1. mentat Nov 17, 2025 parent

   The idea that most people who are doing professional public speaking are reliable narrators is a bit quaint. There is a lot of room for framing that you have to allow for story telling. If you think that all story telling is about reliable narration, you're going to have a tough time being successful at it or interacting with others who are.
2. mentat Feb 5, 2023 parent

   I ask a lot of questions on code reviews as it's usually less easily perceived as conformational and I have come to assume that I'm missing context when something is really off. Assume that coworkers are competent but may either have or lack context. If your coworkers are genuinely incompetent, then a new position might be better than fighting though PRs.
3. mentat Jan 10, 2023 parent

   Wasn't aware that Canada had moved to 1940s Europe...
4. mentat Dec 17, 2022 parent

   Saying this seriously a few decades after computers were room sized is I think a bit short sighted. Betting against technical progress especially in density / materials / weight is not a good bet.
5. mentat Dec 13, 2022 parent

   You don't think the US government requires information sharing?
6. mentat Oct 25, 2022 parent

   Seemed even a bit longer before that on the peninsula coastside. The whole thing felt magical, to even know that much beforehand.
7. mentat Aug 18, 2022 parent

   See regulatory capture.
8. mentat Jul 6, 2022 parent

   That was designed as a fundamentally subversive set of lessons. I doubt we even have the will to make an accurately subversive movie version of Diamond Age (look at what happened to Altered Carbon), much less create that sort of "book".
9. mentat Feb 15, 2022 parent

   Being on call aligns incentives. If it's someone else's problem when what you just design and build then it will operate less well.
10. mentat Feb 13, 2022 parent

    Really exceptional response. A surprising number of people aren't aware of moral constitution, practically, even though this was a core topic for at least the last few hundred years. Interesting times we live in.
11. mentat Feb 13, 2022 parent

    I don't think big bounties are capital gains.
12. mentat Jan 29, 2022 parent

    What kind of firewall work didn't have default drop? Once you take that off the table you really do have a problem but I've only seen that one in 20 years of professional work.
13. mentat Jan 15, 2022 parent

    It's plenty for people who already have a pile of cash. That seems a bit problematic right?
14. mentat Dec 28, 2021 parent

    Thank you for your straightforward appraisal. Makes me take Matrix a lot more seriously.
15. mentat Dec 22, 2021 parent

    You don't have health checks?
16. mentat Dec 8, 2021 parent

    How can you look at rate and range of mutation and make blithe comments on how many will die based on original covid rates?
17. mentat Dec 8, 2021 parent

    "Remain obsessed" with transmission of a highly contagious virus that has shown significant ability to mutate at scale? That sure seems worth being obsessed about. When it mutates to spread past all current defenses then consistently kill because we failed to stop current spread it will indeed be "depressing".
18. mentat Oct 27, 2021 parent

    Yes, exactly. That OP needs to know the time is the problem being solved.
19. mentat Oct 4, 2021 parent

    Yes, and a few orders of magnitude more expensive.
20. mentat Sep 5, 2021 parent

    Have you looked at something like fly.io to do physical placement near players globally while still supporting consistency?
21. mentat Jul 30, 2021 parent

    This seems the most like case to me. Google loves their query PBs.
22. mentat Jun 2, 2021 parent

    You have to pass difficult standardized tests to qualify for these spots though. It's not like 50,000 people can just decide they want to be doctors. It depends on ability as measured by testing ability which generally still relates to economic ability in aggregate.
23. mentat Oct 10, 2020 parent

    There is no general case. The idea of the general case is fundamentally a tool of oppression. Human moral encounters and decisions are personal.
24. mentat Sep 28, 2020 parent

    > The major downside of having an “always syncable” data structure is that it gets really big, really quick

    Perhaps it would be prudent to read the actual article before tossing off this sort of comment since it's indeed the whole point?

25. mentat Jun 17, 2020 parent

    Do you know of any good writeups for this particular kind of process? I too did fuzzing of network devices before it was called fuzzing and am interested in trying it again with modern tooling.
26. mentat Jun 17, 2020 parent

    $60 + $6 per day after 5 days. It adds up, examples at bottom: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/
27. mentat May 25, 2020 parent

    There are what, 15000+ engineers competing for that many fewer jobs? Getting fired for looking for new work looks much more possible now than it did 3 months ago.
28. mentat May 18, 2020 parent

    Latency even over a few feet can matter.
29. mentat May 8, 2020 parent

    Physical based attacks were the majority of the risk, and that was, practically, pretty minimal. If you want to watch from inside a VM, great, but mass attacks against watchers? I'm not seeing it. (Been going since DEFCON 9)

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