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tilolebo··on Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
I thought the plan was sandboxes and markdown files to tell AI agents not to be bad. Is that not enough? /s
tilolebo··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
"Your shitposting is very important to us, please stay on the site"
tilolebo··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
Right. Let's do the same for drugs.

Irony aside, these platforms are addictive and polarizing by design. I doubt a little test will change anything.

tilolebo··on Ask HN: Should I get a stand-up desk?
Start with a 100 USD standing desk converter and use it for a while.

Upgrade to a full electrical standing desk later if needed.

tilolebo··on Azure Down?
Yes and Azure updated their status page too. Cooling issue in a single DC
tilolebo··on Workers might have to ditch the 9-5 for the 6-2 because of climate change
Hear me out: what if office workers were allowed to work from home when possible?

I know it sounds like a crazy idea, but let's try it out one or two years and see how it goes.

tilolebo··on FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
It is used by CloudKit

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/foundationdb-reco...

tilolebo··on Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System
I care a lot
tilolebo··on Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
the class should have gone to the shooting range instead.
tilolebo··on The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google
Source: trust me bro
tilolebo··on Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)
This just tells us you don't have enough experience at that scale.
tilolebo··on Cloudflare uses Terraform to manage Cloudflare
Atlantis automatically locks the terraform workspaces changed by the PR. It will hold the lock until the PR is merged or closed.
tilolebo··on Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
Education in Western countries.

Budget cuts every year, ministers more preoccupied by putting their name on a law or reform than to actually improve things.

tilolebo··on Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)
> considering that a single server can easily handle a million simultaneous connections

Can you elaborate on that part?

tilolebo··on Ansible 2.13
"Operational simplicity" would like to have a word with you.
tilolebo··on What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
Net: what the employee gets on their bank account

Gross: net + employee contributions

Total payroll cost: gross + employer contributions

tilolebo··on We don’t use a staging environment
> And "it's caught bugs before" is not good enough.

Why isn't it good enough?

tilolebo··on FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store
Wavefront is also using hit at scale.

From the list of talks at the 2019 FDB Summit, it also seems to be used at Segment, eBay and Uber

tilolebo··on Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
We already had a good sneak peek in Germany, when schools closed last year for some weeks due to the pandemic.

Popular video conferencing solutions weren't allowed due to privacy issues. The official "Lernraum" platform that have been used for this did not work most of the time.

I understand where these laws come from, but it's sad that there often is no European alternative

tilolebo··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
I don't need many, just one on par with the worst of the 3 major US clouds.

I'd even be happy with one that makes it in the top 10.

tilolebo··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Please remember me for how long OVH was down when they lost an entire "DC"? And how much customer data did they lose?
tilolebo··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Thank God we have very capable cloud providers in Europe that will rise to the challenge and offer a viable opportunity to the US major cloud providers!
tilolebo··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
The people in charge of the investigation should be totally independent from these scientists.

That would otherwise be an obvious conflict of interest.

Hopefully they will be as independent as the credit rating agencies are from the financial institutions they evaluate...

tilolebo··on France's Bogdanoff Twins Die Days Apart
What does make it a valid opinion? Can you back it with any data?
tilolebo··on Cloud infrastructure should be immutable
How do you handle stateful resources? Say for instance you have multiple elasticsearch clusters with terabytes of data on each cluster.
tilolebo··on An Update on Our Outage
This reminds me of the Target TAP outage some years ago:

https://danveloper.medium.com/on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-c...

tilolebo··on Forgetting My First Language
Preschool kids usually pick up foreign languages even faster.

Was your nephew in an English speaking preschool in Croatia?

tilolebo··on Operations is not Developer IT
They shouldn't have to come to him that often, if they had skilled senior SWE mentoring them.

Seems like OP works for a shitty company.

tilolebo··on The art of not taking things personally
Notice how the way to react to all of these problems involves a mix of empathy and communication.
tilolebo··on I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos
Backblaze B2 is a really good option for remote backups.

I use it to make daily incremental backups of my NAS, but you could replace the NAS by a USB drive.

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