ozzythecat

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by ozzythecat 4y ago
One tenant sends you a flood of traffic, that you might not be scaled to handle. Let’s say your application servers are scaled for this traffic, but your single, shared database is not. All that traffic could cause an outage on your databas
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Ads = revenue = promotions. I was at Amazon for over a decade. Show YoY growth in terms of revenue, you’ll get a bigger empire. Sr. Managers become Directors. Directors become VPs. The senior engineers who worked on the low latency performa
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
If one tenant misbehaves and takes down your database, how will your other tenants feel?
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
What do you have to keep synchronized across tenants? And is consistency across tenants really a hard requirement? Would an eventual consistency model work? How does migration factor in? Do you mean migrating one database vs multiple databa
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
1. My grandchildren 2. Everyone else in my family and their good health. My children are happy in the marriages. Spouse is as energetic as ever and still has the enthusiasm and love when we met back in college 3. Quitting my last job before
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I’m convinced this a bit overblown. I don’t know enough about twitters infrastructure, so I’m only speaking at the application layer. If the code isn’t changing, things should be extremely stable and resilient. Presumably, Twitter had alrea
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The people in small town Northern Germany went so far as to criticize and attack you for your achievements that far surpassed what they have accomplished. Isn’t this a salient feature in US culture? We attack the wealthy, celebrities,
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
This is an interesting thread :) I see lots of conjecture on the nature of voice assistants, or why they haven’t taken off. As someone who was at Amazon, and close to this area, let me offer a simpler explanation. Alexa has stagnated becaus
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> As global sales for new cars have fallen in recent years, car manufacturers have pivoted toward selling software updates and features as subscriptions to generate a continuous revenue stream long after a car has been purchased. Are we
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The other striking news of the week is Elon Musk's epic flaming death spiral at the helm of Twitter. I am old, and admittedly, my oldest grandchild cares more about Twitter than I do. Maybe one of you here can enlighten me. Why do
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Is your goal to turn your calculators into web interfaces? Are you wanting to learn how to do that? If the goal is purely providing something functional to others on the internet, just create a simple page. Describe your calculators. Add li
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I’m a layman with no knowledge of how ICUs work, because (thank God), I’ve never had to visit one. I found this article informative, and not cynical at all. No system is perfect, and so with all of the significant benefits they provide, ICU
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Gah! I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis. I feel he could write a book about nothing and still make it a page turner. But at the risk of coming across arrogant, I don’t care for crypto or anything related to its celebrity frontmen. Crypto, it’s
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The judge should not view Theranos as "a house of cards," but as the "ambitious, inventive, and indisputably valuable enterprise it was," they wrote. "The court's difficult task is to look beyond those sur
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The way this works today, a person is competence at raising children is untill social services prove otherwise. Kinda like innocent until proved guilty. Nobody is talking about 16 year olds or abortions. Are you sure you’re not deliber
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Holmes is the mother of a young child and punishment for her is simultaneously punishment to the innocent child. If we make the case that a criminal should receive a lessor sentence because it impacts their child, does that mean that a
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I recommend picking up a JVM language. Either Java or Kotlin. Then I recommend picking up C++. A lot of people say C++ is dead, but there’s so much reliable software written in it. Once you use JVM and understand garbage collection, then C+
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Meta observation: At least on Mobile Safari, this page breaks the back button. I had to spam press the back button like 10x in order to come back to HN. I absolutely despise websites that do this, and immediately feel a bias against whateve
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Millions starved to death in collectivization, even more millions displaced from their homes and sent to gulags. Intelligentsia eradicated as a class. The biggest and potentially richest country in the world collapsed due to planned ec
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Regardless of how you feel about him as a person, this statement is a long stretch. Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies have been able to accomplish pretty amazing things. To add to that, Musk wasn’t just some investor or people manager,
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I was going to call it a puff piece, but as far as Boeing is concerned: > Boeing won't touch these things due to shareholder conservatism My spouse worked for Boeing. My son currently works for Boeing. Change is the slowest and most
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The cost of eliminating some deadweight loss is making some people feel awkward or shame when they get to the tip screen. 90% of the places I’ve recently visited displayed a tip screen, and I’ve tipped maybe 5% or even 0%. I’m alright
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> How is being on h1 relevant here? Visa or no visa people will act according to incentives designed by company. > P.S I am on H1 visa. For sure I am offended. Most of these PMs are Indians on H1Bs. The incentive designed by the compa
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Having worked at Amazon for well over a decade, here’s more or less what happened: 1. Product, in alignment with directors and VPs, have an overarching 3-5 year vision document 2. The document talks about “customer obsession” and a 2025 vis
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> I don't care and there was nothing in my comment that led to this segue about Obama. Hold on a second. You’re saying that Republicans have been gridlocking since the Obama years. So clearly, you’re saying one side is at fault. But
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> I don't agree with your take that both parties are equally responsible though, one of them has consistently used political gridlock as a weapon, since Obama years. Is political gridlock the root of the problem? Help me understand
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The point is to further political extremism, on both sides, and to create in fighting so that no united formation can stand against them. > So the question is how to fight against this. I think our political parties and media are re
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
We visited my granddaughter at a Midwest state school last week. I was actually surprised with how beautiful the university grounds were. They likely spend a fortune on landscaping alone. Our older grandson went to the same school studying
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I don’t recall a similar announcement even at the height of COVID. Do we know what’s now changed?
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I don’t think this is entirely true. For sure, one could say “X” is bad because it conflicts with their view, and that’s something that has long existed before the concept of “echo chambers” became well known. I think echo chambers are unhe

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