toddBarkus

We're not accountable for others choices. It's not on the private sector to play parent

They chose to accept Uber's deal. Don't strawman

A salaried structure is not the same thing as unset hours. This is a pretty standard misconception of people new to the workforce.

It's the aspect of personal choice that you're skipping over. Uber drivers made the choice to apply to work as "independent contractors" and agreed to the terms. A bastard child has no agency in the arrangement, but a mistress likely did agree to the arrangement. There's no fair expectation of the latter to be retroactively or otherwise considered a legal spouse, nor is it just for a contractor to sue to force others to change classification.

Sure, of course. I was hoping to point out that there's an increasingly overlooked value in having someone question complexity. The "no, you don't need React" of the frontend dev or the "our data is actually relational" of the back end dev.

That's most "SRE" -- it's a title arms race in that field between the underqualified and those that wish to convey they know how to do more than write system scripts in DSLs

I would offer more specifically that it was trying to solve a problem with existing workarounds for where the problem existed, without checking if anyone else cared enough to write more sgml

I think this is a case for the return of the traditional "sysadmin" as "devops"/"SRE" is now the role of unblocking deploying a solution instead of questioning it's complexity/fitness.

I was going to ask how to optimize the SQL in your post as it seems like the obvious/naive implementation of the query. If you're missing something, so am I. I can only imagine it was built up over time from googling specific terms that already missed the point, e.g. "rds mySQL union query"