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Too many ideas die and smart people are discouraged by a barrage of unnecessarily critical feedback too early on. This is great advice, and one of the hardest things to do as a new…

You're probably not wrong. In the Guardian article they mentioned, there's one quote that pretty much sums up what you're saying: "I’ve always known in my head that it was probably…

Some of these points are valid though. Because you should to some degree challenge the author to simplify where possible. Does it get out of hand. Absolutely. But calling out when …

All valid points. And having been at Amazon for two stints, I think it's fair to say that it really depends on who's reviewing the PR/FAQ. I did review this PR before Werner publis…

The $1mil number in itself doesn't seem too impactful, but when you take it into consideration with other reported findings, such as $55mil spent in the last year to influence the …

I particularly like his comparison of learning Rust to writing docs at Amazon, which are a frictionful minefield. > Rust has a reputation for being a difficult language to learn an…

Link to code: https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-audio-summariz...

Shame that this is a misleading title, because it's actually an interesting article about how the FBI caught a predator in what's basically a case of dumb luck.

There are companies like Terraformation that have been doing this for a while. Beyond the biodiversity angle, seed banking seems to be very important to the long term success of re…

Author does a great job of capturing the anxiety the captain and crew felt and the poise they demonstrated. Maybe my favorite line, "Quintal’s cucumber-cool support".

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There are VS Code and JetBrains extensions, it's part of the AWS Toolkit (can be a bit hard to find). https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/latest/userguide/s...