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At the very least _big_ tractor (John Deere) is a net drain on society

“Penny wise but pound foolish”?

I guess I'm an LLM then. I've been referring to the structure of types as "shape" for more than a decade and so have plenty of others

There's a reason Where 2 -> Google Maps happened in Sydney. The sheer number of one-way roads combined with the imposition of the harbour and the messy tunnel system make internalising Sydney navigation a life-long endeavour

Cloudflare are neck deep in v8 as their js runtime of choice. I doubt they'll be looking for another any time soon

The cloud is just someone else’s on-prem

They're based in Collingwood, any Australian would tell you that an n year Haskel rewrite is the most normal thing about them

Not op, but in my case a lifetime of colourblindness has desensitised me to colour as an indicator.

I have my editor configured with zero highlighting for keywords and syntactic elements. Admittedly, I have compilation/lint/syntax/type check errors set to invert the erroneous block, black background white text.

Syntax and keyword highlighting is just noise given I’ve been trained by decades of colourblind unfriendly interfaces

slop that works

Until that slop that works leads to therac-26 or PostOfficeScandal2 electric boogaloo. Neither of those applications required software superior to their competitors, just working software

The average quality of software can only trend down so far before real world problems start manifesting, even outside of businesses with a hard requirement on "software superiority"

? https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/

? https://ai.cloudflare.com/

But most of its profit from AWS

The three layers of middlemanagement between engineers and whichever director owns this particular incarnation of RDS

A single cloudflare durable object (sqlite db + serverless compute + cron triggers) would be enough to run this project. DOs have been added to CFs free tier recently - you could probably run a couple hundred (maybe thousands) instances of Stevens without paying a cent, aside from Claude costs ofc

Heh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Hard real time (or just "real time" in firmware/hardware contexts) is effectively a term of art. One that's been increasingly watered down by the rest of the industry.

Strict definitions matter when system failure == pacemaker missing a beat or train signalling system drives a freight train into the back of 400 passengers.

Just wait till 'slopper' starts getting classified as a slur

They've already got one: https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/analytics-engine...

And now you've pulled in a full sql parser as a dependency (admittedly a dev/build time dependency, but a dependency nonetheless) in a project that has no business parsing sql.

In this day and age of increasingly rampant supply chain attacks & dependency vulnerabilities, I'd definitely be second guessing the approach of "just write a test for it" if that test involved blowing up your attack/vuln surface

Agreed, I feel like the article didn't address the other major benefit of sync calls, namely their simplicity.

A system built on purely synchronous calls is infinitely easier to reason about and design in all aspects other than e2e latency.

I'd almost approach from the opposite direction, defaulting to sync calls till you have concrete performance reasons not to.

Yeah, 56 minutes late in the end. I would have happily traded another 4 minutes for £35. Next time I'll sabotage a door or two

(For the benefit of British transport police, the above is satire)

Oh it gets so much worse. Train is now parked up just outside Manchester with zero power. Another 10mins is worth £35 at this point

Ironic read given I'm currently sat on a half hour delayed, hopelessly overcrowded (due to 2 prior cancellations) Avanti west coast service.

I'll be happy to claim my delay repay on my employer's dime for the 5th time this year. My only regret is that I booked off-peak

Yeah, I’ve moved off vscode entirely, back to fully featured out of the box ides for me. Jetbrains make some excellent tools and I don’t need to install 25 (dubious) plugins for them to be excellent

Most FAANG and FAANG adjacents will background check after interviews so you're rolling the dice on getting blacklisted.

Resume fraud is prosecutable in plenty of jurisdictions as well (Australia and the UK at the very least).

Hilarious, I’m sure the move to teams will do further wonders for morale.

Come in 5 days a week to be sat in teams calls all day.

To my ex-colleagues, the grass really is greener elsewhere

I mean surely twitch(an Amazon brand) is leaning on the s3 scale econ for storage no?

Anyone know if they’re stopping internal use?

There wasn’t much love for chime while I was there, but I have no idea what a replacement looks like

Correlated or inversely correlated?

Seems like a very limited subset of software development to be basing a benchmark on

Where’s the kernel dev? Where’s the embedded dev? Where’s the throwaway python script?

* for some values of FAANG

C++ has been dead and effectively banned at amzn for years. Only very specific (robotics and ML generally) projects get exemptions. Rust is big and only getting bigger