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Yes, but that wasn’t engineers.

I’m an AWS engineer and I haven’t seen any evidence of engineering layoffs within AWS since early this year. As others have suggested we generally don’t have ”DevOps Workers” eithe…

Because a lot of the time, not everyone is impacted, as the systems are designed to contain the "blast radius" of failures using techniques such as cellular architecture and [shuff…

Countering advanced bits is a game of economics. Sure, we know that they can solve the captchas, but they usually can’t do so for free. Eg. Typical captcha solver services are arou…

It was of course co-discovered by another woman, Lise Meitner, who understood the theory while taking a walk with Otto Frisch and discussing the experimental findings by Otto Hahn.…

I think it’s at least relevant to note that a lot of things relating to autism was completely redefined in DSM-V. DSM-IV had many different diagnosis such as classic autism, autism…

Redis latency is around 1ms including network round trip for most operations. In a single threaded context, waiting on that would limit you to around 1000 operations per second. Re…

I think our understanding of the inner structure of the earth is another interesting example of something that we’ve deduced scientifically but never directly observed. It surprise…

There is a talk by the S3 VP on Youtube which mentions some rough numbers, I think it’s from re:invent 2019. Also, they mention 100 trillion objects here https://aws.amazon.com/blo…

When I started working for AWS as an SDE, I was hoping it’d be possible to visit a datacenter. I was surprised to find out that I’d require L11 (!) approval to so so! The only L11 …

I’ve been using self-hosted TTRSS since Google Reader shut down.

He is mentioned in the book, _The Man from the Future_, which gives the impression that Von Neumann did the heavy lifting their collaboration. It paints a relatively unflattering p…

I am not convinced that AA is actively trying to block this app. I used to work for a major anti-bot vendor, so from that I know that all airlines suffer heavily from price scrapin…

Aside from the coolness of the actual thing, I love the early 00’s web site design. For a while, all sites looked like this.

I also agree with this sentiment, although there are some examples of really weird meta programming that remains opaque to me. For instance, I’m able to use `warp` as a framework, …

I absolutely adore the Baroque Cycle. Question: Since I read it I’ve wanted to read more about the development of money and financial institutions, but I’ve had difficulty finding …

Building a UI is usually tedious irregardless of stack. The fun part is what’s new and creative in the project, which is usually a small part of the overall thing. My solution is g…

I haven’t seen it explicitly banned, but the Operational Readiness templates does have a question about that which has to be answered for all product and feature launches. I guess …

Different customers have different attitudes towards this. Some of them are _very_ focused on conversion and will disable anything which causes additional user friction. For others…

Thanks for the clarification! I probably misremember some of the details.

Yeah, there’s a central service that all Flight search is connected to, irregardless of airline. The airlines are charged per search to that api, so they monitor their ”look to boo…

Yeah, I used to work for one of the major anti-bot vendors. Customers weren't clueless. Nobody buys these solutions because they're so much fun, it's a cost center and they monitor…

Tenets as used internally at AWS are a set of principles that each team decides for themselves, as guides in the face of ambiguity. There's no overarching set of tenets (that I'm a…

I’m sure there’s machinery in use which is powered by fossil fueles. You did mention separately that the mining industry is a heavy user of electricity, though, so I was referring …

Swedish electricity production is essentially carbon neutral. There’s a 50/50 split between nuclear and renewables. At times, there’s imports from the European grid, which does inc…