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It's been a change in the past 10 years but I would say women are still systemically under-compensated, under-levelled, and encouraged to move into less prestigious roles like prod…

One of my favorite intern projects was cutting up power traces on USB hubs and connecting them to a giant bus bar so we could put multiple amps through them without tripping fuses …

What if the President orders the Vice President to shoot someone in the street? What if the President signs an Executive Order directing himself to shoot someone in the street?

"Change the law" versus "change the constitution" are two very different things. The US couldn't pass the ERA, which just enshrines women's rights in the Constitution. Anything mor…

I can't tell what your stance is on the al-Awlaki assassination? If the leader of a country orders an extra-judicial killing, especially of one of their own citizens, that seems li…

`strace -c` will show you wall time per call and not just the volume of syscalls.

Kaczynski has a few good points about the dehumanizing effects of industrialization, but man is his extremely long screed about "leftists" tiresome. You could give that chunk to Jo…

Lots of respect to Jacky for writing this. The tech industry truly pays enough money that you can lose sight of solidarity with other workers. Even as shit gets worse and more huma…

I worked with someone who insisted on using fx for DI in go. It's so antithetical to the entire Go philosophy, I don't even think it's an "advanced feature". It's just bringing Jav…

> However, in better-run and not-so-corrupt societies like Korea, it's not necessary and probably downright harmful. South Korea was under varying levels of dictatorship from the K…

Nothing is gonna give you good, consistent comp like writing software. I'm sure some sales people do very well but "eat what you kill" also means lean months, and sometimes whether…

I think "message queues" have become pretty commoditized. You can buy Confluent or RedPanda or MSK as a service and never have to administer Kafka yourself. Change Data Capture (CD…

> The problem with thinking everyone else is wrong is that usually it turns out they are not. I don't know that this is objectively true. The more accurate thing to say is that som…

This is a comment about brick and mortar businesses, I literally talked about having to personally guarantee a multi-year lease in the post. And yes, some businesses are even harde…

> Please let us all know how that's working out for you in 5-10 years. 4 months in and no stress? Must be easy riding from here! Honestly VC-funded startups seem like a cake walk c…

Except these integrations are used by the end users to post content to Twitter. If you really wanted to squeeze end users you could make them connect a premium account or something…

GraphQL makes sense in the narrow context of "you have a high latency end-user and you're pulling in deeply nested social graph data". It didn't need to be a general purpose framew…

In TFA, they're literally taking roads and turning them into housing near transit hubs? This policy goes hand in hand with densifying housing.

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GraphQL absolutely feels like a technological solution to an organizational problem. What if your front-end team wants to write crazy queries and your back-end team wants to build …

Clearing the people out of Ottawa took far too long. The local police were cozy with the truckers and the entire downtown of a metro area with a million people was shut down for a …

The Supreme Court is extremely selective about what cases should be deferred to states and which should be the realm of the federal courts. They needed to federally abolish affirma…

I think the current LLM trend is way overhyped. The thing these companies are doing, crucially, is extracting money from technologically unsophisticated companies and funnelling it…

Yeah protobuf is a good IDL and encoding. Unfortunately gRPC makes some choices that make sense for internal RPCs in a large engineering org, but it's not good for external clients…

This is kind of what Optane was in some incarnations (it's really terrible branding that conflates multiple technologies).