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by ralmeida 4y ago
Not a definitive list, but do look around on which titles other companies are using. One way to do that is through career ladders - the Dropbox one was already mentioned in this thread, but take a look at https://progression.fyi&
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by ralmeida 4y ago
Probably some combination of security theater and well-intentioned but shallow, nearsighted and misguided attempt to increase security by reducing a perceived attackable surface area (i.e. likely somebody got scared with "View source&q
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by ralmeida 4y ago
If someone has access to your laptop with a logged-in Gmail account, they could change your password and log you out of your other devices, effectively gaining total control of your account and locking you out.
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by ralmeida 5y ago
> if health care professionals were missing PPE as a result True, but "don't buy masks NOW because the health workers need them" is totally different than "don't buy masks because they are not effective for the g
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by ralmeida 5y ago
> Maybe wikipedia also changed it (did you check?) Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry from 2017, same text: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vaccine&oldid=798... Here's a link to the CDC de
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Fair enough, but in many cases some attendees attend only by inertia and would be better off declining instead anyway. Which is probably good overall if the meeting is indeed "stupid".
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Time can also yield better vaccines, a policy of recurring vaccine doses (like the yearly flu shots), and milder variants that can emerge and become dominant, like some believe is what happened with the Spanish Flu.
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by ralmeida 5y ago
And yet your own linked study says, right in the first paragraph, that vaccinated contacts got it 38% less often. Is it possible that this is not enough, and “virtually everyone will eventually be exposed”? Yes. Is it possible that COVID wi
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by ralmeida 5y ago
> Side effects don't have to happen in the next 6 months. If you're willing to go that route, the same could be said for COVID itself.
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Wikipedia defines "vaccine" as "a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease" , which in my view would fit the Pfizer/Moderna shots. Which definition of "v
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by ralmeida 5y ago
From a "reducing my risk of dying" perspective, you'd have to balance the risk of dying from taking the vaccine vs the risk of dying from COVID with zero treatments, one treatment, or both treatments. The numbers could lean e
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by ralmeida 5y ago
It wouldn't be necessarily illogical but would still qualify as "taking part in an experiment trial", as put by the parent post. To determine if this is a rational strategy or not, we'd have to get real numbers (is it re
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by ralmeida 5y ago
> it does little to prevent spread How much, exactly? > Over the long run we'll all be exposed no matter what we do Plausible, but your sources don't appear to support that, other than the claim from Mr. Pollard. Is there an
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Citation needed - and note I didn't say it prevents "100% of spreading"
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Do you have a source for R0 being _absolutely equal_ in vaccinated vs unvaccinated?
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Which is a fair viewpoint from the societal level, but not as much for the individual level, which was implied in the parent message - i.e. how can "I'll take experimental treatment B instead of experimental treatment A" be a
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Some might, but not all, which is still a reduction
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Why is this drug less experimental than the vaccines?
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Comparable individual outcome, worse societal outcome - you still spread it, so no reduction in overall cases, unlike a vaccine.
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by ralmeida 5y ago
I use Timing for macOS, pretty good: https://timingapp.com/ (available also from Setapp)
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Most people don't, to be fair. The case where zero-downtime strategies are adopted for (at least) a questionable ROI is far more common.
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by ralmeida 5y ago
In Portuguese, it's _Uma lagarta muito comilona_ according to Amazon - something like "A very guzzling cartepillar"
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by ralmeida 5y ago
Maybe actual clock differences? Not sure if that's the case, but in audio engineering, a separate clock may be used to keep all devices involved in-sync (many pro-level audio devices have a "clock" input for this very reason)
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by ralmeida 6y ago
Sounds right to me too. One quicker way to improve the 'first process' is to change only step one - do not spend a long time, but instead write a few paragraphs with what's most important and/or top-of-mind. Often, this
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by ralmeida 6y ago
Speaking as someone with no clue about chicken farms, do the chicken naturally go back in the coop at night? Does your automation risk locking chickens outside the coop?
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by ralmeida 6y ago
There's Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda which keeps an amount of Lambdas warm at a price, so you don't have to keep pinging your function yourself to pre-heat.
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by ralmeida 6y ago
Maybe not in the general case, but practically speaking, static analysis can infer the types of probably most completion you would need in day-to-day development.
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by ralmeida 6y ago
Fair enough, my point was more about using k8s to deploy applications rather than “house server” stuff, where it’s indeed unneeded more often than not.
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by ralmeida 6y ago
Exactly! Other non-scalability concerns they address (specifically talking about Kubernetes here) is a primitive amount of monitoring/observability; no-downtime updates (rolling updates); liveness/readiness probes; primitive servi
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by ralmeida 6y ago
Agree, a job title of “DevOps Engineer” is an organizational smell for me. Most people with such a title are actually something like “Automation Engineers”, “Infrastructure Engineers”, “Operations Engineers”, “Site Reliability Engineers”, e

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