aetimmes

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by aetimmes 2mo ago
Because exploitation is a two-actor system and poverty is a unary operator.
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by aetimmes 5mo ago
Last I checked, they're on Fastly who already support IPv6.
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by aetimmes 6mo ago
None. Every component is seeing huge demand.
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by aetimmes 6mo ago
I think we're already seeing the operating systems that AI can build, and I don't think they've been an improvement.
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by aetimmes 6mo ago
Only a small fraction of a typical barrel of oil is allocated to energy generation. The majority goes to transportation/industrial use-cases. The transportation usage can be allayed with sonar energy, but the industrial use-cases canno
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by aetimmes 6mo ago
> is extremely woke What does this mean to you?
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by aetimmes 7mo ago
Datacenters were very automated when RAM was infinite. As the world becomes compute-constrained, the economics may increase the demand for smart hands mixing-and-matching server components to turn two broken servers into one working server.
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by aetimmes 1y ago
Running ad blockers for me is a matter of principle. The amount of tracking and telemetry that exists on the Internet is 1. massively invasive from a privacy perspective and 2. massively wasteful from an energy, bandwidth and time perspecti
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by aetimmes 1y ago
Jumping into water from roughly the height of the Brooklyn Bridge is generally what people do when they _want_ to end their own lives.
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by aetimmes 1y ago
It's called "20 BlueStacks instances in a trenchcoat"
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by aetimmes 1y ago
And under the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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by aetimmes 1y ago
Optimistic to assume that the US will have voting in 3.5 years.
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by aetimmes 1y ago
You're free to get your water straight from the ground, then.
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by aetimmes 1y ago
(disclaimer: I know OP IRL.) I'm seeing a lot of comments saying "only 2 days? must not have been that bad of a bug". Some thoughts here: At my current day job, our postmortem template asks "Where did we get lucky?"
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by aetimmes 2y ago
I think the word GP is objecting to isn't "your own" but rather "build". For people who have taken empty lots and constructed new data centers (ie, the whole building) on them from scratch, the phrase "building
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by aetimmes 2y ago
I mean, it's all just quicksort under the hood, right? By extension...
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by aetimmes 2y ago
> Right before the recent Twitter acquisition, the various bits of info that came to the limelight included the "minor detail" that they had more than doubled their headcount and associated expenses, but had not doubled either
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by aetimmes 2y ago
Google search is dying because of business reasons, not technical ones. The ads branch is actively cannibalizing search quality to make people perform more searches and view more ads. "Microservices" have nothing to do with it.
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by aetimmes 2y ago
Care to explain why?
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by aetimmes 2y ago
Read through Understanding Software Dynamics by Richard Sites and work through the example problems in the book. He discusses exactly what you're describing (L1/2/3 cache hit rates, their performance implications, how compile
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by aetimmes 2y ago
Even if you're not familiar with the "go brrr" meme (which is the only use of meme-idiom in the article and is used exactly twice), its meaning is easily inferred via context clues from the opening paragraphs. Good writing is
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by aetimmes 2y ago
The incidents that occurred were minor but had the potential to be much worse (for instance, if he had figured out how to upload and display one of the items from his personal multimedia collection).
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by aetimmes 3y ago
cmd.exe is a terminal emulator and PowerShell is a fully-formed scripting language (that Windows desperately needed). This analogy doesn't work the way you think it does.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
Ultimately, in the age of massive cloud compute, the constraining resource in an organization is engineering hours, not CPU/memory/bandwidth. And even then, I've yet to encounter a system (outside of massively parallel MPI-ba
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Ask HN: What are the most impactful developer productivity tools that you use?
2 points by aetimmes 3y ago|1 comments
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by aetimmes 3y ago
> the things he's done are amazing The things he's _purchased_ are amazing.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
I don't understand why you would use tail recursive functions for fibonacci ever and hence its relevance for dynamic programming. It can be solved with a simple equation with one input parameter. Solution left to OP as an exercise.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
The financial sector in NY was never going to let a non-compete ban happen.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
Nomad is dead in the water. When you talk to Consul support engineers, they assume you're using kubernetes, and are confused if you tell them you're using Nomad, _a product that their company makes_.
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by aetimmes 3y ago
> Firefox gets into the adblocker business This would be an abysmal decision all around. Firefox doesn't have enough market share to command any sort of price for this, and selling ad-blocker access would immediately destroy all tru

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