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That's a good tradeoff I suppose. I've been racking my brain trying to find a solution recently that solves both of these but haven't been able to. What I had landed on was idempot…

I explicitly make sure services I lead have Integration tests in CI pipeline to validate the "negative paths" against all APIs with missing, invalid, un-authorised identities, expi…

Realized this during a particularly stressful time in 2021 - back then, I used to spend hours walking just thinking through problems, all night long. I’ve since abandoned the all n…

Been buying mullvad for the last 4-5 years but oftentimes I can’t even browse the fucking New York Times website due to low bandwidth, let alone stream anything. At this point, I j…

This. No more juniors, and the skills of the seniors is going to atrophy when all they're doing is review and "move around" code an LLM spat out.

Advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. (Foundation's edge)

> jack up premiums by 20% unless you force employees to change their password once every 90 days" Always made me judge my company's security teams as to why they enable this stupid…

> AI to run in loop, fixing compile errors, fixing tests, do builds, run the app and do API calls... Ah I really wanna trust AI won't "fix" the tests by commenting out the assert s…

Oh the sha-256 hashes are precisely what I used for a quick script I put together to parse through various backups of my work laptop in different places (tool changes and laziness)…

For better or worse, I have a habit of clicking the touchpad or a few keys after I shut down my laptop. Just to make sure it's shut down properly. Back in Windows days with HDDs an…

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India basically has this - when creating subscriptions, merchants typically create "mandates" which specify max amount permitted per month, frequency, and duration. Afterwards, 1) …

2100 clusters, 16k nodes, and data is replicated across every node "within a cluster" with nodes placed in different data centers/regions. That doesn't sound unreasonable, on avera…

(Speaking as an Indian engineer) Hate to generalize, but this has less to do with "Indian style" but rather adding a lot of fluff to make a problem appear more complex than it is, …

> trying to jump on a "hot topic" bandwagon I don't know exactly what they hope to gain by jumping on that bandwagon though; neither the physicists nor the computer scientists are …

I think I'd be curious to know, if the size of ensemble is another scaling dimension for compute, alongside the "thinking time".

Ah yes - perfect.

Or perhaps even, insert yet another header with just the list of internal headers being added to the request, assuming this happens at a single place, otherwise a recipe for disast…

Just FYI, the actual headline doesn't include the word Tech. It's filed under Tech category, and I'm guessing OP messed up copy pasting.

99% of corporate networks? That can't be true. I do know that this is done - in fact worked at a pretty major smartphone manufacturer and never logged in to any personal account on…