Wagthesam

Reading a recent post here, I felt like I could add more detail on the strategies and tactics for how to ship at large companies.

After I wrote the article, a lot of it boils down to basic project management. But each of these points I’ve made mistakes on and I don’t personally find any of this that intuitive so I hope this helps others

that used to be desirable. But the canadian health care system has degraded, and cost of living is now super high with the housing boom

I say this as a canadian based in sf

I have wondered recently about head of line blocking's impact to latency at AZ level within AWS. How reliable are TCP connections within the same datacenter and do these issues noticeably impact performance at the tail end?

One thing I'm wondering about is that http3 seems to be from end user to search, which is a general serving problem and not really about search. Do dropbox clients call the search service directly?

Funny how school lessons are not applied in the real world. I worked at a Waterloo unicorn, and we had a single refund function that either authorized or denied a refund, with dozens of parameters in the function header

What, it was? I went to an anon anti Scientology protest once. Was I just being used?

do you work at google? most engineering roles ive been in engineers absolutely own their systems and take on call rotations.

I agree though, hasty response is the mark of a junior eng

that seems like inflated pricing. there are solutions from the internet for hsat (lofta and night owl) that used standardized devices. If you want a psg, there's a place in sacramento (axg sleep diagnostics) that will mail you the psg device for a night, for around 600.

My hsat was covered by insurance, but I had to self fund psg and my insurance wouldn't pay for it. My sleep specialist quoted 3k, I went with axg sleep diagnostics.

I defer to his expertise for a lot as he's considered one of the top experts in sleep apnea surgery in the world. He's had more cases for example on MMA than aggregate studies in the literature

He considers DISE to show collapse that would not normally occur. Because under dise you are heavily sedated. Like after drinking alcohol, the airway is not the same as a normal state.