ProblemExplorer

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GVoice suspended in error: no Takeout, portout, incoming text forwarding blocked(google.com)
2 points by ProblemExplorer 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ProblemExplorer 3mo ago
Google suspended my Google Voice account by mistake: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/qqWhZS... They restored access after about 4 hours, but during that window: - Google Voice disappeare
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> Replace "calm" with "privately owned". I wouldn't make that claim - it's about the mindset. I've seen plenty of privately owned companies where the owners heavily churn through employees extracting as
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> Getting laid off doesn’t just rattle your career; it shakes the very foundation of your life. I've seen friends lose their jobs and go into an existential tailspin. It's not uncommon for them to blame themselves and to feel i
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> Calm companies are not exciting. They’re not inspiring. You won’t do your best work there. Explain more. Also, ensure you're not conflating "calm companies" with "cheap companies" where the owners are focused o
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> They just don’t pay SV wages. As a candidate, how do you separate this kind of company from one where the owners are cheap and want to pay you as less as possible? There are a lot of companies that advertise terrific WLB, pictures of t
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> If you were smart, you would have seen the financial crash of year 2XXX Makes sense > If you were smart you'd have seen that a foreign market for X would have opened up draining out all funding in the US and leaving that portio
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> Banks are the winners here Not really - banks would have made money on something else instead. The real problem is that universities are making money off selling trash to children not old enough to drink yet. Before loans were guarante
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> wouldn't they say that we are actually much wealthier per capita and more much productive than we were back then? Wealthier (higher QoL, longer life expectancy etc) and more much productive, yes. However, affordability is lower pr
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> person gets crashed into and injured, then a poorly timed market crash eliminates 70% of their savings driving them into bankruptcy I think you need to collide your imagination with reality by asking whether majority of the recipients
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> My biggest issue with these cancellations is that they don't seem to be fixing the underlying issue at all — that you can't default on your student loans Lenders being selective about student loans is part of a larger feedbac
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> More smart people leads to better outcomes for everyone smart people don't typically land themselves in a situation where they cannot respect their financial commitments.
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
> I mean aren't you really asking "What should I be doing X years from now"? For a person to answer what they should be doing X years from now, well, they first, need to be able to answer what they should be doing right no
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by ProblemExplorer 2y ago
Schools are not getting the feedback they need to be useful and political tricks like this further distorts the feedback loop. We should really take a few minutes to consider what this means for not just our future but our future generation
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by ProblemExplorer 3y ago
Then I assume you have a custom Kubernetes LB that can handle non-HTTP TCP and UDP traffic because you choosing Kubernetes and the design restrictions that comes with it does not affect how the dev solves problems? The underlying orchestra
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by ProblemExplorer 3y ago
> If you guys don't see the value of being able to click on a button on a website to deploy, perfectly, everytime over some guy sshing into the box and running git pull I dunno what to tell you. Maybe clicking a button that sshes in
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by ProblemExplorer 3y ago
> honestly, who needs the ability to manage complex applications with any semblance of ease? The argument being made here is majority of applications are rarely complex and hence dont require managing that complexity. A simple webservice
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by ProblemExplorer 3y ago
> All those things you (a developer) could mostly clone, slightly customize and ship both to a development k8s cluster and to a prod k8s cluster (with all the safety nets already in place). How did/does the devs create, test new cod
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by ProblemExplorer 3y ago
> unnecessarily complicated with k8s Kubernetes is/was a way to fight off walled gardens from cloud providers. The other path would have been to learn the bespoke implementation of each cloud provider depending on what that employer