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by potamic 2y ago
A 6 month integration time is going to generate massive amounts of data. How do they intend to receive all this back from 500 AU away?
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by potamic 2y ago
> how quickly this community swapped from being champions of the free exchange and use of information for the betterment of humanity to gleefully stomping on an incredible and beautiful new technology You're assuming this community
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by potamic 2y ago
ULIDs are time ordered and CUID2s are random. So your decision should really be based on whether you want ordered IDs are not. Ordering is useful for transactional entities because you tend to operate on recent entities much more than older
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by potamic 2y ago
Quite plausibly, mental health resources. I assume connecting with like minded individuals and communities can go a long way in helping you understand yourself and reconcile your differences with broader society.
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by potamic 2y ago
They mention considering CUBE as an alternative.
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by potamic 2y ago
> they threw an obnoxious senior manager that kept interrupting me as I calmly answered the questions This is a red flag. To me this signals that a company not only has a toxic culture, but embraces it. Such places attract personalities
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by potamic 2y ago
Do you think cloud providers will all provide multi-tenancy as a native feature eventually? What's your strategy for that?
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by potamic 2y ago
Most people who have worked both in the west as well as in the country will say there is a stark difference in the superior-subordinate dynamic between these two places. Concepts of professional respect, upward feedback and personal boundar
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by potamic 2y ago
What metrics do you alert on? How do you distinguish between error due to faulty database client vs error due to database disk failure?
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by potamic 2y ago
Is web components available yet? I couldn't find anything around it in the editor.
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by potamic 2y ago
> a comprehensive definition of quality teaching Oh, the irony! Quality by it's very nature cannot be quantified. Not unless you give a very narrow definition of quality, which defeats the point of quality in the first place. I had
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by potamic 2y ago
Yes, I think so.
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by potamic 2y ago
I believe the prevalent advice at this time in fact is to go with UUIDs. They don't leak much information, prevent enumeration attacks and give you flexibility to generate anywhere. UUIDv7 even provides time ordering if index locality
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by potamic 2y ago
This is unfortunately very common in the corporate world, especially once an organisation grows to a certain size. It's the nature of animals to be territorial and competitive so there is a primal force behind this. But humans are inte
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by potamic 2y ago
Anyone knows what they do different to achieve such speed?
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by potamic 2y ago
You can start with asking what problems customers are facing and offer to solve those problems in exchange for money. Or you can start asking how much money to make and find ways to convince customers to give you that money. Only they have
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by potamic 2y ago
I already have a forever mouse. A Microsoft optical mouse from 20 years ago. Perfectly ergonomic, no batteries, plug-and-play that just works on any device new or old, and a build quality to last decades. How have we regressed from these id
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by potamic 2y ago
I think that's a fair bit of stretch
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by potamic 2y ago
What's the golf app?
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by potamic 2y ago
Slightly tangential, but curious why you have a browse by language section? The language a tool is written in shouldn't matter much for using it.
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by potamic 2y ago
Could you share your blog?
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by potamic 2y ago
Know of any open source equivalents to this?
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by potamic 2y ago
This is why you should always do structured logging. Finding logs using string match can be fragile.
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by potamic 2y ago
Wouldn't that lead to cross account policies, which appear to be even more quirky?
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by potamic 3y ago
The main problem with this is that a polarizing filter blocks overall light by about a half, so wouldn't be usable in the dark.
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by potamic 3y ago
The old ui was much more compact (even compared to compact mode on new ui) and maximised real estate for code over ui elements, which is what you want from a coding editor. It's definitely form over function here and yet another regres
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by potamic 3y ago
As does for India's state sanctioned network. Processes 400M transactions a day at a meagre operating revenue of 0.5M USD but still at a 40% profit margin! The card industry has been gouging the world for decades now.
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by potamic 3y ago
Previous discussion, linking to a study on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34492502
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by potamic 3y ago
How do these things play out? Say the CEO wants to fire the CTO, how do they go about engaging consultants for the job? Do they discuss their goal explicitly with the consultants or is there some sort of underhanded language where the consu
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by potamic 3y ago
I saw a demonstration of this in this very old documentary once. Not sure what the latest research says but it doesn't seem this kind of situation is entirely impossible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYAfmyMZe5g

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