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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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    • The light is beamed from the human head in 360 degrees when ever they communicate, visible for up to 1KM

    This sounds extremely impractical. It’s like everyone can only yell at the top of their lungs. At least we can choose to focus on the person we’re interested in and ignore background “noise”. But someone trying to get our attention would be difficult. Now we can just call someone’s name from behind them. Something equivalent would be impossible.










  • I’m sure my company’s policies are nothing special and lots of companies have similar policies. I’m not allowed to do anything work related on my personal devices, only on the company issued and managed laptop and only through the company VPN. I’m also not allowed to discuss internal information on whatever app I want, just on company approved software, which is managed by the company’s IT team. All software or other type of 3rd party used in the company has to first go through infosec approval.

    This is a standard tech company not working on anything particularly sensitive for anyone other than potential competition and maybe shareholders. Definitely not anything involving national security.

    So no, not relatable. This is how people get fired.




  • It make sense for a wrapper layer to do this and I had to fight against APIs that didn’t. If I make a single HTTP call that wraps multiple independent API calls into one, then the overall HTTP code should reflect status of the wrapper service, and the individual responses should each have their own code as returned by the underlying services.

    For example on one app we needed to get user names by user id for a bunch of users. To optimize this, we batched calls into groups. The API would fail with an error code if one of the user ids in the batch was bad or couldn’t be found. That meant we wouldn’t be getting data for any of the users in the batch and we didn’t know which userId was bad either. Such a call should return 200 for the overall call and individual result for each id, some of which could be errors.


  • Romanian living in the US. I call clătite “crepes” and American pancakes “pancakes”. That way everyone knows what I’m talking about.

    Also, don’t call plăcintă “pie”, or you’re setting people up for disappointment (it doesn’t matter that it’s good, their brain was ready for pie and got something else).