kristjansson

This is _strongly_ dependent on location. One could probably infer many attributes of a zip code to reasonable accuracy based only on how far the Starbucks in the area place pickup orders from the en…

Yeah, there are several giant dictionaries (variously class to function, string to class, etc.) in just the project I’ve worked on most recently that fit that description. Though considered from that …

Someone that worked at one of the former sort of organizations once described it to me as having a 'money hammer'. The money hammer is the solution to all problems. Sometimes, for some organ…

The stimulus payments were just that - extra money to stimulate economic activity - not assistance to those directly impacted. There was an order of magnitude or so more money (per recipient) availab…

AWS {in,e}gress pricing strategy is not motivated by their cost of provisioning that service. Cloudflare had a good (if self-motivated) analysis of their cost structure discussed on here a while ago …

The load is emphatically not constant though? Encoding has to be done once, as fast as possible, and updated rarely. That warehouse (or just aisle) of racks would be sitting idle much of the time…

Surprisingly less it seems? Those NICs are only like a kilobuck each, the drives are like 0.5k, CPU is like 3k-5k. So maybe 15k-20k all in, with the flash comprising about half that? Seems surprising…

Hence, to a large extent, the devices described in the presentation. They’re (co)located with ISP hardware, so the bulk data can be transferred directly to the user at minimal / zero marginal co…

Presenting that table without an applicable denominator is misleading. The N on the table is a count of adverse events, not of people or does. The reported events occurred at a rate of between ~5 an…

The social costs of forgoing the vaccine are unique in that they arrive all at once. Smoking, drinking, obesity, etc. increase lifetime healthcare costs, but realize those costs over a long period of…

The various therapeutic treatments (monoclonal antibodies, convalescent plasma, remdesivir, etc.) are helpful, and need to be administered in a hospital setting (IVs, complications, etc.)

> and they're not harming anyone else It's hard to isolate the personal risks (illness, long-term complication, death, cost) from the social risks (healthcare resource exhaustion, healthc…

I don't disagree with any of that, but I would argue that public is _necessarily_ the intersection of individual health and public opinion. Policy makers can't just ignore public reception o…

Pretty much all of public health is cost-benefit analysis. Vaccines dramatically reduce the incidence and severity of disease, and therefore the spread. It would be nice if I could say ‘prevent’ inst…

Evaded implies, to me, systematic failure of an intervention i.e. the probability of adverse outcome is equal for treated and untreated. If that probability is still lower than without the interventio…

Because it's a terrible policy prescription. If natural immunity is acceptable, what proportion of the unvaccinated-uninfected population will just take the risk? Half? More? Millions of people…

> paying insurance Should vaccine refusal then result in increased premiums, or increased coinsurance for covid-related care? How many people would make the choice if they had to bear even part of…

I have exactly that pattern in an internal system. Under load, the caller will give up after a fixed timeout and retry, so why waste time on an old request that where the caller has probably already…

That assumes developers with access to the database are a _threat_, which is not exactly the posture one might expect or prefer. If your database error messages are exposed to users that actually are …

> They will get the virus and then get natural immunity Only if they, y'know, survive, and only after being a nuisance to the healthcare system that the rest of rely on You've got a point…

I mean, the mainframe-vs-commodity comparison on "planetmainframe.com" does not have the highest prior expectation of impartiality to begin with.

Yup - look at the sleds in the opencompute project, or the rack product Oxide is working on. Whole servers swap about as easily as hot-swap SATA trays

What is actually financed by crypto denominated loans? Who is paying the interest that’s remitted to crypto-denominated savers? AFAICT the chief borrowers seem to be other crypto-denominated savers i…

Chalk up DirectTV NOW/ATT TV/DirectTV Stream (all the same product) as a victim of that too. Scroll interactions take multiple seconds to register, click activates elements other than the o…

Whoops, missed the snark the first time though.

Because that ‘niche’ use case is what he wrote git for, and it just happened to be useful to the rest of us?

That estimate seems … low

Apparently it's already deprecated https://github.com/boot2podman/machine ?

Well yeah, sure, but Docker for Mac/Windows installs the VM, sets up host-guest file shares, papers over networking and VPN stuff, etc. I was going to say that installing Podman on macOS/Win…

> Podman is a tool for running Linux containers. You can do this from a MacOS desktop as long as you have access to a linux box either running inside of a VM on the host, or available via the netwo…