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by bbgm 3mo ago
And started their career as a sysadmin. I don't know Dana at all, but some of the best kernel and networking people I've met got their start as sysadmins.
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by bbgm 4mo ago
Somewhat unrelated, but the number of times I have invoked Ableton as a metaphor of challenging the status quo is quite high. I was a Cubase user before Ableton showed up and completely upended the DAW world. And they've kept going. T
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RNG: Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale(arxiv.org)
3 points by bbgm 4mo ago|1 comments
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by bbgm 2y ago
Saw him play many times across multiple genres across 3+ decades from straight up classical to world music to electronica/tablatronics. Unfortunately never got to see him perform with John McLaughlin. He must have been 68 the last time
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by bbgm 3y ago
Kris and I got to know each other a bit over the years. I still remember our first meeting vividly. We met for dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Capitol Hill and spent the evening talking containers, Linux, Kubernetes, and Open Source. This
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by bbgm 3y ago
I've had a Tesla (Model S) since early 2020 and once the initial allure wore offI've missed driving a BMW and once the i5 is here I'll be backing to driving BMW. The supercharger network is by far the reason I've stuck w
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by bbgm 4y ago
I used to use a phone as my backup camera when I was out doing bird photography. After a while I gave up. In variable light and high dynamic range conditions phones just don’t hold up (they do a better job with video). If you’re taking sn
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by bbgm 4y ago
I sold all my DSLRs over the past 18 months and jumped into the deep end. The lens systems are better, the cameras are better. I love having a histogram in the viewfinder. There's very little reason and battery life has never been an i
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by bbgm 4y ago
I have a 9 year old who’s learning all about synths via a combination of the synths in garage band and my OP1. Great combo IMO
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by bbgm 5y ago
I’ve been a long time Spotify user but the difference in quality is very perceptible (to me at least) and I find myself using Apple Music a lot more.
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by bbgm 5y ago
lukehoban says it best in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28711903 where he talks about the three things CloudFormation provides. The Cloud Control API is an API to the resource model. It unlocks the ability for AWS te
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by bbgm 5y ago
That's not correct. There were Principal and higher engineers 13 years ago when I joined. 5 years ago, just EC2 had a fairly large number.
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by bbgm 5y ago
Amazon has long had a VP-level engineer track (Peter Vosshall was the first IIRC). Colm is very rightly one.
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Dissecting Lemire’s nearly divisionless random(veryseriousblog.com)
13 points by bbgm 6y ago|1 comments
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by bbgm 6y ago
Haven't looked in any detail, but as I clicked around the thing that jumped out at me was how many in the "lower comp, higher returns" category were from healthcare/biotech. Wonder if there is a way to slice and dice by
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by bbgm 6y ago
I suspect that’s what you meant but just for clarity, Instance storage does persist for reboots (which is effectively an OS reboot), but not if you stop/start (or terminate) the instance.
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by bbgm 6y ago
You need to take into account the speed of light in fiber optics and switching latency. For fiber you're looking at about 5 µs/km
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by bbgm 6y ago
This video was shot in 2016 (at EC2s 10 year anniversary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gk_I_0eMDA ... almost all of the folks in this video are still there.
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by bbgm 7y ago
That makes sense. Thanks a ton
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by bbgm 7y ago
Firecracker, Bottlerocket :). On Fargate, you got the answer there.
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by bbgm 7y ago
Always. I just wanted to do it before msw :)
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by bbgm 7y ago
I am from AWS. Could we please change the title to say “Bottlerocket from AWS“. Like Firecracker [1] it’s explicitly not AWS branded. 1. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
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by bbgm 7y ago
This just got released. It’s a living source authored by senior engineers at Amazon and covers some of the best practices that we use at Amazon.
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by bbgm 7y ago
That is correct. Three lines, one for each processor type.
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by bbgm 7y ago
That's correct. The same commit allows you to run workloads across EC2 and Fargate (note that the discounting is different).
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by bbgm 7y ago
To be more specific, the first company I worked at had three co-founders; an algorithms person, a functional biology expert, and someone with experience in building software teams. The first two came from academia.
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by bbgm 7y ago
There are two areas where you can jump in more easily with a CS/software background. Many companies are building informatics/analysis pipelines. That’s likely closer to what you know and you can pick up enough biology along the w
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by bbgm 7y ago
Like most things, this sounds good in practice but fails in reality. There are many AWS services that started with this question (Spot instances for one). But what people want to do with them is always something else when push comes to sh
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by bbgm 7y ago
I am a meat eater. But growing up in India eating meat was rare (it was too expensive) and even in our house, vegetarian food was the norm. Being vegetarian in the US is not that hard, especially in a place like Seattle, but in India, it’s
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by bbgm 7y ago
With or without Firecracker the isolation models are similar.

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