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41,481. Nice. That was a fun time waster.

For fellow fans of Crawford's writing, he publishes on Substack at mcrawford.substack.com.

I had a similar experience just today when trying to debug a script that serves as a connector between AWS Athena and our internal log querying platform. I got fed up with trying t…

> If you don’t work somewhere that rewards curiosity, find somewhere else to work. I wish everyone had this privilege.

This was delightful. Thank you for the reminder that a simple hobby driven by curiosity can be the source of so much joy.

> Inside, a 47-year-old man struggled to mix ashy heroin with fragments of crystal crack, crushing both into a souped-up speedball. Observed by a nurse, he took the needle and jabb…

How we perceive the world and how we act in it are intertwined in ways we are only beginning to understand, upending centuries of philosophical assumptions about human cognition. M…

What you have to understand about the contemporary media industry is that their primary business objective is to sell advertisements. Your attention is the product now; the more of…

Closed ecosystem? Sealed environment? Prison? What do you suggest to use instead? The last term would seem apt given the term "jailbreaking"

I find it really interesting that until ten minutes ago, historically speaking, there was an implicit assumption that there exists a moral dimension to drug and alcohol consumption…

I bought a copy. Thanks, Jeff, for being interminably helpful.

Many command-line CSV parsing tools mentioned here, adding my choice to the list: http://harelba.github.io/q/

Markdown is a markup language. Google Docs is a WYSIWYG document editor. These are two fundamentally different approaches to the creation of written content. This question is kind …

> We create systems designed to drain the jobs of bureaucrats, especially low-level bureaucrats, of any opportunity to exercise judgment. When things go wrong, we find new ways to …

Here's the thing about buzzwords - they are a useful abstraction for grouping together a set of concepts for non-tech people to make decisions with tech impact. The ideas presented…

I'm happy to see someone really trying to color outside the lines with deployment tooling. I think we've fallen into a number of paradigms for system operations that we know are ki…

I recommend reading "Liberal Parents, Radical Children" by Midge Decter. https://www.abebooks.com/9780698106758/Liberal-parents-radic...

DevOps was supposed to be about accelerating the software development lifecycle. In my current role as a "DevOps Engineer", a significant portion of my time is spent being a roadbl…

> Is everyone in charge of hiring at major tech companies just in a big whatsapp group exchanging dirt on employees they didn't like? Yes. Source: family member who works in HR

Wow, it's rare to have American hubris summed up in one article so succinctly. The total absence of self-awareness almost convinced me that this was satire.

I think the author tried to pack a little too much into this article, but it's an interesting topic and his observations ring true. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who successfully…