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by mentat 1mo ago
This made me wonder if you could do it with color and apparently you can: https://1mentat.github.io/qr-code-shenanigans/
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by mentat 1mo ago
30 minutes with /goal for the solution from Sol w/ high.
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by mentat 3mo ago
You’re very sure because you’ve built one at scale? This is such peak HN. And you have plenty of other people who have never built a billing system at scale to agree with you. The OP is right, this is in fact very very hard for the reasons
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by mentat 10mo ago
The idea that most people who are doing professional public speaking are reliable narrators is a bit quaint. There is a lot of room for framing that you have to allow for story telling. If you think that all story telling is about reliable
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by mentat 4y ago
I ask a lot of questions on code reviews as it's usually less easily perceived as conformational and I have come to assume that I'm missing context when something is really off. Assume that coworkers are competent but may either h
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by mentat 4y ago
Wasn't aware that Canada had moved to 1940s Europe...
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by mentat 4y ago
Saying this seriously a few decades after computers were room sized is I think a bit short sighted. Betting against technical progress especially in density / materials / weight is not a good bet.
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by mentat 4y ago
You don't think the US government requires information sharing?
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by mentat 4y ago
Seemed even a bit longer before that on the peninsula coastside. The whole thing felt magical, to even know that much beforehand.
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by mentat 4y ago
See regulatory capture.
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by mentat 4y ago
That was designed as a fundamentally subversive set of lessons. I doubt we even have the will to make an accurately subversive movie version of Diamond Age (look at what happened to Altered Carbon), much less create that sort of "book&
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by mentat 5y ago
Being on call aligns incentives. If it's someone else's problem when what you just design and build then it will operate less well.
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by mentat 5y ago
Really exceptional response. A surprising number of people aren't aware of moral constitution, practically, even though this was a core topic for at least the last few hundred years. Interesting times we live in.
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by mentat 5y ago
I don't think big bounties are capital gains.
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by mentat 5y ago
What kind of firewall work didn't have default drop? Once you take that off the table you really do have a problem but I've only seen that one in 20 years of professional work.
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by mentat 5y ago
It's plenty for people who already have a pile of cash. That seems a bit problematic right?
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by mentat 5y ago
Thank you for your straightforward appraisal. Makes me take Matrix a lot more seriously.
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by mentat 5y ago
You don't have health checks?
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by mentat 5y ago
How can you look at rate and range of mutation and make blithe comments on how many will die based on original covid rates?
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by mentat 5y ago
"Remain obsessed" with transmission of a highly contagious virus that has shown significant ability to mutate at scale? That sure seems worth being obsessed about. When it mutates to spread past all current defenses then consisten
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by mentat 5y ago
Yes, exactly. That OP needs to know the time is the problem being solved.
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by mentat 5y ago
Yes, and a few orders of magnitude more expensive.
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by mentat 5y ago
Have you looked at something like fly.io to do physical placement near players globally while still supporting consistency?
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by mentat 5y ago
This seems the most like case to me. Google loves their query PBs.
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by mentat 5y ago
You have to pass difficult standardized tests to qualify for these spots though. It's not like 50,000 people can just decide they want to be doctors. It depends on ability as measured by testing ability which generally still relates to
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by mentat 6y ago
There is no general case. The idea of the general case is fundamentally a tool of oppression. Human moral encounters and decisions are personal.
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by mentat 6y ago
> The major downside of having an “always syncable” data structure is that it gets really big, really quick Perhaps it would be prudent to read the actual article before tossing off this sort of comment since it's indeed the whole p
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by mentat 6y ago
Do you know of any good writeups for this particular kind of process? I too did fuzzing of network devices before it was called fuzzing and am interested in trying it again with modern tooling.
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by mentat 6y ago
$60 + $6 per day after 5 days. It adds up, examples at bottom: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/
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by mentat 6y ago
There are what, 15000+ engineers competing for that many fewer jobs? Getting fired for looking for new work looks much more possible now than it did 3 months ago.

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