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AdamN
4,134karma·1,341submissions·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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Lots of people were using svn and mercurial was also coming up around the time that GitHub launched. Both git and GitHub were superior to all the other options but for many people they did the switch…
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Wouldn't it be simplest to just legalize the people who are here and at the same time also open up immigrant visas too?
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That's a strong statement. Also imho it's important that we use Signal for normal stuff like discussing where to get coffee tomorrow - no need for disappearing messages there.
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Even if this worked (which would be massively expensive to implement) the misconfiguration possibilities are endless. It wouldn't be customer-centric to actually release this capability. Better …
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That level of English would be considered below A1. Just being in the US for a few months would give you that level of English even without any other education. So you're conflating "can y…
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Same with a Metric ton (a "tonne") which is one thousand kilograms (pretty close to an imperial ton).
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Basically everybody agrees with what you're saying which is what makes this an insidious comment. In general the pressure against regulation comes from narrow winners (oil industry for instance) …
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Yeah that's why startups often pick iOS first, get product-market fit, and then do Android. The fallacy that abstractions tout is that Android and iOS are the same. They are not. A good iOS app …
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Traffic signs are readable by almost anybody regardless of English language skills. A vision test is much more safety-valid than an English language test.
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The gap here is that the company has the money and native apps are so clearly better. With an interactive app a company like OpenAI could really tweak the experience for Android and iOS which have di…
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"they’re quietly running Claude Code" ... with their tokens or even worse full on usernames and passwords that have write/execute privileges.
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I would say that although Claude may hallucinate at least it can be told to test the scripts. Many data scientists will just balk at the idea of testing a crazy excel workbook with lots of formulas t…
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They also don't have to circulate - they can be used as collateral for debts.
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Any real software (that delivers value over time) is constantly rewritten and that's a good thing. The question is whether the same people are rewriting it that wrote it and what percentage of t…
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Waterfall can work great when: 1/ the focus is long-term both in terms of knowing that she company can take a few years to get the thing live but also that it will be around for many more years, …
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Also lobster (or any other seafood) bisque isn't really expensive in the scheme of things.
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People don't always realize: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/university-fined-in-caff... …
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They're all going to move that way - it's sort of fundamental to PassKey. It can be done with just a laptop and their built in hardware but I suspect that since everybody has a mobile phone…
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Anything in particular? I get that it takes some tweaking but so does Linux. The biggest thing that you'll probably never get the way you want is window tiling - it's my personal bugaboo w…
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Yeah it used to really taste flame grilled. It's pretty low rent nowadays - to the point where I wouldn't go there even if desperate.
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LLMs are way outside their lane. With that said they've been focused on the underlying components to enable LLMs since way before ChatGPT was on the scene: Unified Memory, Neural Accelerator, ev…
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The theory is that they're heavier so more brake dust ... but that is offset to a degree by regen braking (which hybrids have too). It's a silly argument though. Brake dust is definitely b…
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It's just a normal part of his portfolio - only because he's so rich does his 'normal' percentage get to the level of being the largest private land owner. Basically it's a g…
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I think the culture is one of 'we are doing this for all humankind' and when you get just a few smart people bought in on that level of commitment and they're trying to be lean (and als…
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Germany was the industrial heavyweight of the 70s and doing a lot more - those emissions aren't just because of nuclear vs coal (although that's very real too). Anyway, anti-nuclear activis…
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Parking in a dense European city is much easier with the rear camera. The pure radar version is ok but the camera really allows you to use every inch.
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Also Porsche SUVs regularly rank at the top of luxury SUV reviews. I've never driven one but the consensus is that they're great - it's not just badge engineering.
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Solar works fine when it's overcast - and it doesn't require a grid. Heat pump is kind of a valid criticism but it's not like those infrastructure attacks by Russia aren't taking …
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That's a really fallacious argument. Nuclear wouldn't stop truck emissions, car emissions, boat emissions, long distance freight train emissions (unless electric), and airplane emissions. …
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I'm sort of surprised that ecowarriors aren't dropping radio isotopes that are not actually that bad but would cause customer revulsion in places that are overfished.