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It would make sense that the companies pushing for a return to office either own their buildings (ouch) or otherwise have financials (corporate or executive) coupled with the value of real estate. It’…

Around 2000 I was in Stanford’s executive education program and the discussion at hand was a case study about a company that faced a disruption with a large cash reserve on hand. The question was what…

Enjoyed. I’ve been experimenting with parsing network protocols a lot lately with an eye to separating the parsing from the “logic” (usually combined in one handler). DNS (and DHCP) are the two I st…

Yes, I identify with this. My adaptation/compensation for it is to be specific with the thanks — never just “thank you” but “thank you for …” and mean it, kindly.

It is laughable to think that the first supported travel over water was done in “boats“ or by “sailing“. Children instinctively climb onto floating objects. It seems very likely to be that some unwary…

Perhaps only the famous/notorious people you read about. The industry drives CEO behavior, not individuals or even one class of individuals.

I am so baffled by this whole discussion. Isn’t serverless (aka event-driven distributed systems made up of small components, with no reserved capacity) just one of many options? I write code for 8-bi…

That’s what the Black-Scholes equation does: variation is risk. It’s manifest everywhere.

Lots of opportunities short of rearchitecting: use batching; use multi threading in lambdas; use S3 range requests; use the EXPRESS execution model; etc, etc

> AWS Step Functions charges users per state transition Apparently they didn’t know about the EXPRESS execution model, or the much improved Map state. The story seems to be one of failing to do the…

I use AWS SES for sending and receiving (awkwardly) email for essentially free on several domains. I put together this repo to share how it works, which isn’t for everyone (but I certainly enjoy it). …

It doesn’t matter when you first learn because once you start, if you like it, you’ll never stop. I learned to program BASIC in 3rd grade and C in 7th grade. Then FORTRAN and PASCAL in college (Mechan…

The pitch almost doesn’t matter, I’m not going to read it. My prompt for filtering inbound email is “Summarize the goal of the sender of the following email in 12 words of less”, which then replaces y…

Vectors and stuff. Maybe throw a tensor or two in there? Or the Lagranian and Hamiltonian and get it right. Given the choice of two small metal boxes in a field of nearby similarly massive and much mo…

Makes me wonder if T1D would be of a similar ilk? Hypothetically, of course.

Physics. Increasing speed (rapidly) increases kinetic (impact) energy. Braking reduces it. Slow down to 35 and if the truck hits your car it will be damaged. Try to race ahead and hit the truck at 80 …

As a hiring manager I want to advise folks this kind of offer can be counter productive. When being better prepared for an interview results in being more of a group and less of an individual it plays…

Understanding the cost of a product to a vendor is important to me as a consumer. If I’m having my house painted I will have many vendors willing to do the work at very different prices. It’s not a co…

Is there a notification system that tries to be a little smarter about escalations? That seems a difficult area. A developer doesn’t know - should this be escalated, or should it not? Is it sufficient…

There are also plenty of companies that run into trouble with excessive “value-based“ pricing, aka. The Innovator’s Dilemma, as Pager Duty is now.

Indeed, and not only with HTTP. Stateless UDP protocols are the poster child for bad load balancing as a result of technology “tricking down” from HTTP. Push makes even more sense for those protocols.

Which is faster, crossing the Pacific in the best foiling sailboat or one powered by petroleum (i.e. excluding reactor power)? We know what’s cheaper and cleaner. Edit: The question is a little faceti…

Are you using the t-mobile app? Maybe uninstall it, if so. Next, on your home network you can block the HTTPS requests that your phone makes to check for profile updates. I don’t recall that domain na…

I’m struggling to come up with a useful response here. I’ll focus on things driven by human “decisions” rather than natural phenomena. Cars are all the same, yet they aren’t - purposes, shapes and col…

I’m reading through the comments carefully because this is something I think about literally every day (and I mean literally, not figuratively). For my health and performance, yes, but even more so fo…

I prefer kind and respectful. Nice often comes with a cloak of insincerity that makes it awkward and corrosive.

I’m clearly in a different world; I see wild diversity in aesthetics and function around me every day. Conformity and convergence? Yes, it’s there but all around it is the beautiful chaos of creativit…

I’m far from an expert but as I understand it the reference point isn’t so much the “real world” as it is the training data. If the model generates a strongly weighted association that isn’t in the da…