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A connection pooling proxy should fix this shouldn't it? I think both Google and AWS have this solved for functions as a service.

> AWS and GCP (and Azure, and Oracle cloud, and bare Kubernetes via an operator, and...) support Postgres really well.

I think they're directly comparable with this context.

And for many projects, Postgres is still cheaper than both. Having used both, I would much, much rather do the work to fit my project in Postgres/CockroachDB than use either Spanner or DynamoDB, which have WAY more footguns. Not to mention sudden cost spikes, vendor lock in, and god knows what else.

AWS and GCP (and Azure, and Oracle cloud, and bare Kubernetes via an operator, and...) support Postgres really well. Just...use Postgres.

That has not been my experience on the inside - I spend most of my days working on a Spring Boot based service at Netflix and frankly it's one of the most effortless environments I've ever worked in. Granted, there's a lot of ecosystem support from the rest of the company, but things are very low effort, and generally very predictable. I can usually drop a breakpoint in a debugger in exactly the right spot and find a problem immediately.

Things are certainly more of a blend now than what's presented in this presentation, but the presenter is a big Java platform guy here. I would say ~70% of the services I interact with on a day to day basis are Java, another 20% in Node, and then the last 10% is a hodgepodge of Python, Go, and more esoteric stuff.

It varies from team to team; the "Studio" organization that supports creating Netflix content does lots of nodeJS due to the perception that it's faster to iterate on a UI and API together if they're both in the same language. On my team, we're very close to 50/50 due to managing a bunch of backend, business process type systems (Java), and a very complex UI (with a NodeJS backing service to provide a graphql query layer). Regardless, the tooling is really quite good, so interacting with a Node service is roughly identical to interacting with a Java service is roughly identical to interacting with anything else. We lean into code generation for clients pretty heavily, so graphQL is a good fit, but gRPC and Swagger are still used pretty frequently.

Edit: the original comment I wrote was dumb and needlessly critical of an article I barely skimmed while on an airplane at 1 AM. That's my bad.

THANK YOU. I make it a priority to introduce myself, and my disability, during my first 1:1 with every manager I have; it makes a huge difference. The conversation usually goes like:

- I am autistic

- I don't need any particular accommodations

- I will attempt to overcommunicate what I'm doing so that I can get your help if I rabbit hole on something (one of my common tendencies)

- I tend to need mental health days slightly more often than usual

- I will tell people I work with when I'm comfortable doing so, but this isn't a secret and don't feel bad if you accidentally out me.

I've never had a manager be anything but extremely appreciative to receive this context. Normalize talking about your needs, even if you don't have a diagnosed neurodivergence!

In my experience, people who are dicks once in an environment where it was totally uncalled for are often hiding much more under the surface. It's like the old adage - one cockroach on the floor equals a hundred in the wall.

So the specific framing, since it seems like this matters to you, was that she asked why I was interested in the healthcare space, and I said that I am autistic and have to interact with the American healthcare system, which is doubly hard for me specifically because I'm autistic: the myriad confusing systems you have to interact with just to get your basic healthcare needs in the US are difficult for me because of the number of interpersonal interactions required, and because I am "high functioning" (which, to your point, is a "relatively new label" [it's actually not, but that's not an argument I feel like having right now]) I'm very often not taken seriously when, for example, I have a sensory need during an MRI.

I said that I was appreciative that she wanted to make healthcare better for her brother, because it would help people like me too. And her response, after hearing my story about struggling to navigate the system she claims to want to improve on account of my very real, and sometimes very debilitating, disability, was "but you don't seem disabled." I don't think I'm in the wrong for being offended here. In my mind, It'd be very similar to if I had said that I struggled with the healthcare system due to losing a leg in an accident, and her response was "oh, but I can't see that your leg is missing because this is a zoom call."

The fact that I wasn't, at _that moment_, having a visible need, doesn't negate the existence of a disability that occasionally renders me mute, or makes me so overwhelmed I lash out at the people around me, or causes me actual physical pain. And mind you, I _was_ stimming; out of necessity many autistic folks who work in professional environments find stims that are relatively invisible on camera or in person in order to help us get through social interactions without losing our minds. It wasn't visible to her, but that doesn't change the reality of my story and my situation.

So the story here is that the CEO's brother is Autistic, and was one of the major inspirations for the company. Being "out" about my disability, I thought it was really cool at the time and mentioned that I'm Autistic, and seeing her embrace her brother as part of the core mission of the company was inspiring.

My last CEO (healthcare startup) told me during my interview with them "but you don't look autistic!" and that should have been the end of the conversation there. When people show you who they are, believe them and all that.

Right? Like, I tried really hard to prepare a very neutral answer focusing on taking advantage of arbitrage and fixing over- or under-priced securities, which I think is the closest thing to a benefit you could come up with. And that apparently wasn't good enough for this guy.

Oh here's another one - I was interviewing at Google and got an offer, and I decided to ask for a meeting with the HM because the other job I was considering at the time gave me an interview with the HM that was really enlightening and made me feel good about taking the other job over Google. I figured it would be a good way to directly compare the two jobs since the comp, etc. were similar.

The moment I met the HM I wanted to leave. He was brusque, felt like our entire meeting was a waste of time, and was, quote, surprised that they had finally filled his job req. I tried to brush this off as him having a bad day, and sat down for coffee with him. We started having a stilted conversation in which I mentioned that I had just adopted a dog, and his first response was, "oh god, I _hate_ dogs, please never bring it to work."

That was kind of the end of that. Sure, maybe it's petty, but I was getting bucketfuls of bad vibes from this guy.

I don't remember at this point to be honest, this was like...10 years ago? But this moment is seared in my mind.

I once was interviewing for an internship at a quant firm in Chicago (I was in my Sophomore year I think at UIUC) and my interview went pretty well up to the point of my second-last interview of the day.

Then, I sat down with the VP of engineering, and he opened the interview with "so, what do you think it is we do here?" And I naturally stuttered through a canned answer about how they use arbitrage opportunities in the market to profit off of mis-priced securities, etc. Then he asked me, "but what benefit do we provide? Why is working here good for society?"

I blanked, and didn't answer for about 15 seconds. Then, I tried to start piecing together an answer until he stopped me, told me he had found my Facebook, and wasn't appreciative of my politics (I was moderately lefty in high school, significantly more so now; maybe this conversation is part of why). He had _printouts_ of some posts I had made criticizing George W. Bush, talking about why I thought we should be raising taxes on higher earners, supporting Obamacare, etc. He told me that he didn't think I had the "cojones to stomach the job" (direct quote), and told the recruiter not to bother with the last interview and that I had failed.

I _sobbed_ on the train home; I think it was the worst I had ever felt about an interview in my entire life, and yet looking back at it, I think this was the best possible outcome. Imagine if I had worked for this asshole.

I've worked for companies I don't personally agree with in the past; it's part of living in a society(TM). I am able to hold my nose to a certain extent to make an income for my family (heck, I am currently having to cross picket lines to come to work, which makes me feel icky). But I can't fathom what hell I would have been living under had I gotten and taken that job.

Oh absolutely. I love that my E-bike's battery is just an off the shelf BMC and a bunch of standard lithium cells in a plastic box. That's what they should all be.

>continue our infinite growth

>save the planet

Choose one. Or choose neither if you don't choose.

That's fine, batteries being a black box that you replace wholesale is generally fine by me so long as we also put the appropriate recycling processes in place. I just don't want manufacturers making part swaps more difficult than they need to be in the interest of "safety".

I'm going to say something slightly vulgar, because as someone who did their own ebike conversion and is moderately interested in this space: fuck 'em. E-bikes, and by extension bikes in general, are amazing forms of transportation specifically because they're so incredibly repairable using simple-to-acquire tools and skills. Any impingement on the right to repair in the bike space is a pure cash grab from suits that don't understand the space. Bike people have _never_ liked proprietary or unrepairable parts, and this seems like just another case of silicon valley "entrepreneurs" hopping into a space they know nothing about, thinking they can "innovate" their way into dominance with this kind of nonsense.

Fuck. You. You don't deserve to be operating in this space if you don't understand the consumer you're targeting.

I....don't hate this. "Here's 33%, it's probably more than I can get away with paying but I don't want to deal with the hassle" is absolutely something I would sign up for.

FWIW my effective tax rate last year was like 28%. To know down to the penny how much is going to taxes and not having to worry about filing would be a dream.

I mean, of course they aren't?

When Steve Jobs walked out on stage in 2007 and showed us the iPhone, 13-year old me knew _exactly_ what I wanted that device to do. I imagined games, I imagined carrying Facebook Messages in my pocket, I imagined watching movies on the bus to school.

When Apple unveiled the Vision Pro, I said, "huh...neat," and went back to working on some code at work. Later, a coworker mentioned to me that the virtual monitor thing would be cool for working, and I guess it's neat? There just isn't that "oh my god I know _exactly_ what this can do" factor with the Vision Pro. We've gotten past all the obvious applications of mobile tech, and now we're grasping at straws. The Vision Pro is just too niche a device.

lmao no they fucking don't.

I am in the enviable position of being able to afford to take a huge pay cut and go work for the US Digital Service. I would actually love to-I think good government needs good tech, and I believe in the ability of USDS to make (however small) an impact on peoples' lives and interactions with the federal government. However, I am _not_ going to move to DC to do so.

It seems like USDS would be an ideal candidate to allow a bunch of remote employees, and yet they don't, because...reasons.

When you're on the opposite side of the hate speech researchers...it's hard to fathom a situation in which you're in the right.

This is one of those findings that feels so unbelievably obvious. Of _course_ giving prisoners the ability to stay connected with the outside world helps rehabilitate them.

It also really highlights just how cruel for cruelty's sake our modern prison system is. I know there's an almost fetishistic worship of punishment in the US and many other countries with large prison populations as a method of "rehabilitation", but the data shows us that if you actually care about healing people (spoiler: the US does not), it's both not very expensive and extremely positive for society to do it right. It starts with free phone calls, work transition programs, reducing restrictions on jobs held by ex-felons, and other simple changes that cost a hell of a lot less than taking care of the broken souls our prisons churn out.

I mean insofar as "market goes up over time", that's been pretty much a guarantee, at least on a large enough timeframe, since what, the 1930s? I wouldn't call that TA though, that's basic observation of a trend over time. TA purports to read the market's "mood" and predict its behavior via a bunch of mathematical indicators, which are about as useful and scientific as pickup artistry.

Well...random with a positive trendline can still be random. The fact that there's a positive trend globally doesn't change the fact that the local behavior is indistinguishable from random noise. The way I tend to think about it is that the deltas day to day are completely random, but shifted up from neutral by just a touch, so that the overall trend is upward but the micro behavior is unpredictable.

Anecdotally, all my moderately- to very-well paid tech friends have a robo investor and don't touch anything ever until they need to withdraw. I'd say most people don't play the day trading game, and that includes HODL'ing (man, that term is literally the only thing that came from crypto that I like) during bad downturns.

Right. Technical analysis makes money in the same way that LuLaRoe makes money; someone else becomes the bigger fool.

Not to be crass, but wouldn't any low bandwidth sound-based protocol be easy to rig up for underwater? Obviously there's a bit of adaptation required, but it shouldn't be _that_ hard to set up a 28.8k modem with a directional speaker and microphone rigged up to point vaguely toward each other (i.e. at the surface pointing down and on the sub pointing up). Hell, even automated Morse code sending literal text messages at 3 sps is better than nothing.

While I think I believe this whistleblower, the CIA is _definitely_ willing to troll someone to the point of letting them go testify under oath to the IG. I'm pretty sure they _have_. Not to mention all the LSD they dosed people with.