maayank

What’s the clone? Do you recommend it?

“It’s easy to be an angel in paradise”

I think to an high degree it depends on whether the individuals could realistically prevent new instances given resources (e.g. access, head count, number of other high priority tasks, etc.)

I'm in a similar boat. Furthermore, people tend to overlook that many new issues -> lots of routing effort (e.g. reading the ticket to see what team it best fits and then which person) which further cripples mid- to low-level management.

How many people in your team?

> * The team does short sprints.

How short is short?

Anything we know about the makeup of this or other recent layoffs? Any professions overly represented in the layoffs compared to the firing org’s distribution?

What graph db the cool kids use today to start dabbling in the art?

What do you guys use that for?

I think this may underplay the additional operational cost and risk in deploying multiple classes of services.

You added RabbitMQ for that one queue use case? You suddenly need to handle some health check edge case in prod since your programmers doesn’t have experience with it. Just added redis? You now have an extra set of server and client sdks to regularly patch up.

Etc. Sure, there’s a point where it’s logical to add a new class of services, but it’s not remotely close to zero (which is how I read the comment).

“Remote work props up smaller communities, pumping in $453B”

> You need strong performance management practices in place and clear ways to measure it. People who aren't getting their work done should show up quickly in your system

What performance management practices or metrics worked well for you?

What book? Sounds interesting.

Anything like regolith desktop for sway?

Any good resources on floating point accuracy proofs/literature?

As you say, it’s an often ignored topic while coming up again and again in software engineering

Honestly, it sounds like a politician trying to win “green” brownie points while doing nothing substantial

> has led me to adopt the working hypothesis that many of our cognitive experiences are more complicated than we tend to assume, and that they're often made up of several more or less independent processes

After finishing my CompSci degree I was bored and did some first year psychology degree courses and that was also one of my main takeaways (I don’t mean it was an original take, just one of the main takeaways I remember from these courses).

See for example split brain individuals[0] where the connection between the two hemispheres is severed/damaged - up to a point this was a common surgery to treat epilepsy a decade ago.

Patients seemed fine on first glance, but ultimately there were interesting incongruences [1]. I’m probably doing injustice to the description of the experiment so please read the linked page, but essentially they created a situation where each eye saw a different image (e.g. one related to chickens and another to snow) and then asked to choose with different hands from a set of pictures the picture most related (e.g. an egg or a snowman). The right hand (connected to the right hemisphere and thus the left eye) chose one thing connected to what the left eye saw and the right hand chose another.

Let’s say the left eye saw snow and the right saw chickens. The most interesting part is when the patients were asked about their choices, since only the left hemisphere can talk (the speech center). So they explained why the left hand chose something correctly, but made up some unrelated explanation about their right hand choices (“eggs are white like snow”)! In other more horrific terms, the right hemisphere had some level of thinking/reasoning going on but could not speak since it now had no mouth.

So, in healthy individuals there’s definitely syncing between the two hemispheres and different centers going on, but as any complex system I’m sure there are hiccups.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

[1] https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/split_brain.htm

Many thanks!

Any good book/exploratory paper for queuing theory?

> In the long run, creating more understanding of the physical world is probably more universally valuable to human flourishing than the far more parochial 'make money number go up'

Citation needed.

Moreover, dedicating resources to finance can be seen as dedicating resources to better dedicate resources.

(I upvoted the article since it's interesting stuff)

> I'm always pleasantly surprised when I see power management correctly configured at a client precisely because it is so rarely done correctly.

Let's say I have Linux instances in the cloud. What would be the steps to take for proper power management?

I think it’s like Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons…

Works on contingency? No, money down!

> Keep this in mind, and anyone reading HN should know that circumcision is quite possibly the least effective way to reduce HIV transmission

Not knowing why it works != it doesn’t work

What timespans are we talking about here? 30 years until reinforced concrete starts failing? 100?

> * Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I'm listening while doing dishes etc.

That's actually one of my favorite things when taking online courses...

> Zkps are just hashes that can hash the execution of code rather than hashing static data ("dynamic hashes"?)

That's actually a great intuitive explanation. I'm stealing that.

Wow, interesting suggestion with Shadow PC. How does it work exactly? Do you install Virtual Desktop on the shadow pc instance? Do I need any "interim" physical computer on my home network to proxy?

How do you go about having such quality reproductions? What are the costs?

The difference between multi-sig and no private key is that the former is an implementation of the blockchain protocol (e.g. different in Stellar and Ethereum) while the latter is a generic algorithm/service. Different layer.