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valleyjo··on Snap Employees Told to Be in Office 4 Days a Week Starting in February
Giving away time “for free” is one side of it. But giving away your “space” for free is a downside of WFH in my opinion. Most folks will need a larger home with higher energy bills and taxes to accommodate WFH successfully. There’s no compensation for that.
valleyjo··on Facebook owner Meta expected to announce major job losses
I’ve worked on some of the most fundamental systems behind the public cloud at two of the largest three clouds. I’ve always felt like I had all three. How stable it ends up being I guess is tbd :|
valleyjo··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
This article states that GPU instances are slower on GCP - it doesn’t make any claims about non-GPU instances.
valleyjo··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
Just remember this is for GPU instances. Other vm families are pretty fast to launch.
valleyjo··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
As another comment points out, GPU resources are less common so it takes longer to create, which makes sense. In general, start up times are pretty quick on GCP as other comments also confirm.
valleyjo··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
Stream the contents of ram from source to dest, pause the source, reprogram the network and copy and memory that changed since the initial stream, resume the dest, destroy the source, profit.
valleyjo··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
Azure, AWS and GCP all have live migration. VMWare has it too.
valleyjo··on Librarian's Letter to Google Security
The author updated the document to say that they worked with google security and the problems have been resolved. So it wasn’t ignored.
valleyjo··on Tyler Cowen asks Marc Andreessen to explain a Web3 use case [video]
at least in this clip that was a big time struggle to communicate the value prop of web3
valleyjo··on Find a good available .com domain
yucktastic.com - wonder what would be on such a site ha
valleyjo··on Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
That happens with house cats too. They’re good at hiding signs of weakness.
valleyjo··on Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
He’s already borrowing 12.5B via a margin loan against his assets. Maybe that’s the most he can get away with.
valleyjo··on Job hunting while day-jobbing (2021)
I couldn’t do it. I tried but it was too difficult for me to find a balance.

I had to use my paternity leave to find a new job. if that didn’t work out I was going to quit after leave and continue looking full time. I made a lot of sacrifices and thankfully it was worth it in the end. But I realize so many folks can’t make such sacrifices.

valleyjo··on USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
The newest Dell monitors have Ethernet built in. I just got a 16:10 U3023 and have been using it a hub / dock. No issues yet.
valleyjo··on The tech interview prep industry
I spent at least three months.
valleyjo··on Google Search results are below the fold
There is a description of a 409a above the fold. So I don’t think it’s totally fair to say the results are all below.
valleyjo··on We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
My conclusion so that Dropbox has a lot of smart people who want to leave. Higher numbers of interviewees means more folks want to leave and are practicing to do so.
valleyjo··on Faster IndexOf for Substrings in .NET
The .Net analyzers have a feature to check for StringComparison use when available. I tuned it on for my team after a few bugs occurred from forgetting it.
valleyjo··on Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone
Attrition has been super high during Covid and they raised the pay a lot for new offers to try and attract talent. (source: I got an offer for S3 mid-Nov. this is what the hiring manager told me).
valleyjo··on Meta
Sorry but I just don’t like this name. The rebrand seems appropriate given the expanded ambition. What was wrong with horizon?
valleyjo··on Ask HN: I'm making like 0 friends at college, how to fix it?
Something similar happened to me the first semester of college. I had no friends and I was really struggling with the transition. I lost a lot of weight because I didn’t want to go to the cafeteria alone.

Things ended up improving for me and overall I had an amazing time in college. What worked for me was trying to stay open when meeting people. I took some risks and asked people to hang out 1:1 and in small groups. There were a lot of these hang outs with people that never turned into anything in the first year. It wasn’t until my second year I really made some good friends and it came through trial and error.

I also don’t have any of those interests. I went to a big school and one of my realizations is that it was on me to find my own place there. I tried a bunch of clubs before I found one or two that stuck but through those activities that DID stick I made my best friends.

Keep your head up, know that the transition will take time, and keep trying new things on the social front.

valleyjo··on I interviewed Brian J. Fox, the creator of Bash
I met Brian’s son on a bicycle tour in Japan. Super random.
valleyjo··on July 2021 was the warmest July on record for the globe
I’m so sad for the glaciers in Washington state :’(
valleyjo··on There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now
Savage lol
valleyjo··on Choose whether Search can show you personal results based on your Google Account
If you pay for google workspace do they still scan your emails?
valleyjo··on 1700 Cascadia Earthquake
Love Nick Zenter! He has a great podcast too! I’d love to see his talks in person one day.
valleyjo··on Drinking strong coffee before exercising increases fat-burning, new study finds
>15 men participated in the study

This is no where near the number of participants that would be needed to make such a broad claim

valleyjo··on Repl.it didn't have “cancel” button for subscriptions
Yea I was going to say, call your credit card and do a chargeback. Pretty easy case to make.
valleyjo··on Solving the mystery of the Appalachian hiker “Mostly Harmless”
There have been a few posts about Mostly Harmless here on HN. Found this video thought I’d share since folks are interested.
valleyjo··on Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
If the recruiter replied and said as much I would have been ok with that. At least they were communicating. Plus covid didn’t effect the US big time until March. That’s all of Jan + Feb they had to let me know something was going on.
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