maxclark

Nuclear power is an amazing energy source.

It doesn’t look like we’ll ever get beyond the politics that would make small scale <10MW installations economically feasible.

It’s really a shame.

And here's the problem with cable and the OTT providers as well.

The content networks force an all or nothing contract. ESPN must be licensed for all subscribers or no ESPN option for anyone.

The same thing that forced me off of cable has forced me off of OTT.

I can confirm these $s

Forums are the ultimate in async workflow. You can post a message, and when get to control when you come back. Little features like search, threads, search engine integration, are amazing!

Slack/Discord is fine for an IRC alternative. But they should be additive not the only option.

Not just a MacBook problem but Apple M1. So far nothing “bad” has happened when my Mac runs out of Ram.

If you still have that it’s pretty awesome

It’s fun to see these posts but soo much backstory and history is glossed over and skipped.

OpenBSD developers used to have development sprints and code check ins in Canada to work around US crypto laws.

It’s hard to explain how big a deal OpenSSH was/is and how much we owe to the OpenBSD project for it.

Also the fork from NetBSD is way more colorful.

I default to Apple Maps, but Google Maps

* is more accurate * has way better local search and reviews (Yelp is garbage)

Wow congrats to Mailchimp

Smart move by Intuit

Odds this ends up like Mint?

“Together, these effects may make it harder for employees to acquire and share new information across the network.”

Remote is hard and not every company is going to adapt to this long term.

I’m happy that remote is now an accepted structure but I worry that full time remote employees will miss out simply because they aren’t present.

International coverage is lightyears better than US.

Booking a vacation for 126 days now.

Thank you for this!

“Other findings in the UC San Diego survey of more than 3,000 respondents include”

I really hate polling and surveys.

I’d love to know this as well. Dell doesn’t have anything remotely close to what Backblaze was designing/building themselves.

So did they do something custom (unlikely at this volume) or did Backblaze change their hardware approach?

"The alternative of paying $9.99/month for Youtube..."

I completely agree - until you have kids watching Youtube the Ads are much better in general.

I am however extremely concerned with the amount of data being collected on my family to then aggregate and sell.

And there's plenty of COBOL developers that have been trying to retire for years but keep getting coaxed back.

Maybe the nuance you're looking for is it would be unwise to not progress your skills along the way. Like Salesforce Classic is a dead end, but if you transitioned to Lightning you're probably ok.

Or Tableau, maybe you should be learning Google Data Studio, Microsoft Power BI, etc... at the same time.

Or ban the ability to exchange USD for Crypto and vice versa. Part of the argument for crypto is the exact reason why central governments don't want it to exist.

A "Big 4" partner explained this to me years ago. It's an intentional system designed to extract the most resources from a college graduate as possible. Some are promoted up the ranks, but most leave with the resume line item to do something else.

This has been the way for decades now.

I was in the same boat. Just never seemed to be in the right place. 28 years is an incredible run.

So Notion's backend DB is actually Slack channels?

The lie of cloud services is ephemerality and elasticity. We convince ourselves that this hacked together solution is not actually going to run for years, or that we need instant scale 50x our current capacity. For most is that resources turn on and never turn off. This is why so much of the cost reduction conversation revolve around RI purchases.

The real secret is that compute isn't the driving factor in cost - its bandwidth. I've had too many conversations where people are congratulating themselves on their $0.027/GB PPA only to explain that they are paying effectively $8.00/Mbps for a network link. The real threshold is network consumption and when you cross it figuring out a hybrid strategy is the best path.

So frustrated that Cloudflare didn't just add resources/support the existing NTP Pool. Hard to even pretend their motives are altruistic at this point.

Google and Google Cloud culture is ingrained and very specific. Was in a meeting to move >$10 mill/year in spend over and the account director literally walked out for an hour. The entire process was just insane and ultimately GCP changed negotiated terms at the last minute and lost the business. I would be very careful about trusting them as a sole cloud provider.