Tom Switzer

@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.

Anyone have a recommended 3D printer for a relative beginner? Looking to make some relatively simple camera tools, learn, practice.

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

I keep seeing “unlimited PTO” in job descriptions and I don’t understand how that works. Silly question: can you take a 5 months PTO, for example? 👀 Also, as an employee, doesn’t it cause confusion and actually make you take less time off due to the ambiguity?

@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.

This is what you will pay on $1,000,000 salary in Ontario, Canada: Gross income: $1,000,000 Federal tax: $307,320 Provincial tax: $190,919 Canada Pension Plan: $3,500 Employment Insurance: $953 Total Tax: $502,692 Net pay: $497,308 Welcome to Ontario, Canada

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

I ran 2598.9 miles in 2022. My highest mileage year ever. I want to do even more this year.

@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.

@tixxit More seriously, I do think those are interesting cases, but I’m hoping I can chart a course that preserves some of the magic but doesn’t raise moral dilemmas for me.

I’ve been thinking about whether or not I should lead my child to believe that Santa is real. Here are my arguments against. 🧵

@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.

@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.

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

@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!

@anthonysexton @patrickc I'm not speaking on technical terms. I'm thinking that Stripe had X millions of website/platform/store customers, some of whom might do simultaneous drops or whatever at an exact time (release starts at 8PM). So one could assume that their peak load might be more than 20K.

Congratulations to the Stripe infrastructure teams! With record scale, Black Friday and Cyber Monday passed uneventfully. >20,000 peak RPS and >99.9999% API success rate.

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

Everyone seems to love Andor but the first episode didn't capture me at all. When does it get good?

@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.

@danluu Furniture. There is a stark difference between actual wood and particle board. It's hard to buy a good couch these days --it's a race to the bottom even at $ price points for fabric over particle board. Can lmost not buy your parents couch (worthin being reupholsted) these days

What are examples of items/categories where you're really getting your money's worth at the high end, not necessarily in terms of utility, but in terms of the difficulty of producing the item more cheaply? I find the contrast between these vs. "brand" items fascinating.

@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…

@tixxit @posco Except typical schoolyard bullies don’t organize teams to get done what the likes of Munger deem impossible. Does not make Elon a saint, or Twitter currently a fun employer (my guess), but holy cow do some hard to work for, sometimes unfair people pull us into a better future!

Elon’s strategy is to publicly and ignorantly shit on the work of his employees. If they publicly reply he fires them. I can only imagine he knows he’s driving Twitter into a ditch and can’t help looking for scapegoats.

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.

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

@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.

Ok let's pretend I know nothing about distributed systems (we won't have to pretend very hard): why is it silly to think something could be slow because it takes 1000 RPCs to render?

@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.

@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.

@ipvkyte But an RPC is different from a network hop, no? Isn't there a bunch of per-call overhead?