gregimba

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Mercury Personal Banking(mercury.com)
5 points by gregimba 9mo ago|9 comments
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AWS Operational issue – Multiple services in us-east-1(health.aws.amazon.com)
47 points by gregimba 2y ago|13 comments
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Psychoanalysing ChatGPT using statistics to make a dating app(duolicious.app)
1 points by gregimba 2y ago|0 comments
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My Presidential Platform(astralcodexten.com)
77 points by gregimba 3y ago|7 comments
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Dream First Bank Assumes All of the Deposits of Heartland Tri-State Bank(fdic.gov)
29 points by gregimba 3y ago|28 comments
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Texas bans kids from social media without parental consent(theverge.com)
2 points by gregimba 3y ago|0 comments
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by gregimba 5y ago
I think the overall workforce participation rate paints the reality much better than unemployment numbers. The drop was the sharpest in the entire dataset going back to 1950 and while a portion of jobs have returned the possibility we may n
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Tesla Will Move Its Headquarters to Austin, Texas(nytimes.com)
5 points by gregimba 5y ago|0 comments
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by gregimba 5y ago
The reason we got smart meters in Austin, TX is because they weren't even recording readings just guessing what that reading should be based on historical data. https://texasmonitor.org/settlement-reached-on-austins-mad
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by gregimba 5y ago
> Minneapolis, which had 912 uniformed officers in May 2019, is now down to 699. 23% of officers leaving in only a year and a half. What kind of impact will this have in 3-5 years as officers who are holding out for pensions also retire?
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by gregimba 5y ago
If AWS has a regional outage this service is so far down the list of services to recover/restore that it probably will be overlooked. Accept the increased risk for the cost savings since it meets the reliability requirements of the ser
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by gregimba 5y ago
As someone who lives in Leander, I would say Westlake is the affluent area of Austin and Leander is the up and coming suburban middle to upper middle class area. Leander ISD has some great schools and some bad schools and historically wasn&
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by gregimba 5y ago
During high school we had had an exchange program with a German college track high school. My family hosted a student for a month and then they hosted me in Germany. I was shocked at the difference in expectations and quality of education c
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by gregimba 5y ago
The reducing cross-AZ data transfer savings on one service resulted in a low 6 figure per year savings. Its something we overlooked during initial setup and now its something I check for when dealing with AWS networking.
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by gregimba 5y ago
I plan to do the same in a couple years, my hometown is unaffordable, with tech like Starlink coming online and the pandemic making remote work more common I can foresee a subset of tech workers choosing this path if they feel alienated in
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by gregimba 5y ago
Talking with the person checking me into the hotel he mentioned he had heard to food was good at a restaurant across the street but mentioned he couldn't afford to eat there. There was a lovely older couple who were running the tourism
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by gregimba 5y ago
As someone who recently spent a couple days in Kanab, UT the collision course of rural natives with Californian expats has made me accelerate my plans to buy enough land to escape the cities and further enforced my feeling about the cultura
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by gregimba 6y ago
As an Austin Energy customer a large portion of the blame for this on their poor infrastructure configuration and the number of critical circuits.
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by gregimba 6y ago
Currently running a generator to run the wood stoves fan, its not ideal but not amazing.
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by gregimba 6y ago
This is essentially the crux of the problem, multiple friends/and coworkers are staying in islands of power that have been interrupt free due to proximity to Fire/Police/Hospitals and others have been without power for extend
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by gregimba 6y ago
Currently in ATX we haven't had power for over 24 hours, wood fireplace is saving the house from completely freezing but the whole city of Austin needs to evaluate how they setup their critical infrastructure to allow for rolling black
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by gregimba 6y ago
Not trying start an off topic thread but game shows seem to push for bizarre. I recall german game shows being on par with the clips I've seen from Japanese game shows.
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Judge Declares H-1B Visa Rules Unlawful(forbes.com)
10 points by gregimba 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregimba 6y ago
> 64 are believed to be Dangerous Goods containers I'm curious what these actually contain? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_goods
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Helm Chart Repository Deprecation Update(helm.sh)
2 points by gregimba 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregimba 6y ago
At what scale is your on premise Splunk? As a member of a team maintaining very large on-prem Splunk service I haven't found maintaining Splunk to be an easy undertaking.
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by gregimba 6y ago
> I'm still not certain about anything. You captured a facet of climate change I feel few can properly articulate. Modeling and digesting complex systems is incredibly difficult and at this point I share the same position. It seems
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by gregimba 6y ago
That design uses a single gear instead a traditional transmission. https://www.koenigsegg.com/gemera/tiny-friendly-giant-engine...
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by gregimba 6y ago
Yes, but US didn't sign the portion of the Hague convention that bans the use of hollow point ammunition and the US military adopted hollow point ammunition with the M-17 and M-18 handguns.
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by gregimba 6y ago
Looks like I was incorrect, they were planning to shift production to Mexico in 2017 but didn't.

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