Twirrim

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by Twirrim 4y ago
> One of the things Patrick would assiduously list as an existential threat to the success of Stripe was a major security incident When I worked at AWS, the thing I heard most frequently repeated in relation to security was "We don&
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Google Maps fundamentally doesn't understand the difference between signposted speed, and practical speed, either. I was on holiday in the UK a couple of years ago, down in south west, and it insisted on sending us down these really na
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by Twirrim 4y ago
The tool in Amazon that shows how your tenure ranks is measured against _all_ Amazon employees. Warehouse, delivery, etc. I was well past the 60% mark by the time I got through my first Q4 working for Amazon as an SE, and in to something l
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by Twirrim 4y ago
London added the "Low Emission Zone" in 2008, phasing it in over 4 years with more aggressive pollution levels, with the "Ultra Low Emission Zone" coming in to effect a couple of years ago. Polluting vehicles aren't
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Most of Amazon's employee base are in the warehouses, and there's a significant amount of churn there, especially seasonal. Being median at 11 months is really not that weird considering the sheer nature of warehouse employment t
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by Twirrim 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-IGNvfrg8 Scott Foster appearance highlights
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Not even close. The blog post was 2017. Actually, I stand corrected, after double checking, Cloudflare were using Silver. Entry level data centre chips, instead of small business chips. Still not the kind of chips you'd buy for high
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by Twirrim 5y ago
It was largely wrong then, too. Cloudflare, who really kicked off a large amount of the fuss, had "Bronze" class Xeon chips, that weren't designed or marketed for what they were attempting to use them for. They were only ev
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I used this approach to start iterating on some Arm builds before I got access to any of the Arm servers they were introducing at work (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). I'd started out using a full emulation VM, and it was alright, but th
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I've an Aussie namesake who has used my gmail address a few times on sites. I never use my gmail on anything. My spam folder for it is dominated by Australian targetted spam, to a degree I find mildly fascinating. Recently, google&#x
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by Twirrim 5y ago
It's easy to look back with the benefits of what we know now and realise that this was a monumental mistake. But that's an unreal, and unfair, bias. Back in 1990 the internet wasn't significant, and the bandwidth requirement
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by Twirrim 5y ago
How do you handle the missing drivers when it comes to running under the VM? Do you modify the backups, or do you opt for emulation with good old standard hardware instead? Windows is.. Windows. Always pain with drivers there. Linux shou
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Patents are valid for 20 years, the patent for 1-click expired in 2019. Huh, nope 2017? https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-patent-on-one-click-...
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Be money smart. Start putting away money now in to savings and/or index funds. Make it automatic if possible. Compound interest is a hell of a thing, and starting now can make a huge difference. At the very least, make sure you&#x27
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Routinely. I played a D&D character that was, until recently, about as stupid as they could come. Think "Makes Forest Gump look intelligent". A monk who quoted scripture at random that had zero relation to the matter at hand
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by Twirrim 5y ago
>L6 and above employees would receive this: staff+ engineers, eng leadership, sales etc. So all the people that have the authority and capability of saying "woah, woah, woah, we're building something far too complicated" h
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by Twirrim 5y ago
That's a really interesting point that hadn't occurred to me before. Thanks!
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I had someone I knew from two consecutive jobs commit suicide. We'd routinely cross paths through meetings, water cooler chats etc. Nice guy, smart engineer. Capable of handling stressful incidents without batting an eyelid and spot
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> I tell you, my stuff breaks on me. I don't MAKE it break. For most of my career people have been marveling about the way stuff just breaks around me. Ever since Netflix announced "chaos monkey", I've been nickname
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by Twirrim 5y ago
There's 3 that I know of, libaom https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom , the reference implementation. https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 - from the Alliance for Open Media, which Intel is deep
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> The softbank acquisition was a huge strategic mistake by the UK government I'm still not sure the UK Government will see it that way. I think it was fundamentally a bad decision, but it happened after the Brexit vote, with the st
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by Twirrim 5y ago
>The decorum in London and Tokyo dictates you don't talk to your cabbie and they don't talk to you Huh? London cabbies, particularly black cab drivers, are a notoriously chatty lot. Every cabbie I've ever used in London
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I used to live in Kaneohe, Hawaii. What you're describing matches my experience watching C-5M for the first time, heading in to land at what was Marine Corps Base Hawaii. I was out walking and watched one flying around the bay, turnin
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by Twirrim 5y ago
"Media hysteria per usual" when the source is the Ukrainian government twitter account? That's a really odd take. The only tweets I've seen saying contrary are on the order of "I spoke to the pilot and they said it
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I ended up dropping Linode as a result of the hacks, after having been a customer for years, both because of the nature of the hacks, and how they communicated.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> We didn’t test PHP 8.x with JIT enabled. While PHP’s new JIT compiler won’t bring any significant performance benefits to real apps such as WordPress, it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out in actual usage. That seems like an int
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I did a double take at that section, the text implied they'd spotted that one, and shifted the look up, and I was trying to figure out if they'd shared the wrong bit of code and assumed they had. But after seeing your comment and
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Mindustry, Dyson Sphere Program, most games by Zachtronics (Spacechem, tis-100, opus magnum), etc.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I'm not saying they didn't, but that sentence you quote is future tense. We don't know that they actually did in the time frame that they said they would. Just that they said they would.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> Under what circumstances does the choice of backend OS ever deliver "explicit customer value", so much so that the customer would care about said choice? Is the service working, is it not? (are there show stopping OS issues?)

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