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what do you mean? amazon maintains a ton of open source projects, including a pure FOSS version of Elasticsearch called Opensearch

well apparently Dario did the same thing with Mythos - ethics for the big AI labs is mainly posturing

this is so rampant but they know they have a captive market (in many places, only uber or lyft are an option) so they abuse their position

are they usually not? is there no industry standard concept of an escalation manager?

> 2.3 SDE could do that, but i don't get 6. a 24/7 operation needs 2FTE and 1 PTE per shift, and there are three shifts.

having the team constantly on call is a recipe for having them quit. sure, you could run this with the bare minimum number of engineers, but your turnover would be so high and given how high hiring costs tend to be, this is a net negative

> so maybe all that "busywork" takes 6 full times?

ktlo in a constantly changing company is not easy. software / host patching to maintain compliance is necessary busywork that requires a bit of babysitting. not to mention keeping up with required migrations to new stuff due to internal deprecations.

That’s how macOS permissions work.

File access for apps is gated behind “special” folder access (like Documents/Downloads/etc, and “full disk access” which is anywhere beyond the common user directories)

> Most places take after hours paging pretty seriously.

LOL i wish

I imagine that is to compete with ChatGPT, which began doing the same.

non competes are not enforceable in california and a few other US states iirc, although if there were to ever be an IP lawsuit, it would be a war of attrition (with odds highly stacked against the engineer)

minor nit: there are no dedicated SREs at amazon. but your point stands otherwise

> If Apple were truly acting in their users best interest, they would want their users to have encrypted and fast communication with all devices, through an open protocol or otherwise.

yeah that protocol exists. it’s called RCS and it is coming to ios soon. imo apple is allowed to gate imessage behind ios-only if RCS support is a thing

this is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices