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AdamN
4,134karma·1,342submissions·August 27, 2009
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AWS/Amazon Q - Berlin
Formerly Seattle, Nairobi, NYC:
* AWS Reliability Services (Fault Injection Service) - Region Isolation, AZ Power Outage and other tools for Chaos Engineering * AWS Developer Tools - building software teams to build software for other developers to build software * CTO at Factr - a geo/temporal research aggregation tool for international organizations and media * Founder of Kili.io - a public OpenStack for African markets based in Nairobi. * CTO at Yipit - Built the team and was initial dev (Python, Django, Ubuntu, AWS) * Way back when, I was the CTO of Forsalebyowner.com (acquired by Tribune Interactive).
Get in touch (adam@varud.com) if you have any interest in African technology, governance, Amazon, or anything in between.
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This is true in the Pacific Northwest too - very depressing.
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"During the Renaissance period, hands were as important a focus of attention as the face was, because they were the only other visible area of the body." [Example painting is a Titian with a…
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First couple of episodes were awesome - the constructed drama became a deadweight though and I couldn't endure.
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This is just Business Insider confusing ... a bunch. The jurisdiction within which the listing is and where the company is incorporated have absolutely no relationship. Sure it might be a smart move…
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Is there a place that can do this for me?
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I've turned off lane keeping on my 2023 Audi A4. However, everything else is useful including and especially the passive improvements.
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It's not just active stuff - the passive stuff has improved as well (crumple zones for instance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikJC0x65X0&t=19s …
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Cars more than about 10-15 years old just aren't as safe as newer ones. That's the fundamental issue. With that said there are ways to mitigate the risk (drive more cautiously/slower,…
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And the top results of Google. I've recently had to re-train my brain on Kagi where the top results are now ... the actual top results and not ads.
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This is an outcome of Jane Goodall challenging the convention of the day to use code numbers for animal subjects. At the time it was considered apostasy.
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'Bad' is notoriously hard to figure out. It might be good for the group to have a few people with major psychiatric disorders even if it's not ideal for that individual or the people w…
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Exactly. The price of Coke is based on where you're buying it not on the production cost.
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Yeah it's totally stupid. We already have fire risk from transformers, oil storage, and especially gas storage: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-12/…
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It's just an ecosystem thing - if the ground cover can't handle the leaves it probably should be a different ground cover there. This does remind me of something cool though. I was up in t…
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Agreed - it's good to have some far thinking innovation but really that can be acquired as needed so you really just need a few people with their pulse on innovation which there will always be mo…
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Pretty much all modern digital cameras are using heuristics and algorithms to construct the image you see - it's not just a sensor grid and a bitmap file and it hasn't been for a long time.
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That's odd
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That's more like cheap vs middle of the road. There is no luxury space in laptops - displays, iPads, and workstations maybe but that's it (and those are more pro than luxury). $999 amortize…
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I think what you're getting at - and which is the critical thing that seems to keep getting forgotten is the critical situation of the hostages. Everything from both sides is rotating around the…
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That seems very good faith and transparent. Bad faith would be saying, 'yeah we are happy with a permanent cease fire', getting all the hostages, and then continuing the assault. Agree that…
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Because it was a dead man walking by the time PE bought it. The underlying assets were worth more than the sale price so it was never going to make sense to do anything other than what happened. With…
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There's still the question though of why they didn't do this decades ago - seems very obvious that this layout is better. What changed that made it possible only now and not earlier?
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There's no comparison of how much grid improvements would cost without EVs so I don't know if $20B is alot. California has 5th highest GDP in the world at $3.9T so .5% if all that money was…
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This also makes me think about Descartes' ball of wax - which he handled while pondering the Great Deceiver. One of his great writing techniques was to bring the reader to the room where he was …
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Descartes sits down in his seat on an airplane and the steward asks, "would you like some tea?", to which Descartes replies, "I think not" and poof!, he disappears out of existence…
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Where's that data from?
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Trucks are very high margin and he has a chance to take over a top selling segment in the US. If the gen2 version hits it's stride it could be a multi-billion dollar win that pays out over decad…
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Agreed. Spain's old growth forests were denuded to build the Spanish Armada (or thereabouts) and you can go further back to catastrophic, anthropogenic, environmental shifts a few thousand years…
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The Bill of Rights (in this case 4th amendment) applies to all people in the US regardless of citizenships.
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You've lived a life of privilege.