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New comment by sealjam in "DynamoDB 10 years later"

sealjam — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:38:47 +0000

Crudely speaking, the fact that they work at AWS means that it’s in their best interests for AWS to be perceived positively.

When this is the case it’s often nice to state this conflict of interest, so others can take your appraisal in the appropriate context.

I’m not implying anything about the post, just stating what I assume to be the reason for the disclosure.

New comment by sealjam in "Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)"

sealjam — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:05:01 +0000

I always think of pence as 1/100 of a £, but pennies as multiple penny (1p) coins.

I’m not sure whether it’s just me.

New comment by sealjam in "Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb"

sealjam — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:21:00 +0000

> …RedPanda, a scratch backend rewrite in Rust that is client API compatible

I thought RedPanda was mostly C++?

New comment by sealjam in "Closing email with “thanks” gets the most replies"

sealjam — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:25:57 +0000

Can confirm, I’m British and often use “cheers” to mean “thank you”.

New comment by sealjam in "Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production"

sealjam — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:06:06 +0000

It does say there’s a heroku edition “coming soon”

New comment by sealjam in "Leaving Google"

sealjam — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:22:09 +0000

Not the OP but here in the UK there's a separate category of fridge-freezers called "American Fridge Freezers" which are typically the huge ones you describe. Everybody I know has a fridge-freezer, but not many of those are "American Fridge Freezers".

New comment by sealjam in "Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'"

sealjam — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:49:19 +0000

Shouldn't that be ?

New comment by sealjam in "Pitch doctoring should be the biggest scandal in sports"

sealjam — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 09:21:31 +0000

Are you in the UK? I too noticed how much emphasis there's been in the commentary in this tournament on players being "cute" with tactical fouls.

New comment by sealjam in "Python 3.8 Makes me Sad Again"

sealjam — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:38:08 +0000

I think parent is using “shit-post” to describe a negative post.

Like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting

New comment by sealjam in "How to Vote in the 2020 Election"

sealjam — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:42:29 +0000

I take your point, but I don’t feel it’s disingenuous to take the quote at face value.

Maybe the quote lost some context but talking about “...levels of voting...” being a negative thing seems like a pretty obvious admission of a desire to suppress votes.

New comment by sealjam in "Which cyclist hill descent position is superior? (2017)"

sealjam — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 14:08:17 +0000

Same race, different descent, different era, but this was also an eye popping descent

Niccolo Bonifazio descending the cipressa https://youtu.be/Wb5G-18YLeI

New comment by sealjam in "Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams"

sealjam — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:42:19 +0000

I assume you mean "it is not ready for public use yet"?

New comment by sealjam in "Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity"

sealjam — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:02:58 +0000

I just read I Have America Surrounded[1] a biography of Timothy Leary and found it fascinating. His descriptions of levels of consciousness are a bit wacky but I think helped me understand the appeal of psychedelics.

I assume Timothy Leary is a pretty divisive figure for some, I didn't know a lot about him before reading, so went in with a relatively open mind.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123706.I_Have_America_Su...

New comment by sealjam in "Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies"

sealjam — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:43:53 +0000

I think the responder misread your message and assumed you were adding a suffix like \+\w+ to the end of your email addresses like name@gmail.com -> name+suffix@gmail.com

Several email providers treat a + symbol as the end of the first part of the address and ignore everything between it and the @.

I think the responder’s point was that analytics providers just ignore things after a + too

New comment by sealjam in "It never makes sense to use foldl on lists in Haskell (2019)"

sealjam — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:04:13 +0000

This was the same for me. I think it’s because it was a line-level GitHub comment and the line has now changed. It is possible to expand the post if you click “Show Outdated” on the two collapsed posts underneath the comment saying:

“LGTM aside from two minor comments”

New comment by sealjam in "Our experience moving to SF to do YC"

sealjam — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 07:37:35 +0000

Does London have a reputation for bad food?

New comment by sealjam in "Which companies are using Erlang, and why?"

sealjam — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:15:23 +0000

The lead engineer/designer on the project makes this claim in these slides. I don't know whether this gives the claim more veracity in your eyes, but it's there.

[1]: http://martinsumner.github.io/presentations/spine2_erlang#/2...

New comment by sealjam in "Introduction to Svelte"

sealjam — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:51:25 +0000

I've never heard it described like that but you're right. Interesting counter point.

New comment by sealjam in "Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note"

sealjam — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:17:03 +0000

Anecodatal but: In London there are already multiple shops/restaurants/bars that no longer accept cash.

New comment by sealjam in "Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability"

sealjam — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:13:20 +0000

I assume you're referring to the media company 'oath'[1] not the auth framework 'oauth'[2]?

[1]: https://www.oath.com/ [2]: https://oauth.net/