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I’m on my seventh year at AWS now. I have a lot of friends that have been in AWS for 10+ years. If any of us would have wanted to leave we would have.

Yes, but that wasn’t engineers.

I’m an AWS engineer and I haven’t seen any evidence of engineering layoffs within AWS since early this year. As others have suggested we generally don’t have ”DevOps Workers” either. There’s definitely a push for AI tools, but there’s no indication that it was related to any off this from what I’ve seen.

Countering advanced bits is a game of economics. Sure, we know that they can solve the captchas, but they usually can’t do so for free. Eg. Typical captcha solver services are around $1/thousand solved. Depending on the unit economics of a particular bot that might be cheap or it might completely destroy the business model. I’ve definitely seen a lot of professionally operated bots where they invest a lot of effort into solving the fewest captchas possible to keep the cost down.

That captchas are completely useless is a popular myth.

It was of course co-discovered by another woman, Lise Meitner, who understood the theory while taking a walk with Otto Frisch and discussing the experimental findings by Otto Hahn. Meitner and Frisch were friends with Hahn and learned about the experiment earlier than most, so it’s likely one of those contingencies of history. There’s a good discussion of exactly how it unfolded in _The Making of the Atomic Bomb_ which is generally a great book and a comprehensive intro to the history of nuclear physics.

I think it’s at least relevant to note that a lot of things relating to autism was completely redefined in DSM-V. DSM-IV had many different diagnosis such as classic autism, autism spectrum disorder, aspergers and PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified). All of those was merged into a single diagnosis titled ”Autism Spectrum Disorder”, where the criterias are communication difficulties and stereotypical behavior. My understanding is that this was mostly due to poor diagnosis stability with the prior set of diagnosis. It seems at least plausible that this general simplification of diagnosis criteria has contributed to an increase in the number of diagnosis. (It’s also worth remembering that any comparison over time has to bundle all of the previously distinct diagnosis to come up with an apples-to-apples comparison.)

Redis latency is around 1ms including network round trip for most operations. In a single threaded context, waiting on that would limit you to around 1000 operations per second. Redis clients improve throughput by doing pipelining, so a bunch of calls are batched up to minimize network roundtrips. This becomes more complicated in the context of redis-cluster, because calls targeting different keys are dispatched to different cache nodes and will complete in an unpredictable order, and additional client side logic is needed to accumulate the responses and dispatch them back to the appropiate caller.

I think our understanding of the inner structure of the earth is another interesting example of something that we’ve deduced scientifically but never directly observed. It surprised me a bit when I first realized that the Earth’s crust had never been pierced (by humans) and that it was all based on indirect observation.

When I started working for AWS as an SDE, I was hoping it’d be possible to visit a datacenter. I was surprised to find out that I’d require L11 (!) approval to so so! The only L11 in my reporting chain is Adam Selipsky.

I’m told the AWS data centers has red zones, which no harddrive can be taken out of, without being mechanically and violently destroyed first.

I’ve been using self-hosted TTRSS since Google Reader shut down.

He is mentioned in the book, _The Man from the Future_, which gives the impression that Von Neumann did the heavy lifting their collaboration. It paints a relatively unflattering picture of Morgenstern.

I am not convinced that AA is actively trying to block this app. I used to work for a major anti-bot vendor, so from that I know that all airlines suffer heavily from price scraping and try to protect their flight search endpoints. The impact to them is due to fees from the centralized data services that all airlines depend on.