Atreya Srivathsan
@atreya2.bsky.social
Software Engineer, Obssessed with reading mundane things, Loves cooking, Baking, and just living a life of learning and perpetual growth.
This please. I haven't seen this many off peak hours accidents blocking 520 as this year. Stay safe.
If you haven't noticed, it's wet out there. Make sure you and your vehicle are ready:
- Turn on headlights
- Make sure your wipers work
- Slow down
- Give yourself extra time
- Check latest road conditions at bit.ly/WSDOTTravelMap
- DO NOT drive around road closed signs
- Turn on headlights
- Make sure your wipers work
- Slow down
- Give yourself extra time
- Check latest road conditions at bit.ly/WSDOTTravelMap
- DO NOT drive around road closed signs
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This please. I haven't seen this many off peak hours accidents blocking 520 as this year. Stay safe.
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A new Gallup poll on Americans' drinking habits shows that drinking among adults is at its lowest point since 1939. Young adults, in particular, said they personally think drinking is "bad for your health." Overall, 53% of people agreed with this statement, including 66% of adults age 18-34.
August 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A new Gallup poll on Americans' drinking habits shows that drinking among adults is at its lowest point since 1939. Young adults, in particular, said they personally think drinking is "bad for your health." Overall, 53% of people agreed with this statement, including 66% of adults age 18-34.
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We're going to need more bus lanes.
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We're going to need more bus lanes.
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Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
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New blog post, with some career advice: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06...
Career advice, or something like it - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za
June 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New blog post, with some career advice: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06...
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The Bothell City Council just voted 5-1 to drop all minimum off-street parking requirements at the same time that they approved the legalization of neighborhood cafes and corner stores everywhere in the city.
July 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The Bothell City Council just voted 5-1 to drop all minimum off-street parking requirements at the same time that they approved the legalization of neighborhood cafes and corner stores everywhere in the city.
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Really enjoyed this video investigating the weird zombie existence of FAMILY CIRCUS in 2025 newspapers (and also a genuinely touching appreciation for a piece of pop culture that most frequently just gets bought up as an example of laziness or low quality) youtu.be/mOV0BV45NqA?...
The weird zombie existence of the Family Circus
YouTube video by Don McHoull
youtu.be
June 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Really enjoyed this video investigating the weird zombie existence of FAMILY CIRCUS in 2025 newspapers (and also a genuinely touching appreciation for a piece of pop culture that most frequently just gets bought up as an example of laziness or low quality) youtu.be/mOV0BV45NqA?...
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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
projects.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
We are now GA aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am...
No matter how much thought goes into building the "right" product, it always surprises me the new ways customers end up using it. It's the most exciting part when I see the thousands of brains come up with ideas and innovate using a new product.
No matter how much thought goes into building the "right" product, it always surprises me the new ways customers end up using it. It's the most exciting part when I see the thousands of brains come up with ideas and innovate using a new product.
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications. It makes it effortless for customers to scale to meet any workload demand with zero infrastruct...
aws.amazon.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We are now GA aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am...
No matter how much thought goes into building the "right" product, it always surprises me the new ways customers end up using it. It's the most exciting part when I see the thousands of brains come up with ideas and innovate using a new product.
No matter how much thought goes into building the "right" product, it always surprises me the new ways customers end up using it. It's the most exciting part when I see the thousands of brains come up with ideas and innovate using a new product.
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In a new guest post from #AWS Sr. Principal Engineers @nikomatsakis.com and Mark Bowes take us inside Aurora DSQL's development from scaling write operations without two-phase commit, to overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and em...
www.allthingsdistributed.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In a new guest post from #AWS Sr. Principal Engineers @nikomatsakis.com and Mark Bowes take us inside Aurora DSQL's development from scaling write operations without two-phase commit, to overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just...
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This little fella crash-landed in our window, so we decided to use the resting time to check-up on his hardware development skills. 😂
May 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This little fella crash-landed in our window, so we decided to use the resting time to check-up on his hardware development skills. 😂
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New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems.
transactional.blog/b...
transactional.blog/b...
April 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems.
transactional.blog/b...
transactional.blog/b...
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Recently, one of our testing tools at AWS found an issue with transaction visibility in PostgreSQL, where the order that transactions become visible differs between the primary and replicas. Sergey Melnik dives deep on the AWS Database Blog: aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...
Understanding transaction visibility in PostgreSQL clusters with read replicas | Amazon Web Services
On April 29, 2025, Jepsen published a report about transaction visibility behavior in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ clusters. We appreciate Jepsen’s thorough analysis and would like to provide ad...
aws.amazon.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Recently, one of our testing tools at AWS found an issue with transaction visibility in PostgreSQL, where the order that transactions become visible differs between the primary and replicas. Sergey Melnik dives deep on the AWS Database Blog: aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...
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I'm making an ID.me account (a private identity vendor selling its services to government), required to log into my IRS.gov account, and their privacy policy says I'm also creating an "an ID.me Rx Account," and consent to this company collecting my health information. *What*? www.id.me/privacy
April 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'm making an ID.me account (a private identity vendor selling its services to government), required to log into my IRS.gov account, and their privacy policy says I'm also creating an "an ID.me Rx Account," and consent to this company collecting my health information. *What*? www.id.me/privacy
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🦀 Hello World!
The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨
We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.
The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨
We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.
April 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🦀 Hello World!
The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨
We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.
The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨
We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.
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Oracle customers confirm the authenticity of data samples shared by a threat actor who allegedly breached Oracle Cloud servers, after Oracle denied the breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
March 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Oracle customers confirm the authenticity of data samples shared by a threat actor who allegedly breached Oracle Cloud servers, after Oracle denied the breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Ok. So. The US imports more peanut butter than we export- by ~20,000 metric tons.
20K tons isn't much compared to other goods. But it's also a lot, considering the US grows 2.75M tons of peanuts/yr.
Why? Well, the US exports peanuts to other countries. They make the butter & sell it back to us.
20K tons isn't much compared to other goods. But it's also a lot, considering the US grows 2.75M tons of peanuts/yr.
Why? Well, the US exports peanuts to other countries. They make the butter & sell it back to us.
March 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ok. So. The US imports more peanut butter than we export- by ~20,000 metric tons.
20K tons isn't much compared to other goods. But it's also a lot, considering the US grows 2.75M tons of peanuts/yr.
Why? Well, the US exports peanuts to other countries. They make the butter & sell it back to us.
20K tons isn't much compared to other goods. But it's also a lot, considering the US grows 2.75M tons of peanuts/yr.
Why? Well, the US exports peanuts to other countries. They make the butter & sell it back to us.
I am planning to have my parents travel. Flight/Insurance:
US: $2000/$1000
Europe: $1800/$70
For similar coverage. What happened? 3 years ago the same insurance was $140 for the US.
US: $2000/$1000
Europe: $1800/$70
For similar coverage. What happened? 3 years ago the same insurance was $140 for the US.
March 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I am planning to have my parents travel. Flight/Insurance:
US: $2000/$1000
Europe: $1800/$70
For similar coverage. What happened? 3 years ago the same insurance was $140 for the US.
US: $2000/$1000
Europe: $1800/$70
For similar coverage. What happened? 3 years ago the same insurance was $140 for the US.
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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer
nyti.ms/4hVfn8w
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer
nyti.ms/4hVfn8w
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. (Gift Article)
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
nyti.ms
February 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer
nyti.ms/4hVfn8w
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer
nyti.ms/4hVfn8w
Bluesky has so far been precisely what I would like from a microblogging app. However I am not able to pinpoint what it is about it that irks me. It's something missing, but not obvious.
January 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Bluesky has so far been precisely what I would like from a microblogging app. However I am not able to pinpoint what it is about it that irks me. It's something missing, but not obvious.
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"Homicide and most other violent crimes have dropped below levels seen before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide social justice protests of 2020, according to a new study of crime trends in 40 American cities...by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ)."
But most Americans don't know.
But most Americans don't know.
January 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Homicide and most other violent crimes have dropped below levels seen before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide social justice protests of 2020, according to a new study of crime trends in 40 American cities...by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ)."
But most Americans don't know.
But most Americans don't know.
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