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by coleca 2mo ago
RIP John C. Been listening to No Agenda since episode 1. Cranky Geeks and Silicon Spin before that. And the occasional appearance on Computer Chronicles long ago. I always loved your passion for technology and your take on the world. You w
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John C. Dvorak has died(twitter.com)
930 points by coleca 2mo ago|323 comments
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by coleca 2mo ago
Unfortunately, the 14 layers of management are also responsible for deciding how the 14 layers will get cut. It's likely that all or most all of the middle management will survive but the ICs doing the real work will be the ones that
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by coleca 4mo ago
Sometimes you need capacity and you have to choose where the capacity is not where you would like it to be. Unfortunately, the days of cloud bursting, and thinking of the cloud as an unlimited resource where you can spin up and spin down m
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by coleca 8mo ago
The needless processes / bloat still burn electricity though. I'd have to guess that given the millions of installed macOS machines it's a non-trivial amount of wasted electricity. Long gone are the days of ruthlessly optim
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by coleca 9mo ago
Such sad news. As a kid growing up in RI I used to love watching Computer Chronicles on our local PBS station each weekend. Stuart and Gary were the best. RIP to a legend
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by coleca 10mo ago
Great match up of technologies. Congrats to Ben and the team! I had the privilege of working with Replicate when I was at AWS, such a great team.
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by coleca 10mo ago
I was thinking the same thing. Can you imagine the headline? "Forget Hackers! Phone Company Delivers Your Private Info—Including Your Home Address—Directly to Strangers!"
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by coleca 11mo ago
That's a great point. Sometimes we look for architecture or technology solutions for a problem that could be easily solved at the sales level by negotiating a PPA (Private Pricing Addendum) with AWS.
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by coleca 11mo ago
That is for S3 not AWS as a whole, AWS has never claimed otherwise. AFAIK S3 has never broken the 11 9s of durability.
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by coleca 11mo ago
Good startup idea would be to work with medical practices to use AI to automate the disputing of the "downcoding" by insurers.
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by coleca 1y ago
For a workload of that size you would be able to negotiate private pricing with AWS or any cloud provider, not just CloudFlare. You can get a private pricing deal on S3 with as little as half a PB. Not saying that your overall expenses wo
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by coleca 1y ago
Yes, the lottery has rules and governance. It's a much safer bet. Startups can decide to devalue their employees' shares. I'd venture that the odds are at least stated on the back of the ticket with the lottery. Employees
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by coleca 2y ago
Look up "pig butchering" (seriously). That is what those texts are all about. John Oliver did a whole segment on his show about it this summer. TL;DR they are scams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
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by coleca 2y ago
I do the same thing at AWS, except use a 100, 200, 300, 400 level scale. I am just looking to see what the candidate thinks they are strongest on and weakest. If the candidate says they have never heard of AI/ML topics, there's
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by coleca 2y ago
Hadn’t rented from Hertz in many years until last week. Made sure to fill the tank back up as high as it would go just in case. Get thru security at the airport and already had a $26 charge for fuel. Still working on getting this fixed. Fun
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by coleca 2y ago
This may be a dumb question, but is law enforcement investigating this? Is it even technically a crime?
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by coleca 3y ago
After having worked in retail for 20+ yrs, both in the field and in IT, what I saw as the largest cause of shrink was always just simple accounting errors. For example, I saw all the time a store would receive a case of merchandise from a v
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by coleca 3y ago
No "Punch the Monkey"? https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/1454563559577370635?lang...
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by coleca 3y ago
I've always heard that as "scheduled uptime" or "unscheduled outages". When I worked in a mainframe shop, they used to IPL (reboot) the mainframe every Sunday morning. That down time was never considered as part o
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by coleca 3y ago
I have a similar experience here in MA. Our town owns the power company as a non-profit and we have amazing service. We never lose power unless someone crashes into a pole or something, and even then it's only out for a short amount
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by coleca 3y ago
I always thought there were license restrictions from Nvidia preventing the use of their consumer grade GPUs in datacenters / cloud environments. Is this not the case?
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by coleca 4y ago
Is there any decent tool to determine areas where symmetric broadband coverage in a given area is available? From what I can see on the FCC map it just using their "broadband" definition of 25down/3up which is akin to dial-u
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by coleca 4y ago
I agree. Not sure why all the hate. I’ve used SpinRite to recover some bad drives of mine and friends/family over the years and it’s worked quite well. Had one Windows box that was failing to boot before the login screen, ran SpinRite
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by coleca 4y ago
In addition to the advice already commented, if you are using AWS I'd recommend checking out our recently released AWS Startup Security Baseline Prescriptive Guidance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance&#
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by coleca 4y ago
This article is spot on. I am not even a fan of how the manufacturers switched from sliders and knobs on the HVAC controls to up/down buttons with a digital temperature reading. Does it really matter if you set the heat to 78 or 79?
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by coleca 5y ago
As someone who just traded in their 2019 Mazda CX-5, this doesn't surprise me at all. I couldn't wait for my lease to end. The car was great, but the infotainment system was horrible. It would take 5+ minutes to boot up from a
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by coleca 5y ago
Except we aren't tracking names, addresses, and SSNs of the holder of each ETH wallet, which is required for the IRS reporting under this proposed amendment to the statute.
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by coleca 5y ago
Several courts agreed that the CDC does not have that authority ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/05/05/federal-j... ). However, the Supreme Court decided to punt and leave the moratorium in p
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by coleca 5y ago
Good memories. My first job at age 14 was working on Xenix boxes (386es) with a bunch of Wyse terminals connected to serial port multiplex cards customizing and configuring medical/dental software for local practitioners. Created my

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