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by tristor 2y ago
As someone who's worked extensively on distributed systems, including at a cloud provider, after reading this I think the author doesn't actually understand the CAP theorem or the two generals problem. Their conclusions are essen
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by tristor 2y ago
None of those things are reality, those are how we chose as a society to interface with it. Now that they've happened, they form a part of the fabric of reality, that is the history of the universe and humanity as a species. When I s
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by tristor 2y ago
I have, at some point in my career, had the title of "Automation Engineer" in the past. I generally agree with the article except there is one huge oversight: Automation requires predictability as a prerequisite and complex syst
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by tristor 2y ago
This criticism would carry more weight if this entire thread wasn't full of snippets of communist fanfic about using legal force to try to upend reality and ending the profit motive for companies and enforcing worker collectives.
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by tristor 2y ago
I already do this with NextDNS, I block all the "new" TLDs except for .io, .tv, and .ai because they're used for tech sites that are legitimate. I know that many organizations do the same, in fact it's mentioned in anot
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by tristor 2y ago
Wow, being accused of a shill at the same time as the most uncharitable take on my comment possible. I'm in no way associated to AmEx other than being a customer. I'm a frequent traveler and formerly digital nomad (78 countries an
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by tristor 2y ago
I'm still alive, so zero. Meanwhile, I've been accosted on public transport in the US multiple times. It's part of why I avoid public transport in the US.
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by tristor 2y ago
> NYC's subway had 2 billion riders last year. Either you're claiming that a quarter of the world's population at some point rode the NYC subway last year, or they're counting ridership non-uniquely, meaning that&#x27
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by tristor 2y ago
In my experience any time a merchant tells me they don't take Amex, they actually do take Amex but the owner / manager doesn't like paying the higher merchant fees so refuses it since most people carry an alternative payment
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by tristor 2y ago
I have been an Amex card holder for nearly 30 years. It's one of the few brands I have real loyalty to because they've saved my bacon so many times while traveling and in other ways. The conclusions of this analysis match my own
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by tristor 2y ago
> I'm in the 1% and so are most of the people around me. Many of them want to ride good public transit. Agreed. The point the GP is trying to make though is that "good public transit" isn't /just/ about inf
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by tristor 2y ago
Honestly, this would be a great efficiency boost if you could figure out how to manage distributed access, even in the existing model. Content servers in the CDN could act like origins/seedboxes, and pieces could be streamed from othe
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by tristor 2y ago
> In the real world, "computer security" is a profession full of hucksters Always has been. The information security model is about analogizing digital systems as physical systems, and employing the analogues of those physical
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by tristor 2y ago
The overengineering here produced a poor result. I have found a lot of success using the pandoc_resume project, which is literally just a content item written in Markdown, formatted into different outputs using a LaTeX template via `pandoc
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by tristor 2y ago
They use EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software, there are only a handful of vendors, the largest probably being Mentor Graphics, now owned by Siemens. So, yes, they use automation to algorithmically build and track/resolve refac
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by tristor 2y ago
I went from upgrading every 2 years to planning to wait for 3. One additional year isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, and my phone is mostly capable of doing everything I want already. The biggest factor though i
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by tristor 2y ago
They outlasted most of the tech companies founded in 2007, not just the non-profits. The average life span of a tech startup is 5 years.
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by tristor 2y ago
> but it was stupid not starting a full blown reusable rocket program at the same time, when it became evident how much of a dead end it is. Redundancy in novel fields is not a waste, it creates opportunities to try subtly different appr
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by tristor 2y ago
I want to like this. I have a thing for epaper/eink. But I really don't know what I would use this for, for pretty much the same reasons I don't have any other tablet computer today. My sole "tablet" is a RM2 tha
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by tristor 2y ago
There was like $17 in the account when I tried to close it, so I am completely unconcerned with the money. My bigger concern is that their lax security will result in someone trying to fraudulently transact with the account and somehow tha
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by tristor 2y ago
This thread seems as good a place as any to ask. I have a Mercury account for a now defunct/non-existent company, but Mercury refused to close my account. Unfortunately that means I was exposed in this breach. What is the best way t
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by tristor 2y ago
I do UKIs and direct boot them on Arch. Works great. Do have to recompile for every change, but it's very fast on a modern system, takes about 40 seconds on my laptop.
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by tristor 2y ago
So fun story, I recently switched away from Authy for various reasons, but the key one was that I had to restore from a backup on a device and when I did so I realized the Authy had never actually deleted any of the 2FA/TOTP accounts I
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by tristor 2y ago
I have a bunch of small scripts I wrote to help me out when I'm working at the terminal. Most of them I've embedded in some way in my Prezto setup with ZSH. As the ecosystem develops though, I try to abandon my own code in favor
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by tristor 2y ago
This isn't really true. WhatsApp was used pre-acquisition and continues to be dominant throughout LATAM, Africa, and Europe in addition to US/NA. Only in the APJC region and Russia do we see significant divergence in messaging a
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by tristor 2y ago
You can separate different types of devices on different VLANs. As an example I keep my home lab, general use (phones, laptops), work, and IOT (cameras, thermostat) on separate VLANs from one another. They all get access to the Internet, b
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by tristor 2y ago
> I believe there are more effective ways of lifting populations out of poverty. I think you may be right. Unfortunately, what I have observed is that every attempt otherwise so far has failed. I think any approach which requires stron
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by tristor 2y ago
Thanks for the link. I don’t buy it. It does not match what I have directly observed, and seems to be mostly moving the goal posts. In purchasing power parity, the average Chinese person is massively better off today than in 1980, there’
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by tristor 2y ago
You’re right. Plenty of research has shown C-suite execs tend to have psychopathic tendencies. The thing about academia, though, is that there is no escape. Not only is this behavior everywhere in the academy, economics dictates with very
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by tristor 2y ago
It’s funny you say that, because the primary beneficiaries of capitalism have been exactly those workers over the past four decades. While not good for American workers, off-shoring and outsourcing have lifted over a billion people out of

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