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Super annoying as I use this for my job (devrel). Maybe we can complain loudly enough about it? You know they are tracking the data, so I wonder what the big gain is in retiring the public view.

Haha, for what it's worth, I'm the lead for their marketing, and also an eng who took the job because I loved using Render and wanted a change from working in DevOps.

You don't have to believe me...would expect nothing less : D the product and the way we ship what our users want speaks for itself.

+1 to keeping PRs small. This makes it much more logical to me. But I have worked at organizations where this is frowned upon...teams liked the PRs to be one logical unit/fix/improvement and component parts became frustrating or got merged at different times, creating the need for rework.

From reading a lot of feedback on this post one thing that stands out is, the best way to use git just depends on the context. But it doesn't hurt to have commands like this in your toolbox and know how to use the tool well. Plus we all have our private, icky antipatterns that we know we should improve, right?

> An addiction has for sure its chemical reasons, but limiting to only that when dealing with it, it's reductive

Right, the point I got from this, particularly from all the examples pulled from pop science, is that folks are focusing on a reduced/mischaracterized biological mechanism instead of on the associated social behaviors. The social behaviors are the things we can (theoretically at least) actually change. Perhaps the author means to express that we should focus on whatever human behavior we think it problematic instead of "blaming" a component of the mechanism.

> mentioning neuroscience is a great way to convince people you are more knowledgeable about something, and to make your arguments more convincing.

Eek, I have totally done this at a tech conference. But I try to do my hw first...

You need not look far to observe that "spend less than you make" (to your point, impulse control) is much to know, and that most people don't.

I remember discovering Heroku while I was in grad school in 2014. I was learning how to use AWS...which in a way was a lot simpler back then. But I was working on different kinds of workloads and more focused on learning Hadoop so it didn't seem that useful to me and I kind of, disdained things that were "too simple." Seeing it again several years later it seemed a lot more useful to deploy webapps for dev projects but there didn't seem to be a way for us to leverage in in prod. Needed much more control and capability to run complex apps. Like, I was setting up ELK stack and I couldn't see how to integrate so I just...stopped thinking about Heroku, lol.

How does this track important conversations vs. ones you can ignore to focus on work?

whaaaaaaat?

I don't know how I feel about the whole, locality pay thing. I still feel it is not ethical to pay developers in Eastern Europe what we typically pay them. However, I myself strive to achieve a Bay Area salary (and expect that when I'm working at a Bay Area company) despite living in a bit of a less expensive part of the Pacific coast. I don't see easy solutions to this problem when I look at it from both hiring and hiree perspectives. Capitalism...........

Nice simple layout and interface. Can this content be exported in a simple format or would it perpetually live on TravelDays?

This is fair, and a good reminder for me that a Librarian's prerogative is to follow the means, mode, and preference of the readership with the goal of enabling folks to read. This is a noble goal and it's good that Amazon has contributed something to "accessibility" via a smoother delivery mechanism.

YEAH the quality of NLP is not nuanced/fine-grained enough to be able to differentiate offensive text...its comprehension is nowhere near as nuanced as a human brain. One thing that gives me a little hope here is understanding the current state of the way we hire for, support, and value software engineering skills. Knowing how to communicate (ex: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60661-8) is really important to being good at building software. Also, using strong communication and making SMEs (ie in this case, linguists, anthropologists, and other language specialists) an integral part of the development and learning process is really important. I'm not convinced that Google (and other shops trying to solve this problem) have really been leaning into this - getting the right people at the table and setting a standard for great communication during dev. Try that and get back to us?

It seems like there is as of yet no hypothesis as to what causes the mutations?

LOL perhaps an unpopular opinion in this day and age. You could also really lean into the wastefulness of the everything bucket (you do say our machines are "hauling ass"). While I do not use any of the apps you describe, I think you are really talking about a mindset which I DO moderately adopt and I DO feel guilty and stupid about. I SHOULD use my fs to organize my data and take control of my life. Why? It is a state of mind and a state of being. It will help me be better at other things like, organizing my email so that I am not contributing as much to climate change via compute, just to store a bunch of meaningless emails that I'm afraid to delete lest I lose something I someday want to search. That is whack, you are right.

This is kind like, organizing the drawers in your kitchen/bathroom. You might not want to do it but once you do, if you've done a good job, you can love it forever. Our brains don't crave a filesystem exactly but they do thrive on the efficiency gains we get from categorizing things.

It seems like they have deprecated their OD branded app in favor of the "Libby" app, right? Which does have better UX. It is really gross how Amazon feels the need to control the means of delivery used by most library systems :facepalm:

Lol I like your unvarnished criticism embedded in encomia. But I share it...as soon as I started thinking...I can use it in the bathtub...and with my OverDrive account?? I want one. I started reading real books much more frequently this year (my #1 childhood pastime) after yearssss of basically only "reading" audiobooks besides books for grad school. So maybe I want one. Hardware experience sounds annoying AF, but that's nothing a shitty/lazy Linux user can't handle, right? And as others have said...a natural deterrent from doing anything but reading, woot.