brian-bk

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by brian-bk 8mo ago
I think it's time that AWS customers hesitate before using any abstract software that AWS has built, as we're about to see the enshittification/profitability squeeze of an incumbent player. I wouldn't trust anything mor
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by brian-bk 11mo ago
There are a very light benchmarks in the Readme, or are you looking for more?
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by brian-bk 11mo ago
I'm convinced nothing solid has come out of AWS in 10 years. The original products (ec2, RDS, s3) are solid either from being created at a time when AWS could write software or just from existing for so long. Any modern AWS product (mo
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by brian-bk 1y ago
flip the direction of time and hawking radiation ""creates"" mass/energy inside a black hole (overall mass/energy is conserved)
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by brian-bk 1y ago
I'm pessimistic about Go if they _don't_ change error handling. The handling of nil's and errors (by extension panic's) is purely conventional, and baked in to the language has no protection. Author asserts that error ha
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by brian-bk 2y ago
Investors love a company spouting AI not because it's actually good at raising efficiency, but because it's a codeword for layoffs.* * there are certain industries that will see incredible efficiency gains from AI, but I think mos
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by brian-bk 2y ago
I'm assuming the Texas lawsuit against OnStar contributes here as a software income stream that didn't work out... low level employees always pay for bad decisions from leadership.
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by brian-bk 2y ago
Same thing happens in reverse with salaries. Glassdoor isn't your friend, it just helps companies regress to the 50th-percentile.
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by brian-bk 2y ago
What are cdk and dms in this context? I'm only familiar with them on AWS
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by brian-bk 2y ago
JSON(newline delimited or full file) is significantly larger than csv. With csv the field name is mentioned once in the header row. In JSON every single line repeats the field names. It adds up fast, and is more of a difference than between
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by brian-bk 3y ago
Correct, I've seen advertisements for afrin like crazy the last 6 months. It shouldn't even be OTC given it's potential harm.
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by brian-bk 3y ago
I'm more familiar with kubernetes for running production-grade apps and that's what I went with. I run ubuntu's microk8s, and the volume management is in kubernetes-land which I understand well. Finally helmfiles deploys my P
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by brian-bk 3y ago
Which is less than 2%, so more a showing for investors than a real layoff.
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by brian-bk 3y ago
This happened with me -- VP said he wanted feedback but clearly didn't like real critical feedback. Then that VP tried to set up a denied promo, even though I was performing two levels above my then-current level. Finally the company g
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by brian-bk 3y ago
Could improve that crappy feedback loop :) If the language runtimes are compiled you can't do this, but if not, in theory you shouldn't need such a stupidly long core development feedback loop. I'm a huge fan of https:/
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by brian-bk 3y ago
Speeding and aggressive driving is definitely a problem.
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by brian-bk 3y ago
Gambling ads have become ruthlessly widespread, and I expect as much. They're way more common than alcohol or other advertisements that thrive on triggering addicts. I really wish that federally the US came down harder on online advert
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by brian-bk 3y ago
2022, some of the worst flight disruptions. Wouldn't be surprised if 2023 is the same. https://thriftytraveler.com/news/airlines/2022-flight-delays... I don't think we'll see a reduction in customer
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by brian-bk 3y ago
Combining crossovers with trucks makes for a very misleading headline, I stopped reading as soon as I saw that.
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by brian-bk 3y ago
what differentiates it from other vscode vim plugins?
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by brian-bk 3y ago
I feel like the framing of this is pretty ridiculous -- employees are insulted by phishing tests that evoke an emotional response. Do they think real phishing emails would avoid such topics? Do they want the phishing tests to not actually t
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by brian-bk 3y ago
I thought this would be about tech customer service, which has gotten awful. Dark patterns and reduced human interaction galore. Instead they talk about in-person customer service. I don't mind the more "realistic" personalit
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by brian-bk 3y ago
My exposure is only anecdotal but I think there's been a significant increase in small scale and sophisticated cyber attacks since the war in UA. I don't have evidence for why, I hope those in the media are looking into it. My tot
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by brian-bk 3y ago
I don't know if I'd say it's ignored by media, it's through media that I'm aware of it.
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by brian-bk 3y ago
Is it just me or is the issue of 1. Competition and 2. Security of companies using cloud providers just two separate things? There's ways to shoot yourself in the foot with security if you self-host or use the cloud. Now the means in w
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by brian-bk 4y ago
I can see where this sentiment is coming from, in that there's very few objective markers (genetics, location) that can fully describe race. Further, I agree that studies should avoid generalizing and assuming that those markers are al
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by brian-bk 4y ago
> Based on stock sales and cash compensation, Frank appears to have made roughly $2mn from his work at Signature before the bank failed, according to FT calculations. If this is from 2015-2023, that's what roughly 250k per year. The
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by brian-bk 4y ago
Google's data suite (bigquery, ai) is unmatched imo but I agree -- prod realtime apps shouldn't run on gcp. Google has proved time and time again that they have awful support. I've seen plenty of gcp incidents and every suppo
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by brian-bk 4y ago
Kinda sucks, but also appropriate. I know that stock-based compensation has more risk and rules about cashing out. But it's been abused such that executives raking in the big bucks pay less percentage of taxes than an upper-middle 200k
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by brian-bk 4y ago
I've found sorting by most recent reviews to be quite effective (works well for Amazon too from being burned on product quality cliffs). Recent reviews are a better sample than an average from everything, and give a better intuitive se

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