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Re:Fastly Outage on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:59AM (#27432439)
Looks like this has taken out Reddit at least.
The lack of sleep on almost everything is horrifying. I recommend that book to everyone whenever the topic is discussed.
Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @06:21AM (#25343946)
Could someone please explain how this can be the case? I understand the vaccine works by stimulating antibody production, which prevent you from becoming ill by binding to the virus and disabling it should it enter your system. How then could the virus be spread further if it's already been disabled?
Re:UK Codemasters Sold to Take-Two Games on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:07AM (#25014618)
DMA Design (which later became Rockstar North, developers of Grand Theft Auto) were formed in Dundee. Not exactly the middle of nowhere, but probably not where you'd expect to find one of the world's most popular video game franchises.
Re:Winamp Skin Museum on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:01PM (#24378842)
+1 for fb2k, currently using 13MB RAM to play an MP3 with my collection of ~50K tracks loaded in the background.
"This Is Your Brain on Parasites" is a fantastic book on this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Your-Brain-Parasites-Manipulat...
Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:26PM (#23932448)
Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
I wonder whether this is just write-only, or if they've been able to read private data (like DMs) too.
In an attempt to mitigate the damage, Twitter appears to have blocked verified accounts from sending tweets.
I'm in a similar position - a tech lead role at a Big N - and have recently been doing some interviews for senior roles at FAANG. The most frustrating thing is knowing I can't really leverage anything I've learned over the past 7 years of my career in the interview, at least at the early stages. I've been "studying" Leetcode after work for a month or so but always seem to make stupid mistakes under the time pressure of the interview. I don't want to spend my entire career at one company, but it's clear I'll need to be very lucky and/or practice much harder on my own time if I want anything like a similar position/salary elsewhere.

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