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by markatto 1mo ago
IIRC, the docs say you're supposed to be able to use it with a trial account. I think I did try to sign up for the other kind and ran into a wall where I had to contact support or a sales rep, and the last thing I ever want to do is ta
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by markatto 1mo ago
These were never actually available anyways, I tried multiple times over the years in multiple regions and I always got “no capacity”.
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by markatto 2mo ago
This is sometimes done intentionally to hide latency and make a UI feel faster - I certainly don’t like it though.
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by markatto 3mo ago
I’ve been finding that very rigorous/technical people who are willing to adapt their workflows are very effective, whereas more “management” types are sometimes effectively pushing work off onto their code reviewers.
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by markatto 4mo ago
Lutes, even!
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by markatto 5mo ago
This is just a matter of priorities - I use LLMs to write code every day and I have never put a single line of code up for review that I didn’t read and understand.
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by markatto 5mo ago
It's turn based, the most similar game I've played is probably Fantasy General. Closer to Advance Wars or Fire Emblem than Warcraft.
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by markatto 6mo ago
I tried this with Claude - it has to be explicitly instructed to not make an external tool call, and it can get the right answer if asked to show its work long-form.
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by markatto 7mo ago
Your HN jobs page lists comp as 24-48k, is this accurate?
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by markatto 7mo ago
It matters for things like verifiable builds.
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by markatto 2y ago
This is similar to how wild boar was hunted in Europe - there were special spears made with extra crossbars to reduce the chance of a boar reaching the spear holder after being impaled.
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by markatto 2y ago
A half century? Surely that must be a typo?
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by markatto 3y ago
I’m surprised that this doesn’t get talked about more - I’ve worked with plenty of women, minorities, and immigrants at large tech companies, but I can’t recall a single person with a southern accent.
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by markatto 3y ago
I think that you should mention that this is specific to 90 degree v8 engines - other engine designs can have similar crankshaft / firing order trade offs but would not be described as “flat plane” or “cross plane”.
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by markatto 3y ago
That’s not their best hardware deal, but you also have to understand that you are paying for rack space, electricity, bandwidth, on-site staff for repairs, etc. They are actually absurdly inexpensive compared to competitors.
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by markatto 3y ago
The piano is not the canonical model of a scale - it’s just a bit more visual than some other instruments. I went to music school and primarily play guitar and violin but can sort of play some keys. I could definitely figure out pretty much
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by markatto 4y ago
I have found that even 2D games (eg Hades) aren’t reasonable to run at 4K, but basic gui desktop with a terminal emulator works fine.
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by markatto 4y ago
There’s still basically one with a couple storage options - they have shipped with different fans though. My (fairly recent) unit has very reasonable fan noise.
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by markatto 4y ago
Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Prefer to work in-office, but would consider remote opportunities. Willing to relocate: Possibly, for the right opportunity. Technologies: Linux, Python, Rust, C, Kubernetes I have been working in SRE/infr
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by markatto 4y ago
I had very mixed experiences as a customer in ~2009 - it was definitely possible to get through to someone very competent, but it was pretty difficult. We were trying to use their "cloud" VPS offerings (I believe it was openstack-
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by markatto 4y ago
Why do you think the unit economics of Carvana have to be worse than a traditional dealer? Maybe they have to do more shipping of vehicles around, but they are less reliant on storefronts/sales staff. It seems likely to me that they ov
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by markatto 4y ago
Yes, some hashes might not meaningfully hurt it, but they won’t add any entropy, which is the real problem.
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by markatto 4y ago
1) I have more of a sysadmin background, so someone else will have to answer this. I will say that if you interviewed in the sre-swe track, transferring to a swe role is not difficult. 2) I have been on call for most of my career, but googl
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by markatto 4y ago
I use the "multiple security keys" approach, and the biggest problem is keeping track of which keys are registered with which services and making sure the list is up to date. A few examples of situations where this is a problem: 1
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by markatto 6y ago
There are many SciFi titles that are extremely expensive in hardcover these days. There is a lot of amazon volatility, so I tend to use price watch sites, but some also consistently stay in the hundreds of dollars (for example, the original
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by markatto 6y ago
I have worked at both Google and Facebook without any degree or certification. In my experience, these companies care a lot more about interview performance than formal credentials.
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by markatto 7y ago
I assume it's more based on this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/
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by markatto 8y ago
How about an option to overlay the pentatonic scales over other scales, similarly to the way you color the root notes but with a different color? You could use a similar idea to overlay root-third-fifth or other chords. I think this would b
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by markatto 8y ago
You could use a block cipher for the actual video stream with a single key, and encrypt that key with all 31 public keys.
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by markatto 9y ago
Ken is a great writer in his own right though; The Paper Menagerie might be my favorite book.

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