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@skinnylatte Movements for the dignity of work and the power of hard work over money can be international. Stick to one country and the money will arbitrage you to fight your power as hard workers. 2/2

@skinnylatte the thing to do if you think your job is endangered is to travel to India and make friends with people there. Talk about a land of opportunity where hard work is rewarded! (And with great food!) make friends and help your friends negotiate for higher pay. Level the income differentials across the world, without war. Meet brilliant people from all over. 1/2

@mattblaze I felt so strongly when a feature I implemented was featured in the risks digest! (We emailed forgotten password in plaintext back to the user; it was the 90s!) I loved reading that and his authoritative assessment of it all.

@zackwhittaker wow public bucket. First thing to do at a new job to learn the AWS infra is scan all the S3 buckets for public and for encryption. And versioning (to know how much caution is needed ).

@Moss @farfalk @cwebber sorry I can't quite understand your point. I am sure you use the internet for distributed software; data centers per se allow networking. Having products controlled by monopolistic rent seeking companies that haven't a better business plan than ads is a political problem, not so different from rail roads/oil distribution; political solutions will work when we focus on democratic power not individual purity. Bubbles happen when $ is unregulated by work/life/democracy.

@letsbeworms @futurebird with a meter slide rule you should be able to get three sig figs pretty easily.

@carnage4life 1. Is an ability to consciously shape your language usage to be that of the community whose info you seek, and 2. Is an ability to use logic to build determinism. So the mythical analytical person who intimately understands human language communities

@purpleidea 2/2 My bete noir is always logging local variables that would otherwise be stack allocated thru a logging go routine which means they have to be on the heap. Expensive but I like my logging. And anyways I am using gRPC libraries that do a lot more allocs per request than my logging so it seems to be ok, but yeah I learned a lot from the escape analysis.

@purpleidea I have used that to understand why a given line is triggering allocation which I see is expensive from pprof. I think it is good tool to understand how the language works but not so useful in specific performance tuning runs.

Allocs put pressure on the GC and minimizing them definitely results in higher thruput for a given deployment size. I start with the profiler and then go from there. 1/2

@futurebird less nostalgic for my own life but show me some art work a kid of mine made when they were little and I can’t keep my equanimity. And I do have the weird experience of hearing music that I desperately wanted to understand as a teenager to fit in, and now it is playing in the grocery store as a sort of modern Muzak; like hey they are playing the Dark Side of the Moon in the utterly conventional shopping thing. Not exactly nostalgia but something to do with time.