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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Good question :) SRE-written system are never or almost never written in Java. However many SRE teams support Java systems. Literally nothing at Google except third-party code (like Linux kernel) is written in straight C. C++ is very com
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
SRE-SWEs at Google are expected to be able to design and implement the same things that the developers they support are working on. If you are on Blah-SRE you would be expected to be capable of at the very least reading and understanding t
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Yeah a lot of people don't understand this distinction. You have your pure SWEs who were hired that way who then were either picked for or switched to SRE-SWE. Then you have people who were recruited into SRE-SWE from the beginning.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Nice to see that the law firm of Oracle still has a few engineers on staff.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Yeah exactly. Google waves these around from time to time to have something over which to negotiate.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
There are such places for adults: https://a.zozi.com/#/express/motoguildca/products/128672
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Did you read that from WSDOT? WSDOT says this: "How much would it cost to add light rail to the floating bridge? [...] Secondly, it would cost between $150 million and $200 million to construct the 30 additional pontoons and to instal
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Even worse, what could "east along the Greenwich meridian" possibly mean?
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Well you just made a pretty unfair comparison since you added up to 64000 for all four lanes vs 100000 people /per track/ on a 4-track railway. But I think your assumptions are all pretty optimistic. You wouldn't be able to
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
That seems like quite an odd conclusion, since converting half that road to an exclusive busway would increase the capacity of the road by a factor of 10.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
It would cost that much just to add the pontoons to the bridge. The cost of actually adding more bridge width and the rails thereupon would be more.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Or even tiny, backwards societies. The capital of Uzbekistan has a metro, as does the principal city of Kazakhstan.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Even with perfect software how could cars, self-driven or otherwise, ever compete with rail? A four-track rail system has a per-track throughput of 100000 people per hour. Freeways can get 2000 cars per hour per lane, and an average of 1.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Yeah but he's not talking about that, right? The captive portal stuff only pops up if you actually joined the network. Does his phone automatically try to join open wifi networks?
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
The idea that anyone would ever want to be notified of open wifi networks is bizarre to me. Wherever I go there will be hundreds or thousands of such networks. This might have made sense in 2001 when wifi was novel and rare, but it makes
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
If you read more than the first inch of that thread, it's clear that this is not a 3rd-party app causing the problem. Indeed, that top post is extremely unhelpful in the tradition of "did you try zapping PRAM?" and other voo
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
You don't have to tax it. The city doesn't even charge for metered parking spaces on Sundays. Just pricing these would be a huge first step.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
That's exactly what people did before Prop 13. The idea that granny was getting tossed out on her ear by the tax collector wasn't ever literally true.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
It's just a guy on the phone telling you how you won't be like those other chumps, you'll be a hero. The few and the proud. Standard recruitment techniques.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
SREs are very hard to hire, speaking from experience. At Google SRE directors and VPs will often cherry-pick promising candidates from the mainline SWE hiring pipeline and give them a "hero call" to convert them to SREs. SREs at
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Exactly. It's the marriage that costs you half your assets, not the divorce.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Tesla does not have and never had any battery tech. They use off-the-shelf Panasonic batteries that are exactly the same ones you put in flashlights[1]. Tesla made one major innovation. They realized that people will buy an electric car f
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Ha! most OEMs like which ones? I've never seen a car where the touchscreen controls are locked while driving. At most I've seen ones that either won't let you use a touch keyboard while driving, or that will let you do that
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Yeah but victim blaming isn't helping the situation. Drivers create a dangerous streetscape. They need to own responsibility for that. Harping on headphones, cyclists without helmets, or "distracted walking" is not a posit
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
"but if you're running in crowded times or places it's irresponsible to deafen yourself" Odd that every car sold today is marketed on the basis of being quiet inside and having a deafening sound system. Why is it so imp
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Here you go: the minimum wage exists to depress rents. Rents always rise until tenants are making whatever minimal profits will keep them in business. Enacting a minimum wage law takes money from the landlord and gives it to the workers,
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
You do have to pick something and run with it, I understand that. But price per square foot is pretty bogus because one cannot buy housing by the square foot. You have to buy it per _house_. I think you could make a fair comparison if yo
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
They must have major sample bias to rank Orinda below Rockridge.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
You'll note that Google grew ECC as soon as they started billing people for real money. This is no coincidence.
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by thrownaway2424 11y ago
In practice the entity which actually spills the toxic waste conveniently has no assets to recover. See many many historical cases of US vs. Cult of The Invisible Hand, Incorporated cases since the 80s. You need federal-government-scale i

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