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My experience with Google hardware has been the opposite. Three early Pixel phones died within a year or two, and pretty abysmal experience with Pixel Buds. They'd send me replacem…

That's one free round trip international flight per year in a lot of cases. Plus sometimes other benefits like theft insurance, warranty extension, phone insurance, etc. You're sub…

Fedora is good and fairly stable, but it has bugged on me a few times. In the past 3 years: - mouse/cursor issues due to some kernel upgrade I think, as Fedora stays close to upstr…

I will have forgotten almost everything by the time something inevitably breaks in a few years. Unless I am constantly recalling the knowledge and applying it, I don't find it wort…

AWS is very heavy on Rust internally for core services. EC2 (lots of embedded work on servers), IAM, DynamoDB, and parts of S3 all heavily use Rust for quite a few years now alread…

Just a single data point against this. I got interviews with 4 companies out of 30 or so I applied to. Cleared all the onsites. Think FAANG, famous hedge fund, popular data analyti…

I know your comment is mostly in good faith, but I wish people considered whether it's worth it to use terms like "right wing commentators" instead of the simpler "commentators". T…

Yes and Yes.

This is a really good link. Will definitely refer to this when making a car purchase in the future. Thanks! It seems like Volvo's reputation as one of the safest car is still well …

Leetcode is a standardized test that shows your ability to write code, grind and pattern match in a very complicated space. It is not possible to memorize solutions to all problems…

Leetcode shows candidates willingness to grind.

> They really don’t require you to know the latest frameworks, databases, Kubernetes, etc The latest "framework, databases" are constantly changing. Being good at leetcode and syst…

Is the “card” work EC2 Nitro by any chance? Sounds similar to what I used to do

That's a good point. I used to work at a SF startup before the FAANG about 4-5 years back. All the engineers there have unfortunately been replaced with those in LATAM too. LATAM e…

I don't mean to spread FUD, but as an interviewer at a FAANG in the US, I have mostly been interviewing candidates in LATAM (Brazil and Mexico). Same for some of my other coworkers…

You can replace software engineers with anything else here. Most VPs and higher leadership I see at FAANGs (who're arguably the ones recognizing opportunity) come from a PM or othe…

Which is most information...

Huh, thanks. Really good to know where Linus stands here. Seems to me like Linus is completely okay with introduction of Rust to the kernel and will not allow maintainers blocking …

Medicare, social security. We already have this in the US. We pay for the old, to receive the same benefits when we’re old.

Google buys transaction data from credit card companies (Visa, Mastercard, etc). They almost certainly know what you spend money on

An increasing amount of AWS EC2 dataplane (Nitro firmware/software) is using Rust. We hit this issue too, and our solution was to go busybox-style with binaries. One binary that th…

AWS Graviton servers are ARM. These tend to be cheaper and more reliable than Intel/AMD counterparts.