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by palcu 6mo ago
I've been calling LLMs superhuman at writing `jq`. It's like you're talking directly with the JSON.
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by palcu 6mo ago
Yes, the general trend is the unprecedented growth that we've seen. Typically one would have some time in advance to re-engineer the systems to support the increased in traffic and users. But we're dealing with very compressed tim
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by palcu 6mo ago
Hey folks, I'm Alex from the reliability engineering team at Anthropic. We've just posted the retrospective for this incident: > On March 26–27, 2026, customers experienced elevated error rates when using Claude Opus 4.6 and Cl
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by palcu 6mo ago
Hey folks, I'm Palcu from the reliability engineering team at Anthropic. I just posted a small retro on the status page: > Between 14:17 and 17:11 UTC, our primary application database experienced severely degraded I/O performa
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by palcu 8mo ago
Hey folks, I’m Alex from the reliability team at Anthropic. We’re sorry for the downtime and we’ve posted a mini retrospective on our status page. We’re also be doing a more in depth retrospective in the following days. https://s
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by palcu 9mo ago
Thank you! Opening an incident as soon as user impact begins is one of those instincts you develop after handling major incidents for years as an SRE at Google, and now at Anthropic. I was also fortunate to be using Claude at that exact mom
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by palcu 9mo ago
Hello, I'm one of the engineers who worked on the incident. We have mitigated the incident as of 14:43 PT / 22:43 UTC. Sorry for the trouble.
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by palcu 1y ago
There is an external incident now. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...
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by palcu 1y ago
I confirm. I’m still doing reliability, but in a fun and exciting way for Claude and Anthropic.
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by palcu 1y ago
One of the problems has been that most users have requested that quotas get updated as fast as possible and that they should be consistent across regions, even for global quotas. As such people have been prioritising user experience rather
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by palcu 2y ago
seems to be OpenAI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155028
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by palcu 3y ago
And the queries flow through.
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by palcu 3y ago
My adjacent teams in London who work in SRE on Google Cloud (GCE) got some well deserved doughnuts today for rolling out the patches on time.
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by palcu 3y ago
Yeah yeah, they've broken the old TweetDeck. You need to wait for the pop-up to ask you to transition to the new TweetDeck. Or, search on the internet for the Javascript variable you have to change in your console. The more important q
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by palcu 3y ago
Life and experience, if you're looking for a short answer. For example, last year we had an outage in London[0] and the folks who worked on it learnt a lot. Now, they applied the learnings in this incident. [0]: https://news
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by palcu 3y ago
There's not much emotion as the core team working on the huge outages is more like an "SRE for SRE". They are all people who've been with the company for a long time and they've been in the secondary seat for at lea
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by palcu 3y ago
[disclaimer: SRE @ Google, I was involved with the incident, obvious conflicts of interest] Hey Dang, thanks for cleaning up the thread. One thing to note is that the title is not correct. The entire region is not currently down, as the reg
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by palcu 4y ago
I absolutely love the answer to any of the other obvious questions that one would have about the membership. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/memberships
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by palcu 4y ago
Not ironic, just nominative determinism.
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by palcu 4y ago
Hijacking the article, but has somebody managed to find a good iPhone/iPad keyboard for coding? I’m still able to do Python with the default keyboard, but I press a lot of times the symbol key. The Wolfram Alpha custom keyboard on Andr
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by palcu 4y ago
I tried getting into the Crowdcube investment round, but after they got the allocations, the whole deal fell through and I was refunded. Needless to say I’m pretty happy they didn’t take my money in the end.
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by palcu 4y ago
Rest of world has a really good article about people from emerging markets that chose Luna because their home currency is unstable. https://restofworld.org/2022/argentina-nigeria-terra-crash/
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by palcu 4y ago
Took it to the office today and I must say, this is a beautiful piece of engineering. Cheers to all the people that made it possible and here's for hundreds of years of continuous service.
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by palcu 4y ago
I was just imagining crowds of people in Trafalgar square singing "it's coming home" and it's not about football for once. Maybe next year...
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by palcu 4y ago
For the nerds, there you can read about Euro English on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
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by palcu 4y ago
I think the DVLA is pretty unique in how dysfunctional it is as a British agency. I think the move to Swansea was very poorly executed. But you cannot criticise it because Very Serious People have said that devolution is always good.
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by palcu 5y ago
You are forbidden to trade derivatives of GOOG as an employee of Alphabet. Source is that I am one and I have read my insider trading policy.
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by palcu 6y ago
This Lesswrong thread has a good discussion about the subject. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/niQ3heWwF6SydhS7R/making-vac...
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Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines(blog.jonasneubert.com)
210 points by palcu 6y ago|56 comments
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by palcu 6y ago
In the same category, if you live in the UK then http://monevator.com is the go to source for passive investing advice. The comments section is a gold mine as well.

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