jsmthrowaway

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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
I couldn’t imagine it, no, because I care more about the number of hairs on my scrotum than whether you consider me boring or, really, any larger opinion you’d have of me at all. HN opinions of my character are like fruit flies: annoying, t
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Correct. They had it first, which is why I lightly check the “they use $ too? That’s confusing.” sentiment. The Dutch, ever innovative in trade, can lay claim as a bigger influence on the word “dollar” and the currency form itself, however,
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Context. Canadian dollars use $ too, and you only see CAD near the border or when it isn’t clear. If I’m a Colombian using a Colombian site and pesos use $, I don’t need the context. Also, properly, you’d say 5 USD, not USD $5; the dollar s
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
The Y axis of the graph which actually has relevant information. You are looking at a campaign page, and assuming those Colombian pesos are available to the author’s team. When you said “the image” I thought you were looking at the right on
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
No, it doesn’t. In many other locales “mil” means thousand, unlike slang for million. This is why in finance, $5mm means five million dollars. Five mil mil. Five thousand thousand. Five million. The graph shows a spike to around $5,000 per
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
That’s like saying “we hired the getaway driver, we can rob the bank now, right?” You’ve identified the first step of the plan. There are about nineteen more, and the theoretical network of conspirators required to accomplish this Oscar-win
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
One of the largest and most secretive companies in the world, the same one obsessed with preventing all leaks from exiting the company, the same one who produces ubiquitous devices with occasional national security implications that interes
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Borg will remain orders of magnitude beyond Kubernetes until Kubernetes is completely rearchitected. It’s not scalability bugs. It’s decisions regarding how the cluster maintains state that hamstring it, and that’s so fundamental to everyth
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
> I don't disagree that Kubernetes is not positioned to be a replacement for Borg Good. Because that was my point, but the verbiage “don’t disagree” says a lot. We agree, except for the timeline. We will all be dead before Borg is r
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
So it descends from Borg, which is fine. It does not replace Borg or indicate a Google strategy to replace Borg with Kubernetes, which was my entire point with supporting points on why, and explaining why you made the choices in Kuberne
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
I suppose that’s fair, but I’d argue against switching even being a primary motivation for anyone at Google, which is why I don’t think of it that way. You do have a point, though. Without intimate knowledge of Borg, I can understand the su
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
You heard wrong. There’s a meme out there, helpfully nudged along by Google, that Kubernetes is Borg “done right” and the successor. It’s even mentioned in this article. Neither of those things are true. Not even remotely. Please pass along
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
The original joke involved simply the demonym for the servicemember and can be used with any service, and says “they teach sailors/soldiers/airmen to ...” and “well they teach marines/etc ...,” which would probably make you l
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Nobody should ever type the words “every citizen can generate cryptographic certificates” in that order. That’s like saying every citizen can compose jazz; technically true, which engineers love, but basically a lie that evidences how dista
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
That is the interpretation I’d expect from someone bought in, to only see people and their perspectives along an axis of wealth generation impetus. I’m sorry to disappoint, but also realize I’m probably incapable of explaining it to you, si
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Utopian hubris, perhaps. Subtle distinction.
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Actually, it’s a well-founded specific criticism (all of them are; no accidents there) of an underlying problem which contributes to the very concept I’m laboriously explaining. I note you didn’t refute my point at all, choosing instead to
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
> Though I'm looking forward to the next cringeworthy cali startup meme. Like half a cringeworthy Cali startup’s engineers spending their morning at Sightglass discussing an article about a password manager software being bought and
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Well, the meme isn’t that far off. This community is starting to sound like the Soviet Union. Did everyone read that thread this morning and take it as a challenge or something? It’s not a goal to which to aspire. These are lives you’re t
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
None of the adjectives nor concepts you have applied to SMS apply, including the assertion that any number of clients can interconnect peacefully, that it is open, that it is a standard, that the steering of the technology is not actually d
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
At least buy OP a drink before psychoanalyzing their relationships that aggressively without any evidence to go on beside your cultural assumptions. Mere participation in this community is a beaming, reliable signal that you’re probably not
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Would you like a five minute lecture on frequency response and bandwidth of what you upload based on the dynamics compression, filtering, and other processing YouTube does to make videos sound good and all of which have nothing to do with a
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
I know they were. What’s your point?
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
> Now that's a strange rant. It’s called “expanding a conversation with additional perspective that most of this audience is probably unfamiliar with,” including watching it happen to a close friend who thought she could get away wi
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Aspiring DJs do this, then play out the files they got from youtube-dl via Serato or whatever, then every other minimally competent DJ in the room immediately knows what’s happening based on how obviously shit it sounds. Practice mixing in
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Interesting calculus of choices there: I don’t miss the distraction or privacy implications of my personal phone, yet I expect a company to issue me a phone which comes with distraction and privacy implications (the subject surveillance of
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
One of the unique pleasures of Hacker News is the slightest of smiles caused by someone unafraid to share a feeling that is powerful to them, followed up immediately by an exhaustive and somewhat mocking explanation of how their feeling is
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
Considering it reinforces a commonly held engineering ideology that only engineers understand or are capable of solving a problem or goal, and every other job function in a corporation is clueless deprivation of engineering, I’d say the res
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
One does not end up in prison from a lawsuit. Tesla cited the criminal codes in question to try to make that happen, but only the government can bring criminal cases, and criminal cases aren’t brought on unproven allegations in a civil laws
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by jsmthrowaway 8y ago
While I don’t think the referenced technology is a solution to the problem, think a bit about the first question that you’re asking.

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