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i was hiring for a senior devops role a few years ago. part of the interview was ssh into a machine and debug some web server configs we purposely broke. step one was email an ssh …

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/02/philadelphia-mint-c... Talked to the actual artist

The design was approved in 2024, it’s to represent that there was no peace during the revolutionary war, and is a one year commemorative coin for the 250th

I still log in fairly regularly and get a bunch of reasonably targeted content, but also a ton of ragebait ai shit like protestors attacking cops. So it’s a bit of both, they’re ju…

The article said they were buying it for the ad business, and the ad business it’s what is actively making the tvs worse

Vizio recently changed their firmware on my tv to require you to use the smart cast app just to watch antenna. It's slow and buggy and causes nothing but problems, the people writi…

i dont doubt gcp will continue existing. but individual services/products/apis/pricing break way too frequently, and the response from google is deal with it. small companies dont …

I had five jobs in my first five years, then two jobs five years each. In general all my raises came from promos or stock matching when getting a new job. One of the things that he…

Also which dynamo price are they comparing to? On demand? Provisioned? Reserved provisioned? We had a huge spanner db with low throughput so had to add idle nodes just for storage …

The gcs change last year was also terrible, such an expensive increase

> But since going public it has been clear that they are trying to get money and enterprise customers at any cost. And yet, as an enterprise customer, their sales team is terrible.…

I've talked with a few people actively interviewing the past couple months, including myself, and fairly consistently people are passing hiring bar, having done the entire battery …

I’ve had a few companies that “had openings” and i passed hiring bar, but then actually didn’t have the headcount to hire me. Talking to some others this is very common right now, …

there's a cost to engineer something that automatically switches or someone going in and manually changing it. so the spot prices has to be higher than ondemand + switching costs. …

especially depressing when you know they also take 15% from the seller too, so thats another $50

Yea, I mostly agree. I feel like a lot of the negativity comes from hobbyists, where an extra hundred dollars does matter. I think one place that I disagree is while you could do t…

The stuff you’re saving time on, managing hosts, just isn’t that much compared to dealing with aws/terraform/etc. I’m at a few orders of magnitude more spend than that, and in abso…

they went through, its like $3-4 for a 2 liter. even diet so its not even about sugar, though diet soda isnt really much better. and i think the latest study is less than half the …

agreed, i worked at a tier below faang and had this conversation soooo often. ignoring blackout volatility, since of course our grants didnt line up with windows, pretending it was…

yea, this tracks for mixing up rsu/espp. youre close enough, but espp are super confusing. the 15% discount is always income tax, even if you sell them years later. most plans do a…

Wasn’t one of the companies in Texas doing that, which is how people ended up with bills in the thousands? https://theconversation.com/amp/whats-behind-15-000-electric...

in the last round of storage price increases, the biggest change for us was reading multi-region storage, like five or six figures a month increase. 'just rearchitect your applicat…

You still get hit with fees at the door in my experience. Considering most venues bigger than a bar are owned by livenation which is the same company as Ticketmaster…

the ledger is public, so every transaction is traceable. maybe you create a wallet/entity thats not clearly linked to a person. you could probably claim its not traceable with a wa…