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It links against a more recent glibc than Amazon Linux supports, so in my case it’s not ready for usage on EC2 hosted CI machines.

Elixir people might cringe but why wouldn’t you just be 100% Go?

CoffeeScript solves the wrong problem. You never want to trade long term maintainability for writing code faster and more concisely. Maybe if you’re a solo developer and smarter than me there are benefits, but on a team, CoffeeScript was a detriment.

I spent years writing enterprise scale CoffeeScript with a sizable team and it was pretty rough. We converted to ES5 and now TypeScript (well mostly) and that solved a lot of our problems.

But they do.

I work on a large enterprise SaaS. It depends on how long a services test take, but our deploys to production require approval by the security team, which all happens via JIRA approvals. So less than a day. If it's break the glass urgent in under an hour, mostly constrained by test automation. If it was something insane, I could probably do it in under 10 minutes for a single amazon region by turning off the test automation, but never had to do this. Feature toggles only take about 5 minutes to propagate and much less work than doing a deploy.

We have Dev, Test, & 10+ prod regions. The service I work on takes about an hour to run tests in each region, but that involves almost 10 years of test automation, building a custom AMI on EC2, and deploying. There is also cross region AMI copying which slows things down.

To bootstrap a new region takes about 2 months for the entire product with developers kinda working in the background. My service takes about a week worth of work, but lots of external dependencies and issues pop up. We do this about once a year so its' almost not worth optimizing for.

In the USA, states often require annual inspections.

AWS regularly lies about their status on their status page.

Instead, if you have an issue you think is an AWS specific issue and if you spend enough money with AWS, you have a TAM. You reach out to your TAM who can give you the real status under AWS NDA.

None of these massive FAANG companies are anywhere near crashing.

I’m not rich by American standards but we were offered growth hormone for our son since he is trending to 5 1/2 feet.

Some people love space more than money.

My company has a similar philosophy. “Just use DynamoDB for everything.” Seemingly they don’t care about costs, but otherwise it is mostly working.

I got to experience a cadaver lab when my wife was taking a gross anatomy course. By the time I visited they were pretty deep into the semester, so the bodies were pretty well cut up.

I only saw people being respectful the two times I was there, after hours with only students and no professors around.

The smell was terrible, not because of rotting flesh, but because the chemicals. I had more opportunities to visit, but couldn't really get over the smell so would just wait in the hall for my wife.

I'm optimistic that I don't experience that many dead bodies again until I am one.

There was no incident involving Skylab and a cow.

Are you mixing it up with a Cuban owned cow and a different launch almost 20 years before Skylab?

Right, op is making a mistake in thinking that a perfect game against a 1600 is the same as a perfect game against a GM. GMs will intentionally play less perfect moves to head towards complications where they will come out ahead. When I start to bang out 15 moves of theory against a IM/GM they will recognize it and play something I’m not familiar with and just win more quickly.

Haven't used them personally, but https://render.com/ has been highly recommended here.

First I've heard of standardnotes and it looks great.

I've been using notion, but since it's not end-to-end encrypted, there is a whole class of information I've not felt comfortable putting online.

This looks to solve that problem!

So CICO, but make sure to eat "clean" and a variety?

Amazon used to have a great recommendation page that had a tab for new releases and coming soon. This was incredible for book discovery and they got so much money from me with these pages.

Amazon is currently recommending me shower heads and bathroom hardware from when I remodeled a month ago because I bought that stuff then. Pointless.

Just two weeks ago they had the following in a blog post:

> This is also a good time to remind everyone that USD is held by our banking partner, Metropolitan Commercial Bank, which is FDIC insured. The cash you hold with Voyager is protected up to $250,000–which means it’s as safe with us as at a bank.

They also said:

> Through our strategic relationships with our banking partners, all customers’ USD held with Voyager is now FDIC insured. That means that in the rare event your USD funds are compromised due to the company or our banking partner’s failure, you are guaranteed a full reimbursement (up to $250,000).

The "That means that in the rare event your USD funds are compromised due to the company" is what is confusing people.

This is largely because Node 16 is the current LTS.

Just saw that bitbucket was making this change. The new behavior does not seem very desirable, especially on large projects with many developers.

It’s unacceptable in the US too, but some of the private schools I have visited have had TVs in the classroom to occasionally play educational media.

My entire team and a few other developers I work with have had zero issues with CalDigit TS3 on Intel Macs. At least 10 TS3s over the period of several years.

I have a TS3, but it’s been hard to get a second or a TS4 lately.

I'm not sure negotiation is the problem. My company has not been making competitive counters to anybody I know who has left for two years. I feel like a lot of the senior employees are S tier, FAANG caliber, great developers but the company doesn't want to pay for that level of talent in the current market. I also think leadership is completely out of touch with the hiring market.

For example, I know somebody who was told to come with an offer if they wanted a raise. They came to their first line with an offer for 20% more plus more equity. The first line said they would match the salary, but ultimately some exec thought it was too much and only offered a 10% raise. The person left.

Staff level. Got 3.8%. Seriously considering leaving. There has been super high turnover of other senior leaders and friends.

Could literally double my total comp if I spent some time doing leetcode. Probably 20% raise without leetcode.

Have some silver (bronze?) handcuffs or would probably be gone already.

I'm about 45 miles from a large US military base, is there a point in doing anything?

Amazon also has this weird 5%, 15%, 40% & 40% vesting schedule. This tells me most people are not making it past 2 years.

Many people are of the opinion that leetcode style interview jobs, on average, pay a lot more. Is your experience different?

Health insurance is heavily tied to your employer, though. It’s extremely rare to forgo your employers insurance and buy your own because the incentives just are not there. It’s also a huge consideration when you change jobs. It’s not unheard for people to go without insurance for 30-90 days when they switch jobs because the insurance doesn’t kick in until it kicks in at the new job.

(Not a huge issue in tech, though)