Readit News> Middle class salary workers pay a lot of tax
No they don't. If we're talking about federal income tax, the vast majority of is paid by the wealthy.
All tax. Income tax, payroll tax, consumption tax
In general I am a deficit owl, not hawk...but I don't believe the recent tax law, which barely does anything for middle class downwards, is a productive use of debt. Debt accumulated for productive means is usually okay, but not this upwards accumulation of wealth.
Also upwards accumulation of wealth can sometimes mean less tax revenue. Middle class salary workers pay a lot of tax, so with more upwards accumulation of wealth (maybe accelerating due to AI) then what will happen to tax revenue? People getting laid off don't pay tax, and shifting that money to corporate, tax havens, and cap gains types of taxes will probably end up lower overall
I'm painfully aware that this is a stupid question, but who do they owe that to?
Debt is just promises for future currency. One persons debt is another person asset. But what happens is when you "over promise" by accumulating too much debt then all those people with debt as their assets think they have X dollars, but if there's more debt than underlying resources can cover then it might end up all those people only end up getting like 0.65X or possibly even lower. Kind of like a bank run
wppick commented on I'm a Senior Developer and I Still Google Everything (Perfectly Normal) dev.to/elvissautet/im-a-s... · Posted by u/dxs
I think this is normal especially if you’re changing languages, frameworks, codebases. Some people are gifted in memorization of these things and others of us just forget if it’s not needed. I do the same thing with people’s names.
If you’re working on the same type of thing everyday you’ll likely remember how to reverse an array in JavaScript. The other day I was trying to remember how to reverse a string in JavaScript… that was fun.
> Some people are gifted in memorization of these things
Those are usually people who aren't changing languages or frameworks. Memory is mostly recency and repetition, so if you want better memory then narrowing scope is a good strategy. I'd rather go broad so that I can better make connections between things but have to always look up the specifics especially now with LLMs right there
wppick commented on I'm a Senior Developer and I Still Google Everything (Perfectly Normal) dev.to/elvissautet/im-a-s... · Posted by u/dxs
“You don't need to know everything. You need to know how to find everything.”
This is the knowledge in the head vs. in the world thing from Design of Everyday Things - if the knowledge is easily accessible in the world you will naturally keep it there not in your head. Maybe Google/LLMs are so fast this is the result.
One of the reasons I hate interviewing for software jobs is that the logic seems to be the opposite of this, and instead you should have any possible esoteric concept or possible problem ready at the top of your head instantly. And the same idea now with not allowing LLM for technical interviews
> An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, after all.
Don’t do what? Consider the primary cause of conflicts: simultaneous operations occurring on the same data on different nodes. That happens because data may not have distinct structural or regional boundaries, or because a single application instance is interacting with multiple nodes simultaneously without regard for transmission latency.
Thus the simplest way to avoid conflicts is to control write targets
Use “sticky” sessions. Applications should only interact with a single write target at a time, and never “roam” within the cluster.
Assign app servers to specific (regional) nodes. Nodes in Mumbai shouldn’t write to databases in Chicago, and vice versa. It’s faster to write locally anyway.
interact with specific (regional) data. Again, an account in Mumbai may physically exist in a globally distributed database, but multiple accessors increase the potential for conflicts.
Avoid unnecessary cross-node activity. Regional interaction also applies on a more local scale. If applications can silo or prefer certain data segments on specific database nodes, they should.
To solve the issue of updates on different database nodes modifying the same rows, there’s a solution for that too: use a ledger instead
wppick commented on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout theregister.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111
Seriously. I don’t know any half way decent engineer that would ever work there twice.
The formula is usually more money and ability to work special team isolated from the usual toxic orgs. I think A9 was probably somewhat like that, and AWS probably used to be at some point long ago
wppick commented on Deterministic multithreading is hard (2024) factorio.com/blog/post/ff... · Posted by u/adtac
One of the most interesting things to me when reading this was that it was treated as a bug even though it was that hard to reproduce. Most dev shops would not have the bandwidth and management but in to spend the time to dig into something like that unless it was high severity, and also it sounds like it was also getting caused from a modded version of the software
When I write prompts, I've stopped thinking of LLMs as just predicting a next word, and instead to think that they are a logical model built up by combining the logic of all the text they've seen. I think of the LLM as knowing that cats don't lay eggs, and when I ask it to finish the sentence "cats lay ..." It won't generate the word eggs even though eggs probably comes after lay frequently