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by breischl 7y ago
As you said, that stuff is lunch/dinner, rather than snacks. Certainly that's a more valuable perk that some pretzels and sodas (or whatever). It's also less common.
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by breischl 7y ago
Or you could just buy snacks at the same time as all your other grocery shopping? I guess if you literally never go to the grocery store it's a perk, but otherwise it's questionable at best.
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by breischl 7y ago
I think it's not that software devs don't care about hardware/meatspace issues, they're just not as well qualified to evaluate them. So they tend to focus on what they know. It's not bad to do that - you can't
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by breischl 7y ago
The underlying logic for Lump Sum in an index is that the index is tracking the broader economy, which "always" goes up over the long haul. That same logic doesn't apply for a single company, where idiosyncratic risk will qui
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by breischl 7y ago
It's not so much the service itself as the crappy customer support, shady billing processes (eg, accidentally overcharging on a regular basis...) and things like that.
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by breischl 7y ago
>We can structure our work so that women are not disadvantaged for having kids Can we, though? It seems that there is some amount of time that women are unable to work due to the physical rigors of pregnacy, child-birth, and (in many cas
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by breischl 7y ago
OK, so they're scientifically valuable, historically valuable, perhaps emotionally or culturally valuable. That's plenty good enough reason to save them - I'm not trying to argue they shouldn't have been saved. But I&#x2
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by breischl 7y ago
>economically valuable. Is that solely because of their rarity, or is there some other reason?
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by breischl 7y ago
Yes, we had an app that would hold a large amount of data in memory as a cache, about 16GB out of a 24GB heap. Before G1GC we'd see brutal stop-the-world collection pauses. Switching to G1GC we'd get pauses usually under 100ms, oc
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by breischl 7y ago
Ironically, IP addresses are probably the _least_ personally identifiable bit of information in a lot of that stuff. Most people's IPs are assigned to someone else within months, or even hours. But a username, profile picture, etc? Tho
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by breischl 7y ago
This can become a challenge when you want to scale a dev team. You either have people conflicting in the DB, or each dev needs to set up a local DB and deal with DB migrations. Containerized DBs help with this to some extent, but it's
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by breischl 7y ago
1Password has a similar feature too.
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by breischl 7y ago
Using phone number as an example of private information is pretty hilarious. Remember when the phone company used to literally print your name and phone number in a book and send it to everyone in your town? Man, their security was terribl
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by breischl 7y ago
True... although a barrel is significantly larger than a bottle. Rough napkin math, around 250 bottles per barrel.
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by breischl 7y ago
I haven't been close to the DB world for a few years, but didn't they start requiring tables to have a clustered index sometime around SQL 2012?
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by breischl 7y ago
There was Portal 2, which was pretty fun.
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by breischl 7y ago
Denver local here, similar to sibling commenters. I definitely hear you about the scooters littered around. They're constantly left in the middle of sidewalks, randomly on the Cherry Creek trail (I ride that to/from work so I see
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by breischl 7y ago
Not GP, but early versions of Kafka had a lot of poorly-chosen default settings and sharp edges. eg, it was tuned for speed and availability over reliability, so it could lose your data if you weren't careful (not dissimilar to early v
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by breischl 7y ago
Come on, who doesn't want an interface that takes 5 times as long to use, misunderstands what you want most of the time, and trades clicking for typing and autocorrect fails? It's great!
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by breischl 7y ago
Just FYI, if you follow the links, it tracks back to the same blog. As do many/most internet posts about "weird AI names for things", at least in my experience. https://aiweirdness.com/post/174885047997&#
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by breischl 7y ago
This is so true, and I think partially what the article was referring as Customer Behavior Expectations. ie, "the SLA is 500ms _if you don't always request 18 months of data_" or whatever. Another favorite of mine is when the
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by breischl 7y ago
I think it's hilarious that everyone is responding to >²Woe unto the person who doesn't come to support with request IDs. My impression the whole time is "these guys can't see their own response latency?" ... so
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by breischl 7y ago
I think the point is that the data structure implies that there must be some operations to create and examine it. If there is no operation to create it, how did it come to exist? If there is no operation to examine it, then how do you kno
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by breischl 7y ago
It was on the mortgage docs, which I was signing at the same time as closing, which is quite typical (at least where I live). I'm 99% sure that it would've been fine... but a 1% chance of a total shitshow is too much when it'
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by breischl 7y ago
did that same thing once, and discovered that they had swapped the numbers for the interest rate and the term, so it was specified as a 4 year mortgage at 30% interest. Ouch! The closing agent told me to just sign it and they'd fix it
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by breischl 8y ago
>This is what happens when you let programmers name projects. OK, this is pretty OT, but coders don't have a monopoly on bad naming. I worked on an internal project that had a unique and well recognized name within the company. Exec
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by breischl 8y ago
>owners for services if okay This is pretty much the exact opposite of your assertion at the beginning of this thread, to wit: >once you submit the code for review and it passes and gets merged everybody owns the code. Everybody. Anyw
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by breischl 8y ago
>My point is only that even in colloquial usage there are patterns involving "guys" that are clearly gender-neutral at this point and have been for decades. Yeah, that's fair. I think we can agree that the meaning is ambig
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by breischl 8y ago
That works OK-ish for small organizations. When you have 1000 engineers, or even 100, it is no longer feasible to have a single on-caller who can keep up with changes enough to debug every system, much less the multiple on-callers you need
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by breischl 8y ago
Dictionary definition aside, the colloquial meaning of "guys" is quite frequently "men". I think the GP was trying to be gender-neutral. I actually have tried to move to "folks" myself for that reason.

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