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My mother worked in a factory that sewed drapes for film sets before she retired. My brother-in-law used to be an operations manager for a warehouse that rented equipment to film s…

I was never a prolific blogger. I do write a LOT internally at work and I write very long messages in group chats. With the advent of LLMs, I've felt even less need to publish publ…

I found the accompanying blog post excellent. In my experience, systems go from a monolith to a distributed monolith to a reliable distributed system. A durable workflow engine is …

I'm also currently reading "On the Calculation of Volume". It is fantastic. Meta-comment about the post. I used to read and write book reviews like this all of the time. Not anymor…

Yup. Woke up at 6am. Child 1 woke up at 7am. Dropped her off at daycare at 8am. All the other children were being dropped off by their dads, too. Full day of work ahead. Dinner at …

As others have said, levels and titles are generally for compensation and performance reviews. Each company has their own bespoke ladder but it generally maps to: - L1: Intern with…

SIMD and data locality. You probably want to check across three vectors simultaneously and load the coordinates next to each other. I'm guessing here. I haven't written video games…

I'm actually working on an app for myself to remind me of that. For example, there is a full glass of water sitting on my desk from 9am. It's noon. I haven't taken a sip. Until now…

Agree! Most orgs should just be shipping features. Before starting an Experiment Program teams should be brainstorming a portfolio of experiments. Just create a spreadsheet where t…

Beg to differ. I live in Yaletown in one of the Concord Pacific towers. David Lam Park and George Wainborn Park are vibrant as is the whole seawall. My kid goes to the daycare alon…

I have a 9 month old and we are drowning in toys. We have bought very few of them. The article is clearly not written by a parent because it barely touches on Buy Nothing Groups on…

I sleep with Breathe Right strips. It's changed my life. Whoop band and 8Sleep confirm.

This is great. This reminds me of Chris Hecker's Rigid Body Dynamics series from GDMag/Gamasutra that I read (checks watch) almost 30 years ago! This is the classic/canonical set o…

(Aside: My goodness, Medium has gotten terrible. The article will not scroll for me because of some random overlay that won't dismiss. Why do publishers stay on Medium? I regret it…

I don't have Instagram, Facebook, TikTok accounts. I don't watch Netflix. I don't play video games. Magically, I have hours per week to read books.

The term that you're looking for is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/jumpstart-fo...

> I never understood those annual release cycles anyway. Too artificial, too forced. Great for marketing hype, accumulating bugs, and missing out on documentation. Bad for quality.…

>> A little insight on Vancouver: PRC investment firms decided that the steady growth of the North American real estate market looked to provide great returns on investment. So, th…

> I'm a fan of Arnold, but I think it's pretty clear that he suffers from issues stemming from his rough relationship with his father. Read the book and watch the Netflix documenta…

I had a chance to look at an early version of Unblocked. I think the huge benefit is when you work in a microservices environment or with many clients. Over time, engineers get com…

GraphQL makes sense when you have: - Many teams with many micorservices with many underlying stores - A fetch-based architecture Each team can be responsible for implementing the r…

This is Google at its 1990s COMDEX/Microsoft Vapourware worst. There is no product to try, no code samples, no documentation. Just an animated GIF of what the experience may be lik…

> Dumb question, what are invariants? The term that you want to Google or ask ChatGPT is "Design By Contract". An invariant is something that is true during the lifecycle of a clas…