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i was hiring for a senior devops role a few years ago. part of the interview was ssh into a machine and debug some web server configs we purposely broke. step one was email an ssh public key to me. now, i dont remember the command cause i do it so rarely, i dont expect them to, but for a senior role we expect you can google this, its not supposed to be hard. the number of people that could not generate an ssh key was crazy. i had people emailing me their current company private key. and if we did spend half the interview on the key, they never could pass the trivial part of how we broke it, which effictively just required reading the log file.

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/02/philadelphia-mint-c... Talked to the actual artist

The design was approved in 2024, it’s to represent that there was no peace during the revolutionary war, and is a one year commemorative coin for the 250th

I still log in fairly regularly and get a bunch of reasonably targeted content, but also a ton of ragebait ai shit like protestors attacking cops. So it’s a bit of both, they’re just flooded with bad ai posts. It’s changed drastically in the past year, from a bunch of posts you could argue make sense, to mostly posts of rage. But the number of actual friends posts is basically zero

The article said they were buying it for the ad business, and the ad business it’s what is actively making the tvs worse

Vizio recently changed their firmware on my tv to require you to use the smart cast app just to watch antenna. It's slow and buggy and causes nothing but problems, the people writing the software clearly never use one of these tvs. Dumb stuff like it would mute my receiver every time I switch channels and immediately unmute, except sometimes the unmute would fail. It’s a shame, it was a great little tv, but this push for more ad views means I’d never recommend a Vizio to anyone.

I know the common refrain is don’t connect tv to the internet, but for whatever reason the Vizio showed up in chromecast at times when the Roku stick wouldn’t, otherwise didn’t use tv smart features

i dont doubt gcp will continue existing. but individual services/products/apis/pricing break way too frequently, and the response from google is deal with it. small companies dont really notice it, and how anti-customer it is, but when once a month youre dealing with some firefight because gcp decided to change something its tiring, since at a big company it means tracking down ten different teams. ive not experienced anywhere near the churn in aws

I had five jobs in my first five years, then two jobs five years each. In general all my raises came from promos or stock matching when getting a new job. One of the things that helps with staying is if the company is growing there’s a vacuum pulling people up. A big company is relatively stable so promos are fewer and less lucrative, but stock growth was a thing. But after the fifth job there was definitely more scrutiny on job hopping

Also which dynamo price are they comparing to? On demand? Provisioned? Reserved provisioned? We had a huge spanner db with low throughput so had to add idle nodes just for storage which also ballooned costs for spanner(the increased storage size here helps)

The gcs change last year was also terrible, such an expensive increase

But since going public it has been clear that they are trying to get money and enterprise customers at any cost.

And yet, as an enterprise customer, their sales team is terrible. Incredibly unhelpful with problems, not willing to discuss pricing, ultimately lost the deal due to how unresponsive they were, and how they basically told as that they wouldn’t be any more likely to fix all the bugs we were hitting if we paid.

The reason they had to go this route is they are getting trounced by their competitors and it’s all their own fault

I've talked with a few people actively interviewing the past couple months, including myself, and fairly consistently people are passing hiring bar, having done the entire battery of interviewing and the company wanting to hire, but there not being any job which to hire them into. 'wait til next quarter maybe more headcount will free up'

I’ve had a few companies that “had openings” and i passed hiring bar, but then actually didn’t have the headcount to hire me. Talking to some others this is very common right now, so I wouldnt trust job postings to reflect how many people are actually being hired

there's a cost to engineer something that automatically switches or someone going in and manually changing it. so the spot prices has to be higher than ondemand + switching costs. the new pricing models(a couple years old) though have mostly alleviated this

especially depressing when you know they also take 15% from the seller too, so thats another $50

Yea, I mostly agree. I feel like a lot of the negativity comes from hobbyists, where an extra hundred dollars does matter.

I think one place that I disagree is while you could do that in a few hours, your average developer couldn’t. You’re now talking about everyone to learn lambda and terraform and whatnot, whereas with a “standard” web server, that people are familiar with, a lot of that is more easily centralized. just throw some annotations and routes are done, vs the arcane api gateway config. The tools and frameworks for lambda just didn’t seem to be there yet.

Fwiw I’m all in on aws, cost was one of the easiest arguments to deflect. Ultimately we needed to show developer velocity increases as that’s the cost that mattered. And security isn’t compromised, which the bigger the company the more roadblocks I’ve seen to just give devs terraform.

The stuff you’re saving time on, managing hosts, just isn’t that much compared to dealing with aws/terraform/etc. I’m at a few orders of magnitude more spend than that, and in absolute dollars is very much noticeable how much more expensive aws is. But as a percentage of costs it’s so little next to wages, as is your example, that cost is really the wrong thing to get hung up on. Most engineers I’ve worked with don’t get that, they see a value they can objectively minimize, without realizing that even dropping it to zero his little business effect.

they went through, its like $3-4 for a 2 liter. even diet so its not even about sugar, though diet soda isnt really much better. and i think the latest study is less than half the money went where it was supposed to.

at the least, tax at sales tends to be regressive, affecting poor people more than not poor, which maybe you could claim is racist. but pa constitution doesnt allow anything but flat taxes, so unfortunately theres basically no progressive taxing here. sin taxes in general i find somewhat troubling, sure its a luxury but why is this luxury deserve more tax than that.

agreed, i worked at a tier below faang and had this conversation soooo often.

ignoring blackout volatility, since of course our grants didnt line up with windows, pretending it was cash and would you purchase stock on a cash bonus really is the best way to think about it

yea, this tracks for mixing up rsu/espp. youre close enough, but espp are super confusing. the 15% discount is always income tax, even if you sell them years later. most plans do a 'lower of price between now and the beginning of the offering period.' this is called the bargain element, and that's the part that has tax advantages(qualified disposition) for holding 2 years from the start of the offering period(so usually another 18 months since most offering periods are 6 months)

Wasn’t one of the companies in Texas doing that, which is how people ended up with bills in the thousands?

https://theconversation.com/amp/whats-behind-15-000-electric...

in the last round of storage price increases, the biggest change for us was reading multi-region storage, like five or six figures a month increase. 'just rearchitect your application.' it seemed to really be a punishment(sin tax if you will) on a behavior they want people not to do. or align revenue with costs i guess. it really sucks working with a partner that thinks punitive actions are ok.

the whole but youre on a contract so it doesnt apply yet is such bs, it just delays the pain, and we lost track of the many places we saw price increases.

You still get hit with fees at the door in my experience. Considering most venues bigger than a bar are owned by livenation which is the same company as Ticketmaster…

the ledger is public, so every transaction is traceable. maybe you create a wallet/entity thats not clearly linked to a person. you could probably claim its not traceable with a wallet address alone, you can see its transactions but have no idea who it is. at some point in the future or past you interact with the real world, like say sell crypto and withdraw USD, or start by buying crypto with USD. at that point they link that entity with a person(exchanges generally have to follow Know Your Customer rules), and can trace the transactions to the person through the public ledger.

the original tweet kinda made it sound like thats what the plan was. they already attach labels to politicians and such, having a label of 'us senator' and a blue check is redundant, by being labeled they must be verified. if they expanded the labeling to include a bunch more things(and make it more visible in the UI).. its a much better system, labels replace verification and blue just becomes premium(though to be fair id probably pick a different icon)

but this is how all stock reporting works, and its pretty useless. they look at every big move, find some weak correlation, and pump out an article. and then if it generates enough clicks the regular newsrooms copy it. ive even seen 'why XX is losing big', and 'why XX is going up' on the same day from the same publisher. basically no stock news is reliable, it all might as well be AI written

this falls in line with how i feel about cloud run, it really feels like a much better abstraction than ecs/gke or functions. it also is more similar to how most devs currently work, and local dev is the same. for non-api based traffic, like queues, it has some really weird quirks, like the autoscaler is problematic. but our experience with gcp in general has ranged from mediocre to bad, where the tech seems cool but things dont quite fit together

You buy something online and pay with Zelle. Seller never ships it. You have zero recourse, there’s no chargebacks or anything like that, your money is gone. It’s the same as cash, and you should only use it with people you know. Same with Venmo, and cashapp

The biggest thing I’ve run into issues with with some new employees is they think previous decisions were dumb. If a new employee approaches it assuming that their new coworkers were smart and made those decisions for a reason, and try to learn why, it works much better than coming at it as “you all did this wrong”. I don’t think that means be as agreeable as possible, but it just means assume good intentions

I wrote programs too. Even had them print out the work.

Checked with the teacher at the beginning of the year and she said no problem. After rampant cheating, mostly people just writing notes in the programs section, she instituted a policy of deleting everyone’s calculator before any test. but let me keep mine too, I had asked to not delete it and I’d take a class calculator if she insisted.