Yeah, my entire project lives on AWS. Fortunately, it’s not my problem to keep things going, so I guess we’ll just roll with whatever punches come.

Exactly. We weren’t using the other services much (we watched a handful of shows on Prime, but that’s it), so our only reason was the faster shipping.

So we cancelled Prime and now have to wait a few more days for our package to arrive. The impact was… pretty much non-existent and we’ve since moved a lot of our shopping elsewhere since shipping times aren’t a big draw anymore. I do kind of miss the occasional same-day or next-day deliveries (we live right next to a warehouse), but not enough to justify what we were spending on it.

Yeah, I think they want to reduce headcount, and this is the cheapest way to do it. I’m guessing they’re getting some flack for investing so much in AI w/o enough return to justify it, so they’re culling a lot of the workforce to juice the numbers a bit until that investment starts to make sense. They’ll probably just reshuffle people around as needed within the org to fill the gaps.

And returning to the office probably doesn’t count as an unreasonable change to the agreement, so you probably won’t win if you sue, and the unemployment office probably won’t help.

So yeah, sucks all around.

Yup, I waste way more time in the office than at home, and I waste plenty of time at home. Also, the time I don’t waste is more productive at home than in the office.

I still value going to the office, but doing it everyday would just kill my soul. I need some time to myself to get stuff done.

Exactly, which is why I really like my current setup, which is 2x in office, 3x WFH. I think being in-person has advantages, but I also feel much more productive when I WFH because I don’t have all of the little interactions at the office (i.e. coworker wanting to get coffee together, quick question from a team member about something irrelevant, etc). I get into better flow at home, but being available is also important for others on the team.

Honestly, I would hesitate to take a full-remote position, but I am definitely not interested in full-on-prem either. I need at least 1-2 days at home to get actual work done, ideally 3.

Yeah, it certainly looks nice, but my problems are:

• everything runs in a docker container locally, so I don’t think the caching is going to be a huge win
• we have a half-dozen teams and a dozen repositories or so, across three time zones, so big changes require a fair amount of effort
• we just got through porting to poetry to split into dependency groups, and going back to not having that is a tough sell

So for me, it needs to at least have feature parity w/ poetry to seriously consider.

Yeah, I think this is lawyer territory. FIgure out the actual value of the property and the terms on the loans before forcing the creditors to foreclose. It could be that she signed in some additional collateral beyond the house, which may or may not be legal, and getting a Real Estate attorney involved would probably be the best course of action.

But yes, take care of this before she passes ideally so you know what you’re in for.

Looks like it has basic support:

• required-python = "..."
• dependencies = [ ... ]

Once it gets dependency groups, I’ll try it out. I’m currently using poetry, which works, but I’m always interested in better perf.

We’re using poetry and it solves our problems. I’ll have to look into uv, but I don’t feel in any rush to switch away from poetry.

They should have made it a bit more broad.

Yeah, game preservation is important, but there are so many other services that have similar issues. What happens when your phone drops out of support? Should you be able to find an alternative OS instead of just tossing it out as e-waste? What about your car’s cloud services? Farming equipment repair for older equipment? Digital purchases when the provider goes bankrupt?

There’s a broader movement here, and they can probably keep the focus pretty narrow, but they do need to appeal to that broader market so they can demonstrate that this is a foot in the door for future legislation. Right to Repair is a very related movement in the US, and they’ve been targeting medical and farming devices because those have broader appeal than laptops and phones, and the important thing is to get that foot in the door.

That said, it’s very close to other, higher-ticket items. For example:

• cloud service support for older cars
• digital purchases on platforms that go bankrupt (e.g. Redbox)

A mechanism for transitioning a service to user/community support when a company is no longer commercially interested is a common issue across sectors.

At least it’s not like Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls 6 “announcement.” They didn’t even confirm they’re working on it, just that they plan to build it at some point. According to Wikipedia:

The game entered pre-production by 2018, formally being announced during Bethesda’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2018 conference. The game entered active production in 2023 following Starfield’s completion and launch.

So they announced it 6 years ago, but nobody was actively working on it until last year. Yet for some reason they decided to release a teaser for it.

Yeah, I only mark a meeting room if I’ll be in that meeting room, and I’ll only do that on the 2x/week when we’re expected to be in the office.

That’s… incredibly dumb.

I disagree, that’ll be abused by candidates to get more screen time.

We should keep the fact checking ABC did and perhaps deduct time for candidates that are consistently caught out on lies. The fact checkers should be approved by all candidates as well, so they can’t just point to the hosts as favoring one or another.

Yeah, I wouldn’t have noticed the kitty if there wasn’t a big arrow pointing it out.

Can confirm, cat is cute.

Phones should capture memories, and they should be shared with those who have the same memories. If I want to watch a video of fireworks or nature, there are so many higher quality options available.

Cool, everyone who has submitted their resume in only PDF format dodged a bullet.