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If you read the article, they mention that they’ve reported the bug in previous versions of the beta and it has still not been fixed in the latest version. They’re cautioning their users against upgrading in two weeks when the release comes out of beta unless there is confirmation that the bug has been fixed.

Did you post your build anywhere? Curious to know more!

Mine is 15mm tick without counting the rubber feet. The feet are somewhere around 2 or 3mm.

Return To Office in early 2023 caused many people hired during the pandemic to uproot their family and move closer to their assigned office.

Some of these folks are now being told that the office they moved closer to is not a “Hub” for their organization and that they now need to Relocate To Hub.

Most engineering teams will not be colocated even after this relocation as there a multiple hubs.

There is a strong belief that Amazon will have a 5 days in office policy starting after the holidays and further Relocate To Team initiatives. The delay is to mitigate the risk of attrition affecting Peak and to get people to move before they’re told they need to be in the office 5 days (sunk cost).

A textbook lesson in how to boil a frog courtesy of McKinsey. Hopefully customers enjoy the taste of boiled frogs.

Are you trying to contradict or agree with the post you replied to? That’s exactly what they are saying.

I’m located in the US. Of the last 4 pieces of media I’ve bought on Amazon, one was a misprint that should have been destroyed, two were marked as for sale only in India, and one was an EU market copy. All were marked as new. I returned all of them and found the same product locally within three blocks of my apartment for the same price I paid on Amazon.

I’m surprised the big publishers (both print and gaming) such as Pearson and Nintendo aren’t putting more pressure on Amazon.

I started with an apple keyboard. I bought a Das in the early 2010s. When the das quickly ran into issues, I got an HHKB pro 2, which I’ve taken in my bag every day to every job I’ve had and I use at home[0]. Your comment just made me realize that USB hubs aren’t on every keyboard!

[0] the swappable USB cable is so handy! Just leave one plugged into each machine.

You realize that Ada and Objective C predate Object Pascal, and Erlang came out in the same year as it, right?

I would worry less about new ways of doing the same thing and more about client generation/retention. Plenty of companies are willing to pay top dollar for boring technology.

The contract testing is something I didn’t know about, I’ll have to look into it!

We have lots of unit, integration, and live canary testing, the postman usage was only during oncall/operations, so we weren’t using any of those neat features.

I agree that postman has a moat. I think it’s important to say that every company has a moat in that they’re organized, located somewhere, and have customers. The size of the moat varies. We can treat a moat as a scalar value of dollars to cross.

Every company also has a valuation, either through public markets, private markets, or discounted cash flows.

A house cleaning company has a moat of trained cleaners, existing client generation process, goodwill of existing clients, etc. If the value of their discounted cash flows exceed the cost of crossing their moat, they are vulnerable.

The argument is that crossing postman’s moat would cost much less than their private valuation, and their future roadmap is unlikely to build a moat that is significantly harder to cross.

I don’t think you understand how moat is used in this context. A moat isn’t impossible to cross, just harder to cross than a lawn. Also, I don’t think you can saw two features are the same unless the quality is the same. Two sms apps are not equal if one of them occasionally fails to send/receive messages.

It does, but the support is not great. There’s active work to make it better. We don’t use WebSockets so that might be why my colleagues didn’t have too much attachment to postman. We have a list of bash functions we import into our zshrc/bashrc that just wrap around curl with some parts pre-filled and automatically grabbed creds from ENV as needed. It’s a better workflow since you don’t need to switch applications and you can chain calls together with some glue.

Does postman do anything curl doesn’t? When I was on onboarding at a job my pair started teaching me postman, which ended with me teaching them curl and them dropping postman. If you need to share queries, put them in version control!

My framework (latest revision i5 DIY edition) is lighter than my wife’s maxed out M1 MBA. She has 16gb of RAM and 2tb of storage, and it cost $2500 with taxes and shipping. I have the latest i5 DIY edition and I forwent everything (charger, RAM, storage). I got the fastest 2tb m2 drive supported and the fastest 64gb of RAM supported on Amazon. Total cost with taxes and shipping for everything was $1250.

My framework compiles the linux kernel faster than her MBA and lasts all day on a single charge. I did spend an enjoyable afternoon dialing things in, although I know not everyone would enjoy that. I wouldn’t recommend a linux laptop to anyone who doesn’t understand init systems and how to manage config files.

They’re both great laptops, but with different target markets. Let people enjoy things!

The most interesting part of this paper to me is that they let the agent guess how efficient it’s own solutions were and only had the model experimentally verify it’s guesses in 0.002% of cases. This allowed the model to search much faster than another program that didn’t guess and had to run every program.

You’re rude, which is why people aren’t responding.

Marc is a well respected engineer who has worked on multiple foundational services at AWS and probably doesn’t want to go on the record saying he’s sick of rust fans, so he made the essay nominally about photography.

This essay is saying, “Fuck rust. We used java to build S3, DynamoDB, ec2 and everything else the internet runs on. Kitheads, please stop joining aws and asking if you can rewrite in rust. Learn the fundamentals of distributed systems and apply them to customer problems, and the kit won’t matter.”

I used all of those components in my undergrad less than 5 years ago. I can’t remember what we used a 555 timer for, but we built calculators, EKGs, and AM radios among other things in the labs. At the time I was mad that we were using TTL logic when it seemed so out of date, but when we moved on to FPGAs I was grateful for the physical intuition I gained from building the 74xx projects.

I went to a cal state and paid 7k a year in tuition. 3 years later I am making around 300k TC at a FAANG. Everyone who graduated with me seems to be doing pretty well judging by LinkedIn.