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Money market funds are typically the settlement funds for any brokerage account. If you buy a position in a stock that amount of money is leaving your settlement fund to purchase that stock. At the same time that same amount of money is entering the settlement funds of anyone who was selling the...

Tons of great stuff there but the most interesting node out of all of them to me is Shadowed Blood

Some really, really interesting stuff in that Assassin rework

Project Diablo 2 https://www.projectdiablo2.com/

No, you do know. What I was mildly lampooning is 100% how it has worked for... 10+ years. And now it's being exacerbated by AI and outsourced recruiters and HR reps who are invested in only showing outsourced "talent" and being encouraged to do so.

"There was a bunch of cool stuff added and interesting changes this league and I had a few builds i wanted to try but not having to pickup wisdom scrolls to identify items kinda soured me on the whole experience. I mean... like... what even is the point? Humans are known for hating convenience...

Did it actually take that long to hire a junior system admin because all young people suck and are unqualified or because the resume procurement and hiring process is gated behind unqualified, unnecessary recruiter and HR representatives who get to choose who to send to the actual hiring...

When you guys talk about Punch Princess you're talking about "May I Ask for One Final Thing?" right?

Over the years I've found that a large amount of any company's work force is filled with people that won't do anything unless they feel like they HAVE to do that thing. And the people that are doing their job without HAVING to be told when and how to do their job, inevitably and obviously become...

Confirming blueprints is way.... way worse than leveling the rogues ever was.

So what do genetics play a role in? Eye color? Height? Intelligence?

I think you should leave had some of the best sketch comedy skits I've ever seen. It also had some of the worst. He leans into his comedic style hard and lives and dies by it. Which is kinda cringe and also admirable.

I guess I should clarify that it was a very small subset of functionality that was affected by this. We have a couple hundred services on these platforms and only 2 were broken which is essentially why it went unnoticed. It would have been caught in QA if it was causing widespread issues.

There were failures, but nobody was even aware anything needed to be tested and this was not a normal scheduled deployment window (so we had no code we were pushing ourselves either). So the failures weren't even noticed. And monitoring didn't catch it because... well... the monitoring tool was...