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qes··on Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill
> you'd likely be better off putting your long term savings in Boeing stock

lol if poster above started storing money in Bitcoin in 2011 there's a good chance they are the wealthiest person in this thread.

qes··on Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
50 mcg is a pretty small dose. Not as small as micro-dosing, but like first timer being extra cautious sized.

1000-1400 mcg is like 5-7 solid doses, which is no joke, but it's not 20-30 doses like you sort of imply.

qes··on AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
According to Cloudflare, they do not have any bandwidth pricing arrangement with Microsoft for Azure users.

They also do charge for Enterprise plans, but instead of transparent pricing I got high-pressure sales techniques and black box pricing offers - which then anchored our rate so that as we grow past our current contract, we're forced to upgrade at any point with pricing based solely on our original negotiation.

Frankly, while I save money using Cloudflare over Azure's CDN right now, it's left a very sour taste in my mouth and I'll be jumping their ship as soon as I have time to find a suitable alternative.

qes··on The Fallacy That Is Cryptocurrency
> one of the primary selling points that people were hyping about cryptocurrencies was the ability to circumvent the current financial system

Perhaps you primarily heard relatively uninformed people. "circumvent the current financial system" would probably be called some out of touch with reality woo-woo by many.

Many would instead say decentralization is the primary selling point.

Specifically, the inability of a small group to affect monetary policy, particularly the inflation rate, or to prevent access to the system.

qes··on US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
And where are you going to trade your Bitcoin for Ethereum and vice versa?

It may not be traceable directly through the blockchain(s), but the exchange destination will be, and they're almost certainly going to be complying with local laws which means they'll respond to a subpoena for data and give law enforcement whatever info they have on you, and most exchanges require KYC verification to handle any significant amount of funds.

qes··on A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
> What's a NEW Google product that you actually like (that they didn't acquire)?... It seems like they give a half-assed attempt at creating new products as a way to keep skilled talent at Google rather than having them leave to work for Facebook or Apple.

What new products have Apple or, seriously?, Facebook created that you actually like?

Pretty sure people aren't leaving Google for Apple & Facebook because they want to build good new products.

qes··on Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?
Threads like this really help me appreciate my workplace and stay confident in applying pressure to reduce technical debt.

I've been the lead at a ~30 person, ~7 dev, ~$5M/yr company for 10 years. As we've grown from < 10 people and 2-3 devs I've had to transition from doing whatever I felt was needed as I found the time to having to get approval across our departments and schedule work across quarters, years, and across a handful or two more people, but I've always been afforded a good deal of trust in my opinion and understanding of the costs and risks of technical debt.

I often second-guess my emphasis on improving existing code. To come even remotely close to keeping up takes a lot of developer and QA time and has opportunity cost.

Deep down I believe it's vitally important, but there's a nagging voice asking if this is really worth it. Sometimes it turns out not to have been. More often I look back and think that part we made better could've used even more time investment.

Personally, I enjoy maintenance work. It's an opportunity to refine and improve ideas I or others had previously. It's less uncertain - the big picture is there, it has history, we've seen how it's expanded and changed over time already, I don't have to try to predict the future as much as I make architectural decisions.

Completing a significant refactoring effort is every bit as gratifying to me as launching something new. Staying in one place for a decade has given me opportunity to see through efforts that take years before all the pieces are in place.

qes··on RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire
Oh boo hoo. Multiple-hundred millionaire is lonely and doesn't know how to define himself. Cry me a river.
qes··on At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
> if Moore’s law continues for a few more decades

Moore's law has already been dead for years.

qes··on Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity
> industrial farms only add the 3 that directly fuel growth - Nitrogen, Potassium, and Phosphorus

Source? I don't industrial farm, but I highly doubt that as plants suffer significantly when they lack micro-nutrients.

qes··on How to Survive a Lightning Strike (2014)
The high level evidence is that lighting can travel thousands of feet through air. An inch or two of rubber is nothing.

It's the metal cage of the car that provides lighting a more conductive path around instead of through you.

qes··on Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found
I disagree with the apparent premise (article's paywalled) that having no friends means you are lonely.

I have no friends that I'm not also in a romantic relationship with, and I wouldn't call myself lonely at all outside of a rare fleeting feeling here and there.

qes··on Ristretto: A High Performance, Concurrent, Memory-Bound Go Cache
I use 128 bit spooky hash for keys in a system with ~1M keys in cache at any given time, give or take.

Rough numbers but maybe 75% of those keys existed last month and will still exist next month and probably next year, too, and 25% will exist for minutes to hours and likely never be seen again.

Collisions are uncommon, but a regular enough occurrence (dozen or two a year).

qes··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
> I’m shocked at how many people have issues with ORMs

Simple inexperience. I'd bet most of those people are mid-level developers who have used ORMs enough to hit the rough edges but not enough, or with enough independent agency, to have worked through how to play to ORM's strengths while avoiding their weaknesses. People that were given a hammer and are just understanding that their hammer doesn't work very well to install bolts, and maybe don't have the authority to say maybe I should use a wrench or the flexibility to try this new crescent shaped idea and see if that works better.

qes··on Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
Well, is running a distro mirror from home better than running none at all? Because that's what it usually comes down too.

I'm already paying for the home connection and not fully utilizing it. I would have to pay more to run it from a colo or cloud.

qes··on Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
Comcast shut us off and informed us we were apparently spewing RF back out the line. They sent a tech to install an upstream noise filter. I believe it's a low-pass filter.

I unplugged everything except a short run to the cable modem and they retested our line and removed the filter. I didn't notice any drop in speeds while the filter was installed, but it was some years ago and my upload was only something like 1 or 2 Mbps anyway.

I must be lucky with Comcast - I've always gotten 50-100% over my advertised download rates. My total bill is $96/month and I'm getting 200Mbps down and 4-8 up. I'd have to go check what my advertised speeds even are at this point - it keeps creeping up, which is unsurprising since more and more neighborhoods have been getting fiber coverage over the same period.

qes··on Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)
Porting a Java project to C# doesn't make one a "Chuck Norris" developer. Popularity is irrelevant.
qes··on Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)
I'm not curious; I'm already aware.

NodaTime is a port. He didn't come up with those ideas. He translated Java code to C#. protobuf isn't much different, either.

qes··on Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
Cloudflare will cut you off and require a paid plan before you get to 1/10th this amount of egress.
qes··on Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
> That's about $4000/month in bandwidth costs

You're an order of magnitude off.

45 TB per day is 1,350 TB in a month, or 1,350,000 GB.

Show me somewhere you can get a petabyte of egress inside a calendar month for 4 figures USD...

Let's suppose you even used the cheaper egress from Cloudfront rather than serving from S3 (lol @ your wallet if you serve 1 PB doing that).

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-transfer-prices-re...

The first petabyte costs an average of $0.045 per GB - $45,000.

The remaining 350 TB costs another $10,500 for a total of $55,500.

Serving off S3 directly? Yeah, that'll be more like $150,000.

qes··on Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
Not with this amount of traffic it won't be free. 45 TB per day lol Cloudflare will be disabling your account and in contact for payment in a hurry.

Go ahead and try, see how far their "free" tier really goes.

qes··on Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
> LockpickingLawyer on youtube has done reviews on several Amazon's Choice locks and safes and they've all been abysmal borderline fraudulent products.

So basically Amazon's Choice locks are about the same as 95% of consumer locks on the market.

qes··on Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)
Chuck Norris of writing StackOverflow answers.

What notable code has he written?

qes··on Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)
C# v5 was released in 2012..
qes··on Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
> You don't think its true that before there were multi-core processors, processors could only execute one instruction at a time?

It is not true.

Instruction-level parallelism existed before multi-core.

> If you're going to do needlessly pedantic bikeshedding, at least get it right.

Pot, meet kettle.

qes··on California bans private prisons
State prisons and jails, at least the ones I've been in and heard about (was an inmate for the better part of a decade) are much more expensive.

Federal prison was progressive in many ways compared to the states.

qes··on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
Are you sure? Because it's not that easy to dissolve cannabinoids, except in lipids. I haven't been into making carts myself in a number of years, but back when I did the major hassle and challenge was actually getting your extract to dissolve, and people were experimenting with formulations to get better mixtures with less effort and heat.
qes··on Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms
I've been buying drugs on the street and online for many years and online crushes IRL, just like it does for legal commerce. Online reviews have helped me always get top notch quality and exactly the product I expect. The street can't come close.
qes··on Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
My set of monitors alone makes me globally unique.
qes··on Intel to Launch Core I9-9900KS Next Month: 5 GHz on All Cores
Intel's 7nm is also smaller than TMSC's 7nm.
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