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by rewmie 3y ago
> Places that won't tolerate mistakes are arguably places you don't want to work anyway. That's hardly helpful advice. You don't have recruiters telling job applicants that they do not tolerate mistakes. By definition
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I and many other people I know, failed all the time; and we never got fired, we simply learned from it and moved on. How confident are you that your example isn't just survivorship bias? I know people who failed and got fired. I k
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) weird entrenchment around using UIC or QML (...) There is nothing weird about UIC or QML. These are essentially DSLs that help quickly designing and iterating iver user interfaces. UIC quite literally just generates C++ from a X
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Did I say there was? Yes. You explicitly wrote in your comment "This is the client side of things", as if there was any ambiguity in where requests came from. > Where did I call this detail "obscure"? You explic
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I disagree. I think the trade-off is very reasonable. At some point you need to retry (even if the trigger is user manually pressing F5 in the browser/clicking a button again/running a program again). Because they actually ha
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by rewmie 3y ago
> You would think by now that the various frameworks for remote calls would have standardized down to include the best practice retry patterns, with standard names, setting ranges, etc. There is a school of thought that argues that the
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by rewmie 3y ago
> A must-read (or rather: must-see) for anyone who thinks exponential backoff is overrated. I don't think exponential backoffs were ever accused of being overrated. Retries in general have been criticized for being counterproductiv
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is the client side of things. The article is about making requests, and strategies to implement when the request fails. By definition, these are clients. Was there any ambiguity? > But there is an additional piece of info eve
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Disagreeing with employee actions doesn't mean that you are correct and they failed to think well. You failed to present a case where random guys shitposting on random social media services are somehow correct and more insightful
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Being an expert in one particular field (AI) not mean you are good at critical thinking or thinking about strategic corporate politics. That's not the bar you are arguing against. You are arguing against how you have better inform
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by rewmie 3y ago
> POSIX specifies two functions that alter environment variables. The same POSIX spec you're citing also states in no ambiguous terms that setenv is not thread-safe. It's pointless to quote a section of a spec to try to justify
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Rust declares it safe to modify the environment, while POSIX declares it unsafe. There's your problem right there, and it ain't the behavior specified in the standard.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Exposing global mutable access to something and providing no thread safe version counts as broken in my book. Your book may differ. Please show me from which book you got the idea that env variables are expected to change throughout th
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Yup. It's a bad, broken, and unfixable API. Is it, though? The only argument I see is that an API can be misused. There are ergonomics debates we can have about it, but a user intentionally abusing an API wanting to do something t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Changing the env during runtime is actually quite handy for debugging and forcing the program into specific states. Most debuggers nowadays support altering variables at runtime after hitting breakpoints. In the meantime this was the v
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It never made any organizational sense for me to have a "responsible AI team" in the first place. Every team doing AI work should be responsible and should think about the ethical (and legal at a bare minimum baseline) dimens
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Your original comment gives an impression that you like AWS (...) My comment is really not about AWS. It's about the apples-to-oranges comparison between the job of "Linux on-premises server administrator" and value-add
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is the voice of someone who has never actually ended up with a big AWS estate. I worked on a web application that provided by a FANG-like global corporation that is a household name and used by millions of users every day, and whi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Yeah, that's part of it. The other part is that you can move stuff that is working, and working well, into on-prem (or colo) if it is designed well and portable. That's part of the apples-and-oranges problem I mentioned. It&#
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This only works that way for very small spend orgs that (...) No, not really. That's how basically all services deployed to AWS work once you get the relevant CloudFormation/CDK bits lined up. I've worked on applications
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by rewmie 3y ago
I get the point that they tried to make, but this comparison between "AWS administrators" and "Linux on-premises server administrators" is beyond apple-and-oranges and is actually completely meaningless. A team does not
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It sounds like they were in a place that a lot of companies are in where they don't have a single pane of glass for observability. One of the biggest features of AWS which is very easy to take for granted and go unnoticed is Amazo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage. This is a stupid take, and one that is based on a simplistic idea that the succes
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Every person I've noticed who says that ChatGPT isn't good at what it does has the same thing in common - they're not great at talking to people, either. I think that the people who nowadays shit on ChatGPT's code g
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Yep. I'm surprised anyone hears a problem like this without immediately thinking of maps and sets. If you want to import a day's worth of access logs into a hash map, you need to take into account not only the time but also t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Decades later Kissinger is still considered a role model of a diplomat in some circles. Honestly, why wouldn't he be? I think the mistake you're making is presuming that a role model of a diplomat is determined by your notion
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Self-driving trucks were going to upend the trucking industry in ten years, ten years ago. At the risk of going off on a tangent, we already have the technology to allow self-driving trucks for a few decades now. The technology is so g
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by rewmie 3y ago
The blogger describes his blog post as "A coding interview question, from the viewpoint of an Google/Amazon/Microsoft interviewer". I'm not sure it makes any sense to refer to anyone engaged in interviewing and cand
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by rewmie 3y ago
> So when other people do it, hard and tricky questions are bad, but when you deliberately set your candidate up for failure by withholding concrete information, that's clever and insightful. Got it. To me the worst part is the nons
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Is Truth Social basically paying Trump's ongoing legal costs? Would it be possible for Truth Social to be just a very public money laundering front?

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