a candidate's brain wo
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Then you're just indirectly donating money, no? What you described is just proxying the donation through an engineer.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Care to elaborate on what _you_ believe it's about?
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Specifically, what would you suggest applying this skill-set to?
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by stormbeard 6y ago
People forget that Youtube is a _business_. The reason they maintain all of those servers and network machinery is to serve ads, otherwise why would they provide that service for free?
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by stormbeard 6y ago
You're not really making a point here. If you think they are wrong, then tell us why you think this. Shooting down the comment and providing no real input is unproductive.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Mature projects make sure to depend on "well maintained" projects for this reason. However, in general dependencies don't just spontaneously break. If you're serious about the project and have to upgrade due to security
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by stormbeard 6y ago
I used to love this game, but stopped playing once I heard about Satisfactory. It just takes things to a different level.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
If everyone strictly used words based on what is “correct” English, the language would never evolve and we’d still be speaking Chaucer’s English.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Yeah, that’s not a bad idea and it’s why I’m such a fanboy of interviewing.io and that whole platform. I don’t think it’s that hard to come up with new interview questions and screen through an anonymous platform. I just think there’s not e

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