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Honestly, with the AI slop of resumes, I applied to dozens of jobs, and only got a callback to ones I had either a recruiter for or direct connections to, after 20 years of experience. Because I didn't have a big fat "worked at google for 10 years" on my resume. And I'd like to think of myself as someone who can take a very bad situation and make it look smooth.

Yuuuuup.

We once had a cloudflare outage. My CEO asked "mitigate it" I hit him back with, okay, but that'll take me weeks/months potentially, since we're tiny, do you really want to take away that many resources just to mitigate a once every few years half the internet is down issue?

He got it really quickly.

I did mitigate certain issues that were just too common not to, but when it comes to this sort of thing, you gotta ask "is it worth it"

Edit: If you're so small, cloudflare isn't needed, then you don't care if you go down if half the internet does. If you're so big that you need cloudflare, you don't wanna build that sort of feature set. The perfect problem.

The most terrifying thing is there will be a trump-government representative in the governing body.

We are truly looking at 1984 as a blueprint not a warning.

Counter thought:

Rent is going up A LOT every year. My parent's house in a similar area is not, even with extra taxes, it is far lower than what I pay.

They fix up something, its fixed. We have a problem -- it will be fixed in the cheapest possible terribly looking way.

And rent keeps going up. All the time. By so much.

There's flexibility in it when you're in your 20s. But in 30s and 40s its terrible.

The problem of authoritarianism is the preparedness paradox.

They are less prepared for problems. And so suddenly problems happen all the time.

But when there are no problems... Things are going well for the average person.

Maybe it's time for a third large phone OS, whether it comes from China getting fed up with the US and Google's shenanigans (Huawei has HarmonyOS but it's not open) or some "GNU/Linux" touch version that has a serious ecosystem. Especially when more and more apps and services are "mobile-first" or "mobile-only" like banking.

This makes me laugh. Not at you, but at the cycle. This was the convo years ago when this was possible, but getting consumers to trust a 3rd party like PalmOS (which was actually pretty darn good compared to android) is practically not possible.

Reminds me of the early days of cloud computing. It was very pricey, but once the tools caught up in 5 or so years, it went from "omg cloud is so expensive" to "omg cloud is only expensive when its worth building your own data center"

He was iconic. But also he was a terrible human.

Reminds me of the argument of "cars used to be more sturdy than today, where any hit is a total"

Um... Looking at videos of crashing old cars into new cars, the old cars DO NOT hold up to new cars in terms of breaking. The only difference is in old cars the engine would stay intact and the occupants not, while in the new cars its the opposite.

I had a kid at 22, I am now 40 with a kid going to college. I can echo this exact sentiment.

However at 22 I wasn't the experienced person I am today. Nor was I stable, nor could I jump on opportunities like my peers could.

If having a child in your early 20s would mean not losing opportunities in progressing in a career, at least with enough free childcare and food to feed the children, people could be more inclined to have children while they get their life together. Our culture of moving away from home is also a big problem -- having 2 sets of grandparents helping raise a child REALLY helped me at my youth not miss out on youth and still raise my child.

kids between 25-32 is something our society should aim to be as practical and pleasant as possible.

Right up top. The service for alerts no longer works 24/7 so this happened when they were down for their daily window. Therefore the cuts are directly responsible.

I guess I don't understand the economics of this entire process. Is this a pro or anti consumer move?

I find that postgres query planner is quite satisfactory for very difficult use cases. I was able to get 5 years into a startup that wasn't basically trying to be the next Twitter on a 300 dollar postgres tier with heroku. The reduced complexity was so huge we didn't need a team of 10. The cost savings were yuge and I got really good at debugging slow queries to a point of I could tell when postgres would cough at one.

My point isn't that this will scale. It's that you can get really really far without complexity and then tack on as needed. This is just another bit of complexity removal for early tech. I'd use this in a heart beat.

I've used a philosophy of reduced infra complexity till you really need it for years.

Having to just manage a database is far easier infra wise than a complex system for small rails operations.

Scaling up there will always be strong needs for complexity, but doesn't mean you can't get really far without it.

This. This is it.

Now Disney will have to bow down and kiss the ring or their us incomes will fail. Make it too expensive to not bow down.

That's how this works. I'll make doing business too painful for you unless you cater to my will. So surrender.

Well......... Let's see if the gambit will pay off.

Tarrifs are a tool that must be applied strategically. You typically announce tarrifs years in advance so business can shift their logistics and build out manufacturing where you want it. However a daily change in tariffs only creates a chaos that the economy cannot simply respond to fast enough.

A new steel mill won't magically appear in the middle of the US within a month.

As someone who set these up, I can tell you, the answer is rather simple:

- spammers have 1 system to set up in order to spam. They get it right.

- company admins have dozens of projects, of which this is a tiny one, with zero ROI to the bottom line (if people don't consider how critical security is). So they delay.

- companies often have dozens of systems integrated, when I set up DMARC/DKIM the first time for my company, a bunch of email tools broke, we had to do a bunch of leg work, took us a month end-to-end. The value was recognized when we almost lost 20k to a "ceo emails you" scam. But until then it wasn't a priority.

- we didn't even have a full IT, i just stepped in because I cared enough.

- my current company has a dedicated security team. These holes are plugged VERY quickly.

the weird thing is:

- if you use 1password (an example), then you're generating a bunch of random and unique passwords for every site - questions to verify you as a 2fa tends to be less secure since you tend to make simple answers for those. And they're not convenient to enter into 2fa apps. - 2fa apps are typically great ways to guarantee one bit of randomness into the process

3 years later after my burnout and I still don't have the same energy and drive.

Just a note. Ukranian manufacturing has really stepped up. They are making 80% of the ammunition now.

They also have a well trained army still alive while the Russians have only conscripts with weeks of training.

Russia manufacturing is diminishing daily.

I'm not sure Russia will have any bullets left by the end of the year. And north Korean reinforcements were such a bust, they were all slaughtered.

The main worry is if the US starts buying Russian oil, but that won't be an issue if Russia can't move anything.

Just so you know.

The Ukranian constitution states no elections during war.

All political opponents have come out and said we will hold elections after victory. Nobody is against postponement.

Ukraine has had healthy consistent elections since the Russian backed government was booted out.

Agreed.

Russia can pull out of their invasion literally any time.

Wait, has anyone had any illusion that google wanted to continue to allow developers to make good content filtering? They are in a full-blown war against adblocking.

My uncle did ATC in the soviet military. They were allowed to do 2 hour shifts max. The mental work is so intense that the human brain can only sustain it for a short time.

Funny story, my lady's landlord has been doing some blatantly illegal stuff, and then taking her to court. Instead she went on the offensive and suddenly the landlord is extremely willing to fix all the problems and such.

Being on the offensive is far better than on the defensive legally it seems.

Musk has major influence in the legal system. The law is what he demands it is. There's a reason why everyone is settling with trump, gotta kiss the ring.

Logically, your argument absolutely falls square into freedom of speech territory. But we do not live in logical times.

Technical debt is all those decisions you make that are not the optimal way of doing things. Eventually I seen entire companies screech into a halt because the code couldn't be reasoned about, things were too fragile so any change caused something else to break, and/or performance was so bad that tjry were bleeding money.

It's all debt. It's time debt. You gotta pay with time for every thing you gotta build, tech debt adds in more time you always gotta pay every time you do things.

When your burn rate exceeds your cash flow you cut the burn.

They don't have much in the bank. They burn over 100 mil a year on headcount.

I'm over 40. My fiance is disabled and not white. What country is gonna take me.

Doesn't matter. His goal was not to make a hyper profitable company. But to spend 40 billion to create the perfect propaganda network which he used to get himself as close to the US presidency as possible due to him not being a natural born citizen.