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New comment by liquidk in "Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident"

liquidk — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 23:06:05 +0000

The provider has access to the host, they can just inspect the job from the outside and you won’t be able to tell

New comment by liquidk in "I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)"

liquidk — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:34:51 +0000

It depends. English is a lot more tolerant of inconsistencies than latin based languages, and the grammar rules are more disperse. Typically in latin based languages the rules are stricter, and it is less socially acceptable to violate them. English is surprisingly tolerant both in the rules and the social acceptance of not following them.

New comment by liquidk in "I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)"

liquidk — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:31:44 +0000

I suspect this is a bit of a generalization. While learning and seeing the rules is an essential part of bootstrapping the learning os a new language, at some point for both efficiency and style, it'll become second nature and awareness of the rules fades away almost as necessity.

New comment by liquidk in "I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)"

liquidk — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:39:35 +0000

Unfortunately this is a fairly shortsighted and superficial article which results in severely reducing the pool of people you can work with to a native speaker heavy demographic. The core of the problem is that it assumed care for detail in a domain the writer of the article is comfortable with, translates to care for detail in every other domain. I find this to be a particular self centric view of the world. It is self evidently false, particularly when you are talking about non native speakers who require significantly more time and effort to achieve parity in English expressiveness. This is unfortunate and is a reflection of parts of corporate America that confuse form for substance. It’s where long performative meetings, low signal to noise PowerPoint presentations, and dress to impress culture originated in the corporate world. Fortunately not all companies think this way, and say what you will about the tech sector, it has significantly moved away from performative corporate America behavior. It has brought other problems to the world, but performative corporate antics was not one of them.

New comment by liquidk in "NanoGPT"

liquidk — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:00:37 +0000

That is a key difference. You can’t easily and cheaply rent an auto factory, but you’re starting to be able to rent an LLM training factory once for a model where you can then more cheaply run inference on.

From Monolith to Multicloud Micro-Services: Inside Snap’s Service Mesh

liquidk — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 23:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://eng.snap.com/monolith-to-multicloud-microservices-snap-service-mesh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22508183

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