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x86a commented on MIT undergraduate admissions in the wake of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling news.mit.edu/2024/qa-unde... · Posted by u/dougb5

lesuorac · a year ago

MIT admits presumably ~1000 students as freshmen each year (divide ~4k by 4 [1])

A baseline of 25% means 250 students. Are you going to make the claim that there aren't 250 students who identified as Black, Hispanic, and/or Native American and Pacific Islander that can't get either a perfect score or a score higher than somebody outside their group but admitted to MIT?

[1]: https://registrar.mit.edu/stats-reports/enrollment-statistic...

x86a · a year ago

My assumption is that they exist, but are now competing in a larger pool of asian and white applicants - who may have better access to extracurricular opportunities that are still considered in admissions decisions - and therefore are less likely to be admitted.

x86a commented on Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder github.com/tryglow/glow... · Posted by u/alexpate

timfsu · a year ago

Cool project! I clicked on it hoping it was a way to easily visualize my own personal stats. Anyone know of a project like that? Grafana for personal data :)

x86a · a year ago

So, Grafana? ;)

x86a commented on GitHub was down github.com/... · Posted by u/frabjoused

thund · a year ago

after several minutes the status page is still showing all is fine.

For a service like GH, anything more than 30 secs is unacceptable

x86a · a year ago

That is very unrealistic. Infrastructure monitoring at that scale won't even be collecting metrics at that interval.

And simple HTTP monitoring would be too flappy for a public status page.

x86a commented on GitHub was down github.com/... · Posted by u/frabjoused

purkka · a year ago

I have to wonder how a company at the scale of GitHub can be so bad at keeping track of their status.

Now 4 out of 10 services are marked as "Incident", yet most of the others are also completely dead.

x86a · a year ago

This is intentional. It's mostly a matter of discussing how to communicate it publicly and when to flip the switch to start the SLA timer. Also coordinating incident response during a huge outage is always challenging.

x86a commented on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game grandmasword.com... · Posted by u/lowercarbon

x86a · a year ago

Maybe I've been ruined by the internet, but a grandma didn't write this.

x86a commented on Photo-sharing app BeReal acquired by Voodoo for €500M ft.com/content/2c1d3fa8-e... · Posted by u/marban

x86a · 2 years ago

https://archive.is/oxIuk

x86a commented on API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS jviide.iki.fi/http-redire... · Posted by u/oherrala

superkuh · 2 years ago

Or better: actually provide the API on HTTP and HTTPS if your use case allows it (ie, non-commercial/institutional, just something for human people).

x86a · 2 years ago

I don't think this is ever a good idea. Even for non-enterprise use cases, you wouldn't want some public hotspot to be able to inject random garbage into responses, even if not done with malicious intent.

x86a commented on 'Millionaires tax' has already generated $1.8B this year for Massachusetts bostonglobe.com/2024/05/2... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

jncfhnb · 2 years ago

I really give zero shits about people receiving windfalls of over $1M in a single year. They can pay an extra 4K per million just fine. There are no tears shed for these people.

x86a · 2 years ago

As a solidly-middle-class tech worker in Massachusetts, your stance hurts a bit.

I'm a life-long renter with a family and elderly mother to support, and an IPO windfall would give me some much needed breathing room.

I don't know who you picture when you think of a windfall recipient, but I can assure you I am not lighting any cigars with $100 bills.

x86a commented on Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu thestack.technology/oracl... · Posted by u/p1nkpineapple

andreasmetsala · 2 years ago

Could it be because it weakens the business case for using their SAAS?

x86a · 2 years ago

Possibly, but we are paying enterprise customers (but not using HCP) and this still isn't possible. Seems like an obvious thing they could have at least offered to vault enterprise or TF enterprise customers years ago.

x86a commented on Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu thestack.technology/oracl... · Posted by u/p1nkpineapple

cube2222 · 2 years ago

It's great to see more companies adopting OpenTofu, and especially larger ones!

As a side note, we've recently released OpenTofu 1.7 with end-to-end state encryption, enhanced provider-defined functions, and a bunch more[0].

If you've been holding out with the migration, now is the perfect moment to take another look, and join the many companies that have already migrated!

[0]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/tag/v1.7.0

Note: Tech Lead of the OpenTofu project, always happy to answer any questions

x86a · 2 years ago

I'm really excited to see the end-to-end state encryption. I've always thought it was bizarre that Hashicorp didn't prioritize this.

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