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by pjd7 19d ago
Train nerd here.. In Australia there are a fair few steam tourist train services. Not regular time tabled ones unfortunately. These ones operate on the main line & are not limited to their specific line. https://www.picnictra
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by pjd7 3mo ago
Engineering hasn't gone away, you're now just directing things at a higher level. You are now a architect & manager (but you're managing agents not people). Who sometimes has to deep dive & mentor a agent on solving t
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by pjd7 8mo ago
Tell us why you think so at least.
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by pjd7 10mo ago
I'm not sure I would want this even if I could have it TBH. Engingeering org size is about ~200 with infra/sre/ops around ~25. Different teams want to move at difference cadences. At a certain scale splitting up things feels
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by pjd7 11mo ago
This is awesome, I will be trying this out in the coming months. Its just made it to the top of my R&D shortlist for things that could massively simplify our data stack for a b2b saas.
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by pjd7 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFTBO67uU https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/graphload-a-framework... It looks like people are using it to build graph related models on it. I am looking at it &am
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by pjd7 1y ago
Caught a steam train that operates on the mainline in NSW, Australia last year. https://www.picnictrain.com.au/ We had to stop & wait at various points on our return day trip for other passenger services to pass us. Had
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by pjd7 1y ago
I started looking into podman quadlets on the weekend. All because docker & nft (nftables firewall) don't play nice together. I have my finely crafted nftables ruleset that I want to keep. Docker is going to abuse the crap out of m
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by pjd7 1y ago
Unifying things slows engineers down, so probably not (for some time).
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by pjd7 2y ago
https://youtu.be/qcNNB2qZ5kE?t=2776 around this time code. If the USA doesn't want a nation to fight then there are more issues than a F35 software kill switch etc.
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by pjd7 2y ago
This looks super interesting. Just starting to review it but my front of mind questions: 1) How do I handle persistence? Looks like some code is missing. 2) Do you support multi-tenancy (b2b saas graph backend for handling relations scoped
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by pjd7 2y ago
Interesting in hearing some thoughts about using roaring bitmaps stored in a bytea postgres column to represent adjacency matrixes. I was thinking that given RDS has support for plrust and PostgreSQL's SPI I could use the fact they sup
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by pjd7 2y ago
Where does one find out about all of these conventions for rails?
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by pjd7 2y ago
250 Pitt St Sydney around 2002-2003.
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by pjd7 2y ago
They work with sulphuric acid, oxy/acetylene/propane torches. Some processes give off cyanide fumes. Ultrasonic baths with ammonia based solutions to clean polishing compounds off etc. You need outside air ventilation. There is l
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by pjd7 2y ago
I did my jewellery trade in Australia (hence the correct spelling for me). We used to keep all our emery paper, old polishing wheels etc and send them off ever few years to be burnt & refined. When the building we were in got renovated
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by pjd7 2y ago
I'm not a frontend engineer or really a fully experienced backend engineer. I have done systems stuff, lots of OPS, scaling and other things adjacent. Flutter is interesting to me because I can use a tool like flutterflow to build an a
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by pjd7 2y ago
Laughs at a PostgreSQL schema change backfill jobs that need a few days to complete on i4i.16xlarge. Or that time I spent $120k USD on testing some upgrade paths on a dataset in elasticsearch from version 2.4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 that to
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by pjd7 2y ago
Really depends on some factors: Do you have billions of rows with only a very small % in use/locked or millions of rows that are jsonb blobs with a relatively high % in use/locked? Is your workload mostly write once read lots or r
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by pjd7 2y ago
I have a machine, took a few weeks to dial in the settings right for me. Tried a few different masks & machines from a sleep study clinic. In a few years I have gone less than 7 nights without using it. Using the machine has been life c
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by pjd7 3y ago
Taxi's in NSW/Sydney are much better these days. Uber X are typically shit by comparison. A $95 UberX ride home is about $109 in a taxi for me. Talking to a few friends who also live a similar distant from the CBD/downtown fi
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by pjd7 3y ago
Yup, been following this build as well. There are plenty of other decent layouts that can be built in a shed, half a room etc. A different aspect is the shunting layout, this guy's channel is amazing. https://www.youtube.com
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by pjd7 3y ago
I'm 41, just recently got back into the hobby. Have rejoined the local club I was a member of as a teen. Membership average age is like 50-60ish. We do have about 10-15% of members like me under 50. Some even in their 20s. Doesn't
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by pjd7 3y ago
Can't wait for Elon to declare himself sovereign of Mars.
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by pjd7 3y ago
Overall the changes seem sensible. For those wanting to self host there are plenty of guides out there on how to configure various MTAs with all of the required bits. BUT, Why does IP reputation matter so much these days when you have DKIM,
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by pjd7 3y ago
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/flexport-to-launch-eastern... The leasing or contracts on the air freight must be a bit of a problem if shopify has trimmed their business to flexport. Probably needs to free up cashfl
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by pjd7 3y ago
I guess any "easy" way to solve this right now is to put some authentication on the celery communication bus? I wonder if flower is being used. Once auth is required for the celery processes, the old zombie wont have access. And i
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by pjd7 4y ago
I would agree that in some organization sizes it is fading out & becoming hidden by ever increasing raw compute/disk performance which inevitably hides many bad queries. However for some orgs this becomes a brick wall they eventual
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Ask HN: For those who are tech leads what are your responsibilities?
3 points by pjd7 5y ago|2 comments
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by pjd7 7y ago
I have been in a similar situation. First step in my opinion is to go on a holiday, at least 1 week long (ideally 2 weeks or slightly longer). And get away from a computer. Head somewhere where you can relax. Working on a side project is no

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