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Comment · 1 month ago
I've seen ads using famous people (as in a Prime Minister) to sell whatever faking the whole thing, how is that even legal
Comment · 1 month ago
maybe?

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Comment · 2 months ago
I believe the opposite of this statement to be true
Comment · 3 months ago
I guess I don't understand what's going on. Solver says in 1-2 to raise 85% of hands to 6 as SM. Then the response by BB is to raise to 18 with 98% of hands!?
Comment · 3 months ago
I lost rows in a busy table until I changed to PRAGMA synchronous = FULL
Comment · 3 months ago
> the site can now pretty easily handle 12 requests per second.

Right prod architecture (nginx -> gunicorn -> django, with nginx serving static assets), decent PRAGMAs for sqlite3 and caching for generic content should improve the RPS one or two orders of magnitude.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
# Upload backup to S3 # Sometimes the backup gets OOM killed and so it stays locked, do an unlock.

An standard S3 upload like "aws s3 cp" doing OOM is surprising (to me)

Comment · 3 months ago
My prejudice is that there are only a few countries in the world (US, Canada, Australia, Mexico, possibly others I don't have experience with) where coming as an immigrant they take you in and you can be considered from that country.
Comment · 4 months ago
> "The first ads for the Vespa featured a woman," said Sarra. "You could call it a kind of feminist design." Well, a big feature of the Vespa design is that, unlike other motorcycles, women (or Scottish men) can ride them with skirts. Surely that helped with their initial popularity.
Comment · 4 months ago
Documentary or docudrama but yes it's great. Important lessons like focusing only in the next rock.
Comment · 4 months ago
you still need filter phone/remote interviews to select which candidates to have for on-site interviews, and this article centers on this initial interview being broken
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
> The interns we hired are extremely qualified and AI-native. wtf is "AI-native" ? couldn't he say "familiar with AI tooling?"

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