aynsof's comments

I recently looked at used cars, and there was an additional $20k 'Toyota tax' when comparing a Toyota to a similar model of Ford, Kia, Hyundai, etc. The features and feel of the Toyota were also about 10 years behind the other cars - the Toyota felt cheap. I ended up going for a different brand, despite my friends' recommendations to get a Toyota for reliability.

On point 4, be aware of potential risks with Baby Brezza: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/technology/baby-brezza-fo...

Eric Dietrich has a softer framing for this: instead of sociopaths, losers, and clueless; you have opportunists, pragmatists, and idealists [0].

In my opinion it works just as well, without any of the negativity or cynicism of the original Gervais article.

[0]: https://daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy/

This isn't accurate. AWS added Managed Rulesets several years ago: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/security/waf-ma...

I've had experiences of senior executives joining organisations and completely ruining them in 1-2 years.

One exec in particular:

- Made power grabs for other execs' areas, forcing those execs out to other organisations.

- Continually shifted goal posts for key technical staff. In the words of one of these people, this was the primary cause of their mental breakdown.

- Filled positions with his own cohort of sycophants and yes-men from previous organisations.

- Defunded major projects, turning them from promising potential businesses into graveyards.

After just a couple of years, the organisation was a shell of its former self.

I absolutely agree - to a point.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to move books out of their semantically 'best' organisation if that order results in an aesthetically unappealing shelf.

As a specific example, I've mixed up a shelf's organisation because it had resulted in a row of pure beige. I didn't want that in my living room!

My first question was answered in the readme:

  "But what about AWS' NAT Instance AMI?"

  The official AWS supported NAT Instance AMI hasn't been updates since 2018, is still running Amazon Linux 1 which is now EOL, and has no ARM support, meaning it can't be deployed on EC2's most cost effective instance types. fck-nat.

I had no idea this was the case. Thank you for making this!

I'd have expected the death rate to increase as the height increased. Any idea what's behind the seemingly random distribution?

This isn't what I saw happening during the pandemic.

The (to use your word) 'crackpots' were proposing alternative solutions like Ivermectin and Chloroquine. The people who were shouting 'believe science' were trying to silence the debate.

I offer no opinion on either of those two alternatives, I merely point out that 'believe' isn't the verb that goes with 'science'.

Are these analytics coming from Reddit themselves? Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that they were massaging numbers to make it seem like fewer users were hitting old reddit.

That's covered by the new Leadership Principle to be Earth's best employer /s.

The CEO of Cloudflare has said that he enjoys taking burned out SDEs from Amazon and giving them a happy life at his company. It's how, in his words, Cloudflare can compete at an engineering level with AWS.

I can't speak for my culture generally, but my personal interpretation of the quote is that it is fairly neutral in its current form. I read it as saying that cohabiting will make it easier for the guest to see the hosts.

That is to say, I interpret this:

"I hope this works out so we can see each other!"

As this:

"I hope this works out because I would like to see you and by living under the same roof for a short time we will be able to see each other!"

I have to say, though, that this might be dependent on my relationship with the person. If I like them, I'm more likely to have the generous interpretation of this phrase.

Thanks for explaining. I'm a native English speaker who grew up in a (fairly?) strongly guess culture, and I'm still really surprised that anyone would find this rude or threatening. It's interesting to see the very different interpretations.

I reread the letter, but I'm still not seeing the veiled threat here. Would you be able to spell out where/what it is?

We had a similar thing in Australia - the Australian Government Design System: https://designsystem.gov.au/

It is in use across a huge number of Australian government websites - the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Services Australia, Department of Health, Department of Veterans' Affairs to name just a few.

The agency that owned it had a huge amount of funding cut from its budget, and now it's being supported by an (admirable!) open source effort: https://designsystemau.org/

It's wonderful that there is this level of community support, but so disappointing that the government couldn't recognise the importance and usefulness of continued funding.

To be fair, I didn't think anyone would be able to spell 'kubernetes' correctly. But life found a way - thank goodness for numeronyms!

I'd suggest the best example of anti-values is in the Agile Manifesto.

They state that they value (as an example) individuals and interactions over processes and tools. But they make it clear that while there's value in the things on the right, they value the things on the left more.

In the way the author describes, I always found this framing to be super helpful for decision-making.

It's also something that frustrated me about the (otherwise fantastic) Amazon Leadership Principles. When should I dive deep and when should I have bias for action? I realise now that I should have bias for action when it's a reversible decision and dive deep when it's a one way door. But it's not clear from the principles themselves in the way it's clear in the Agile Manifesto.

I'm stunned at the board's complete lack of awareness.

I would have hoped that any competent board member would want to view metrics around retention and morale, and that large shifts would be something they'd dig into.

I worked at AWS in a technical role, and we had similar systems at our office.

If Covid rules were being broken - too many people in an office, people standing too close together - an alert would be sent to the office manager.

In one case, this was escalated to the country director, who chewed out the sales people who had broken the rules.