scarface74

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by scarface74 5mo ago
I just looked at it. It’s kind of interesting. It’s the type of thing that I have thought about. But wouldn’t have done before AI.
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by scarface74 3y ago
And if you skip records that you are depending on for your poor man’s queue, aren’t you just hiding bugs?
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by scarface74 3y ago
While you joke… https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite... No the author is not some homicidal maniac. In interviews he emphasizes that no policy should be made based on his findings. But if poli
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by scarface74 3y ago
Why this is even controversial is a mystery to me. Anyone who has had young kids in daycare knows this. If the study had been about the common cold instead of Covid, I doubt so many people would be triggered.
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by scarface74 3y ago
I’ve run into all sorts of database locking issues and concurrency issues when using a database as a queue. I saw that mistake made a long time ago and I would never do it myself.
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by scarface74 3y ago
It’s not about the chip. It’s an ecosystem play with the chip + CUDA. I’m not saying that makes Nvidia worth 1T with it’s expected profit.
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by scarface74 3y ago
And governments in Australia and the EU are trying to pass laws that make e2e encryption without a back door illegal…
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by scarface74 3y ago
All AWS RDS databases run on a dedicated VM.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Video games have had digital rights management since the first Nintendo game system in the mid 80a
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by scarface74 3y ago
I’m not saying their work is bad. But every abstraction is leaky and it’s a lot easier to find someone who knows how to use the native SDKs for AWS/Azure/GCP than someone who knows an obscure framework that doesn’t cover everythi
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by scarface74 3y ago
My first job out of college was a hybrid computer operator /programmer for a company that ran a state lottery. This was the mid 90s. They had a complete backup site with redundant servers, modems (for point of sales systems) and a red
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by scarface74 3y ago
And guess how long it takes me to set up an entire data center with Terraform on any of the three major cloud providers? (disclaimer: I work for one of them)? It’s much less maintenance than my days of maintaining servers myself. And not to
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by scarface74 3y ago
And why would I base my entire application on a framework by a tiny developer? And honestly, ChatGPT is so well trained on AWS CLIs, Terraform, CloudFormation, the SDKs for Python and Node, I can throw most of my problems at it and it does
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by scarface74 3y ago
> No, only if they cannot comply with the law. So exactly how is an EU citizen suppose to use a service like Shopify - that has to store PII - and that’s not based in the EU? > That is the opposite of true. I've seen it help inte
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by scarface74 3y ago
As opposed to the War on Drugs that just focused on minorities and the fact that cocaine has a lot lower penalties than the same amount of crack because of who uses it? Or do you mean that when the drug epidemic hit “rural America” politici
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by scarface74 3y ago
How so? Why do you need the government to tell you which products you can use? If you don’t like the policies of a particular company, don’t use their products.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Despite the use of the term by out of touch politicians, knowing what is really going on was the original definition of woke as in “stay woke”.
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by scarface74 3y ago
https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/ And the HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561222
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by scarface74 3y ago
So you’re not capable of choosing which websites you go to?
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by scarface74 3y ago
https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/ And the HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561222
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by scarface74 3y ago
It’s funny for someone to claim that we would give up our rights when you are begging the government to limit your choices instead of using your own free will to choose based on your priorities. The EU is constantly taking away your right t
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by scarface74 3y ago
One of the small businesses in question wanted to use Shopify and got fined.
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by scarface74 3y ago
And a small EU salesmen had to shut down because he was using Shopify…
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by scarface74 3y ago
And yet small businesses in the EU are still getting caught up in it.
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by scarface74 3y ago
If the law is that simple, then why did it take 11 chapters and 99 sections to say that?
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by scarface74 3y ago
> If the AI regulations are reasonable and AI companies can't operate, the technology just isn't ready for wide-spread adoption yet. See also: Tesla's Autopilot. It couldn’t be that the EU regulators are clueless could it?
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by scarface74 3y ago
Any pictures from my phone get synced to: - iCloud Drive - OneDrive - Google Photos - I still haven’t gone over the 15GB free space since Google instituted the limit. But I’ll pay for extra storage when needed. - Amazon Drive - free with P
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by scarface74 3y ago
> Reading deep into your replies it seems you basically got in here to say "don't complain you spoiled youngsters, work hard like I did instead". I think no such thing. I was excited when an intern I mentored got a return
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by scarface74 3y ago
And for that tradeoff, tech companies pay a lot more in America. A returning intern I mentored at $BigTech got an offer coming straight out of college that was twice the median wage in America and it’s a remote job. They save a crap ton of
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by scarface74 3y ago
Isn’t it your responsibility to weigh the pros and cons and risk for uprooting your family for more compensation? It’s business. It’s purely transactional. Why would you expect a company to “have a heart”?

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