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by nvarsj 3y ago
The fact is many/most SWEs don't have the skillset or interest to do SRE work. While there is a lot of overlap, the work can be quite different between the two areas. SRE basically maps to the sysadmin role of old, which has never
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I was in SF last month and saw a Cruise car get stuck in an intersection on Divisadero. I have no idea what it was trying to originally do, but it kept just going back and forwards perpendicular to the incoming traffic. After about 5-10 min
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Does it really need to be low latency? It's not an FPS - so I don't think high tick rate is important. I'd rather have a wider synchronized global state and acceptable server side latency (<500ms) than instant server updat
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Would an MMO backend be CPU bound though? I feel the use case of having a large numbers of active connections with the very distributed nature of passing events around between them all would be perfect for Erlang/OTP. Anything CPU inte
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Yup I remember that. Netflix seems to be the poster child for overengineered architecture - for something that is almost entirely commoditised nowadays (one-way over the internet video streaming). Uber's problem space is significantly
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I feel like the Erlang/OTP would be perfect for the MMO use case. It’s what I’d try first if building from scratch.
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A similar thing happened to me. It's absolutely bizarre when it's happening and even more so in retrospect. Every engineer knows it's a product that no one wants. That experience triggered terrible burn out for me.
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Nope. We still have one of the most privileged jobs around with plenty of demand for our foreseeable life times. Just don’t let yourself become obsolete.
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Ime ram is either bad or good. I’ve had ecc errors like this and I always ask the DC to replace the ram. After that, 0 errors forever. Same reason why I’m confident a 24 hour memcheck is sufficient for non ECC ram.
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Large performance degradation in OpenSSL 3(github.com)
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He's done a great job of marketing himself as a non judgemental platform for celebs. He's a super positive guy and basically lets his interviewees guide the conversation, and let's the viewer make up their own mind. I actuall
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It's the performance culture at these companies. An engineer gets evaluated on metrics they move the needle on. At very OKR centric companies like Google, these metrics have to tie into high level business goals like revenue growth. I
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by nvarsj 3y ago
Support engineers are first or second line support, and typically limit their scope to customer errors/pebkacs. If you find a legitimate bug, it is typically escalated to the SWE team's oncall who maintain the service. For example
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Unsure why you’re being downvoted - bizarre. Anyways, I agree completely. Life long struggle with anxiety and depression. Most of my issues come from ignoring my worst feelings and not dealing with them. I find the idea of suppressing feeli
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There is very little incentive for engineers to spend a lot of time on support at big tech. In fact it detracts time from their projects which tie to their performance review. Internally big tech would need to prioritise customer satisfacti
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Reading TFA I actually was reminded of doing system design interviews. It has a pretty similar vibe. Although the interviewers here seemed a lot more lenient than ones I've experienced in tech (Tao saying he "barely passed" k
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by nvarsj 3y ago
While FTC helps with most things, you can still get knocked for stuff that doesn’t fit into the US tax code. Like stamp duty - you’re taxed in the UK when buying property, then taxed in the US when selling (you’re exempt in the UK on your p
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by nvarsj 3y ago
And then brazenly admitting it on their blog which hits the front page of HN... that takes some cajones.
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Very few people have real distributed systems experience. Maybe 1% of people who pass system design interviews have ever actually implemented or even worked on such a system. The nitty gritty of implementing a distributed system is orders o
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I mean, they are both kind of true. The only thing palatable to the government is to raise income taxes. They won't dare touch capital gain tax or property tax - which is where the vast majority of wealth is concentrated. Income tax is
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by nvarsj 3y ago
It's a fixed amount. And hilariously outdated - it's based on property valuation in 1991. I pay more council tax on my modest home than some mega mansions in the area. The other silly thing about it is the tenant pays, not the own
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Since attribution isn't possible in ChatGPT, we'll never know. It's a great way to avoid all IP claims via plausible deniability. This topic has been beaten to death though, and it isn't changing. Companies have little i
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Exactly… likely copy pasted from someone’s github repo with 0 attribution. A brave new world…
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I wonder what the reason for this is. Anyone with a pulse can get a US license. I’ve gotten a California license and a UK one. I passed the California one when I was 16 (which was an absolute joke) and proceeded to get into multiple close c
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There is off label usage for depression and anxiety. No idea if it would help everyone but it certainly did for me in the short time I took it. I didn't like taking it longer term - it made me very irritable. The only time I've ev
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I'm not usually one for drugs, but the thing that helped me get out of extreme social anxiety (I had selective mutism into my 20s), was anti-anxiety meds (off-label Modafinil). I didn't take it for long, but being able to be in a
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by nvarsj 3y ago
I know senior engineers at Apple who didn’t do a single technical interview. They got the role purely through networking like the OP did. Apple is pretty unique in this regard among big tech - teams have a lot of leeway in how they hire. On
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I’ve actually been doxxed from Hn comments and it wasn’t pleasant (although I don’t make a huge effort to hide my identity). Having said that I think it would be a much different site if comments could be freely removed. So I’m okay with th
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I prefer Erlang to Elixir but I think I'm in the minority. Rubified Erlang has its place I suppose.
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If you live in the UK you have to be positive about the NHS. As soon as the NHS becomes broadly unpopular it will be replaced with a U.S. like system. The fact is the Tory party has been kneecapping the NHS for nearly a decade now - austeri

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