tpankaj

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by tpankaj 3y ago
That's not what that column is supposed to mean afaict. The way I read it is it's showing that if the website requires hundreds of different parallel backend service calls to serve the page load, what's the probability a page
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by tpankaj 3y ago
There's a difference between legal reasons and decency
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by tpankaj 3y ago
I don't want my own office. If I wanted to work in a room by myself, I would work from home. The whole reason I go to the office at a job that lets me choose is because I find it easier to be productive when sitting with my teammates.
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by tpankaj 3y ago
You do not have the right to force your personal religious views onto other people though. Tolerance does not mean everyone else has to allow you to dictate how they live their lives.
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by tpankaj 3y ago
I don't think it's fair to complain that you're not interested in reading about the state of venture capitalism on an article titled "The State of Private Markets". The article delivered exactly what it promised in
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by tpankaj 3y ago
Well-equipped soldiers may be fine but low-income civilians in Khartoum would not have the means to obtain P100 respirators or gas masks.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
By law, if the FDIC takes losses to the insurance fund to pay out on uninsured deposits, they have to charge an extra premium to the member banks. So it's still the banks paying for it.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
Why would banks take more risk with their deposits? The bank executives, shareholders, and bondholders wouldn't be personally affected by the loss of deposits anyway so I'm not sure they would care either way. If deposits aren&#x2
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by tpankaj 4y ago
This is also assuming that the sale of SVB's assets doesn't end up covering the full cost, and that the remaining cost is large enough to result in a meaningfully sized special assessment on FDIC member banks. My understanding is
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by tpankaj 4y ago
Taxpayers did not pay for the FDIC protections. And shareholders are wiped out, so they didn't gain from this collapse.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
While the goal sounds admirable, it seems like it would inevitably mean discriminating against young, child-free employees.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
Maps has become buggier and buggier over time. These days I can't figure out how to use the UI and my navigation to work has become completely wrong (it used to be correct for years) out of nowhere.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
I think the fear is a bit overblown. California already doesn't allow non-competes as far as I know.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
My understanding is they would have to prove criminal intent.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
The process is quite complex so it's usually too heavy handed for a project of this size. That's why people look for an existing nonprofit to take it on. But if kloch mainly wants a couple other people who care about the project t
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by tpankaj 4y ago
I'm 25 and I'd totally take it on, but you're probably looking for an actual nonprofit if you want true survivability. As someone who has used this tool for at least 10+ years (as long as I've known what an IP address is
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by tpankaj 4y ago
My team is 3 right now and 33% time oncall is still pretty bad.
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by tpankaj 4y ago
There are a couple of blog posts and associated papers on TAO: https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe... https://research.facebook.com/publications/flighttracke
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by tpankaj 4y ago
Where did you move to?
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by tpankaj 4y ago
That's a pretty narrow viewpoint. I can tell you from personal experience that it is very difficult to graduate college almost straight into a (pandemic-induced) remote job in a new city while trying to make local connections and ramp
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by tpankaj 4y ago
How does DynamoDB guarantee p99 latency? At first glance it sounds impossible to guarantee something like that, especially accounting for random network congestion or queuing on the client. (Also hi Lu!)
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by tpankaj 4y ago
This is why production services should have health checks that actually verify whether the service is doing its job in the system, not whether it's merely running the process. A process can be completely broken while still technically
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by tpankaj 4y ago
I noticed some other weirdness like functions taking a double pointer argument and then freeing the memory and replacing it with a newly allocated piece of memory. Seems rather dangerous to do that. And zeroing out data by freeing the memor
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by tpankaj 8y ago
I believe another contributor wrote a Go user-space implementation and Jason decided to build off that for the PC user-space implementations and Android and iOS. So basically, because it was there.