LimaBearz

I've been noticing something similar in the gaming industry as well. What is the least amount of features in a game that we can ship while still maintaining profit? AND how few people can we milk in DLC with this shell of a game to maintain profitability. (I'm looking at you Activision/Blizzard!)

It use to be build a great game with mass appeal and profit. Now its just how small can we make it and how much DLC can we sell to a small subset of people to equal profit.

I'm in that same boat, no pun intended. I've been waiting for the maritime announcement for awhile for my SV. I was very disappointed that they only announced commercial service.

I'd happily pay a huge premium for a gyroscoped dish, that monthly cost tho....

I've been doing since graduating and I'm middle age now. Its not a new phenomenon.

In 07 I was very young and worried about the economy; when expressing my concerns to an older coworker said "dont ever worry, we've always been and always will be in demand". He was right. I jumped ship 3 times during the last recession, all with big bumps in pay. I've never worried about finding work, so much so that if pressed I know I can secure 2-3 offers after a week of looking

But to answer your direct question I think its three fold:

* No one wants a junior in production so unless you're well established and can burden the cost of one good luck getting in

* The educational path is very informal and unless you're going for this type of work specifically you're not learning what you need to be

* Most SWE's dont make good devops (sorry thats a fact no offense meant to anyone)

Slightly maybe but split tunnel would avoid that. If it was full I'd expect to see an increase from popular cloud hosting regions (if it was a prod vpn) or if corporate VPN's their home offices (which would show as a net zero change)

You're absolutely right. Its an interesting solution to the problem but I'm not sure what additional benefit this solution bought them that isn't covered by standard paradigm of VPN w/ role based access controls. (at least for user access)

They did however correctly identify the fact Jenkins is pretty much the holy grail of targets for bad actors and hackers. Failing to identify this has caused more then fair share of known hacks (to not Jenkins specifically but any build/automation system that has the required insane levels of access).

A strict VPN locked down and for external ingress access of automated actions a restrictive proxy sitting on the edge significantly lowers the attack surface. Operationally also much cheaper to maintain.

I had to go through this process once. Large multi-national didn't wanna do the whole paying the state thing(thats reasonable) and I was the only employee moving to that state.

They ended up classifying me as a "contractor" working under one of their existing agency relationships but aside from who signed my paycheck there was no distinction

No. The previous guy installed people in the DOE that made it virtually impossible to forgive the loans even after they jumped through all the hoops to qualify under the law.

All Biden's administration is doing here is ungumming people who were eligible years ago. This is cleanup from the prior administration

Link to the underlying study done by the researchers: https://osf.io/jrw26/

Well I share your feelings toward the whole situation for sure but I'm not sure that just building more will do much of anything. As long as we have folks buying with the intention of parking money or using homes as an "investment" you're going to have competition with much deeper pockets.

This outside competition detaches local prices from the local economy. Likewise the speculation sets an anchor(comp) for neighboring homes when they go to sell. One investor overpaying by say 100K.. well now next month if Average Joe wants to sell he can now ask the same or more. Rinse and repeat just a few times and you get to where we are today.

Is it so far fetched to assume some realtors may be juicing the bidding to increase their own commission and to make their firm more uhh "prestigious" by being able to drive up the price for their own marketing purposes further down the line.

Likewise if you dont know who you're bidding against, how do you even know the bidder is even real (foreign or not)? Transparency is good thing.

While there may be some "scarcity" not having full transparency and realtors not in alignment with their own clients needs is a step in the right direction.

(I use scare quotes here because while I know we're not building enough but the current market has a fair share of retail speculation, institutional investors inflating prices, and homes held as purely places to mark money(non-owner occupied). Scarcity is real and building does need to happen, but thats slow and expensive. Millions of homes are kept empty or as poor speculative investments and thats a problem)

Flip it. If I buy a monitor why can't I plug it into any computer I want? Same thing no?

They all follow interoperability standards that have been around decades and that customers have come to expect as normal. Vendor lockin here isn't an "innovation" customers want

Not defending the situation of a preStop hook at least in the case of API's k8s can handle it 100%, its just messy.

We have a preStop hook of 62s. 60s timeouts are set in our apps, 61s is set on the ALBs (ensuring the ALB is never the cause of the hangup), and 62s on the preStop to make sure nothing has come into the container in the last 62s.

Then we set a terminationGracePeriodSeconds of 60 just to make sure it doesn't pop off too fast. This gives us 120s where nothing happens and anything in flight can get to where its going.

What gets me is even if the number was significantly smaller the fallout effect is massive. A common argument I've heard defending the practice is "well they didn't buy that many homes, it was just a small portion of total sales" ...implying that its not a big deal.

Lets no argue the truthiness of that statement but look at it as stated. They buy one house within a 10-20 mile radius away from you and they do so aggressively paying 20-30%+ over the pre-bubble price (think early pandemic times when prices were more realistic then they are now)

Well now thats the anchor price on comps for the next guy just looking to sell his house. Rinse and repeat a few times with anchored expectations on an inflated value and we have runaway prices.

Absolutely, but there is some laissez faire'ness on the producers side as well. A few of the publicly traded builders in earning calls by their own admittance have touted restricting supply of already built inventory purely to protect their high profit margin.

We definitely need to build more, though the producer "market" is failing a bit also

I wish we could all just agree that some things just aren't meant to be for investors and that not all things are meant to have a laissez faire capitalist approach..

I've been looking at properties in LCOL & remote areas of the US and prices shot straight up in 2020/2021 to the point where even having high salary fo an HCOL they become unaffordable. Those places haven't seen wild growths in population and the people are purely speculating as a result of the artificial inflation caused by Zillow and friends.

Looking yesterday those properties are on the market still, some for 6+ months now with little to no drop in price... the sellers are delusional

Sure, but we're talking about an application written for a cloud/hosted environment in a datacenter somewhere. nicking at the size of a statically linked binary meant for production grade environments with fast computers and fat pipes feels overly pedantic no? Especially when we're talking about a mere 100MB

And getting some hispanic immigrants back into The Mission would be incredible. I've watched too many good places close down to gentrification

I've also hated that trend. Ill preface this with the caveat that I'm extremely biased against PMs.

What we've seen is the birth of a new profession, "Project Manager" (Agile/Scrum); and its filled by a ton of people who read a travel brochure size sheet of paper detailing how to be one and that's how they all operate, all while demanding outsized pay for the "skill" (really if they were paid minimum wage that's still too much)

They take zero consideration for team structure, working dynamic, the business that the org is operating in and tries to shove every uniquely shaped team into a square peg.

What's more annoying is that I've seen some hardcore PM run shop promoting project managers into people managers, often overseeing highly technical teams while they themselves not being technical which leads to all sort of pain and cost to the the ICs they oversee.

Agile has managed to 'codify' middle management, very poorly.

When I first read that it completely made sense. But my mind immediately ran to leetcodes subscription.

I imagine their churn is fairly high, but they can also capitalize on new graduates or folks looking to up their game to keep revenue flowing in so that by itself is only part of the story. Likewise their active count maybe falls off a cliff after 4-6 months for users who actively engage with platform, and I’m sure some of them make the purchase and either never use it or give up fairly quickly.

To toy with your question specifically let’s use LC as an example. Some percentage of users need to be engaged and referring it via word of mouth for it to be validating. As for retention and engagement, once you have a decent cycle of customers coming in that becomes a game psychology. Think Reddit emailing you on every comment you get, notifications, gamey mechanics like Robinhood, or some other mechanism to reinforce behavior

I don’t have cable so I’m sorry but can you explain that to me? The only thing I’ve seen a lot of is personalities or people whose others might respect come out and verbally push for it, I haven’t seen anyone carelessly promoting it, it’s quite safe to take. A lot of questions I’ve seen asked, have been asked and answered. Those that chose not take the vaccine seem to be suffering from seeing only what they want to be seeing, no?

What exactly is “carelessly promoting” mean in this context.

Edit: ah OP edited his post, s/carelessly/ceaselessly/

I really like your analogy, I’m stealing it. As a pilot(devops) during interviews I’m often asked deep aeronautics internals (some graphs/tree question) about whatever plane that aeronautic (software) engineer built and it’s always annoyed me that that’s a game I have to play. Same realm but completely different fields, that are somewhat and yet closely intertwined. The frequency of this is quite common

I sometimes hate joke/fantasize about nailing a SE candidate with an obscure BPG or esoteric DNS question and then being outwardly disappointed in his response, watching him realize he’s going to lose this job over something I found completely reasonable to ask, but ultimately entirely useless to his position

I wasn’t close.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-suing-amazon-ju...

Different podcast but that’s the episode. The Daily is still good.. the one linked above is good as well

Can you elaborate? Amazon’s headquarters is in King County, it seems perfectly reasonable that they’d fall into their local jurisdiction. How is that cherry picked?

I believe their podcast “The Daily” also had an episode on it, even got the original lawyer that discovered the trick. It’s a pretty good podcast for those who may not know about it

Not OP but a quick google search can get you there, if you’re lazy here’s one going over some stats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

I recently stumbled onto a clip on YT of Tucker Carlson using this term “the radical violent left”. The data is clear.. the right is getting far more violent (and far more violent than this “radical left”), I suspect the media is getting ahead of that narrative and pre-labeling the left what they’re becoming themselves as a method of cutting off any debate. Think McConnell at the start of Obama labeling him the most obstructionist president ever, and them republicans being the most obstructionist. It’s an attempt to destroy any credibility to the evidence by some weird form of um… pre-poo flinging?

It’s really interesting to see how quickly things have changed. The world watched in horror at Jan 6th, we decided we needed to be better than that and stopped a certain someone and friends who were spreading blatant lies that millions chose to accept as truth because it served an end goal, ignoring all evidence and facts disapproving..

Today you and others who point out what brought us here are downvoted, others like myself flagged.. as if the circumstances that brought us to this junction means nothing.

You’re right though, CP is illegal, revenge porn we decided as a society is unacceptable, we have slander and liable laws, etc… we’ve drawn some lines in “free speech”, and we discovered another one on the 6th

I get that some folks who bought the lie are upset now but this is society marching forward, and it’s interesting reading this post, watching it being overrun by extremism

Just to point out… 9/11 is close to 20 years ago now.. society has marched forward quite a bit since then. While that date as a cutoff point is fairly arbitrary there has been a substantial and alarming rise to extremist right violence I’m the last 10 years or so and that can’t just be swept under a rug

There’s a bit of nuance there though to isn’t there?

Let’s be honest, “misinformation” between 2016-2020 just meant “things written about me I don’t like”, it only came from one person/group.

My original post said absolutely nothing about the rona though yes it a physics or math problem. I’ve since amended it

Trump lied, period. And it lead to and is leading to a lot of negatives.

As for the virus personally I don’t care where it came from but people can believe whatever they want. We have a vaccine now, don’t want it then don’t, doesn’t affect those that chose to. “The big lie” however affects us all, and that’s a problem.

In the case of covid the math changes. Generally speaking if it affects only you, have at it. If it spills out and affects others, problem. Though I’m not gonna argue the pedantry of that, that can devolve quickly

It’s also important to understand that the only reason anyone is talking about misinformation right now is because the entire world watched in horror at the events of January 6th, a direct attempt to “seize control over free societies”. (Admittedly a poor attempt at it though) which was sparked by wild accusations, unsubstantiated assertions, and a mountain of failed litigation by “the previous guy”.

No amount of whitewashing or misdirection of what happened that day or the factors that lead up to it will change that certain “free speech” said by the right mouth, believed by an angry undereducated group can lead to actual loss of our free society. Just look at the insane amount of legislation being passed in certain red states, all based and cheered on by the exact same lie..

We can all argue the merits of google, but that’s just a method to control the conversation by those who seek our society for there own dystopian Handmaids Tale version, and deflection from what put us in this sitaution. A lie, perpetrated by the president, enabled by his supporters, and a Ministry of Truth style belief in what that government said, that’s leading to voter disenfranchisement and loss of faith in the very foundation of democracy. Period.

As for the medical information that I disagree with. If people want to believe in lies, I have enough “don’t tread on me” to let them. Personally that’s very much a game of “play stupid games win stupid prices”. None of my business have at it