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B&H Photo Video shuts down intentionally for a whole day every single week, and as far as I can tell, they're one of the top retailers of pro/prosumer A/V electronics.
Best memory was walking in there and seeing all the conveyer belts above me shooting packages across.
For what it's worth, I'm not sure this is a mental breakdown, and it might give the wrong impression to people who do legitimately suffer breakdowns related to stress about tech. For me it's only happened once. It was an anxiety attack, and I'm very lucky my wife was there to talk me through it and help me understand what was happening. She's had them many times, but it was my first (and thankfully only). It turns ou…
One thing I did not expect about working in enterprise tech companies was the amount of coworkers who popped Xanax regularly. I've been an anxiety basket case my whole life and the idea that an addictive pill could take it all away terrifies me - I'd be hooked for life.
I have to keep myself very disciplined on the "helpful" medications I do allow into my life because I know how easy it'd be for me to get hooked and start depending on the meds to avoid my problems. Instead I've been working on training myself to see through my nerves.
Alcohol at least has the drawback that the few times I've had it, I've had such an awful experience that I don't associate it with avoiding my problems.
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>This affected users that did not have a specific version of the JS library pinned and deployed a new version Par for the course honestly. The amount of garbage that gets called "production" these days is mindboggling. No blue/green or canary deployments, shipping code that has nothing pinned, no clear rollback, etc. This is what happens when anyone can become an EngineerTM after a two week JavaScript boot camp.
No, actually, it's because Posthog explicitly recommends that as the way to do it, makes their standard npm package unpinnable (as it will always lazy load the most recent version of its modules) and calls version pinning via npm as an "advanced" installation[1]. The ecosystem has plenty of versioning and best practices, but they do jack squat when you recommend to your customers to bypass them and trust that you'll…
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it's common with all these analytics toolkits. When you're monkeying with such a core api, I have no idea how you can actually test everything. eg heap analytics still (as of this month) bad touches something inside hotwire and randomly entirely breaks hotwire causing every click to do a full page load. ime, it affects 30-60% of page loads. You can fix it (but thanks for 50+ hours of debugging) but making heap load a…
> I have no idea how you can actually test everything. While a worthy goal (if unattainable sometimes), in this case, folks would settle for "test anything", which would have caught the regression.
"Test strategy: yolo"
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Great point. I honestly can't remember the last time that I've had a smooth experience with any kind of business or commercial thing, even when I'm the one paying for services. Bank declines transactions randomly when balance is sufficient, on vendors that have been used before. Orders of equipment over $10k are days late, no explanation provided, no number to speak to a human, just ineffective support robots. Planni…
Every company seems to just be phoning it in lately. The number of times I've ordered something from an online retailer, and either 1. the wrong thing arrived, 2. the thing arrived broken/doa, or 3. the thing never arrived, has at least tripled since say 5 years ago. And to a lot of companies' credit, their indifferent but friendly customer support tends to just say " just keep whatever we sent you and we'll refund y…
"Phoning it in" is when your heart isn't in it, you're just reading your lines or going through the motions.
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Every company seems to just be phoning it in lately. The number of times I've ordered something from an online retailer, and either 1. the wrong thing arrived, 2. the thing arrived broken/doa, or 3. the thing never arrived, has at least tripled since say 5 years ago. And to a lot of companies' credit, their indifferent but friendly customer support tends to just say " just keep whatever we sent you and we'll refund y…
"Dialing it in" is getting things working better -> perfectly. "Phoning it in" is when your heart isn't in it, you're just reading your lines or going through the motions.
> This is no good. Let me just try reverting to a version from a month ago. Nothing. Three months ago? Nothing. Still failing. A year ago? Zilch. Reverting your own code, but still using a broken PostHog update from that same day? For me, the lesson is to make sure that I can revert everything, including dependencies.
It seems that PostHog just always loads the latest version of this piece of itself: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/24471#issuecomment... Though you can opt to bundle it yourself: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/24471#issuecomment...
Edit: the extension's manifest gave it nearly every permission, on every web site, including internal ones
From the PR: > fetch() broken on August 19: TypeError: ... Not broken at this version, broken on August 19. This is why I'm terrified of putting anything on the web. It is a dark scary place where runtime dependency on servers that you don't control is considered normal. One day I'll start my own p2p thing with just a bunch of TUI's and I'll only manage to convince six people to use it each for less than a month and…
> Not broken at this version, broken on August 19. This is why I'm terrified of putting anything on the web. It is a dark scary place where runtime dependency on servers that you don't control is considered normal. Yeah, that is terrifying. In a nearby comment [1], a PostHog co-founder wrote this affected sites which "did not have a specific version of the JS library pinned and deployed a new version, or were using t…
Unison does this I believe.
I heard a sleep expert say that during the night your logic and reasoning abilities are greatly reduced. I think it was in relation to dreaming, you don't want to apply much logic to that stuff. That's why trying to solve problems in the middle of the night just ends up in stress.
Funny enough, I almost exclusively do my best problem solving at night. I'll wake up with solutions, or I'll stay awake and get things done. I'd say 90% of my Master's work was done between midnight and 3am. But indeed, regardless of time of day, if I just wake up, or am woken up, I'm basically a big, dangerous toddler when it comes to problem solving. Context and nuance is important, of course. We're all so differen…
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if you're only getting 3% with dividends, can I interest you with an HYSA paying 5%?
10 year US treasuries my good friend, no state or local income taxes and HYSA rates will decline as the Fed lowers the federal funds rate. 3% is on par for SCHD, which is a popular ETF dividend fund (that provides income, but also growth). Different risk profile than treasuries though. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SCHD/