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> I've not actually seen an AZ go down in isolation

Counterpoint: I have. Maybe not completely down, but degraded, or out of capacity on an instance type, or some other silly issue that caused an AZ drain. It happens.

> Google's bot was one of the few well behaved ones and would even slow scraping if it saw a spike in the response times.

Google has invested decades of core research with an army of PhDs into its crawler, particularly around figuring out when to recrawl a page. For example (a bit dated, but you can follow the refs if you're interested):

https://www.niss.org/sites/default/files/Tassone_interface6....

Accounting rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakage_(accounting)

Maybe you could save that one-shotted code into a library of some sort...?

> socket.io is probably one of the most unnecessary libraries on this planet. Websockets are already as simple as possible.

Eh... While I agree that socket.io is one of those libraries you could probably "write" in an afternoon, and Websockets are simple, there are a couple of things that are kinda painful to rewrite time after time:

  - keepalives to detect dead sockets
  - reconnection logic with backoff
  - ability to switch to long-polling for weird environments
  - basic multiplexing/namespacing

Not that I'm privy to your mind, but it probably was tesseract (and this is my exact experience too...although for me it was about 12 years ago).

> Sure, but AFAIK S3’s multi-region capabilities are quite far behind GCS’s.

Entirely different claim.

> This makes Google the only major cloud that has low-latency single-zone object storage, standard regional object storage,

Absurd claim. S3 Express launched last year.

Of course not. Gemini can summarize it for you.

Assume you already know about this given your interests, but just in case: https://longnow.org/

> but are they absolutely prohibited from work of any kind?

Generally yes.

But you can have on-campus jobs to supplement your income, and there are at least two programs (CPT and OPT) that let you get approval for limited-term employment in your area of study. CPT also requires university approval.

> From the chat logs example in your article: how do you cope with a requirement such as "I as a user want to see all my latest thread activity in one place, across all my chat rooms?"

create a copy, for example

> My feeling is that most such diagrams are used for purely aesthetic purposes. They break up dense text and add some color and variety to a document.

Not true. Many folks are visual learners. And if you're experienced enough, you can pick up the gist of the text from a quick glance at a good diagram, figure out the "shady" areas, and then dive into the text for details.

middle name -- are you kidding me, of course. other than that, i wouldn't sweat it too much -- maybe just drop the recruiter a line saying "hey just fyi..." right before you sign the offer.

Shout out to my dawg Satyajit Ray

I...don't know what I expected...

There's a reason xgboost is still king in large companies.

Powered by Twilio...nice!

It's a bear to implement well. I'd start with Gemini and see how far that context window can take you. Then I'd work on summarizing fragments of earlier conversations down to key points to include in the broader conversation. Then I probably still wouldn't try to implement RAG unless time was not an issue.

Summarize along the way, instead of attempting to use the context like a database. Or look into RAG. Or use Gemini-1.5's 1 million token window.

One premium chat-like UI subscription at a time (currently Claude), changing every couple of months with the soup-de-jour. But active API keys loaded into my env for all the major services.

Thanks for the recommendation!

> Do quantum computing folks really think that we are borrowing capacity from other universes for these calculations?

Tangentially related, but there's a great Asimov book about this called The Gods Themselves (fiction).

> It's very confusing, the docs are confusing, and the even the tools are confused.

Not to worry -- you can use Rufus...uh "Q"....uhh...Nova...to summarize the docs into a decision tree on which confusing choice to use!

> Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

Does it, though? Node wasn't exactly new 4 years ago, and plenty of other languages would offer a better experience for even older code -- Java, C, C++ to name a few.

> I don't see why Zoom/Google Meet can't integrate a bot-less call recorder+summarizer and immediately put half of them out of business.

Zoom at least has had this feature for a while on enterprise plans.

Yeah, the CFAA doesn't work by analogy unfortunately.

Relocating isn't just about cost. There's schools, friends, other support systems, general familiarity with the area. It's not easy to just pick up an relocate, and not from a financial point of view.

It's great until you find yourself looking for another tech job, particularly with another RTO company.