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Aside: Is titus still being developed? GitHub repo says it was archived 2 years ago: https://github.com/Netflix/titus

A bit miffed that there was no mention of L4S though. Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38597744

AWS, like every company, is really the culture+ managers. Some managers can deflect the culture enough for you to feel "loved". Others can't. They embody the culture. The AWS cultu…

How odd. I have, and continue, to use Signal without auto-update enabled. I have been prompted, twice in three years to update though. Perhaps the requirement depends on your count…

> Groups do not have guilt, individuals do. When we can treat corporations as legal individuals, then groups also have guilt.

Your comment does not highlight anything which indicates that Australians blindly follow the rules. I'm Australian, currently live in Sydney and I feel as you do, but none of your …

A low-cost way to make plastic polymer lenses which enable infra-red photography

See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/45830 for the fallout.

GitHub upgrades git, decides to "clarify" source archive policy, which breaks Homebrew, bazel, etc.

I'm Australian and have the direct counter experience. Most of the business I've worked for consider Slack as ephermal. Email is for significant communications. Outside of work, I'…

The bar is per-team at Amazon, which is one of the bug hiring problems. Worse, your title - and your quality of life at Amazon - is entirely dependent upon what your manager thinks…

If they were "customer obsessed" even though they are not doing development of a service, they would lauch it anyway in all regions. By not doing this, they make it hard for their …

I am skeptical that is actually the case though, there are so many use-cases where you have to think through the consequences too carefully: - what happens when the source reposito…

How did your charity function when Facebook "accidently" removed all AU-based pages during their fight with the Australian Government?

AWS' Hypervisor is Nitro. Which is based upon KVM - AIUI. https://www.kovarus.com/blog/deep-dive-into-the-aws-nitro-sy...

This repository is: - the WP-sqlite-db plugin - akismet added - themes before twentytwenty removed - an empty 'wordpress.db' - wp-config.db setup set to use the WP-sqlite-db plugin…

Why not let the user decide what their personal privacy trade-off is? That is, fundamentally, what the original post is about.

What other things we use daily are "draft standards"?

> Wayland isn't ready, I have serious doubts it's ever going to be ready. I don't know enough to have opinion about Wayland - could you share more details about why you do not thin…

A common problem when using Gerrit is the Change-Id being copied across from different branches (via, for example, git cherry-pick). The idea is ... interesting, but the implementa…

However, git has all those features; whereas each of the other DVCSes had only a couple of them. That is what made git successful. The git cli is, comparatively, a lot easier to gr…

UK direct debits are only for debit accounts. But most of the commentators are talking about credit cards. There is no equivalent system for credit cards.