stillicidious

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by stillicidious 5y ago
> The notion that changes in interest rates, which generally correlate with inflation, would alter the price of stocks is not obvious to me. Not sure what mechanism you would propose that would cause that to happen. Higher rates -> re
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by stillicidious 5y ago
You could easily observe this with a cache-cold query performing lots of random IO. EBS latency is on the order of milliseconds, even cheap baremetal nowadays is microseconds
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Clearly written by an applicant rather than employer. Your resume is your chance to shine, use the opportunity or pay a service to do it for you. The reason the author is trapped long enough in meat grinder hiring to notice this "probl
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by stillicidious 5y ago
If you think it's cheap now, wait til you see it after a 50bps rates move
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by stillicidious 5y ago
CloudFlare's stock price changes are related to narratives from the past 2 years rapidly fading, like the retail investing world finally learning what a CDN did right at the start of COVID, and expectations of the interest rate environ
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by stillicidious 5y ago
I built out my first ISP in 2001, worked in FAANG by 2006, haven't the slightest comprehension of what this is for. Is it some kind of certified partner directory?
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Definitely concur. In a well designed language, I'd expect it to be possible to express something a bit closer to C++'s ios but without the crazy verbosity, and without switching mode. It's not that general language features
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by stillicidious 5y ago
> Interesting how one might choose to their faith over their life. The belief in the right to a predictably long life is a new idea barely a few centuries old at most. Not that I'm personally complaining, but the statement did make
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Interacting with match.com still appears to be associated with picking up incurable ailments after all these years
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by stillicidious 5y ago
That's only part of it, the major problem with classic UUIDs are that writes occur randomly across the entire keyspace. Whether it's represented as a string or in binary, ordering does not change, and so the underlying indexing me
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Totally meaningless numbers without at least some normalized performance/watt to compare against
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by stillicidious 5y ago
The codebase is from at least 1996.
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by stillicidious 5y ago
33 bits of entropy, not just 33 bits
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Awesome career twist, potentialy more interesting than the article :) Did you go from professional -> professional, or not much past hobbyist tech?
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Someone has pushed a button and it's run the equivalent of cookiecutter on the repo. Original author could send a DMCA, or they could simply enjoy Christmas and assume a ticket will undo this sometime in January.
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Such a number would be difficult to interpret, or entirely meaningless, without understanding the classification methods and policies of each constituent region. This also holds true of overall death statistics. Finally with local statistic
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Thorough study from a year ago for interested folk: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/11/19/a-sober-look-at-s...
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Be careful not to confuse average load with peak instantaneous load. Bursty workloads are the bane of capacity planners everywhere.
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by stillicidious 5y ago
I'd suggest you are doing far more damage to the reputation of the board by conflating commentary with free marketing. The comment I replied to was the latter. If advertising is permitted where critique from actual paying users is open
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by stillicidious 5y ago
And yet I'm learning about this outage from HN. How did that happen?
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Probably 10-40% of what your browser is served nowadays is brotli, it's in Chrome so all the major CDNs support it by default
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by stillicidious 5y ago
It sounds like you deserve a new job with more challenging peers. Environments like that can suck the life out of a bright flame Reminds me of a younger self going to interview for the technical team at a bank. I arrived full of youthful ze
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by stillicidious 5y ago
Those are some seriously egregious egress fees!
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by stillicidious 5y ago
It's by design, many features of EC2 are unrelated to the chip itself. For example burstable scheduling, availability of enclaves, IO and networking bandwidth and a variety hypervisor features are all tied to the instance family. These
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by stillicidious 5y ago
It's a valid one. Engineering teams work with AWS kinda in the same way mass market 90s C code was written. They get it running, but boy are there huge leaks and crashes hiding in plain sight. From that perspective, I think it might be
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by stillicidious 5y ago
> what are you trying to say I'm saying this is my bread and butter, and I've seen the same pattern in every company I've crossed the doors of. It's no made up scenario when a team of contractors have spent 12 months
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by stillicidious 5y ago
They launched Cloud in the US this month, very likely dedicated will be offered soon enough. The bang for buck on Hetzner is insane, really love them, but have and would rip them out of any business environment I come across, largely due to
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by stillicidious 5y ago
I'm a Hetzner home user and a huge fan, but let's not compare the quality of networking you get for free from them with the networking you get from AWS. I don't think I've seen a latency spike on AWS in 10 years. Hetzner
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by stillicidious 5y ago
> So why is cost optimization a constant point of conversation with AWS if it's so easy? Limited IO bandwidth in middle and upper management alongside difficult schedules (we covered that one already). Take 2 steps above engineer on
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by stillicidious 5y ago
> his entire liveihood and business runs on the fact that AWS pricing is not even remotely clear Corey's business exists because prevailing engineering culture encourages pretty much the entire industry to consider optimization as a

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