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Interesting. Things I think of as quite reasonable, though certainly with counter arguments, are to him fundamentally preposterous and not even worthy of reasonable consideration. …

You’re ignoring general heavy workloads such as observability. How much telemetry do they gather and analyze for tracking and fraud detection. A quick google on Tesco engineering s…

I’d say a useful way of thinking about caching is through the lens of the CAP theorem. You are facing a situation where compute requirements exceed the bounds of a single process. …

Quite agree, this is how I explain it to people. When you think of cache as another derived dataset then you start to realize that the issues caches bring to architectures are ofte…

I enjoy wordle and wouldn’t automate it to replace my play. I also enjoy techie people demonstrating that you can automate X with Y tool. That’s another form of problem solving. Ca…

Huh, I agree with your last sentence but think the author did a good job of explaining that the cost of layout experimentation in a startup can grow over time if the results of the…

As an ex new englander I approve of y’all over youse because it’s hard to use “youse” efficiently without saying “youse guys”.

I partially agree with you but have some counter thoughts. Tone is something that can be adopted intentionally or unintentionally. If you hear a pilot on a radio dryly say somethin…

I was intrigued and took a Quick Look at the top studies on this subject and the metrics used are things like relative overdose deaths in an area, crime statistics, and usage of tr…

Personally, I find a team seems to be healthiest if a mixture of personalities are on it. They should all be competent. When it comes to incompetence, people can hide that behind k…

Huh! If I reflect back on my involvement in projects that had difficulties, there was rarely a dearth of competent people, and in fact it was often political and communication conc…

I think what you're seeing there is Jemisin actively foregrounding and exploring a difficult fact, which is that people who were abused are more likely to turn around and be abuser…

On your first point, you have to at least acknowledge that a ton of people strongly disagree with you. I've certainly bounced off of widely read and highly rated novels before, but…

No flamewar here, I quite agree! I really enjoyed The Fifth Season (if "enjoy" is a word that can be applied to something so dark), but it did have flaws (I used "visceral" and "im…

Interesting. I've made it a point to try to make my way through the canonical sci fi greats over the years, and I'd put Left Hand of Darkness near the top. It's kind of because of …

Jemisin is one of the more visceral and imaginative writers I've encountered in recent years, and she did indeed produce and publish written works, so I do believe she is a real au…

I wouldn't say it's a crude way of approaching the problem, it's a crude way of solving the problem. Taking the fraud example, taking unsupervised approaches to understanding patte…

I might be misunderstanding your point, but there's use cases that have repeatedly come up for me in multiple businesses, below being some examples, without getting too specific: -…

Poor choice of words on my part. In my example one is going "off course" in the sense that one is spending more time on the yak shaving than is justified by the scope of the proble…

I've heard the term used in a purely negative sense, while personally thinking it's often necessary and sometimes brilliant to do some yak shaving. Some of the best yak shavers I k…

It would be interesting to do an experiment on people playing one another (online) with these pieces vs regular pieces (e.g. one player with a regular set and one player with this …

I just finished reading Children of Time and was indeed imagining that he was looking at earlier research on this subject, because the way he describes the spiders' initial thinkin…

It is not racist to make an observation about race. It is racist to believe that one race is superior to another and act accordingly. For example, it is not racist to acknowledge t…

I am as layperson as they get on this subject matter, but I would think that even if your statement is true, perhaps we can get to the point where bacteria need to evolve so much t…

Ah good show :). I was rather preoccupied with the question but didn't have one handy. Well, I do, but my kid would roast me slowly over coals if I so much as smudged it. Ah the jo…