Tom Switzer

I tell computers what to do for living.

[Tom Switzer @tixxit]

@aconbere I bought a Prusa (mk3s+) and was glad I did. It’s worked great since my first print and doesn’t require me to tinker with it. Though if I was buying a new one today, I’d probably seriously consider the Bambu Carbon X1 as well.

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@catalinmpit I once heard it succinctly as “if you have unlimited pto and a parental leave policy, then you do not have unlimited pto.”

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@Anneswitzer @JimChuong Yep, max out RRSP and take $200k in equity instead and you are now hitting 43%. I know it must be hard for these folks making $1m a year complaining about taxes, but we can help them get through it 😂 Worst case, maybe pick up a 2nd job.

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@posco Absolutely bonkers. Congrats! I think I ran about 10% of that number, which is also my highest mileage year ever, haha.

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@beala Yeah, I’m sure you will! Also, wasn’t a surprise birthday party, but a surprise family trip! She knew we were going on a trip, but the kids couldn’t tell her where. Not everyone’s bag of course ;) Just remembered it because we had a similar convo about “secrets” recently.

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@beala But agree it is a risk! I think even some minor embarrassment is worth the happiness magic brings, but also definitely understand why you’d feel differently.

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@beala Not arguing, but I thought it was funny how fast I had to add nuance to “lying is bad” with my kids. Eg, lying is bad if it hurts someone, but a birthday surprise requires you to lie, but it makes someone happy. I think for many of us, Santa falls into the latter bucket.

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Heading over to the other place - tixxit, same as here… don’t think there will be dupes?

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@tomashd @anthonysexton @patrickc This is peak load for “transactions” - so people actually buying things. It’s quite a lot. That’s 20k people, per second, digging credit cards (or whatever) out of their wallet!

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@samuelmaskell Felt the same way and it feels like each episode is better than the last. Slow build, but definitely worth sticking with.

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@mat4nier @danluu Depends on the furniture, but for couches, the price doesn't necessarily mean quality and, as a lay person, I'm unable to discern quality otherwise. I've had cheap couches last 15+ years and expensive couches fall apart after 2. I don't know what I'm buying ahead of time though.

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@tchklovski @posco Honestly, firing that engineer has completes shifted my priors on musk. I simply do not believe someone who cannot stand being told the truth directly and calmly can do a good job here. I think he has been successful in spite of being a bad leader. I wish Twitter the best…

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Let’s be clear about this. The CEO of Twitter can attack his employee’s work publicly all day every day.

But when one responds factually and calmly, they get fired.

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@moyix @ipvkyte Ugh, iPhone autocorrected “batched” to “batches.” Lol

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@moyix @ipvkyte So, “poorly batches” was referring to “not putting enough stuff in a single request.” That said, I don’t think it’s an unreasonable worry. I think blasting it on twitter is bad. Treating your eng like clowns instead of smart, capable people is bad.

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@moyix @ipvkyte But I if a leader asked me the same question in a meeting or in private, I would 100% think it’s reasonable and would explain.

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@moyix @ipvkyte Connections can be reused and HTTP supports pipelining, so if multiple calls are made in parallel, they can reuse the same connection at the same time. The overhead is quite minimal. The goal is to minimize dependencies between requests to maximize concurrent reqs.