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I recently looked at used cars, and there was an additional $20k 'Toyota tax' when comparing a Toyota to a similar model of Ford, Kia, Hyundai, etc. The features and feel of the To…

On point 4, be aware of potential risks with Baby Brezza: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/technology/baby-brezza-fo...

Eric Dietrich has a softer framing for this: instead of sociopaths, losers, and clueless; you have opportunists, pragmatists, and idealists [0]. In my opinion it works just as well…

This isn't accurate. AWS added Managed Rulesets several years ago: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/security/waf-ma...

I've had experiences of senior executives joining organisations and completely ruining them in 1-2 years. One exec in particular: - Made power grabs for other execs' areas, forcing…

I absolutely agree - to a point. I think it's perfectly reasonable to move books out of their semantically 'best' organisation if that order results in an aesthetically unappealing…

My first question was answered in the readme: "But what about AWS' NAT Instance AMI?" The official AWS supported NAT Instance AMI hasn't been updates since 2018, is still running A…

I'd have expected the death rate to increase as the height increased. Any idea what's behind the seemingly random distribution?

This isn't what I saw happening during the pandemic. The (to use your word) 'crackpots' were proposing alternative solutions like Ivermectin and Chloroquine. The people who were sh…

Are these analytics coming from Reddit themselves? Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that they were massaging numbers to make it seem like fewer users w…

That's covered by the new Leadership Principle to be Earth's best employer /s.

The CEO of Cloudflare has said that he enjoys taking burned out SDEs from Amazon and giving them a happy life at his company. It's how, in his words, Cloudflare can compete at an e…

I can't speak for my culture generally, but my personal interpretation of the quote is that it is fairly neutral in its current form. I read it as saying that cohabiting will make …

Thanks for explaining. I'm a native English speaker who grew up in a (fairly?) strongly guess culture, and I'm still really surprised that anyone would find this rude or threatenin…

I reread the letter, but I'm still not seeing the veiled threat here. Would you be able to spell out where/what it is?

We had a similar thing in Australia - the Australian Government Design System: https://designsystem.gov.au/ It is in use across a huge number of Australian government websites - th…

To be fair, I didn't think anyone would be able to spell 'kubernetes' correctly. But life found a way - thank goodness for numeronyms!

I'd suggest the best example of anti-values is in the Agile Manifesto. They state that they value (as an example) individuals and interactions over processes and tools. But they ma…

I'm stunned at the board's complete lack of awareness. I would have hoped that any competent board member would want to view metrics around retention and morale, and that large shi…

I worked at AWS in a technical role, and we had similar systems at our office. If Covid rules were being broken - too many people in an office, people standing too close together -…

I've found the experience of content discovery on YouTube to be absolutely abysmal. Tiktok introduces me to new videos each time I open it, even suggesting things that I've never d…

When the Australian Cyber Security Centre did their security assessment of AWS, they actually recommended that Australian government agencies not do this. Their recommendation was …

I'd adjust 6 to read: Be very mindful and careful about which drugs you take. Do your research (e.g. on Erowid) and know that while some drugs can have amazing, long-term benefits,…

Firstly, congratulations for escaping your background, getting through college, and making your way into tech. Secondly, while I admire the drive never to want to retire because yo…

A few years ago I made the jump from DevOps/SRE/sysadmin work over to sales engineering. It's actually been a great fit for me so far! I always felt like I wasn't built for pure te…