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lazyant··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
I've seen ads using famous people (as in a Prime Minister) to sell whatever faking the whole thing, how is that even legal
lazyant··on I Changed My License
maybe?

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International

lazyant··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
I believe the opposite of this statement to be true
lazyant··on Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
I guess I don't understand what's going on. Solver says in 1-2 to raise 85% of hands to 6 as SM. Then the response by BB is to raise to 18 with 98% of hands!?
lazyant··on SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers
I lost rows in a busy table until I changed to PRAGMA synchronous = FULL
lazyant··on Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
> the site can now pretty easily handle 12 requests per second.

Right prod architecture (nginx -> gunicorn -> django, with nginx serving static assets), decent PRAGMAs for sqlite3 and caching for generic content should improve the RPS one or two orders of magnitude.

lazyant··on Mark Cuban: fight inequality by giving all workers company stock
Mincome: https://humanrights.ca/story/manitobas-mincome-experiment
lazyant··on Learning a few things about running SQLite
# Upload backup to S3 # Sometimes the backup gets OOM killed and so it stays locked, do an unlock.

An standard S3 upload like "aws s3 cp" doing OOM is surprising (to me)

lazyant··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
My prejudice is that there are only a few countries in the world (US, Canada, Australia, Mexico, possibly others I don't have experience with) where coming as an immigrant they take you in and you can be considered from that country.
lazyant··on The Vespa at 80
> "The first ads for the Vespa featured a woman," said Sarra. "You could call it a kind of feminist design." Well, a big feature of the Vespa design is that, unlike other motorcycles, women (or Scottish men) can ride them with skirts. Surely that helped with their initial popularity.
lazyant··on Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test
Documentary or docudrama but yes it's great. Important lessons like focusing only in the next rock.
lazyant··on The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends
you still need filter phone/remote interviews to select which candidates to have for on-site interviews, and this article centers on this initial interview being broken
lazyant··on Do the Hardest Thing
https://www.thisisdefinition.com/insights/where-theres-muck-...
lazyant··on Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI
> The interns we hired are extremely qualified and AI-native. wtf is "AI-native" ? couldn't he say "familiar with AI tooling?"
lazyant··on Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
Instead of trying to get the actual SOC 2 attestation, do a version of the homework that would get you there; basically writing documentation. The output would be documents describing different procedures or existing infra (disaster recovery, network diagrams etc) and a master spreadsheet with the "soc 2" questions (that you pick) and answers, a "security questionnaire" and this is what you send to companies when they insist.

Note in security-speak the keyword is "mitigation" (you don't have x but you mitigate that by y)

lazyant··on I am building a cloud
if your app runs on a single VM, then run it on a VM (two VMs behind LB for extra reliability)
lazyant··on Sauna effect on heart rate
Would a hot tub session (say at 100 - 105 F) be comparable or yield similar results?
lazyant··on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers
Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) account for over 7% of Medicare spending, or approximately $46.6 billion annually.
lazyant··on Angel Investors, a Field Guide
related, story of the startup https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-to-sell-an-ea...
lazyant··on AI Broke Interviews
I agree that estimation questions (not "brain teasers" as coming up with the clever solution) are good. Developers should be able to think in orders of magnitude.
lazyant··on Poker Tournament for LLMs
https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/publications.htm...
lazyant··on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)
lazyant··on Why I code as a CTO
The new SEO fad is CEOs and CTOs writing articles trying to look like a regular guy.

Also the "C" in CTO means Chief, as in main manager (of managers); if you have no direct report you are not a manager, let alone a "chief" one; call yourself Founder/Distinguished Engineer

lazyant··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
yes, the previous AWS incident to this one iirc ec2 instances were not reachable from AWS console (IAM issue?) but they kept running and working
lazyant··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
> The wall was actually as likely to end five months from when they visited it, as it was to end 500 years from then.

I don't think this is correct; as in something that has been there for say hundreds of years had more probability to be there in a hundred years than something that has been there for a month.

lazyant··on How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer
'make your manager look good'
lazyant··on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
their treatment of Israel-Palestine
lazyant··on Atlassian CEO promises AI everywhere, clearer views of what your devs are up to
this will surely turn around the 10% of devs who don't hate Jira yet
lazyant··on High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rinconada,_Peru at 5,100 m (16,700 ft) is the highest town in the world. Locals play soccer on the street after working all day at the mines, visitors need oxygen tanks.
lazyant··on Tarsnap is cozy
you are comparing data storage to a backup solution, not the target market
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