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Noone pointing out that it's a mistake to use a Mercator projection for thjs

Thing is, the meal deals are _everywhere_ in the UK. There is no "high cost of living" priced Tesco. Or Sainsbury's. Or 5 other supermarkets.

> we refunded all affected customers

Notably missing from the postmortem

Huh? LI is standard on like every internet router there is.

Very neat tool. Thank you for your efforts!

I am wondering how state replication works on the backend. The design mentions using crdt and a gossip proto, but I'm not sure what is actually implemented as it is a tad vague. I haven't dug into the code so forgive me if it is obvious or explained elsewhere.

Love the part about the CEO being a Musk sycophant. Right down to the similar language in tweets: "Some of SF got poor sleep. We must fix this."

Most rural houses in Australia are built this way. They still burn down.

I don't think anyone really understands how intense wildfires can get when fanned by wind. It will destroy almost anything.

See: Black Saturday bushfires, Australia.

> "it really made no difference whether the houses were brick or timber. In fact, with the speed of the fire front some timber houses fared better than brick as it moved too fast for the houses to catch, but the bricks exploded from the sudden change in temperature."

> "When you have a fire front coming through at 800C it'll melt your window seals and aluminum window frames. The glass will fall out then everything is on fire.

Immich is amazing, truly great software, and it's oss

Not really, Uranium itself isn't dangerous or even that scarce.

Super-enriched Uranium, however _is_ super rare, expensive and desirable.

> Oppie, a scientist at the peak of his field, willingly handed over the most powerful weapon known to humanity to... a person with a less-than-stellar moral code: President Truman

As opposed to ...

- not handing it over? Prison, then they figure it out anyway.

- handing it to someone else during wartime? Prison or a firing squad, then they figure it out anyway.

Well, this thread was about setting a boundary of 9-5...would people go to a startup expecting that?

So...definitely for larger orgs, where "emergency availability" would be a big red flag, unless one explicitly opted into a (compensated) on call rota.

I guess one can make an exception for very early career, but again this was about setting a 9-5 boundary

Symptom of an organization that doesn't plan and instead of budgeting for 1.3x employees for outside hours support, budgets for ~0.9x and extracts the rest with "expectation".

APAC transit costs :shrug:

Or just Australian.

Someone should tell REA about this!