inquist

That does still sound related to economy of scale. Longer shelf life means you can have a larger inventory.

> AI startups are hiring like there is no tomorrow.

This is not reassuring

I quit tech a couple of years ago to become a high school teacher. No regrets.

> with people too

I'm pretty sure the article is about interacting with people.

I'm just one person, but I replaced the catalytic converters on my FJ Cruiser so it would pass the emissions test

Too many ads, did not read

Looks like `haptic` is local first, not local only

The summary article makes it sound like it’s somehow surprising that sea turtles can swim. The paper itself clarifies that it’s more a question of whether there are trends in the directionality of their swimming.

> Studies that compared turtle movements to oceanographic drifters suggest that swimming by young sea turtles directs their oceanic dispersal [19,21]. In addition, research in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic suggests that young oceanic-stage turtles actively swim and there may be distinct differences among species in orientation, dispersal and swimming behaviour [19,21]. Understanding whether and when juvenile turtles are active swimmers or passive drifters is critical for determining dispersal trajectories, exposure and transition times in areas impacted by anthropogenic activities (e.g. oil spills) and connectivity between populations and habitats [29]. Without basic biological and behavioural data, it is difficult to improve assessments of anthropogenic impacts on protected species, necessitating conservative or precautionary approaches to management using ‘best available data’.

I think failure mode analysis is definitely part of engineering

You’ve seen Greater Houston, now meet Greatest Houston

> Wright Waste Management, located in nearby Harris County

Houston is in Harris county…

I’ve spent so much time wrestling with and learning all (most) of these pitfalls, and I consider it time well spent. After my first few weeks I started dreaming in bash.

An obvious example of platform enshittification

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshitt...

Turns out frogs are smarter than we thought

https://web.archive.org/web/20240118204920/https://www.fastc...

What’s wrong with uuidv4 as PK?

I searched and didn’t find any identical prior comment

What sound should it make when it's using up your battery monitoring for freefall conditions?

Maybe some sort of radar ping... vigilance mode enabled...

Strive to clarify fundamental goals.

Consider possible second-order effects of policy decisions.

Reevaluate intermediate goals after observing their effects.

> an intern who wrote code .... his code had been in production

You get what you pay for, eh?

FWIW I've been quite happy with the ZSA Moonlander https://www.zsa.io/moonlander

On the plus side, why are they storing gender info in the first place?

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Makes sense to me. Good luck!

> Ironically, this sort of cross functional work is highly valued, but if you're drawn to this path, you'll find yourself doing much more cutting through red tape than real work.

I find myself in this position. I've been with my company since it was tiny (10 employees total) to now (~150). I have functioned as a generalist for most of that time and I'm somewhat divided between architecture and coordination efforts versus actual coding. The original core dev team has mainly become the backend team and we have a newer frontend team. I recently shifted from the backend team to frontend, and now I'm able to help bridge between them so I'm hoping to help avoid some of those siloing pitfalls.

That's just the decrement operator and inequality operator!

That first anecdote in the article is relevant, and the article does eventually get to talking about Google. This is the nature of long-form, it doesn't have to dive straight in.

Simple, clean, straightforward. I've done similar things in bash before but not bothered to publish :) It's a good idea though to have an ecosystem of simple but flexible tools like this.

Here's another idea we implemented alongside a backup system like this. Say you run a backup daily; you can run another script to prune the archives, keeping D most recent daily archives, W most recent weekly archives, M most recent monthly archives, and all yearly archives.

cool!

I find this hilarious.

> I have known people who were able to turn things around after being put on a PIP.

I'm one!

It took a few hours of introspection but I applied a new focus and drive to aligning my personal goals with the company's goals. Have not looked back since.

Level 20 is hard.