swozey

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by swozey 3y ago
You post literally the most ignorant and hilarious comments I've ever read on HN. I'm glad you're shadowbanned, but it's unfortunate you're completely oblivious to that fact and keep commenting hour after hour with
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by swozey 3y ago
I'm going to reply here about another comment you made elsewhere, because you're not only deadvoted - people dislike your comments so often that you're shadowbanned here and nobody can read or reply to most of them, but also
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by swozey 3y ago
I wasn't aware of any of this! Outrageous! All kidding aside I totally get it. I was lucky and taken under under the wing of a very generous group of people who have pretty much followed one another around to various jobs/projects
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by swozey 3y ago
It's by no means a limiting factor if they don't have one, but when I'm interviewing for mid - staff+ level engineers in my specific field I absolutely love when they have some sort of project portfolio I can look at. Github,
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by swozey 3y ago
I worked in this space on the CDN non-pirate side and it's basically the same thing but everyone (including the major ones you know) distribute all of their content like that over various cdns and they're all competitively tested
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by swozey 3y ago
Yeah, I've been these "cool Skunkworks" teams and I literally made no more money, maybe got a $5k spot bonus (super rare), and burned myself out over a 6mo launch. Spent my entire thanksgiving week on-call putting out fires,
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by swozey 3y ago
Oh so Jet was the techy one they brought in that brought that? I had never heard that, interesting. It's got to be terrifying working at a company that gets bought by Walmart. edit: https://corporate.walmart.com/news&#x
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by swozey 3y ago
Is Walmart "techy" again? I remember the 2015ish years where they pushed their new techy devops remote teams and then shut them down and fired everyone. It was so abrupt and out of left field. I don't know if their CTO change
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by swozey 3y ago
I thought a "Laserwriter Printer" was going to be some gigantic CDRW burner from the 80s and wasn't too surprised about the cost for a dev to mass make CDs that they can send to customers vs 3rd partying it. But thats a (pape
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by swozey 3y ago
> Doesn't make him a bad person. My god. The little apartheid clyde isn't a bad person. Love it. Hows your model 3? Musk gives us "hard" work. We should love being abused because we get to work on rockets! Company tow
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by swozey 3y ago
Microsoft is by far the lowest paying FAANG there is right next to Amazon. You make $150k+ less working at MS than Google, Meta, Apple, Nvidia etc. Nobody reading HN who works at Microsoft is making killer money.
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by swozey 3y ago
The mental gymnastics that some tech bro has to go through to like Musk over Microsoft to the point that they still use the 2001 meme of "M$FT" is hilarious. I know just about everything I could ever need to know about both compan
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by swozey 3y ago
> The fact that you have a real grocery store a drive away probably indicates that there's enough volume at that location to keep prices low. I'm not sure if I'd consider this the same situation. I'm not in a low volu
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by swozey 3y ago
I despise Kroger. I moved from Texas with fantastic HEB, and virginia with Publix to Colorado and we already had absolutely trash grocery stores, but now Kroger owns all of the major ones here. King soopers, etc. Absolutely trash stores. Ca
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by swozey 3y ago
I used to really look up to and want to work for Vmware. And a lot of other FAANG that lost their magic over the last decade.
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by swozey 3y ago
I found McCarthys style of writing to really frustrate me. I think it really took me out of the book to read and try to piece the way conversations were going. I really, really didn't enjoy reading that book. I read it a LONG time ago,
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by swozey 3y ago
"I drive an Apple" sounds so odd.
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by swozey 3y ago
I've deployed multiple open sourced netflix java services and each one of them was archived and no longer maintained according to the repos. Are they still being developed internally and the foss repos are basically without the secret
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by swozey 3y ago
That is absolutely ridiculous. This was 2009. We had just started the recession and everyone who lost their jobs was opening up wordpress blogs and everything else. That's why Hostgator sold for $300 million 5 years later and made Oxle
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by swozey 3y ago
I was just rhetorically reflecting on how strange it was that those specs is what they were using when they clearly aren't a 12 year old child or Russian warez slinger who can't get a VPS elsewhere and can afford something beyond
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by swozey 3y ago
I use UML quite a bit but it's never really what I'm after, somnething more modern and fluid and gui driven that more people can use where I don't have to manually input every single thing and it can pull in far more complex
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by swozey 3y ago
I mean, I just said I was in this business back then. I was probably 22 and making a whole $40k in my first "real" engineering job at Hostway, then Hostgator, then Rackspace, etc. And I owned multiple servers. A $40 VPS was not a
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by swozey 3y ago
I found those specs really curious as I worked in webhosting (even rax which is in the thread) and we didn't have anything near that low for a vps, but reading further I guess they're using some random fly-by-night webhost that do
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by swozey 3y ago
> LLM hallucinations I wasn't familiar with the term, good article - https://masterofcode.com/blog/hallucinations-in-llms-what-yo...
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by swozey 3y ago
The velocity of the LLM open source ecosystem is absolutely insane. I just got into hobby projects with diffusion a week ago and I'm seeing non-stop releases. It's hard to keep up. It's a firehose of information, acronyms, co
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by swozey 3y ago
I mean it's great for 99% of your passwords and pretty much forces people into using randomized generated passwords.. but I still have to remember at least ONE password by heart. Whether it's 32 characters or 16 or what not, I sti
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by swozey 3y ago
I forget who puts that stuff out NIST/STIG(?) but IIRC in the recent few years they determined that rotating passwords like that was basically security theater and wasn't worth the damage to the staffs productivity
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by swozey 3y ago
Bestbuy etc take opened items like that back up to 30 days. I think it used to be much longer in the past but I would 100% expect to be able to return a dead tv/monitor/electronic of any sort to a big box store take my broken item
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by swozey 3y ago
"Sounds like it's time for @x to build its own payment processing software." .... I haven't been on twitter in a long time, people really haven't been exaggerating. That thread is .. concerning.
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by swozey 3y ago
B&H absolutely has their own problems. About a decade+ ago I thought they were also my savior from newegg, whom I really dislike. They are often pulling stuff like this, tax evasion, LOTS of discrimination complaints, etc https:/&

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