belfalas

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by belfalas 2y ago
This kind of reply is what makes me want to quit HN forever. There's always somebody out there smarter who knows better. Why bother to try and contribute anything?
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by belfalas 2y ago
> Also, the service is amazing, and they won't accept tips. If you leave money on the table, they will chase after you, to give it back. I visited Japan some years back and loved this aspect of the culture as well. An Australian s
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by belfalas 2y ago
The moon is so interesting, easy to forget how much it affects life on Earth because we see it all the time. Like others in the thread, I have a telescope and it's a wonderful experience pointing it skyward while it's still light
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by belfalas 2y ago
> I'd like a platform that focuses on face-to-face (video) interaction, including (somehow) with strangers. You could start today by going on Omegle and carving out a niche as someone who wants thoughtful, reasoned, and substantiv
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by belfalas 2y ago
> What I don't understand is, what benefit is there for 99% of companies to get in on the ground floor of LLMs? "Mr. President - we must not allow an LLM gap!"
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by belfalas 2y ago
For a really hard one give it audio of William F Buckley!
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by belfalas 2y ago
In my experience it's a skill that takes time to develop. It's hard at first for sure. There are lots of different models out there that people using for visualizing software and architecture, sometimes they can be helpful. A piec
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by belfalas 2y ago
First time I had heard of lottocracy - interesting concept but I don't think I would like to be alive for it.
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by belfalas 2y ago
All I can say is that I am speaking from life experience. It sounds like our experiences have been different.
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by belfalas 2y ago
> And regarding scrutiny, morphine is a immensely usefulness tool and it's use surely extremely monitored. I went to high school in a fairly affluent area and I promise you this is not true. If you have money and know how to talk
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by belfalas 2y ago
> One of the most glaringly broken things about society is that abuse of power is not punished harshly enough. Maybe it's just me getting older but it seems like this has always been true across cultures and history. People like t
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by belfalas 2y ago
That's right. :)
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by belfalas 2y ago
What Google has made money on are the ads that show up next to the search results. That's their way of "charging" for search if you like. Similarly for iCloud Drive / Dropbox, what they charge you for is storage, not the
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by belfalas 2y ago
Theological might not have been the best word but there's definitely a lot of spiritual insight offered up in C&H.
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by belfalas 2y ago
IIRC this came up when Apple tried to buy Dropbox - it was a way to accelerate the building of iCloud Drive. The Files app is essentially Apple's version of Dropbox, they make money charging for storage. From what I recall a MSFT execu
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Microservices don't make sense (part 2)(hundredmondays.substack.com)
1 points by belfalas 2y ago|0 comments
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by belfalas 2y ago
Agree. But they're well in second and third compared to Calvin & Hobbes. :) I also think Bloom County deserves to be on the list of all-time greats.
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by belfalas 2y ago
I guess we just don't see eye to eye on these things, which is okay. I freely admit that my employer isn't too sharp on its use of technology. But I also won't be convinced that folks like Red Hat and IBM aren't total bl
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by belfalas 2y ago
Man was Calvin & Hobbes awesome. IMNSHO every comic strip currently in print still lives in its shadow. C&H had it all - good illustration, good writing, life insight. It was a real life line for weird kids.
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Best Practices Kill(hundredmondays.substack.com)
5 points by belfalas 2y ago|0 comments
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by belfalas 2y ago
You're leaving out bending the customer over the barrel come renewal time once services are migrated and there's lock-in. And sorry bud, but the whole "operating independently" thing...I don't buy it. I've work
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by belfalas 2y ago
The plan is to go native with our IaaS since they offer a native solution that is comparable to what we had with OpenShift. We have always been hybrid cloud and I don't see that that would change in the future. Honestly the future will
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by belfalas 2y ago
Keying off your comment - in the field of neuroscience, is consciousness viewed as a kind of simulation? (I'm just a programmer so it's fascinating to me to consider how actual brain scientists model consciousness in their work.)
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by belfalas 2y ago
Hmm no. My $dayjob got quoted a nice price only for them to rug pull later. Also it’s not Red Hat anymore, it’s IBM.
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by belfalas 2y ago
That Jeff Skilling was a bad boy!
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Ask HN: Favorite Linux distro for an Intel based Mac?
4 points by belfalas 2y ago|2 comments
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The Last Human Profession(hundredmondays.substack.com)
1 points by belfalas 2y ago|0 comments
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by belfalas 2y ago
“Americans surprised when their economic and political system worked exactly in line with historical trends.” What did we expect? That the year 2000 was magically going to bring about a golden age?
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by belfalas 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, that's a good follow-up. Surya Das is a well-respected teacher so he found a good one to go to retreat with. The quote from the lama is excellent as well and a very common type of expression that Dzogchen masters ma
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by belfalas 2y ago
Thank you for sharing. I will take a look to educate myself, which is my goal.

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