Which numbers are those? Their sales numbers or their numbers of vehicle recalls due to defective engine manufacturing?

Not necessarily if you take immigration into account.

A society replaced by immigrants is no longer that same society. My original point still stands.

In the case of Singapore it would be just the opposite:

Singapore was and is build on the back of immigrants. Replacing ourselves with kids instead of immigrants would be the big change.

Whereas a society replaced by children...

Whereas a society replaced by its own children maintains continuity of community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests

What about those societies that have traditionally replaced themselves via immigrants? Moving to a replacement via kids would be the change for them.

Plenty changes between generations. Still not the same society.

So true. Pick your boogeyman (Muslims/Immigrants/Antifa/Trans/"Marxists"), pump the attack propaganda through all available media channels and hope no one mentions the billionaires.

It's been awhile since 9/11 and we've got pretty short memories, so we'll probably cycle back to Muslims soon.

Who they are matters less than if the supply is larger than demand unless you are in politics and want to blame a group.

Define "fair price"

5090s are certainly expensive compared to most other GPUs, but not expensive enough to be unobtanium for nearly any professional who could utilize one as part of their job

Hell, some of us utilize them just to play video games!

In macOS display settings, what scaling mode are you using? This bug appears to only affect 4K monitors that are configured to use the maximum amount of screen space (which makes text look uncomfortably tiny unless you have a very large monitor). Most people run at the default setting which gives you the real estate of a 1080p screen at 2x scale, hence the "not normal" part of this configuration.

Actually, I don't even think it's possible to run HiDPI mode at the native resolution scale from within the macOS settings app, you'd need something like `Better Display` to turn it on explicitly.

If you use the middle screen scaling you're given absolutely huge UI elements and it's the case for the inbuild 16" screen as well as external displays but when you get up to 32" displays it's almost comical how large the UI is on the middle / default setting.

Yeah, on larger monitors it's more common to run at the monitor's native resolution without scaling but even so macOS will not turn on HiDPI mode - you'd still need to do this explicitly via another app (I didn't even know it was possible to turn on HiDPI mode at native scaling until reading this article)

This seems very likely to be a mistake or bug.

Spotify rolling this out without an announcement intentionally would be an incredible blunder. I'd cancel my membership immediately and I don't think I'd be alone in that decision.

And you wouldn't cancel if they said you were gonna get ads upfront?

I'd cancel either way, I'd just be less mad if they announced it ahead of time.

> That’s a red line he will only cross out of stupidity.

So you're saying it's highly likely then?

Do you have a source for that?

I work at Amazon and I see who got cut.

You can also check the WARN notice in WA.

You can find the warn notices here. [0] From a quick script I wrote up, it seems that ~60% of layoffs noted on 1/26/2026 are from individual contributors

[0]: https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employe...

The new notice came out, that one is for Amazon Fresh only I think. It's 84% ICs now.

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I think the blog post is confusing in this regard. For example, it explicitly states:

> We no longer had to deploy 140+ services for a change to one of the shared libraries.

Taken in isolation, that is a strong indicator that they were indeed running a distributed monolith.

However, the blog post earlier on said that different microservices were using different versions of the library. If that was actually true, then they would never have to deploy all 140+ of their services in response to a single change in their shared library.

Shared telemetry library, you realize that you are missing an important metric to operationalize your services. You now need to deploy all 140 to get the benefit.

Your runtime version is out of date / end of life. You now need to update and deploy all 140 (or at least all the ones that use the same tech stack).

No matter how you slice it, there are always dependencies across all services because there are standards in the environment in which they operate, and there are always going to be situations where you have to redeploy everything or large swaths of things.

Microservices aren’t a panacea. They just let you delay the inevitable but there is gonna be a point where you’re forced to comply with a standard somewhere that changes in a way that services must be updated. A lot of teams use shared libraries for this functionality.

Why do all services need to understand all these objects though? A service should as far as possible care about its own things and treat other services' objects as opaque.

... otherwise you'd have to do something silly like update every service every time that library changed.

Because of organizational standards.

I don't understand your answer I'm afraid

As you mention, it said early on that they were using different versions for each service:

  > Eventually, all of them were using different versions of these shared libraries.

I believe the need to deploy 140+ services came out of wanting to fix this by using the latest version of the deps everywhere, and to then stay on top of it so it does not deteriorate in the same way (and possibly when they had things like a security fix).

Except if it's a security fix?