Noone pointing out that it's a mistake to use a Mercator projection for thjs
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Notably missing from the postmortem
I am wondering how state replication works on the backend. The design mentions using crdt and a gossip proto, but I'm not sure what is actually implemented as it is a tad vague. I haven't dug into the code so forgive me if it is obvious or explained elsewhere.
I don't think anyone really understands how intense wildfires can get when fanned by wind. It will destroy almost anything.
See: Black Saturday bushfires, Australia.
> "it really made no difference whether the houses were brick or timber. In fact, with the speed of the fire front some timber houses fared better than brick as it moved too fast for the houses to catch, but the bricks exploded from the sudden change in temperature."
> "When you have a fire front coming through at 800C it'll melt your window seals and aluminum window frames. The glass will fall out then everything is on fire.
Super-enriched Uranium, however _is_ super rare, expensive and desirable.
As opposed to ...
- not handing it over? Prison, then they figure it out anyway.
- handing it to someone else during wartime? Prison or a firing squad, then they figure it out anyway.
So...definitely for larger orgs, where "emergency availability" would be a big red flag, unless one explicitly opted into a (compensated) on call rota.
I guess one can make an exception for very early career, but again this was about setting a 9-5 boundary
"Always a driver in the car" != driverless
You often see waymos cruising around sans driver. That's real driverless.
We ended up with a generous $ stipend per on-call shift, as a % of salary, as well as time off in lieu.
As generous as it sounds, it was an equitable solution in the end, given that we were supporting a multi-million dollar platform that was not fully stable at the time.
A lot has been said by other companies like "your salary should cover that", but I say nuts to that. On-call should be something people actively want to go on. It should be equitable, not forced.
It's not user-replaceable. It would not be _that_ difficult for Apple to keep a SODIMM slot free, or even come up with a new standard - as they are wont to do.
Apple sacrificed upgradability in the name of making more money - it's as simple as that.
They will never embrace it fully. It's a dish rag they wring out and use.
- carzoo, walmart, getir, carvana, doordash, hellofresh, tesla, rivian, peloton: not really tech companies. Mostly teched-up logistics companies.
- the twitter layoffs aren't (only) due to "the market", they're due to the unpredictability of its owner.
The source for the data is https://www.trueup.io/layoffs, which is better and also has a source for the black bars in visualcapitalists' graphic.
I have no doubt Part 3 will be forthcoming, and if it unequivocally points to that, I will sit up and take note.
That said, all of this drama is for something that is now dead. That is, Twitter is dead as a platform for political discourse. Even given the previous Twitter administration's apparent overmoderation of rightwing voices, it was still the loudhailer for what was almost an overthrow of the US government. For better or for worse, those shackles have been removed. November 2023 and on may see a replay, and the loudhailer has no filter anymore.
My hyperbole was not necessary, you're right, but one can't say EM doesn't have disdain for MSM - he says it almost every day.