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by wgjordan 5y ago
Analogy to drug safety makes no sense - FDA regulates drug safety and 'fake' generic drugs are very much allowed, so customers may choose generic drugs without needing to distinguish safe/unsafe themselves.
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by wgjordan 5y ago
In my experience (US mid-90s) this kind of greeting was common in random, mass-consumer chat channels (e.g., on AOL), but nowhere found (or ridiculed as mainstream) on technical/hacker-oriented BBS or IRC channels.
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by wgjordan 5y ago
"In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help others do so." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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VHive: Open-source framework for serverless experimentation(github.com)
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by wgjordan 5y ago
Reminds me of the Stone of Scone, a perfectly ordinary stone carried for over 1,000 years and used in the coronation of English monarchs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
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by wgjordan 5y ago
A cursory glance at empirical research suggests otherwise, that lower socioeconomic status is directly linked to higher suicide rates.
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by wgjordan 6y ago
I would be interested in seeing how DynamoDB fronted by DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) performs in a latency comparison such as this.
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> Everything Elon has said he was going to do , he has. True, as long as this excludes everything he still says he is going to do but hasn't yet done. But of course, he will .
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Relevant quote from the linked overview: > Entry addresses the spoofing issue from 2D input by using an anti-spoofing algorithm that processes a sequence of images obtained from a single camera to build an accurate 3d face reconstruction
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by wgjordan 6y ago
"Advice" section has an unfinished sentence ('you')
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by wgjordan 6y ago
"designed to last" sounds great, but it can also be an empty promise without any contractual guarantees. What's the warranty going to be on this product?
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> Or, put in another way: If you're are 10% worried about that you get to do production deploys 10% faster Correction: 10x faster, not 10%. The 60-minute deploy is shortened to 6 minutes, not 54 minutes. This is a significant differ
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> If you're mostly worried about how quickly you can minify when you do minify, then you're worrying about the wrong thing. You don't need to be 'mostly' worried about how quickly you can minify for esbuild to be
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Not to mention that Moderna's vaccine doesn't require special refrigeration that 'half the world can't afford', just the pfizer/biontech vaccine. Moderna's vaccine can be stored in regular refrigeration fo
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Would probably look a little less sharp...C-flat?
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by wgjordan 6y ago
(1999)
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> How about trusting candidates' experience? The reason this philosophy is misguided is not that candidates flat out lie all the time (though that happens too), but more that resumes are crafted to inflate, exaggerate and obfuscate
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> Is there a name for this? It seems to go by negative and positive duties (or rights, or obligations) in the literature.
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by wgjordan 6y ago
If your argument is that it's clear we should prefer species preservation over all else, then let's take the giant panda example to its logical extreme. Human population (estimated 7,800,000,000) / giant panda population (1,8
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by wgjordan 6y ago
One is document-oriented database software while the other is a fully-managed document-oriented database-as-a-service, so not at all a useful comparison. MongoDB offers a fully-managed database-as-a-service as well (Atlas), for what it&#x27
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Not mute, "moo". It's like a cow's opinion, you know, it just doesn't matter.
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by wgjordan 6y ago
If you stipulate that 'Rust is going to yield a lot of result when it comes to security, memory safety and maintainability' (see parent comment), then a great many Internet users out there would choose Firefox if as a result of be
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Thanks for the link. For the downvoters, note that HN allows posts to paywalled articles only if they have a workaround, and users usually post workarounds in the comment thread. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.htm
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Here's my attempt to summarize what this service actually does, after reading the documentation in more detail: Proton is an opinionated, 'self-service' application CI/CD workflow built on top of CloudFormation (for now,
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Here are documentation links with more detailed info (hard to find since they were not linked anywhere in the product page or announcement, seems like a rushed release): - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/proton/ - https:&
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by wgjordan 6y ago
That's the point- billed per ms, a Lambda that executes in 5ms is 10x cheaper than one that takes 50ms. Billed per 100ms interval, the total cost of the two is the same.
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> the nested stack elements that are going to change, not only the parent ones You should be pleased to hear that 'change sets for nested stacks' support was just released last week: https://aws.amazon.com/about
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> If somebody was too impatient and manually removed a resource that was managed by CFN, then he might end with a deadlock, where only help was actually a support team member. This specific situation can be resolved by doing a 'cont
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by wgjordan 6y ago
Needing to contact support for this issue in 2019 only means that the user didn't know how to use the 'continue update rollback' feature properly, which was a feature added back in 2016 specifically to support the rollback-fa
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by wgjordan 6y ago
> Heh, same. Any of the cloud-provided orchestration tools (Cloudformation, Openstack Heat etc.) are great only for the most basic tasks; using them to provision complex infrastructure is just begging for a world of hurt. I disagree- I c

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