throwaway7281

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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Speaking of low salaries, I saw a $30K/year job ad in a western EU country for a research engineer who will need to build a secure and scalable infrastructure - and I laughed hard. It wasn't even scam, quite to opposite.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Take look at luigi, which is a lightweight task orchestrator with minimalistic dependencies. [1] https://github.com/spotify/luigi
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
It's funny, if it weren't that sneaky and scuzzy and very much in line with what FB excels at: web scale deceit.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Exactly, do not expect a business (except it is a non-profit) to do something out of charity - they don't.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Probably so. The part of the population that reacts in any way to "delete your account" is probably 0.25% - FB knows that, too. Fine if every other month a #deletefb campaign comes around, the MAU is a harder fact. The next big th
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Yes of course. You have to give in at a point, because you have no options, it's probably simple as that.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Sad to see that FAANG is so attractive - sure, pay is nice, technical problems are nice - but you are actively working on walled gardens. You become a walled gardener.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Good for them. I find it strange that we have this org setup at all. A union illustrates the clear divide between capital owners and workers. It sounds so 19th century, but it's just as valid today, unfortunately.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Always remember: Don't get high on your own supply.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I don't know. I see the nice HSBC building in my city and all I can think of is that half of the business of theirs is crooked, money laundry, trafficking, drug cartels. No shiny building can change what you actually do.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I can see that mining is a good incentive to look for excess energy in all kinds of places and make use of it. That's a capitalistic motiv, finding solutions to derived issues, when something else is at the core of the problem. But any
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
That's my #1 reason to be bearish on B$ - it's just a complete environmental cluster-fuck. And in order to not see this, you'll have to ignore a lot of facts - which in turn tells me a lot about those inside the crypto-bubble
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Internet as a public good.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I was stretching the point, but what amazes me is the amount of stuff people want to do vs. the amount of equipment they throw at the problem.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
To put it into perspective: You give me $72K and I'll set you up a 1PB replicated storage infra with a total of 100+ available CPU cores and half a TB RAM. I saw people burning through cash in the cloud, which makes you wonder weather
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Just sampling: The last billionaire I looked up was a north american mining guy. He owns mines, in Africa. Can you guess which country? Yes exactly, the one that prospers much more than the others. Basically, the "work" has to com
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Maybe it is a better way to learn independently, with regular, e.g. monthly or quarterly check-ins with an experienced mentor? Would solve quite a few problems altogether - people getting more independent and following their interests. You
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
One exception may be Niklas Luhmann, a German sociologist, who was a prolific writer. His note taking method was part of his philosophical process, I assume.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
No, I do not want a part in that.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I had an ok, low life once. Today I work 80h to catch up with capital gains of those who sell me food or own my place. The essence of capitalism is embodied in private equity today - a company is not there to make shoes or build a car - a c
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
If you have me guess, what the effect of low access to resources is (time, money, health, job, anything) I will bet having lower resources will have an adverse effect - because that is kind of the definition of it. When I read these studies
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Excellent video. We have the tech and skill to reconstruct reality, at the same time we do not possess the skill to let reason rule critical parts of our (here: Beirut's) infrastructure. As humankind, we are probably closer than ever t
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I'm sorry for the circumstances. I just want to note one thing: any large community will have aspect (sometimes many) that many people will not like. That's not personal, it's just statistics. And when someone (Go team, Stack
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I calculated that so far I saved with my pro-bono work in open source and documentation around 2,085,000 million hours of professional labor. Now my hourly rate is 100 bucks, so that's about 200M worth of labor that ended up in other p
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I'm off the main hubs, SF, London, NYC, but here, in my gamma level city people talk a bit about AI but I have yet to see applications that are not vaporware. Don't get me wrong, I love ML challenges, but the real world seems to h
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I used Helios 4 (32TB) and currently building a Helios 64 (80TB) NAS. It works great with armbian, which was the key for me.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
After watching a presentation on firecracker from Amazon team it seemed like it is more of a playground for their junior developers than some high profile library. Not trying to be dismissive, just an impression.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
From the FAANG, Amazon strikes me as the one using most open source code while at the same time not having much to show as open source - firecracker is a (relative) toy.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Call me a bluff old tradionalist, but there are costs associated with "internet operations", tech firms: That is, they are or will abuse their enormous insight into the heartbeat of society. If you know for billions of people wher
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Spent hours playing Apache comanche game back in the days ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcxgYEBAXA ). It ran on a 4MB RAM machine just fine. I wonder if we ever get back to this kind of efficient use of computers?

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