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While I generally agree for general human living, I've seen impressive "digital hoarder" success using AI because it changes the dimensions of reasonableness. Imagine your hoarder …

It's implicit as a request, not something they literally say (usually). Namely - I put near zero effort into this response, and deciding if it's correct is on you. -> I'm asking yo…

Re: Topologies I found it resulted in a lot of reorgs founded on the seeming belief that Conway's law is both immediate and retroactive - if we change the teams and what they own, …

They mean the apartment building hallways and elevators. As in, if you summed the square footage of all the apartments on a floor, you'd get a number greater than the actual dimens…

Yep, the issue is that recalculating DSCR doesn't happen on the right timescale to incentivize reducing rents, instead incentivizing keeping vacancies open and using a pro forma DS…

Fwiw there's a 290k sqft DC on Denny a few blocks from the Amazon towers https://h5datacenters.com/seattle-colocation.html If you live in Seattle you've probably walked right past …

On top of the architectural challenges and efficacy of it, you have to contend with the terms of the bank loans that apply. Those are why the buildings "can't" lower rents to attra…

This comes across strongly any time you hear management talking about "fungibility of engineers". Everyone is a full stack everything engineer, and AI makes that even easier for th…

Look, it wasn't _my_ request that made the server fall over, it must have been one of the other several thousand thoughtless scrapers running on the website that caused it to die.

Microsoft.com is also owned by the marketing org, not the engineering org, for various reasons that predate the existence of many employees at Microsoft now. This is why with rare,…

Not quite. At least the one I found is some trickle down economics myth. The one op is referencing is more like the dollar is used to pay off the waitstaff, who pay their rent to t…

It definitely looks like the old tale come true - at Microsoft people would warn against using Google because then Google could figure out what we're working on, since it was prett…

That's the success case. In the failure case you have emboldened, pressured teams jumping in to make a "quick fix" or "that feature we needed" in a codebase for a team they've neve…

I have no idea how you read a statement about how nazis and flame baiters should be able to speak their mind and then concluded that the author only cares about some minorities. Gi…

Is there some obvious reason not to measure requests per minute rather than second? Or is it an offhand joke? Some systems I've worked on had APIs that averaged less than one per s…

Right - it feels like going skin deep on types and then complaining they didn't solve for very deep problems. Like yes, it would be nice for Map(ICar[] cars, keys).wingspan to thro…

To torture the metaphor further - it's also a personal dj, with an audience and customer of 1. Somewhat by definition there can be no outlandish requests, certainly not "play this …

I'd review the setup here. You're missing the critical distinction that the cryptography supports - separating entirely (in time and space) the issuance of the cred to the user and…

Which is why you separate the credential issuance from the credential use, per the standard mentioned.

It can't be quite that simple because you have a couple additional problems to solve - (effectively restating bits of the article poorly and partially) 1. You don't want these to b…

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo , for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.

So does Google send a header for each search result when you look up "Ron Jeremy" so that some results get hidden, or does the browser just block the whole page? Sending all the "b…

I can't think of a more quintessential crash out of a major brand than Twitter from the past couple years. For a significant percentage (>10% publicly, I'm confident much more than…

That would be the good argument, yes.

The Twitter layoffs being used as proof of _anything_ is misguided no matter what you're trying to say. If success is losing half their revenue, reverting to revenue numbers from a…