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dchia

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dchia··on Advanced NLP with SpaCy
old but gold
dchia··on Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
Why do people assume that things would break so easily? I'm pretty sure Twitter (ex)team did tons of scalability testing with loads that are 10x or even 100x. Plus random 100x to 1000x spikes to account for breaking news. And all of these are done automatically, constantly, and consistently over the years.
dchia··on How to Get Rich (2019)
Despite all the criticism, this remains one of the best threads on Twitter so far.
dchia··on Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop
Can someone tell me what value does Pantone bring to the table? As a man-on-the-street I fail to understand what they are claiming for. Is this about the naming Pantone has given to a particular Hex Code?
dchia··on Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe
"Pricing as Code" would be a better tagline I guess?
dchia··on Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
If you are paying for the load/pressure, what's the problem?
dchia··on Download the full collection of Paul Graham essays in ePub for easy reading
Is there a PDF version of it?
dchia··on Mental model examples and their explanations
I still go back to the article[0] on mental models by FS (Farnam Street) whenever I need a refresher. It is complete and to the point.

[0] https://fs.blog/mental-models/