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- slyall parentand the ICE news would be that 10% that is important.
- The point is that 90% of the news is unimportant. Often you can read a weekly and that is enough
A politician said something and other politicians reacted. Usually unimportant unless it was backed by a law or something. If it was important then the weekly will cover it.
Main Character of the day on Social media. unimportant
A crime happened nearby. Unimportant
A celeb did something. Unimportant
Something happened to random person. Unimportant
Sport result. If you follow that team you already know, if not then not important.
Seriously go to the front page of the New York times or some other outfit and count the stories that you needed to read today.
- Have you checked to make sure your domain wasn't previously owned by somebody else?
There are sites where you can lookup previous ownership such as https://whois-history.whoisxmlapi.com/
- The good news if you take 2 years to ship the system "properly" then you won't have to re-factor it because the company went out of business or that product was too late to market.
There is a phrase "million dollar problems". You do stuff at your startup that will take a million dollars to fix because it doesn't scale.
The point is that if your startup doesn't get to that scale then it doesn't matter. If you startup does reach that scale then you have plenty of money/people to spend a million dollars fixing it.
- Discussion on the original article:
- A few people started using Ruby for command line tools[1] but the community was very focuses around rails. Also Ruby isn't usually part of the standard OS install. So Ruby stayed stuck in it's Rails niche.
[1] Some listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ruby_software_and_tool... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_program...
- Never used it since it was only available in the US. Looks like additional countries were not added till Oct 2016, 11 years after it was first launched[0]
None of the companies I've worked for have used it AFAIK, despite them all using AWS. I think I've mostly ignored it as one of the niche AWS products that isn't relevant.
[0] https://blog.mturk.com/weve-made-it-easier-for-more-requeste...
- My 2cents is that in a lot of cases swap is being used for unimportant stuff leave more RAM for your app. Do a "ps aux" and look at all the RAM used by weird stuff. Good news is those things will be swapped out.
Example on my personal VPS
$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3923 1225 328 217 2369 2185 Swap: 1535 1335 200 - I have a bunch of groups from top to bottom:
I'm in an ops team so probably add 5-10 channels per day for new incidents I'm on or others in my team are on.- Channels incidents I'm in right now - Incidents others are working on. Our Team channel we'll be called out - Channels for my team - Other monitoring and alert channels to keep an eye on - Announcements from my group, diversion, etc - Ongoing Issues. Incident investigation - Ongoing Projects - Issues from earlier this month (move for the top two group once resolved) - 3 groups of issues from 3 previous months - Other teams public channels I read when I have time - Some random internal channels - Other teams channels I ignore but need to join sometimes to ask their help - The very end of the video shows the Cherry picker and the size of it. I'd guess it wasn't normally used because of cost and possible limitations on weight carried.
Fred was creating the platform with 3-4 guys and basic tools. Probably a lot cheaper than hiring a specialised Cherry Picker for a day or two.
- Lots of stories on youtube seem to be AI written or highly assisted (With AI generated voices, subtitles and pictures).
I was listening to "HFY Sci-Fi" at one point but there are hundreds of channels with "Getting revenge on the Boss" or 50 other story genres. Each pumping out a new story every week. Some taken from other sources, some AI generated.
- Personally I'd be very careful about traveling to the US office for a two week visit these days on an ESTA or similar Visa Waiver.
Historically people have done it and a blind eye has been turned, but with the climate these days you want to be 100% in compliance of your Visa conditions.
- The problem is that then you have to make sure workers feel secure about moving to work for you. So good pay, good local environment and most importantly a secure job because if they get laid off they'll have to move their whole family somewhere else.
Some companies do it (Walmart I believe) but most tech companies tend to base themselves in relatively large cities with other tech firms.
I remember a couple of years ago that people were saying Amazon had trouble hiring because even in tech-hubs they had run out of qualified people who would want to work for them.
- “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
- The US Military is very aware of this. The Next generation fighters and bombers all have longer ranges and longer ranged missiles. The Air-force is working on building more runways and hardened hangers
The Army and Marines are planning around having units on Islands that have to have their own anti-aircraft and anti-ship capability since they won't be able to rely on air or sea support.