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Shipping, Leap Second, Timezones, Free Games, Rats
How I ship projects at big tech companies
Shipping is a social construct within a company. Concretely, that means that a project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped. If you deploy your system, but your manager or VP or CEO is very unhappy with it, you did not ship. (Maybe you shipped something, but you didn’t ship the actual project.) You only know you’ve shipped when your company’s leadership acknowledge you’ve shipped.
Anyone else experiencing high rates of Linux server crashes during a leap second day?
This is caused by a livelock when ntpd calls adjtimex(2) to tell the kernel to insert a leap second.
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
OK but the real question is what’s up with the two 1800 transitions. They’re synonyms for each other. It’s Australia/Lord_Howe, which has a powerful 30-minute DST transition:
I'm a pretty big youtuber (200 subs) and was wondering If I could get this game for free, or u can pay me for a good review, I'll give it a bad one if not.
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Things have escalated a tiny bit on our end (whoops)... We never intended to test the patience of an influencer of your caliber. As a gesture of peace, we’d like to send you our last two office donuts… and maybe an exclusively signed “Please don't do that” card.
Surprisingly, two of the three rats chose to take the less efficient path of turning away from the reward and running to the car to drive to their Froot Loop destination. This response suggests that the rats enjoy both the journey and the rewarding destination.
