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by vrosas 1y ago
"You may exit the vehicle after this word from our sponsors..."
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by vrosas 2y ago
I've found the smartest go engineer in the room is usually the one NOT using channels.
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by vrosas 2y ago
I see why they do this, but man it almost feels like asking your boss for approval on where you go on vacation. Do people get dinged if their 20% time project doesn't pan out, or they lose interest later on?
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by vrosas 2y ago
I briefly worked for an “AI” company that was literally just a wrapper over Anthropic’s API. They also claimed to be HIPAA compliant despite sending 100% of their user data to these 3rd parties…
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by vrosas 2y ago
The real prize is the technology and techniques to do this sort of stuff. CRISPR is a fascinating technology that we're just now seeing the benefits of[0] 0 - https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/crispr-technology-cur
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by vrosas 2y ago
Climate change is only one reason for extinctions. Humans also tend to hunt a lot of things out of existence, like the dodo, that Colossal is also trying to bring back.
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by vrosas 2y ago
The mammoth is the big PR project but Colossal is working on a number of species, and the idea is the research will enable us to easily "de-extinct" or prop up the population of any number of species if and when they're in da
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by vrosas 2y ago
The best advice I got before moving to NYC was to download a PDF of the subway map to Books on my phone. That has saved me countless times.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Somebody has never watched the whole company go down because some other team wrote a bad migration to the central db.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Kind of a weird take. Microservices are (or at least should be) more about encapsulation of data than encapsulation of code or compute.
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by vrosas 2y ago
You'll one day hear Apple's lawyers argue in court that "security" never meant cybersecurity, only share price security.
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by vrosas 2y ago
My last company _refused_ to buy me an air (what I use personally) and instead insisted on sending me their "standard" specced out 16" MBP and I _hate_ it. Flying with that thing to the offsite felt like I was smuggling a cin
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by vrosas 2y ago
I'm a fan of memcache specifically because ALL it can do is be a cache. No one can come in later and add a distributed queue to it. In-memory caching is also underrated, I agree. Using a hashmap and a minuscule TTL (like 5 seconds) can
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by vrosas 2y ago
I've never done it IRL but I've always wanted to delete my company's redis instances and see what happens, chaos monkey style. If you're service breaks because it expected the cache to be there or your database immediate
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by vrosas 2y ago
The mammoth is their moonshot project. They’re working on a number of species that have more complete genomes in the name of de-extinction.
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by vrosas 2y ago
My daughter is 4 months old but my wife and I were both avid travelers before she came along. We’ve agreed vacations are for us until she’s old enough to talk about what she’s just experienced. And even then we’re not taking her anywhere el
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by vrosas 2y ago
On the flip side I had a manager who had written a lot of the codebase before I joined and had a terrible time allowing anyone to touch his precious baby, regardless of how much his prior ”art” was hurting us, our productivity, and by exten
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by vrosas 2y ago
Did you think it’s possible they spent a few days “cleaning” their feed with content you’d approve of? That’s the first thing I would do if someone was criticizing my browsing habits.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Any sufficiently large configuration language eventually becomes Turing complete (or close to it). See HCL, GitHub actions, kubernetes.
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by vrosas 2y ago
The outrage wasn’t only fake, it was literally manufactured by Russian bots.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Terraform is definitely for the best. Any AI tool should be able to spit it out well enough, but if you do rawdog it in the console or gcloud you might be able to export the terraform with: gcloud beta resource-config bulk-export --re
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by vrosas 2y ago
Cloud Tasks is one of the most undervalued tools in the GCP ecosystem, but mostly because PubSub gets all the attention. I've been using it since it was baked in the AppEngine and love it for 1-to-1 queues or delayed job handling.
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by vrosas 2y ago
This is literally just SEO 2.0
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by vrosas 2y ago
Ok you can make the case an impact driver isn’t the perfect tool for every job but if you only own one, it’s an amazing choice.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Seriously? I only own a Milwaukee impact driver and use it for everything.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Spoiler: every model is deeply, deeply subsidized. At least Google's is subsidized by a real business with revenue, not VC's staring at the clock.
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by vrosas 2y ago
As someone currently job searching it hasn’t changed much, besides companies adding DO NOT USE AI warnings before every section. Even Anthropic forces you to write a little “why do you want to work here DO NOT USE AI” paragraph. The irony.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Like our president, whose policy stance is the stance of whoever he last talked to.
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by vrosas 2y ago
> Thomson Reuters uses Claude to power their AI platform If you're just making calls to Anthropic's API can you really call yourself a platform?
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by vrosas 2y ago
When I worked at another large credit card issuer, I was told the algorithm to detect fraud was essentially a black box. No one left at the company really knew how it worked or how to change it, so it was left intact and new rules were simp

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