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It seems like this policy would lead to shortages in less common sizes of clothing.

Nor will human generated market research.

Unexpected, runaway AWS cost is a real problem. "Tunable spending limit" has consequences that can create other, equally real, problems. Best effort: Turn off all compute resources…

What semantics do you expect when your spending limit is hit? Turning off all compute resources (EC2, Lambda, Fargate, etc) seems obvious, but what about systems managing state lik…

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp15162.pdf "In 2003–05, Germany undertook extensive labor market reforms which were followed by a large and persistent decline in unem…

It's buried in Excel sheets, but looks like quite a few folks: https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/loan-forgiveness/...

I find it fascinating that this article only calls for young men to change their behavior but demands nothing of young women.

I think periodic off-sites (or on-sites in the era of remote) are incredibly valuable even without a specific business issue to address. It's easy to say that strategic thinking an…

My last use of FogBugz was in 2012. After replying to FogBugz's fake bill, I noticed an auto-reply in my gmail spam: Title: "Notification - Please visit support team" Sender: "Sale…

One big question is how long you have till you need the money. If you need to cash out within a year or two for a mortgage down payment, I would consider taking the inflation hit a…

You could work your way through some of the "Linux Programming Interface" by Kerrisk. Even if you only use high level languages, the LPI provides insight on what's happening under …

I've heard that publish-or-parish is a challenge for all theologians.

The questionnaire looks pretty reasonable, but I'd be concerned about the sketchy looking "Psychometric assessments" that's next in the list. Also, at what point will the candidate…

Building first and talking after isn't likely to end well, especially for B2B. Trying to buy online ads after the fact is not likely to get you anywhere... you are just one of a mi…

Here is the German explanation of what happened: https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/wirtschaft/erdgas...

It sounds like a pretty good question to me. As a follow up you could scope out how familiar the candidate is with alternate encoding options and what the trade-offs and use cases …

I would classify atoi() as a mediocre question at best. I would look for the following in a "fine" question: 1. It demonstrates knowledge of fundamental concepts or techniques. 2. …

If you are interested in assembling your own microscope and have access to a 3D printer, I highly recommend: https://openflexure.org/ For me the interesting part was the build proc…

Who do I have to justify it to? What makes said entity qualified and competent to evaluate my justification? What criteria will be used to determine if my justification is valid?

Weird. There were goods crossing between the Ukraine and Russia, but that didn't stop soldiers from crossing the border and occupying Crimea. Perhaps it was the exception that prov…

How can you optimize something that you can't measure? For any proxy measurements (e.g. how well you are sleeping), how can you ensure it's not something else in your life driving …

Google owned Boston Dynamics at one point. I'm curious what made them flip flop back to robotics again.