In many cities this is solved with the "Uber rank" system, where you simply get in the first car in line, give the driver a code, and then it loads up your journey. Fast and avoids any hassles with drivers rejecting your destination.
Wait, shit, that's amazing. How did they do that? I mean, not how did they write the code to match when given the code (obviously the driver should scan the rider's QR code), but how did Uber get laws changed to allow them to do this obvious reimplementation of a taxi stand when it's technically illegal under taxi laws.
Alerting has to be a constant iterative process. Some things should be nice to know, and some things should be "halt what you are doing and investigate". The latter needs to really be decided based on what your SLI/SLAs have been defined as, and need to be high quality indicators. Whenever one of the halt-and-do things alerts start to be less high signal they should be downgraded or thresholds should be increased. Like I said, an iterative process. When you are talking about a system owned by a team there should be some occasional semi-formal review of current alerting practices and when someone is on-call and notices flaky/bad alerting they should spend time tweaking/fixing so the next person doesn't have the same churn.
There isn't a simple way but having some tooling to go from alert -> relevant dashboards -> remediation steps can help cut down on the process... it takes a lot of time investment to make these things work in a way that allows you to save time and not spend more time solving issues. FWIW I think developers need to be deeply involved in this process and basically own it. Static thresholds usually would just be a warning to look at later, you want more service level indicators. For example if you have a streaming system you probably want to know if one of your consumers are stuck or behind by a certain amount, and also if there is any measurable data loss. If you have automated pushes, you would probably want alerting for a push that is x amount of time stale. For rpc type systems you would want some recurrent health checks that might warn on cpu/etc but put higher severity alerting on whether or not responses are correct and as expected or not happening at all.
As a solo dev it might be easier just to do the troubleshooting process every time, but as a team grows it becomes a huge time sink and troubleshooting production issues is stressful, so the goal is to make it as easy as possible. Especially if downtime == $$.
I don't have good recommendations for tooling because I have used mostly internal tools but generally this is my experience.
This is an incredibly insightful and helpful comment, thank you. You explain exactly what I thought when writing this post.
The phrase that stands out to me is "constant iterative process." It feels like most tools are built to just "fire alerts," but not to facilitate that crucial, human-in-the-loop review and tweaking process you described.
A quick follow-up question if you don't mind: do you feel like that "iterative process" of reviewing and tweaking alerts is well-supported by your current tools, or is it a manual, high-effort process that relies entirely on team discipline?
(This is the exact problem space I'm exploring. If you're ever open to a brief chat, my DMs are open. No pressure at all, your comment has already been immensely helpful, thanks.)
Seems like it’s around 10,000 euros/lb now. When I bought it..it was probably 2200-2500 euros per pound. That was almost a decade ago!
To me, after the Italian white truffle experience, black truffles are not worth it anymore. I just want to preserve that one special memory(of many meals) untainted!
Quitting nicotine is absurdly overblown. I'm sure me saying this will annoy somebody, but I think it's much more of a habit than a physical addiction and people hide behind the physical addiction as an excuse. Maybe if you smoke a pack a day it is a different beast but daily smoking is really not hard to kick.
Maybe it is overblown, I can generally go a while without a smoke, and could probably quit with relative ease if I wanted to. Surely it’s no heroin withdraw and certainly not as bad as alcohol withdraw, but it’s the quickest I’ve ever come to developing any physical addiction symptoms. The withdraw is real too, but mostly bearable.
well it took me ~four years to comfortably quit nicotine from wanting to, to absolute zero. Weed is considerably easier to turn on and off whenever. I get that we're all weird but for some people there is a significant difference here.
I wonder how much of that is addiction and how much is just forgetting what something is like. I have 1 cigar a month (never more, occasionally less) and have done so for about 12 years. I suppose some may say that means I'm addicted. Or does it mean I simply enjoy a cigar? I honestly don't know the threshold. When I see a cigar I'm usually reminded of the enjoyment; I guess that is some addiction in and of itself. It calls into question, what is a memory in and of itself -- and if memories and the desire to relive them are just an incarnation of addiction.
IMHO addiction is where you don't feel like you can adequately function without. For a daily nicotine smoker, being without is a negative consequence that seriously alters mood and efficacy. This is what makes that sort of addiction particularly ravenous as opposed to your measured once a month.
From my experience the only "FAANG" that has tried to get me to do a hackerrank was the one you listed in your last sentence so you might have hit the nail on the head.
I’ve done bloodwork prior to taking Ashwaganda and will do again in two to three months. Testosterone was low, not excessively so but was feeling exhausted and unmotivated. Ashwaganda appears to have given me the energy and motivation back but I’ve only been taking it for a week so am not exactly sure how I’ll fare in the longer term. It gave me enough energy to work out now so Im hoping to raise my energy to prior levels or close by.
Do you go to a doctor to prescribe blood work for you? I am interested in doing bloodwork as part of a wellness check to check for deficiencies etc but am unsure about how to approach this.
If you live in the USA you should be able to order online and then go in person to like a labcorp or whatever. If you ever got a drug test for a job, thats the sort of place that usually does it. I think some states you may need a referral but most you do not. For a hormone related test covering testosterone and other factors it is going to cost >100 dollars.
Also worth checking Vitamin D levels - inside all day at the computer, especially with lockdown, can lead to a deficiency which has direct physiological impacts.
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