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Engineering hasn't gone away, you're now just directing things at a higher level. You are now a architect & manager (but you're managing agents not people). Who sometimes has to de…

Tell us why you think so at least.

I'm not sure I would want this even if I could have it TBH. Engingeering org size is about ~200 with infra/sre/ops around ~25. Different teams want to move at difference cadences. …

This is awesome, I will be trying this out in the coming months. Its just made it to the top of my R&D shortlist for things that could massively simplify our data stack for a b2b s…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFTBO67uU https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/graphload-a-framework... It looks like people are using it to build graph related models on it. I…

Caught a steam train that operates on the mainline in NSW, Australia last year. https://www.picnictrain.com.au/ We had to stop & wait at various points on our return day trip for o…

I started looking into podman quadlets on the weekend. All because docker & nft (nftables firewall) don't play nice together. I have my finely crafted nftables ruleset that I want …

Unifying things slows engineers down, so probably not (for some time).

https://youtu.be/qcNNB2qZ5kE?t=2776 around this time code. If the USA doesn't want a nation to fight then there are more issues than a F35 software kill switch etc.

This looks super interesting. Just starting to review it but my front of mind questions: 1) How do I handle persistence? Looks like some code is missing. 2) Do you support multi-te…

Interesting in hearing some thoughts about using roaring bitmaps stored in a bytea postgres column to represent adjacency matrixes. I was thinking that given RDS has support for pl…

Where does one find out about all of these conventions for rails?

250 Pitt St Sydney around 2002-2003.

They work with sulphuric acid, oxy/acetylene/propane torches. Some processes give off cyanide fumes. Ultrasonic baths with ammonia based solutions to clean polishing compounds off …

I did my jewellery trade in Australia (hence the correct spelling for me). We used to keep all our emery paper, old polishing wheels etc and send them off ever few years to be burn…

I'm not a frontend engineer or really a fully experienced backend engineer. I have done systems stuff, lots of OPS, scaling and other things adjacent. Flutter is interesting to me …

Laughs at a PostgreSQL schema change backfill jobs that need a few days to complete on i4i.16xlarge. Or that time I spent $120k USD on testing some upgrade paths on a dataset in el…

Really depends on some factors: Do you have billions of rows with only a very small % in use/locked or millions of rows that are jsonb blobs with a relatively high % in use/locked?…

I have a machine, took a few weeks to dial in the settings right for me. Tried a few different masks & machines from a sleep study clinic. In a few years I have gone less than 7 ni…

Taxi's in NSW/Sydney are much better these days. Uber X are typically shit by comparison. A $95 UberX ride home is about $109 in a taxi for me. Talking to a few friends who also li…

Yup, been following this build as well. There are plenty of other decent layouts that can be built in a shed, half a room etc. A different aspect is the shunting layout, this guy's…

I'm 41, just recently got back into the hobby. Have rejoined the local club I was a member of as a teen. Membership average age is like 50-60ish. We do have about 10-15% of members…

Can't wait for Elon to declare himself sovereign of Mars.

Overall the changes seem sensible. For those wanting to self host there are plenty of guides out there on how to configure various MTAs with all of the required bits. BUT, Why does…

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/flexport-to-launch-eastern... The leasing or contracts on the air freight must be a bit of a problem if shopify has trimmed their business to flex…