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by asuffield 7mo ago
Hi! I wrote this paragraph. I promise that I'm not an LLM, but I was in about hour 10 of my work day and I was asleep not long after writing this. Any failures in comprehensibility are from exhaustion. (Other comments have explained th
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by asuffield 7y ago
> 2. Participation in project PRISM I'm an ex-Googler, and I know how PRISM worked. This did not happen. All the statements made in https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html are true at the time th
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by asuffield 10y ago
(I'm an SRE at Google. My opinions are my own.) WoMs are a training exercise, intended to build familiarity with systems and how to respond when oncall. A typical WoM format is a few SREs sat in a room, with a designated victim who is
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by asuffield 10y ago
(I'm a Google SRE. My opinions are my own.) That's not what our 20% time is for, and 20% is way too small a number for that purpose. "20% time" (the way we use the term) is for personal/career growth/scratching
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by asuffield 10y ago
(I'm an SRE at Google. My opinions are my own.) > core subjects, like container management (this happens...everywhere nowadays) or cluster management Curiously, these are subjects which most Google SREs won't know much about. O
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by asuffield 10y ago
Would you prefer that I not participate at all?
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by asuffield 10y ago
Since you're posting from a throwaway account (149 days old with no prior comments): please email me your old @google.com username. Mine is the obvious one. I'll happily add a confirmation to this thread when I get it, it only tak
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by asuffield 10y ago
Part of the company culture is that we value always being able to expect that everybody you encounter is a strong engineer who will do sensible things when presented with data. You never go into an encounter with a new person or team being
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by asuffield 10y ago
Hi, downvoters who aren't commenting. What exactly is your objection to this post?
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by asuffield 10y ago
All I am free to say about this is that we look hard at diversity issues in hiring and put a lot of effort into eliminating them, and that I personally believe we do a better job of stamping this out than any other company I have worked for
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by asuffield 10y ago
I am not allowed to share our data with you about how well the process is performing. But I would like to point out that of the two of us, only the one who doesn't know is suggesting that we have "terrible hiring figures" o
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) We expect and accept a high false-negative rate. Our interview process is optimised for zero false-positives at the cost of many false-negative
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by asuffield 10y ago
I also went through some of the source code. That "adds things to hosts file" code has some rather questionable entries in it. m.hotmail.com watson.microsoft.com Assorted *.msn.com domains apps.skype.com msftncsi.com "Add spy
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by asuffield 10y ago
Ah, I see. So what they're saying in this case is that 0.005% is the fraction of Apple's global non-US profits that was paid as tax in Ireland. That's not the same thing as saying it was "a 0.005% tax rate". The iss
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by asuffield 10y ago
That's not precisely accurate. The EC's ruling is that the Irish government changed the law in an unlawful way. There has not yet been an explicit ruling on Apple's conduct, as far as I know - that's likely to take more
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by asuffield 10y ago
Here's an (old) discussion of some of the major points in understanding that question: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/11/01/so-how-mu... I haven't seen an explanation of wher
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by asuffield 10y ago
They could also build a larger road for the most popular commuter route. Or even some form of public transport that's good enough for people to want to use. I realise that the idea of spending tax funds on improving infrastructure is c
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by asuffield 10y ago
If they had renters, they could pass those savings on. The article discusses how landlords are keeping units empty because it has become too risky/expensive to rent them. When the law has become so restrictive that people would rather
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) Performance. gRPC is basically the most recent version of stubby, and at the kind of scale we use stubby, it achieves shockingly good rpc perfo
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by asuffield 10y ago
I'll just point out that in the UK and most of Europe we don't see a reason why this should be reciprocal. You can quit at any time, but you also can't be fired without a reason if you've worked at a company for more tha
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by asuffield 10y ago
> This is mostly to provide documentation in the event of a wrongful termination suit. While it might serve that purpose, it's primarily to make sure that middle-management takes reasonable steps to let people correct and thinks the
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by asuffield 10y ago
To fully answer questions like "how much traffic will go in this direction?" you need your analysis to include a simulation of what the entire internet is doing. That's hard. I can't talk about the details, but you can a
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google. My team is oncall for this service and I know exactly what happened here; I probably can't answer most questions you might have.) Let'
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google. My team is oncall for this service and I know exactly what happened here; I probably can't answer most questions you might have.) > Perh
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by asuffield 10y ago
US standard price is $9.99 excluding tax. UK price is £7.49 (about $9.89) including tax. Tax rates on netflix vary, in both rate and whether they are collected at all.
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by asuffield 10y ago
> The value is immeasurable, it's just that finance can't get a piece. Plenty of people make money from this: your ISP, the utility company that pulls cables under the road, the construction company that dug up the road to put
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by asuffield 10y ago
I do not believe this statement to be correct: it seems entirely possible for this to be done via reckless incompetence, rather than criminal fraud. All it takes is for somebody to calculate the risk incorrectly and everybody else to fail t
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by asuffield 10y ago
You seem to be talking about some specific incident, and guessing about what happened. We're discussing the general case of what you do when you've got a large collection of data that isn't yours, and all you know is that som
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by asuffield 10y ago
> how difficult would it be to let him access his data sans the illicit material? It's not my service, and I'm talking about the general case rather than this specific one, but that seems to me like it would be pretty complicat
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by asuffield 10y ago
I'm no lawyer, and don't fully understand these things, but would that not also be illegal distribution?

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