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They introduced levels 2.5 years ago. Almost all existing engineers were converted to L5 at that time (I was told ~90% during a recent job interview there). A very small number of …

Bloomberg. The terminal level on their IC ladder is "Senior". They have no formal concept of Staff or Principal engineer. People spend decades there.

https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.

His claim is that it's a DDOS attack. Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I ki…

Were the "various overblown controversies" when he said "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-J…

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Deleted comment based on a misunderstanding.

Looks like a 2016 Nissan.

I was the owner of the domain potooooo.ooo from June 2020 to July 2021. I was pretty bored during early lockdown. I let it lapse. whois tells me someone else has now fallen into th…

For what it's worth, the use case that caused me to finally "get" chatbots was as a support while reading the Aubrey-Maturin series. The first conversation in my Claude history is …

Again, python does not use semantic versioning. 3.12 and 3.13 are different major versions. The deprecation policy is documented and public. https://peps.python.org/pep-0387/ .

1. That python 3 statement was not drawn up by "the Python maintainers". It was drawn up by downstream library owners. 2. To the extent you object to changes in the core language, …

> I’d be all for a deprecation warning on bare excepts. That might nudge a lot of people to fix their code without actively breaking anything. The PEP proposes a deprecation timeli…

> It's obvious this construct is just injecting some additional information in a passing exception There is a good chance it will fail to do that. See elsewhere in this thread.

> "except:" is explicit enough and "except BaseException" is redundant. Take that up with the consensus view of the python community, as reflected by python linters in their defaul…

Python does the same thing. It just calls Throwable something different. Java Throwable ~= Python BaseException. Java Exception ~= Python Exception. The problem here is that a bare…