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by sciurus 1y ago
Although this is oversimplifying things [0], in the face of partitions zookeeper emphasizes consistency over availability. [0] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-...
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by sciurus 1y ago
Getting into SDRs and ham radio is what brought me back to Windows after running Linux on all my personal computers for more then a decade. For whatever reasons, there's a lot of radio-related software that targets Windows primarily or
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by sciurus 1y ago
I'm not sure how you're getting that from a post that explicitly says Mitchell isn't on either board any more. To help highlight where there are changes and where there is continuity at the top level, here's a table of w
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by sciurus 1y ago
The leadership has been ousted. > This includes major growth in our Boards, with 40% new Board members since we began our efforts to evolve and grow back in 2022. We’ve also been bringing in new executive talent, including a new MoFo E
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by sciurus 1y ago
Take a look at salary reports from places like https://www.levels.fyi/2024 If you think $124k a year is high compensation for someone with 17 years of experience in Portland, your compensation expectations are way off.
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by sciurus 1y ago
By my count they mention AI seventeen times on their homepage. https://perfectwikiforteams.com/
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by sciurus 1y ago
From my past experience, I can say that Google Cloud services (e.g load balancers) by default blocked traffic from ITAR sanctioned countries. Not just blocking people in those countries from becoming customers of GCP, but blocking them from
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by sciurus 1y ago
In the US there is a reduced media mail rate for educational materials. Not sure how it would work internationally. https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm
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by sciurus 1y ago
> I actively avoid watching videos I think MIGHT be interesting because the risk is too high You can remove videos from your viewing history. I do this when I start watching something but the content turnes out to not be what I expected.
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by sciurus 1y ago
For many workplaces, it's not just that that don't pay for a service, it's that using it is against policy. If I tried to paste some code into ChatGPT, for example, our data loss prevention spyware would block it and I'd
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Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home(arstechnica.com)
26 points by sciurus 1y ago|6 comments
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Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons?(arstechnica.com)
6 points by sciurus 1y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 1y ago
I've been using https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/ for this.
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by sciurus 2y ago
What makes you say it's a small part of that?
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The Staff+ Performance Cliff(sylormiller.com)
10 points by sciurus 2y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 2y ago
Argo Rollouts is an extra orchestration layer on top of a traffic management provider. Which one are you using? If you use the ALB controller you still have to deal with pod shutdown / target deregistration timing issues. https:&#x2F
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Mark Mayo: Gecko. Mozilla. Thoughts(vmunix.com)
3 points by sciurus 2y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 2y ago
For anyone needing an introduction to Hindenburg Research: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/nathan-anderson-hind...
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by sciurus 2y ago
This would benefit from a "[2023]" appended to the title to make clear it isn't new. Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273406
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Platform Engineering Beyond CFEngine(skamille.medium.com)
1 points by sciurus 2y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 2y ago
My reading is that the author posits there is a fixed amount of change that can be safely made in a single deployment. The solution is to make it possible to deploy more frequently. This is hard, so organizations will often instead introduc
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by sciurus 2y ago
For another perspective, here is the local news story where I first heard about this- https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-mother-arrested-after-ch...
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by sciurus 2y ago
Another popular one is https://youtube.com/@ThomasK4SWL of https://qrper.com/ fame.
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by sciurus 2y ago
If these measurements are correct, iOS has about 11% more of the US market share than Android. This is very different from the global market share, where Android has 45% more. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ios-vs
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The radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine's drone defense(technologyreview.com)
8 points by sciurus 2y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 2y ago
> Replicas are used for high availability only, not load balancing (From https://reclaim-the-stack.com/docs/platform-components/ingre... ) An I reading this right that they built a k8s-based platform where by de
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by sciurus 2y ago
You can use the data collected from hobbyist ground stations and displayed at https://sondehub.org/ to track them while in the air.
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by sciurus 2y ago
As the owner of both a Subaru and a Bronco Sport Badlands I feel compelled to defend the latter! They both have very capable AWD systems. If anyone wants a deep-dive on how the different types of 4WD and AWD systems actually work and their
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by sciurus 2y ago
> I'm certainly not going to do elephant hill in canyonlands with it Someone has, albeit with a slight lift. https://www.broncosportforum.com/forum/threads/off-roading-o... From their report of "the l
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by sciurus 2y ago
https://archive.is/WDvHh

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