hirsin

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by hirsin 1mo ago
While I generally agree for general human living, I've seen impressive "digital hoarder" success using AI because it changes the dimensions of reasonableness. Imagine your hoarder scenario except that the hoarder has unlimite
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by hirsin 1mo ago
It's implicit as a request, not something they literally say (usually). Namely - I put near zero effort into this response, and deciding if it's correct is on you. -> I'm asking you to read it and figure out if it's c
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by hirsin 2mo ago
Re: Topologies I found it resulted in a lot of reorgs founded on the seeming belief that Conway's law is both immediate and retroactive - if we change the teams and what they own, their features and code will similarly now become clean
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by hirsin 2mo ago
They mean the apartment building hallways and elevators. As in, if you summed the square footage of all the apartments on a floor, you'd get a number greater than the actual dimensions of the floor, because the common areas are counted
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by hirsin 2mo ago
Yep, the issue is that recalculating DSCR doesn't happen on the right timescale to incentivize reducing rents, instead incentivizing keeping vacancies open and using a pro forma DSCR. The banks know this is a structural issue, but are
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by hirsin 2mo ago
Fwiw there's a 290k sqft DC on Denny a few blocks from the Amazon towers https://h5datacenters.com/seattle-colocation.html If you live in Seattle you've probably walked right past it. Small potatoes compared to a
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by hirsin 2mo ago
On top of the architectural challenges and efficacy of it, you have to contend with the terms of the bank loans that apply. Those are why the buildings "can't" lower rents to attract new business. If they sign a lease at a ne
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by hirsin 3mo ago
This comes across strongly any time you hear management talking about "fungibility of engineers". Everyone is a full stack everything engineer, and AI makes that even easier for them to trick themselves into believing. If anything
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by hirsin 3mo ago
Look, it wasn't _my_ request that made the server fall over, it must have been one of the other several thousand thoughtless scrapers running on the website that caused it to die.
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by hirsin 4mo ago
Microsoft.com is also owned by the marketing org, not the engineering org, for various reasons that predate the existence of many employees at Microsoft now. This is why with rare, rare exceptions nothing "real" is on Microsoft.co
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by hirsin 4mo ago
Not quite. At least the one I found is some trickle down economics myth. The one op is referencing is more like the dollar is used to pay off the waitstaff, who pay their rent to the landlord, who pay their over due taxes, so that the gover
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by hirsin 4mo ago
It definitely looks like the old tale come true - at Microsoft people would warn against using Google because then Google could figure out what we're working on, since it was pretty easy to tell where a query was coming from. Sounded f
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by hirsin 5mo ago
That's the success case. In the failure case you have emboldened, pressured teams jumping in to make a "quick fix" or "that feature we needed" in a codebase for a team they've never heard of, and leaders cheeri
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by hirsin 5mo ago
I have no idea how you read a statement about how nazis and flame baiters should be able to speak their mind and then concluded that the author only cares about some minorities. Given that the author didn't say any of the things you cl
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by hirsin 5mo ago
Is there some obvious reason not to measure requests per minute rather than second? Or is it an offhand joke? Some systems I've worked on had APIs that averaged less than one per second, but I don't think we want to be measuring i
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by hirsin 6mo ago
Right - it feels like going skin deep on types and then complaining they didn't solve for very deep problems. Like yes, it would be nice for Map(ICar[] cars, keys).wingspan to throw a type error because cars is typed and we know keys c
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by hirsin 6mo ago
To torture the metaphor further - it's also a personal dj, with an audience and customer of 1. Somewhat by definition there can be no outlandish requests, certainly not "play this entire piece". If I told the DJ at my wedding
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by hirsin 7mo ago
I'd review the setup here. You're missing the critical distinction that the cryptography supports - separating entirely (in time and space) the issuance of the cred to the user and the use of that cred with a website. Unless you&#
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by hirsin 7mo ago
Which is why you separate the credential issuance from the credential use, per the standard mentioned.
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by hirsin 7mo ago
It can't be quite that simple because you have a couple additional problems to solve - (effectively restating bits of the article poorly and partially) 1. You don't want these to be replayable (give your JWT to someone else to use
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by hirsin 7mo ago
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo , for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
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by hirsin 7mo ago
So does Google send a header for each search result when you look up "Ron Jeremy" so that some results get hidden, or does the browser just block the whole page? Sending all the "bad" data to the client and hoping the cl
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by hirsin 7mo ago
I can't think of a more quintessential crash out of a major brand than Twitter from the past couple years. For a significant percentage (>10% publicly, I'm confident much more than that internally) of users it became unattracti
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by hirsin 7mo ago
That would be the good argument, yes.
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by hirsin 7mo ago
The Twitter layoffs being used as proof of _anything_ is misguided no matter what you're trying to say. If success is losing half their revenue, reverting to revenue numbers from a decade ago, I gotta know what failure looks like. You
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by hirsin 7mo ago
As someone on the great, late 8 ( https://fixthel8.com/ ) in Seattle, I'd happily give up my stop to help it be on time more often. I have three other stops I can walk to within ten minutes of me. SF is another good exam
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by hirsin 7mo ago
Which of the cities used as examples in the articles are "sparse"? LA? Pittsburgh is one of the smaller ones listed and while the bus network there is very hub and spoke, it's also still semi usable. But to call NYC, LA, Phil
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Meanings of the Colors in the NYC Subway(untappedcities.com)
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by hirsin 7mo ago
The observation that the colors were meant to be absorbed over time rather than explicitly set out reminds me of the old NYC Metro mosaics. https://www.untappedcities.com/secret-meaning-behind-colors-... While no one would
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by hirsin 8mo ago
Good point - the comms satellites are not even "keeping" some of the energy, while a DC would. I _am_ now curious about the connection between bandwidth and wattage, but I'm willing to bet that less than 1% of the total energ

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