simo7

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by simo7 2y ago
Slavery. For instance the technology for windmills already existed at the time, it just wasn't that big of a deal in world with an abundance of slaves. Fast forward to the Middle Ages and you find it everywhere.
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by simo7 3y ago
Interesting, I’m starting to think undocumented thresholds are quite common in GCP. I experienced something similar with Clod Run: inexplicable scaling events based on CPU utilization and concurrent requests (the two metrics that regulate s
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by simo7 3y ago
I have a different approach: I'm ok to throw away significant chunks of code as long as I have important new ideas that allow me to do more with less. Often the problem with refactors is that don't come with enough of these new
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by simo7 3y ago
Fewer than 10k wouldn't be surprising at all, yes.
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by simo7 3y ago
The 65k figure is what ancient historians reported, in reality it’s almost certainly order of magnitudes lower. Exaggerated figures are usually the case with ancient reports (especially about battles).
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by simo7 3y ago
You can ship your local docker context to a remote host and build/run your containers there. All the docker commands you typically run locally you can run on the remote host. https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-depl
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by simo7 3y ago
Isn’t a monolith with split workloads just a monorepo?
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by simo7 4y ago
The main flaw of the article is not controlling for product category. I suspect most data warehouses have similar NDRs. In many companies a data warehouse is the place where you dump all your data and let everyone run poorly written program
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by simo7 4y ago
I think the main lesson should be not to use it, especially at scale.
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by simo7 4y ago
Not only they were cousins, in their private correspondence right before the outbreak of WWI they were addressing each other as Willy and Nicky[0]. By the way they fought against each other. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by simo7 5y ago
I think you're too quick at making assumptions which are not correct unfortunately. Let's recap: > there's no selective pressure for it to become less lethal. > If people take measures to prevent spread of a disease tha
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by simo7 5y ago
Agreed, macro predictions are very hard. Much easier to make predictions on individual assets (companies, commodities etc.) and hold long term. Also, precisely because macro is hard, these analyses often feel superficial. Inflation, especia
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by simo7 5y ago
Don't really get your point. > The people have dramatically altered their behavior on a global scale (on average anyways) because of COVID’s lethality. There is absolutely selective pressure in that dimension. This reads to me: &quo
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by simo7 5y ago
Well if the two events (improved transimissibility and improved lethality) are not independent as I assumed then it's certainly bad news. I also heard the opposite thesis btw, higher transimissibility might sacrifice something in terms
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by simo7 5y ago
Yes my point is, when you do improve one (transimissibility) you probably did not improve the other one (or even got worse at it).
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by simo7 5y ago
True, there's no selective pressure for it to become less lethal. But I wonder: isn't a random mutation unlikely to improve on any of its profiles (transmissibility or lethality)? If so a more transmissible virus is unlikely to a
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by simo7 5y ago
Well bitcoin does have an intrinsic monetary policy despite not having a monetary authority. It is possible to engineer currencies to be inflationary/deflationary without an external authority. It just cannot be a guarantee as there ar
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by simo7 5y ago
> even Bitcoin experiences inflation as more of it is mined (as does gold). Surprisingly they don't understand what inflation means despite having just quoted its definition a few paragraphs above. Inflation doesn't mean that w
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by simo7 5y ago
> Nobody chooses to be a fool Dogecoin is at least honest, so many other "jokes" including Bitcoin, contemporary art, some stocks etc... If people want to play a game of musical chairs, I rather prefer this game to be called ex
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by simo7 5y ago
I think people should not think that much in terms of supply-demand for speculative phenomena. At least not in a macroeconomic sense. The value of a coin is determined by the expectation of selling it in the future at a higher price, nothin
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by simo7 6y ago
Well I wish he expanded a bit more on the “Just do X, that’s so much simpler” section. He's on AWS, he could have gotten all those benefits with ElasticBeanstalk or ECS even. Plus no yaml files but actual IaaS (terraform etc.) and much
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by simo7 6y ago
> When you can create money backed by nothing Isn't that what money really is about? Debt and money go together. When you take on debt your creditor can decide to sell his credit to somebody else, de facto using your promise to repa
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by simo7 6y ago
> The central thesis of value investing is: if a company is going to close shop, the scrap value of that company will be higher than the market cap of that company. There's a lot more to it, but that's the gist of it. There&#x2
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by simo7 6y ago
They are certainly very successful ideas in terms of outcomes. Apple went up more than 3X since he bought it in 2016.
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by simo7 6y ago
I'd say he broke his own game of investing, rather than the game in general. Given what he thinks he understand there's not enough opportunities to allocate this amount of capital. I guess that's why he hired the two new mana
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by simo7 6y ago
A (big?) part of Databricks' success is the complicated mess that Spark is to run.
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by simo7 6y ago
> That sounds wonderful (really) Was going to say. Most of the times all it takes is to have a proper data model. For analytics I favour de-nomarlized schemas and, if necessary, nested fields. Queries are much easier to write (fewer join
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by simo7 6y ago
You're not the product, it's a wrong analogy. You simply pay hidden fees embedded in the slightly higher price you pay.
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by simo7 6y ago
Precisely.
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by simo7 6y ago
Problem with SAM is having to deal with one more tool. But also, maybe even important, it makes things less transparent. I want to be able to refer to the original CloudFormation docs (even when using Terraform) without "translating&qu

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