silverquiet

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by silverquiet 22d ago
I assume HN runs on machines in a datacenter. The servers that serve my business also reside in a datacenter. I see lots of upsides to datacenters, and they've been around long before they were controversial.
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by silverquiet 1mo ago
As a young man, can I opt into Medicare since I'm opted in to paying for it?
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by silverquiet 3mo ago
I ran it by Gemini, and it says that the top 10% earn more than $78,800 annually. I believe your experience is with the top end of the distribution.
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by silverquiet 3mo ago
How much do they make?
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by silverquiet 3mo ago
This sounds like private equity, except they'd also demand that the goose increase egg production by 10% per quarter.
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by silverquiet 3mo ago
> Waymo is nicer Just wait till Google spins it off to private equity; it'll be barley running bits of vehicles patched together by the cheapest mechanics they can find. Enjoy it while you can; I'd love to give it a go myself,
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by silverquiet 4mo ago
> rural red states where they welcome the construction The state legislatures might be all for it, but I can say as someone who lives in South Texas, the actual communities are up in arms against datacenters. Of course there's lots
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by silverquiet 5mo ago
How do you plan that? Particularly for an age 45 retirement?
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by silverquiet 5mo ago
> you can retire at 45 Kinda hard to do that when you've locked all your money up in a retirement vehicle that doesn't let you withdraw until age 59.5.
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by silverquiet 5mo ago
arbeit macht frei
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by silverquiet 7mo ago
Anything in production is legacy; I'm pretty sure it happens as soon as the code is shipped regardless of who wrote it.
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by silverquiet 7mo ago
If multiple services are affected, it's probably some underlying infrastructure issue.
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by silverquiet 7mo ago
I'm quite capable of snark and I wouldn't say that I was being particularly so, but maybe something adjacent to it. Mostly I think this is amusingly naive. America has a history of attempts to create utopian communities, but I&#x2
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by silverquiet 7mo ago
Will you allow illegal aliens in your new city?
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by silverquiet 7mo ago
Does it recommend taking a break? Mostly I've seen it ask if I'm still watching. I've always assumed this is not for user benefit, but in order to not spend bandwidth on a screen that is not being looked at. The only site I&#
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by silverquiet 8mo ago
> For the same reason I don't keep a giant gas tank in my garage Do you keep a car in your garage?
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by silverquiet 8mo ago
I think my favorite interaction with a dev around this was when I was explaining how his java program looked like a big juicy target for the OOM killer and it had killed it in order to keep the system working. His response was, "I don&
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by silverquiet 8mo ago
> JP Doherty did not want to sign the email. But he knew he didn’t have a choice. His son, Rhys, was scheduled to have strabismus surgery in January, correcting an eye issue that made it difficult for him to walk on his own. The procedur
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by silverquiet 8mo ago
Aren't they required to obey chain-of-command? And doesn't their pay and their family's healthcare depend on them remaining employed?
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by silverquiet 9mo ago
The hip seems like such a bad example to me. First of all, who do you think needs hip replacements? It's not young people; surgeons don't even like to do them on young people (and to a joint replacement surgeon, "young"
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by silverquiet 9mo ago
I gained insurance overnight because of the ACA after not being able to afford it.
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by silverquiet 10mo ago
I got a junk Precision workstation last year as a "polite" home server (it's quiet and doesn't look like industrial equipment, but still has some server-like qualities, particularly the use of ECC RAM). I liked it so muc
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by silverquiet 10mo ago
> Hence, the "on average". For any 10 couples, they should have 21 children. If some have fewer, the rest have to have more. This would seem to agree with "not everyone has to have children" - mathematically speaking
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by silverquiet 10mo ago
The math has a few problems then, because it seems rather difficult for me to have .1 child. Actually, it's impossible for me to have any children because I am a single man and it is not biologically possible.
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by silverquiet 10mo ago
> They really are just that up their own asses. I remember perhaps a decade ago, a coworker and I were watching a clip of Zuckerberg walking up to a group of employees and they started clapping for him. I mentioned how odd it was to see,
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by silverquiet 11mo ago
Eventually human civilization breaks down to the point where we can no longer sustain the industry to extract the fossil fuels.
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by silverquiet 11mo ago
Given that the plan to accelerate covid vaccine development, "Operation Warp Speed", was a Trump administration program, this seems quite ironic.
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by silverquiet 11mo ago
I don't see where the GP changed their mind. They may not be ok with this particular action while still preferring the current administration to any alternative.
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by silverquiet 11mo ago
I've got a (probably former at this point) buddy who makes less than $15K/year. He seems to have lots of time to listen to right wing propaganda podcasts and likes telling "jokes" about how minorities are problematic. He
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Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit(finance.yahoo.com)
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