tomjakubowski

> Real ones are oncall for the systems they build.

Code of Hammurabi's Law 229: "If a carpenter has erected a poorly constructed house, so that the walls cave in and kill the homeowner, that carpenter shall be executed."

AWK is a great hobby, if anyone's looking to get into a new one. If sed is map and grep is filter, then awk is reduce.

I thought the general partners of a VC firm usually did put their own money into the fund? It seems crazy to me to invest in a VC fund that operates without skin in the game.

I think GP likely meant "win the lottery" metaphorically, like playing the startup game and getting to a large exit.

This week I've been debugging a performance issue in a Ducklake and knocking out some good improvements, but this precise symptom—read_parquet() making tons of tiny range requests to load a parquet's footer from S3—was still baffling me. How lucky am I that I stumbled on your comment! Amazing, thank you for the pointer.

Well, all eight of the compromised certificates had keys which were < 256. So a really poor choice of range.

YCSE isn't an "alternative narrative" in the sense you're probably thinking. It makes no attempt to redeem Holmes. It shows starkly just how manipulative she is, in a way nothing else I've read or watched about her has done.