The Daily Parker

I had to pause the really tricky refactoring I worked on yesterday because we discovered a new performance issue that obscured an old throttling issue. It took me most of the morning to find the performance bottleneck, but after removing it a process went from 270 seconds to 80. Then I started looking into getting the 80 down to, say, 0.8, and discovered that because we're using an API limit with a request limit (180 requests in 15 minutes), I put in a 5-second delay between requests.

Sigh.

So now I've got all this to read...someday:

• Viktor Bryukhanov, the person most directly responsible for causing Chernobyl Reactor #4 to explode in April 1986, has died.
• Thomas B Edsall worries about "the moral chasm" between American political viewpoints.
• Bestselling sci-fi author John Scalzi thought Villenueve's Dune "is pretty much exactly what it needs to be." (He also just bought the Pixel 6.)
• James Fallows describes four books that deserve your consideration.
• Microsoft tracked almost 23,000 attacks on its customers by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR (СВР РФ).

Finally, the economics of workers vs employers has taken an odd turn as job applicants have started simply ghosting interviewers. But, as Slate says, "employers have been doing this to workers for years, and their hand-wringing didn’t start until the tables were turned."