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Really liking my XPS 17, though I'd echo your comment re: trackpad.

What makes games more likely to lean on global state than other kinds of applications?

Twitter | Sr Software Engineer | Remote (US) | Full-Time

The Twitter Compute team is hiring as we make a push towards Kubernetes (DC + public cloud) in 2021.

More details + Apply @ https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Twitter2/743999723101800-se...

We'll have a second listing going live shortly that covers the Kubernetes concerns that are closer to the metal.

As long as you are willing to spend some of that budget continuously patching and maintaining the old 2.x interpreter to address security vulns as they are discovered (IF they are discovered), sure. No need to upgrade!

Why did you use the word "demand", there?

The helpless baby stage is over in the blink of an eye. For me they start getting fun once they can smile and laugh, which is often in the first six months.

FWIW, I play Factorio and Satisfactory for different things. Factorio is where I go when I want to whip around quickly with my designs, flinging around blueprints and optimizing to my heart's desire. There's also that base/tower defense element that can be a different kind of thing compared to what you get with Satisfactory.

Satisfactory is a more meditative experience for me where I enjoy building and exploring within a beautiful, hand-crafted world. I find myself building with cosmetics more so in mind over optimization.

Sometimes I'm in the mood for one or the other, but they feel distinct enough for me to not substantially cannibalize my time. Though, mine is but one point of data!

This a rant post that backs up very few of its assertions. Though, the author may not have been trying to write for serious consumption. Sometimes it's therapeutic to have a good rant.

I'm not sure what there is for us to discuss. Nice rant, I guess? The post does not attempt to persuade or change opinions (which, again: cool. sometimes it's nice to have a good rant).

I'm not an engineer anymore so this is going to be pretty unexciting: Google Docs (and Sheets). Or really any product that offers the same rock solid realtime collaborative experience.

I'm not always excited to open them up. Docs and Sheets don't seem to be seeing much visible improvement over the last few years. But in my org they're the way we build consensus, make decisions, track, document, discuss, and more. It's easy for me to complain about them, but they are both so effective and valuable (to me).

As an engineer I probably would have said JetBrains IDEs. I find myself spending less time thinking about tooling, syntax, the standard library, finding/moving/renaming things, and more time thinking about what I'm building.

I've got an ErgoDox at home and a Kinesis Advantage II at work. I find the ErgoDox to be more sensible for light gaming (compared to the Kinesis), but the thumb cluster on the Kinesis is way easier (for me) to reach and navigate.

I've mostly adapted to the ErgoDox thumb cluster at this point, but prefer to do longer bouts of typing or coding on the Kinesis. The ErgoDex is more versatile but less comfortable.

We use it heavily at Reddit as well.

Depending on your usage patterns, SQS can be significantly more expensive, too.

Hello. I'm Greg and I'm scared. Well met.

I was just reading this the other day: https://community.clearlinux.org/t/changes-coming-to-clear-l...

I wonder what is about to happen to the desktop experience for Clear Linux.

Hey, you do you! If you have reached equilibrium in that you are happy and fulfilled and also a productive member of the team, that seems great for all parties involved.

Doesn't that require Istio and a few other things as well? I wouldn't wish Istio configuration and maintenance on anyone but the larger shops/teams. You might not be technically locked in, but not everyone can afford to dedicate the attention to tuning and maintaining Istio.

Source: at mid-sized company who has Istio in the stack.

If you are approaching retirement, you should already have a good % of your portfolio in bonds and other lower risk investments. If you have indeed done that, there is little reason to rush off and potentially buy high and sell low right before retirement.

For everyone else not near retirement, most are going to be better served by ignoring the volatility and continuing to invest as usual. Time in the market vs timing the market and all of that jazz.

For what it's worth, I'm over ten years into a career in software and have never stopped feeling stupid.

Here's a direct link to the config param docs: https://postgresqlco.nf/en/doc/param/

I can only speak for myself but I prefer not to manually onboard new contributors. I'd rather do a near-infinite number other things with that time.

Add a contributors guide, link to it in your README. GH even has some functionality built-in to link to it these days. Help contributors help themselves and spend that time on something else.

Reddit (https://www.reddit.com) | Site Reliability Engineer | Onsite (SF Bay Area)

“The front page of the internet," Reddit brings over 330 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

The Reddit Infrastructure team provides the foundation from which Reddit Engineering to develop, deploy, and operate their services. As we have continued to build out our offering, our next step is to spread knowledge around the org about infrastructure, incident response, performance analysis and optimization, and other things pertinent to service ownership and operation. One of the pieces of this is our new Site Reliability Engineering program.

As an SRE at Reddit, you'll embed within a division with the mission to share knowledge, amplify productivity, and reinforce a team that is operating services at a unique scale. You will work on/with Kubernetes frequently and also contribute back to InfraRed, our internal infrastructure product. Automation, analysis, and optimization are some of your favorite words.

If any of this sounds interesting, please see our listing below!

* SRE: (SF/Bay Area): https://grnh.se/93eec9c21

SF-only for this particular position, but do check out our other remote-friendly openings across numerous functions if you are generally interested in Reddit: https://grnh.se/b414de2b1

Mudlet and a number of other maintained clients now support TLS!

Is this plugin system going to end up being a package manager?

It can run on VMs but doesn't have to. There are many bare metal k8s users out there doing some really neat things with the stack.

Reddit (https://www.reddit.com) | Site Reliability Engineer | Onsite (SF Bay Area) “The front page of the internet," Reddit brings over 330 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

The Reddit Infrastructure team provides a stable, humane foundation for Reddit Engineering to develop, deploy, and operate their services on. As we have continued to build out our offerings, our next step is to spread knowledge around the org about infrastructure, incident response, performance analysis and optimization, and other pertinent things pertinent to service ownership and operation. One of the pieces of this is our new Site Reliability Engineering program.

As an SRE at Reddit, you'll embed within a division with the mission to share knowledge, amplify productivity, and reinforce a team that is operating services at tremendous scale. You will work on/with Kubernetes frequently and also contribute back to InfraRed, our internal infrastructure product. Automation, analysis, and optimization are some of your favorite words.

If any of this sounds interesting, please see our listing below!

* SRE: (SF/Bay Area): https://grnh.se/93eec9c21

SF-only for this particular position, but do check out our other remote-friendly openings across numerous functions if you are generally interested in Reddit: https://www.redditinc.com/careers

Reddit (https://www.reddit.com) | Site Reliability Engineer | Onsite (SF + Dublin, Ireland) or Remote (US only)

“The front page of the internet," Reddit brings over 330 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

Reddit is in the process of expanding our Infrastructure team, ramping up our first office in Europe (hello, Dublin!) and continuing to lean into building a more distributed team (over a third of our team is located outside of SF). We'd love to have your help in building and operating one of the most trafficked sites in the world.

While we are looking for folks with a variety of Infrastructure, incident response, and development backgrounds, some of our most urgent needs include: High-scale Kafka dev and operations experience, deep Kubernetes (admin/dev) experience, deep Cassandra operational experience, and service mesh/proxy experience. If you have any one of those, please consider applying! If you do not, please consider applying!

* Dublin, Ireland: https://grnh.se/f141bdb71

* Remote (US): https://grnh.se/8c7e5d011

* SF: https://grnh.se/93eec9c21

We also have tons of other openings across all sorts of functions if you aren't an SRE: https://www.redditinc.com/careers

Reddit is expanding its Site Reliability Engineering organization and has openings available in:

* SF (and remote to North America): https://grnh.se/93eec9c21

* NYC: https://grnh.se/2b4d31e91

* Dublin, Ireland: https://grnh.se/f141bdb71

If you'd like to learn more about where we are coming from and where we are headed, check a few of our recent conference talks out:

* The Evolution of Reddit.com's Architecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUcO7n4hek4

* More history and an overview of the direction we're heading - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7TIzCAEo0M

Ehh, I never want to go back to the days of points and carbs.

The images get even smaller after Bionic!

It's a bit more difficult in Oakland if the places you are trying to get to aren't by a BART stop. The AC transit buses are slow, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and don't have 100% coverage.