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That's not what that column is supposed to mean afaict. The way I read it is it's showing that if the website requires hundreds of different parallel backend service calls to serve…

There's a difference between legal reasons and decency

I don't want my own office. If I wanted to work in a room by myself, I would work from home. The whole reason I go to the office at a job that lets me choose is because I find it e…

You do not have the right to force your personal religious views onto other people though. Tolerance does not mean everyone else has to allow you to dictate how they live their liv…

I don't think it's fair to complain that you're not interested in reading about the state of venture capitalism on an article titled "The State of Private Markets". The article del…

Well-equipped soldiers may be fine but low-income civilians in Khartoum would not have the means to obtain P100 respirators or gas masks.

By law, if the FDIC takes losses to the insurance fund to pay out on uninsured deposits, they have to charge an extra premium to the member banks. So it's still the banks paying fo…

Why would banks take more risk with their deposits? The bank executives, shareholders, and bondholders wouldn't be personally affected by the loss of deposits anyway so I'm not sur…

This is also assuming that the sale of SVB's assets doesn't end up covering the full cost, and that the remaining cost is large enough to result in a meaningfully sized special ass…

Taxpayers did not pay for the FDIC protections. And shareholders are wiped out, so they didn't gain from this collapse.

While the goal sounds admirable, it seems like it would inevitably mean discriminating against young, child-free employees.

Maps has become buggier and buggier over time. These days I can't figure out how to use the UI and my navigation to work has become completely wrong (it used to be correct for year…

I think the fear is a bit overblown. California already doesn't allow non-competes as far as I know.

My understanding is they would have to prove criminal intent.

The process is quite complex so it's usually too heavy handed for a project of this size. That's why people look for an existing nonprofit to take it on. But if kloch mainly wants …

I'm 25 and I'd totally take it on, but you're probably looking for an actual nonprofit if you want true survivability. As someone who has used this tool for at least 10+ years (as …

My team is 3 right now and 33% time oncall is still pretty bad.

There are a couple of blog posts and associated papers on TAO: https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe... https://research.facebook.com/publications/flighttrac…

Where did you move to?

That's a pretty narrow viewpoint. I can tell you from personal experience that it is very difficult to graduate college almost straight into a (pandemic-induced) remote job in a ne…

How does DynamoDB guarantee p99 latency? At first glance it sounds impossible to guarantee something like that, especially accounting for random network congestion or queuing on th…

This is why production services should have health checks that actually verify whether the service is doing its job in the system, not whether it's merely running the process. A pr…

I noticed some other weirdness like functions taking a double pointer argument and then freeing the memory and replacing it with a newly allocated piece of memory. Seems rather dan…

I believe another contributor wrote a Go user-space implementation and Jason decided to build off that for the PC user-space implementations and Android and iOS. So basically, beca…