ub-volta-toss

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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
I did this a few times and found it miraculous. The doses were sub k-hole, it just made the world seem cottony and soft. The effect on my psyche was lasting and positive. A friend who struggles with depression found it useful for a while, b
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
Do you have a list of common red flags that engineers should avoid when considering working at a startup?
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
See above. Its not so straightforward. You need enough headroom on each component that a negative feedback loop can start, eat resources, and have enough time and resources to calm itself before hitting some limit or degrading itself furthe
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
Nope. They hit the scale limit with Cassandra and now have an in-house storage layer
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
I'm not sure how Uber does it, but it might be because they're using Cadence instead. The Temporal team has acknowledged that Cassandra-backed Temporal hits scaling limits pretty fast. The limitations aren't a clean "X a
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
Temporal is really neat but I think its marketed at too many use cases. After a year of high-scale Temporal work, I found it was only good for low-scale work. The onboarding and learning curve were insanely difficult and complex. Ultimately
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
Employee reviews are a very underrated way to judge a company. Especially one that offers breakthrough tech
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
Further reflection- this video is a little sketchy. it has subtle flaws that look like red flags - Nobody who works in a lab would call screw cap tubes 'these little tubes' - Shows no action from machine - How is machine supposed
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by ub-volta-toss 2y ago
that vimeo is just a guy talking? lets see some science! i think nato built something like this at uBiome, but it never saw use. another yc that scrubbed the glass-door reviews