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I think experiences vary depending on person and personality. I'm fine with doing nothing for a long time[0], but know friends and family members that struggle with not filling idl…

> Fool me once, shame on... shame on you — George Bush, 2002 The original saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I think an intellectually honest take is t…

Rust has clearly opined that they prefer a small standard library and a "choose your own libraries" vs "batteries included" approach. If Rust included a crypto lib and a vulnerabil…

There are a few flashlights that have USB PD power bank functionality and also run on 18650 or 21700 rechargeable, replaceable Li-ion cells. I bought a Loop Gear SK05 Pro to replac…

As a hiring manager that visited every resume Github link because of my FOSS background, >99% of them had nothing of substance (no activity, school projects, etc).

This requires those with power to relinquish authority and/or try new, unfamiliar practices and accept possible failure. Any company/organization can theoretically change its cultu…

Eh, us-east-1 is the oldest AWS region and if you get some AWS old timers talking over some beers they'll point out the legacy SPOFs that still exist in us-east-1.

> I know that concentrating knowledge / ownership at a person is not always good, but perhaps a better way to manage this is to... hire someone else who is competent or make other …

Visa, Mastercard, payment processors, banks, etc act as accountability sinks[0] for governments and political group by design . They are arbiters for moving/blocking money, not tak…

Because of goomba fallacy. The EU is not a hegemonic state, but rather an economic supranational organization. France/Germany tend to be primary proponents of increased EU strategi…

Chrome launched in an era where IE didn't stop the gazillion pop ups and crashed pretty often losing dozens of windows, before tabbed browsing and with no restore. Firefox was a re…

For clarification, "The Matrix" refers to the urgency vs importance decision matrix and not the movie: https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix It's a framework to prioritize …

Another perspective is that planning is a breadth-first traversal of the solution space, and coming up with a path to the solution. When reality hits and the path is often wrong, o…

After the roadmap is finalized, as the manager I ask every one on my team to stack rank at least N preferred projects from the roadmap. I map preferences to projects with some opti…

> It does, though. Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make. User karma has no impact on the default sort ranking[0]. The source code is avail…

Yes, but in the end it's because people who like Go because they prioritize a certain set of features (language, community, ecosystem, etc), and those who prefer non-Go languages p…

Many (most?) banking systems run on SFTP today.

I have two similar commands, both written as zsh functions but easily adaptable to shell scripts, other shells, etc. # wait on a path and do something on change, e.g. `wait_do test…

SLAs per product.

To add on to ethbr0's good response, a few other things to do: 1. Find early adopters of the thing you're building who are willing to use and give feedback (bugs, friction logs) in…

It's not possible to increase availability with redundancy in all cases, because not all financial actions are idempotent. For example, sending money via a banking wire. If the ban…

There's too much money in Rust, and many power brokers at play here from Google, Amazon, MS, et al. People are incentivized by money and career growth to lead Rust's future. I thin…

The person who created Twitter's experimentation platform is also at Reddit, and heavily influenced Reddit's experiment design and review process. But yes, a revolving door of prod…

Edit: "reined in" and not "reigned in". I apologize for the Freudian slip as my edit window has passed.