Ebere
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Ebere
@eberethinkscs
Founder @ Stealth AI Startup. Quant. Prev SDE Intern @amazon @awscloud. CS, Math and Econ @ Umanitoba. All opinions are my own.

If it’s real-time → WebSockets If it’s scale → Kafka If it’s simplicity → REST If it’s chaos → GraphQL If it’s AI → Python If it’s infra → Go If it’s logs → ElasticSearch If it’s low-latency → Redis If it’s high-availability → Postgres If it’s streaming → Flink If it’s low-level → C If it’s high-performance → C++ If it’s enterprise → Java

Our species norm is polygyny: 80% of cultures historically let high-status men hoard wives while low-status men get nothing. Christianity (inherited from Rome) forced monogamy for 2000 years. Now we've mostly ditched it—and we're sliding back toward the old pattern. Louise Perry: Lifting the monogamous restriction produces worse outcomes—higher crime, domestic violence, economic inequality. Monogamy is better for women and low-status men. Monogamy isn't "natural"—it's an engineered cultural upgrade that tamed inequality and violence. Do you think monogamy is worth defending even if it's not the "default" human pattern? Or are we better off returning to the species norm? Your take 👇


You get to use one AWS Service for the rest of your career, which one would you pick and why?


plot twist: most AWS errors aren't saying your code is broken, they're saying something about context wrong person. wrong place. wrong speed. wrong format once you learn the pattern, debugging gets way faster




guy on the middle seat of my redeye flight bravely asked me if i would move from my exit row window seat to a middle row seat 16 rows back so his friend could be with him. when i said no, he asked the aisle guy, who just laughed

@cperciva Apologies for any concern, Colin. I've shared this feedback internally with our Marketplace team for additional visibility and review. 🔎We'll circle back if we have an update. ^MO

If you launch FreeBSD from the @awsmarketplace please be advised that I can now see your "Company name". I never used to be able to see this information, and have no intention of (ab)using it, but this is new. (And, of course, applies similarly with other Marketplace products.)

🚨 Simeone: "Barcelona are better than us, they’re the BEST attacking team in Europe. In the Champions League it's almost always Real Madrid or Barcelona in the the final."









