vander_elst

> If you don't have anything urgent, you can go lay on the grass for half a day, thinking about the future of your project or something

Is this something common? I'm working as IC at FAANG for 6+ years in different teams, but I've never really experienced something like this. I've always been working on stuff that should have been finished yesterday.

Thanks for the write up and congrats!! Sorry for asking, but genuinely curious, assuming you wouldn't have had some savings on the side, would have you started in the first place? How would the lack of backup have impacted the journey from your perspective?

Not sure if joking or serious.

Agree

The more I use bash the more I appreciate it. It has a lot of sharp edges and quirks, but it's coincise, it works basically on all Unix systems and everyone knows (at least a bit of) it.

A lot of attempts to fill this space have large gaps in this aspects. Not sure how this scores on those dimensions.

For up to ~50 lines of script, bash is the most effective thing I found so far. Tried zsh, fish, python, ruby, but for such glue code bash rules.

Except that kids change your life in major significant ways and there's basically no going back. So it's not exactly like that.

It seems that the tradeoff is not having kids.

Google has one giant codebase. I am pretty sure the aren't the only ones.

Last time I checked GitHub was also an offender.

Not sure of it's only me but GitHub search is absolutely unusable, it does not find a variable name in the file I have open in the other pane and I can see it exists.

Anyone aware of there are proposals to use computer vision for judging the technical part and the judges for the artistic part? On paper that should help fulfilling both schools of thought

Mostly curious about the k8s plans. From some past posts it seems that the team was strongly against employing containerization [0]. However, it seems something changed. If anyone has more info about this if love to hear more.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030489

Check https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&mem=1...

Linux can already run in the browser: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&mem=1...

I'd suggest a book. I was pretty happy with "Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach" by Jim Kurose. I find it more appealing that it starts with the upper layers (http), because I was more familiar with them.

19M for ~50 people is quite a good compensation

With custom layouts how do you deal with editor shortcuts? I tried Dvorak but the cost of losing vim muscle memory was too high for me. Do you remap editor shortcuts (e.g. hjkl navigation) or do you learn the new positions from scratch?

Something is probably difficult to find these days is a CEO that writes code, and probably even more difficult one that writes code live in front of the audience!

I'm definitely not using DALL·E 3 :) but this is has been my experience for all other image generators

For all the press releases the images displayed are always very impressive, however whenever I try a similar (at least from my point of view) prompt I get undefined blobs full of mistakes. Is my prompt-fu that low or is that a more widespread issue?

How can the attackers eventually exchange crypto for fiat currency without revealing their identity? It seems that now their wallet address is known and all transactions will be closely monitored therefore it would seem that the whenever they try to buy real goods it might be possible to identify them. Maybe sell the crypto to criminals for cash? But than now the chain is tainted and the buyer will have the same problem.

This might be also a cultural difference and might cause some friction in the communication. If I remember correctly in general in the US it is preferred the style "what; why" while in Europe generally it is more "why; what". If the appropriate style works it's not used you might be perceived arrogant or condescending. Very high level generalization here but I think you get the point.

I think this has some drawbacks because it seems to require a lot of discipline from all the parties, to keep the source code clean once you are ready to merge and even if you have some presubmit checks if a human makes a mistake and has some typo in the comment, that might end up in the main branch. Ideally all the new changes are small but that's not always possible and the larger the change the higher the probability to leave comments around. I agree it's not the end of the world but such things do add up over time and if you are in a big shop things will definitely get messy, it's just a matter of time.

7 to 10k a bottle doesn't seem so much to be honest, there are several wine producers that sell bottles for much more than that.

Portugal tried this approach and in practice it did not work very well ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru... ). The Netherlands are also going back on this.

Why isn't Chrome OS counted as Linux? It runs on a Linux kernel.

Are there any implementations of this? So that it's possible to measure it for a given piece of code?

Chrome OS is actually also Linux isn't it?

Single digit cents per query (let's say 2) is A LOT. Let's say the service runs at 10krps (made up, we can discuss about this) it means the service costs 200$ a second i.e 20M$ a day (oversimplifying a day with 100k seconds, but this might be ok to get us in the ballpark), which means that running the model for a year (400 days, sorry simplifying) is around 8B$, so too run 10krps we are in the order of billions per year. We can discuss some of the assumptions but I think that of we are in the ballpark of cents per query the infrastructure costs are significant.

It's actually not that easy to get the ticket. The ticket is not just a ticket that you can but at a machine whenever you want, it's actually a subscription that at the moment can only be started at the beginning of the month and the request must be received something like 4 days before the end of the month, otherwise you slip to the next month. I'm not sure if there are additional conditions not covered here but I can imagine there are are lots of other quirks.