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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I have been doing this for two decades. Let me tell you about bare metal. Back in the day we had 1,000 physical servers to run a large scale web app. 90% of that capacity was used only for two months. So we had to buy 900 servers just to ma
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I also started encountering something like ageism, but more careerism. If you're old and you haven't climbed the corporate ladder, they think something's wrong with you. Why haven't you gotten Senior yet? Principal? Staf
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Snowflake is the future. We shouldn't be writing code at all, we should be throwing data into a big hole in the ground and then querying the hole, or attaching a query to the hole so as data goes in the query does something wjth it, an
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Yeah, other VPNs do the same thing as wg-quick. Although they also may make a ton of more specific routes which take precedence over ones from wg-quick. It's fairly rare that routes don't get cleaned up, but a reconnect/disco
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
They're like a tick. Very good at burrowing in and hard to remove. They have a lot of clients for whom a dozen million dollars is a drop in the bucket, and moving away is a decade-long millions-of-dollars project.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Avoidable mistakes are still mistakes, and mistakes happen, even when they shouldn't. There is no one thing you could do to avoid catastrophic failure. The best thing you can do is break your system up entirely and simply never do any
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
The author seems to have come across the paraphrased version of the quote and I'm explaining what it's missing. I don't care if Deming or someone else said it first or if Deming was referencing it.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
If you don't want to try a personal trainer, train yourself. Start small: find a thing you want to improve. Plan out several ways you can practice that only take 30-60 seconds. Set a timer to go off multiple times a day. By practicing
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it" is a quote by W. E. Deming. But Deming was fully aware that there are things you can't measure and must manage. He also emphasized that data could be used to mislead
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Filesystems are close to being obsolete in the cloud. We still need them to get applications "started", but after that, applications shouldn't really be using a filesystem. I/O should take place with a remote (or local)
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I have a simpler explanation: boredom. Public opinion was probably getting bored of the big tech trials, which means they might not be fired up about voting for those politicians. So now politicians are pivoting to a different, more attract
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
How can we help? (With anything, not just drones)
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Excellent explanation. But I think plenty of technology has been misunderstood as of late. I've been in this industry two decades, but it's only in the past 5 years that I've noticed entire teams of absolute morons entering
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
About a million things? Art, furniture, metal gears, food, seedlings, chickens, printed t-shirts, shoes, electronics, bicycles, pottery, brooms, woven fabric, a bespoke suit. A car. It'd be easier to list what you can't manufact
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
That's one kind of person. A different person sees what they want to do for their lifetime and figures out how to live off it. The problem is wanting to make art for a living and the solution is figuring out how to get paid for it.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
> And there's almost nothing to do about it- that's the way things currently "work" and it seems insurmountable to do anything about it. A small handful of the super-rich have already pointed out the only thing "
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
It occurred to me as I was sitting alone in my motel room, staring at a single-serving of peanut butter, a stale bagel, a bruised banana, and a three-quarters cup of single-serving Folgers coffee with the non-dairy powdered creamer and suga
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Users'd probably just join Reddit. It's full of snark and outrage too Elon would make his own Twitter called Doge-r, and a company that developed it and also did construction, so he could have dump trucks called Dogers (as in bull
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
slow clap
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Fastmail is decent. It's not perfect but it works. Very good integration with Google to retrieve legacy mail/calendar/contacts. Can even send mail through your Gmail account.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Which is a great reason to end the Taxi system. When self driving cars finally arrive everywhere, they'll be done for. I can't wait for the political battle of "keep the jobs so people can continue being occasionally exploite
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Jobs. Tech. Donations/lobbying. Lots of reasons for politicians to hide their tails. Law enforcement & judiciary do what politicians say.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I never understood why people think unhealthy food has all the flavor. Most unhealthy food is just sugar, salt, fat, and a tiny pinch of flavor. Just get the flavor without the other crap and it's much more intense. Most vegetables, fr
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Access company Kisi's blog post from 2018 on hacking 125Khz and 13.56Mhz cards: https://www.getkisi.com/blog/how-to-copy-access-cards-and-ke... Hardware device that copies many keys including encrypted: https:
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
This is the thing that infuriates me most about any job. At any business, everyone needs to work as a team to accomplish the business's goals and make the customer happy. If anyone decides they're not going to care about their tea
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Looks really cool. Wish most programs that try to give some crappy image of a graph could use this instead. A lot of potential for a new kind of UI built around this too
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
> The local council has emphasised that there will be no limit to visitor numbers, only an increase in the entry fee should a certain number of visitors be reached on a particular day. So it's not about overcrowding, it's just
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
thank you
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
If I can be a little too honest here, I will admit that I just don't like making programs that are too simple. I can make an extremely simple program... But it doesn't feel good. I know there will be limitations to that simplici
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Weren't SMS messages used to root iPhones in one exploit? https://www.wired.com/story/imessage-interactionless-hacks-g... https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/researchers-attack-my-ipho...

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