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only if the time that you’re making food is time that you could be getting paid but aren’t.

I could have worded that better. my point is not to minimize the stressful situation, it is that the stress isn’t going to end when leetcode is done.

You need to spend some time on mental health. if you need help, get help. either stay at your current job or take a new job that you can get now. in either case you need to figure out how to deal with stress and how to value yourself. if you really are going to self harm when you struggle on a freaking leetcode problem, how do you think it’s going to be if you actually get the job you’re aiming for and it’s hard every day?

you should take rust for a spin :)

based and orangepilled

I think Sturgeon was being generous

First amendment protects you from the government, not corporations

In the US at least, there is no formal definition or certification of “Software Engineer”. If you get hired to write software (or in some cases, work near software), you get to put “Software Engineer” on your CV. That’s actually part of what makes interviewing and hiring people so hard.

sounds like a good medium post. i’m sure you’ll get lots of claps :-P

People talk about a quantum particles as being in many places at once. When you ask what that means, the explanation is that they aren’t in one place, their position is represented as a probability curve of the places that they might be right now, and then when an observer observes the particle, that curve flattens down to where the particle is.

That seems like a very anthropocentric view of the universe. Why would it matter whether a particle is “being observed”, UNLESS the act of observation has a side-effect. If “observation” is purely passive then it can’t affect anything, by definition.

A MUCH simpler explanation is that the way that we observe things (by looking at them) is by bouncing photos off of them. Quantum particles are small enough that bouncing a photon off of it can change its course.

Here’s an analogy : you’re blind, but you’re super good at throwing and catching basketballs. The way that you observe the world is by throwing a basketball and then timing how long it takes to come back to you and catch it, and by observing if it comes back at an angle or with some spin on it. Imagine you come across a pigeon. You throw the basketball at the pigeon. You observe strange behavior of the pigeon when you “observe” it vs when you don’t. You formulate the pigeon uncertainty principle. You describe pigeons as spooky. You just accept that pigeons follow different physics than school buses.

org is as future proof as anything else

citation needed

I worked at a startup that took waaaay too much money too early. they hired a ton of people that they didn’t need and refused to make some hard decisions because they thought they had all the time they needed to “figure it out”. That company is still around but they’re probably going to collapse. they’re almost out of money and don’t actually have a thing that people want to buy. all they’ve done is spend a lot of vc money.

That said, I don’t think you want to swing the pendulum the other way and everyone should bootstrap everything. Hiring good people takes money. I think you should raise the amount of money you actually need and no more. Scarcity drives the hard decisions.

This exactly. The simplest explanation for quantum behavior is just that we’re unable to measure it. There are a lot of weird and magical explanations that people have come up with in order to write formulas that work.

this is all just a long con to try to convince everyone to integrate Guile

what no-code solutions are you using?

Cloudfront in front of S3 with a free ACM cert. done

yep. This is a good tool written by a developer who thinks everyone else uses the same tools as he does

the vast majority of EC2 is intel. It's not surprising that AMD support is coming after intel support

Same. I have a bin full of esp8266's that have become my go-to for little projects. Going to play with esp32's when I run through them

You have lots of microcontroller projects you want to do, but can't because you can't get up to date source on the arduino IDE? wat? Just use a different editor.

It's no longer 404'ing.

Certs are free

Why? AWS is issuing certificates. They happen to be doing that through their new Certificate Manager service, but the more interesting news is that AWS is issuing publicly trusted certs.

The certs that Certificate Manager manages are issued by AWS

AWS is the CA: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172401

EDIT: Just got a cert from the new service. Here's a screenshot of the cert chain. Amazon is issuing them: https://imgur.com/VGos0eY

Don't be on-call when your customer contact is a 13-year old?

If you rely on your shell history to the level that you need synchronization via a cloud-based service, it should be a signal that your automation needs work.

CloudWatch is a monitoring service that AWS offers publicly. It is different from the monitoring service that AWS services use internally.

source: was on an AWS service team for several years

I forgot SimpleDB had per-value limits. Good catch

Both DynamoDB and SimpleDB have free tiers. credstash can happily live in the free tier until you are using it A LOT (more than 25 fetches/second, sustained). Storage in SimpleDB costs about as much per GB as DDB, but DDB gives you more free storage, so DDB is cheaper for any amount of data over 1 GB.