yolovoe

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by yolovoe 4mo ago
My experience with Google hardware has been the opposite. Three early Pixel phones died within a year or two, and pretty abysmal experience with Pixel Buds. They'd send me replacements, but I tired of them breaking. I switched to an iP
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by yolovoe 5mo ago
That's one free round trip international flight per year in a lot of cases. Plus sometimes other benefits like theft insurance, warranty extension, phone insurance, etc. You're subsidizing everyone else if you're not trying t
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by yolovoe 8mo ago
Fedora is good and fairly stable, but it has bugged on me a few times. In the past 3 years: - mouse/cursor issues due to some kernel upgrade I think, as Fedora stays close to upstream - unresponsive computer due to a bug in the AMD gra
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by yolovoe 8mo ago
I will have forgotten almost everything by the time something inevitably breaks in a few years. Unless I am constantly recalling the knowledge and applying it, I don't find it worth it. And I _don't_ want to be constantly recallin
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by yolovoe 11mo ago
AWS is very heavy on Rust internally for core services. EC2 (lots of embedded work on servers), IAM, DynamoDB, and parts of S3 all heavily use Rust for quite a few years now already. We can move really fast with Rust as compared to C, while
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by yolovoe 1y ago
Just a single data point against this. I got interviews with 4 companies out of 30 or so I applied to. Cleared all the onsites. Think FAANG, famous hedge fund, popular data analytics platform, and defense. 4 different industries. Job market
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by yolovoe 1y ago
I know your comment is mostly in good faith, but I wish people considered whether it's worth it to use terms like "right wing commentators" instead of the simpler "commentators". The "right wing" label wil
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by yolovoe 1y ago
Yes and Yes.
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by yolovoe 1y ago
This is a really good link. Will definitely refer to this when making a car purchase in the future. Thanks! It seems like Volvo's reputation as one of the safest car is still well deserved after all. I don't own a Volvo--too expen
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by yolovoe 1y ago
Leetcode is a standardized test that shows your ability to write code, grind and pattern match in a very complicated space. It is not possible to memorize solutions to all problems. There are way too many problems in this space. All the peo
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Leetcode shows candidates willingness to grind.
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by yolovoe 2y ago
> They really don’t require you to know the latest frameworks, databases, Kubernetes, etc The latest "framework, databases" are constantly changing. Being good at leetcode and system design is a better signal (ofcourse, not pe
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Is the “card” work EC2 Nitro by any chance? Sounds similar to what I used to do
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by yolovoe 2y ago
That's a good point. I used to work at a SF startup before the FAANG about 4-5 years back. All the engineers there have unfortunately been replaced with those in LATAM too. LATAM engineers were making like $80-$90K in USD, which is ap
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by yolovoe 2y ago
I don't mean to spread FUD, but as an interviewer at a FAANG in the US, I have mostly been interviewing candidates in LATAM (Brazil and Mexico). Same for some of my other coworkers. It's happening, and happening fast.
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by yolovoe 2y ago
You can replace software engineers with anything else here. Most VPs and higher leadership I see at FAANGs (who're arguably the ones recognizing opportunity) come from a PM or other non-software background. As much as I'd like to
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Which is most information...
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Huh, thanks. Really good to know where Linus stands here. Seems to me like Linus is completely okay with introduction of Rust to the kernel and will not allow maintainers blocking its adoption. Really good sign. Makes me hopeful about the f
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Medicare, social security. We already have this in the US. We pay for the old, to receive the same benefits when we’re old.
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Google buys transaction data from credit card companies (Visa, Mastercard, etc). They almost certainly know what you spend money on
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by yolovoe 2y ago
An increasing amount of AWS EC2 dataplane (Nitro firmware/software) is using Rust. We hit this issue too, and our solution was to go busybox-style with binaries. One binary that then gets linked to with different names. Solved the prob
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by yolovoe 2y ago
AWS Graviton servers are ARM. These tend to be cheaper and more reliable than Intel/AMD counterparts.
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Not my experience with Tesla servicing. First off, you don’t have to service the car besides tire rotation and air filter replacement once a year or so. When I do walk in to get something checked out, I get an estimate via the app and can c
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by yolovoe 2y ago
An out-of-spec DNS server implementation that helps me understand and control my internet usage. The DNS server resolves queries based on rules I've set up. Essentially, I can configure certain categories of websites to only resolve at
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by yolovoe 2y ago
You could have gotten rid of the middle paragraph. It’s not fluff. These are valid technical points. Issues most companies would rather (reasonably) pay to not have to deal with. And do you really think you can offer better security and upt
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Nitro does measure firmware. If any firmware is unexpected, server will essentially stop being connected to the EC2 substrate network and/or server wiped clean automatically. People will be paged automatically, security will likely be
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Ah, this makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!
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by yolovoe 2y ago
> I suspect they're not getting a dedicated server from Amazon. If it's literally called a dedicated server, why would you suspect otherwise? Source: I worked in the core EC2 dataplane for a couple years. PEs and leadership the
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by yolovoe 2y ago
Of course not. I am just saying we should understand why the attacks happened, and why many more like them will continue to happen for the next couple generations.
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by yolovoe 2y ago
I highly recommend you read the book The Lemon Tree. I used to think the same as you. Obviously, Palestinians are wrong, right? They rape and murder Israelis? Well, look < 100 years back, and "Israelis" did the same to Palestin

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