whstl

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by whstl 11mo ago
For me it isn't much intolerance, it's more of a lack of patience for the careerists. Working with people that love what they're doing can be very chill. Working with people angling for a promotion, taking shortcuts, one-uppi
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by whstl 11mo ago
I am not trying to achieve anything. I just don't agree with you, or with your framing that this is "conspiracy thinking" from other posters. That's it.
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by whstl 11mo ago
People at Apple is gonna read this and they will do a man-month’s worth of meetings but the designer and PM will never agree in whether to remove some or add more, the developers are too busy adding icons to other random places to get a pro
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by whstl 11mo ago
This is a strawman. They can (and will) switch off individual accounts from the US if the government asks them, and this has been demonstrated earlier this year. No, they haven’t coded a “country-wide kill kill-switch” but having the abilit
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by whstl 11mo ago
Sorry but I still disagree. Calling other people's legitimate concerns "conspiracy thinking" is worse than the snark. IMO that's what we should be better than. And I get what you're arguing for, I just don't se
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by whstl 11mo ago
IMO they should also emphasize that this money can go into German (or at least European) consultants, rather than dumping 15 million on licensing costs that will go straight to Redmond, Seattle. Of course no guarantee that it will be the
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by whstl 11mo ago
You’re dismissing the idea of interference one second and then excusing an example of such interference in the next. People don't want political interference between countries to happen again and you're calling it "conspiracy
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by whstl 11mo ago
Less likely? This is exactly what happened earlier this year. Here's an article from the same newspaper that showed up to me as "related" when browsing TFA: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Cour
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by whstl 11mo ago
This excuse is as old as the hills and I've been hearing it since the late 90s, but historically there has been exactly zero training between versions of Office or Windows that changed a lot of the interface overnight. Office workers j
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by whstl 11mo ago
The TFA. Rheet Shull's video is quite high quality and shows it. When it was published I went to Youtube's website and saw Rick Beato's short video mentioned by him and it was clearly AI enhanced. I used to work with codec pe
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by whstl 11mo ago
Oh, wow, strangely I went exactly through the same thing. I once had an interviewer expected me to answer "message queue", despite all of his answers to my questions pointing to an MQ not solving the issue. He was getting really f
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by whstl 11mo ago
Half of the emails I used to get in a previous company were pointless issues, some coming from a honey pot. The other half was people demanding payment.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I've once had a whole sector of a fintech go down because one DevOps person ignored daily warning emails for three months that an API key was about to expire and needed reset. And of course nobody remembered the setup, and logging was
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by whstl 11mo ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll It's in the FAQ.
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by whstl 11mo ago
IMO it would be interesting to see those two specific Vereine getting volunteers.
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by whstl 11mo ago
In Germany, as I understand it, civic service can only be performed if you are "hired" by a recognized host organization, and host organizations must be non-profit, public, or community-benefit organizations. So most certainly wou
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by whstl 11mo ago
Yeah, Linux definitely has corporate sponsors. This is not a good rule of thumb. React is also now owned by the React Foundation, so I also don't see why it would be problematic to contribute to it now that it doesn't (seem to) be
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by whstl 11mo ago
You are the one who called them "dumb". You are the one making the judgement call here. And I stand by what I said: lots of people don't have experience with non-AWS setups and are going around repeating AWS salespeople clich
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by whstl 11mo ago
Don't double down and change the tune when you say rubbish. Don't go around saying that you have to worry about "physical security" or "electricity" just because you didn't buy AWS. You definitely don&#x27
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by whstl 11mo ago
> AWS counts as managed servers with constant security monitoring. That's a huge difference to paying for a dedicated server where you're responsible for the installation and maintenance of the operating system and all software
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by whstl 11mo ago
I'm not calling anyone dumb. It is fine to not have experience with Hetzner or to have only with AWS. It's fine for someone to not know how to cook at home. About people who work with it, I'm just alluding to the famous quo
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by whstl 11mo ago
> you need to have two servers on two locations for georedundancy You also absolutely need this with EC2 instances, which is what the comparison was about. So no, it's not unfair. If you're using an AWS service built on top o
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by whstl 11mo ago
Typo.
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by whstl 11mo ago
The people cleaning and keeping the café warm are your Ops team. AWS is just an extremely expensive Lidl. EDIT: autocorrect typo, coffee to café
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by whstl 11mo ago
The problem with this discussion is that a lot of people on these threads work as overpaid assistants to the one private chef, but also have never cooked at home. Translating: A lot of people work with AWS, are making bank, and are terrifie
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by whstl 11mo ago
People think AGI is far away, but I don't think HN commenters have this awareness: > Cue 200 comments alternating armchair Descartes and pop neuroscience, then a top post linking a blog from 2011 that “settles it,” and a mod quietl
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by whstl 11mo ago
Thanks to special backroom deals with the three majors, Spotify only really pays to a small majority in the Top N. It doesn't matter if you only listen to one artist the whole month, your money is still going to Taylor Swift. There is
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by whstl 11mo ago
Yeah, that's the whole point. "Some boss says reduce head count" and that's the amount of "work" done from that "boss". Even the execution of "reducing head count" is done by everyone else.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I don't really think it is related. Graphics aren't really the most difficult part of a modern engine, and there are high quality open-source 3rd party solutions for rendering anyway. In fact the "engine" part itself is
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by whstl 11mo ago
Yep. Most of the engine and "game from scratch" tutorials on Youtube, etc, use this style of having OpenGL code strewn around the app. With Vulkan this is borderline impossible and it becomes messy quite quickly. It's very lo

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