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I love CGP Grey's animations, and you can clearly tell this one involved a lot of work.

The problem with his analyses is that they're frequently wrong because he look at problems in a very academic way and severely oversimplifies them.

For example, his video about cars going through intersections makes perfect sense in a simulated world on a computer. But it falls down instantly in real life because it presumes that every car is identical, with the same mechanical characteristics, the same acceleration capability, the same connectivity (for the magic fictional traffic control signal), the same latency, they never break down, there are never any external factors at an intersection, and on and on and on.

Similarly, his plane boarding simulation falls down as soon as someone shows up late, or in a wheelchair, or with a bum leg, drunk, a baby, luggage that the wheel has fallen off of, etc...

He seems to live in a world where there is no difference between theory and reality. I still watch his videos, but I consume them as entertainment, not as documentaries.
Or how about they tell the truth that the job wasn't as advertised and stop worrying about convincing some hypothetical HQ person.
That is part of the Holocene extinction error. Human overhunting and climate change killed megafauna: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07897-1
Your might be right about most people. (advertisers love to tell this to their CEO but they've been wrong about this before - just look at the 20 million dollar case study with Ebay and their wasted ad spend on google ads).

But, it really doesn't work on me 99.9% of the time. I know because I review all my spending habits and I can clearly see 1/2 of the products I buy don't even advertise. Ever seen an ad for cucumbers or tomatoes or other real food? or rotten robbies gas station? i have no idea what label is on my clothes. etc.

And even on the rare occasions when it does work, the vast majority of the ads still are completely wasted. How many times have I seen an ad for metromile, when I'm already a happy customer of theirs. their targetting must be awful.

Sometimes I use the product because I'm forced to: like when sharebuilder got bought out by etrade. how many times will I see the completely useless etrade ads over my lifetime? i mean I'm already their customer (by default), so all their ad dollars are completely wasted.
You expect Americans to -gulp- climb stairs???
Maybe it's like a controlled burn. Get rid of a bunch of low performers or those who they don't really need currently, hire quickly into what they do need.
Yeah well a lot of people envious of success act like having parents with a spare bedroom is some sort of elite privilege, and not the norm.
Mozilla Foundation owns Mozilla Corp.
The person who thought about this for 30 seconds and did some back of the envelope multiplication definitely knows how to allocate resources better than the people who do this every day.
If you are the airline it seems to work out since you are actually turning this into a money making opportunity?

The real issue is if the slow boarding is costing the airline more than the money than they earn from charging from upgrades. Also consider that the people paying for expensive seats might be sad if they don't get to board early which again might affect airline revenue.

I think airlines is pretty happy with the current situation, and that the passenger boarding speed is not costing them money so this is all good. This is just an (somewhat educated?) guess.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, because what you said is more or less correct:

"But section 19 of that EU directive explicitly allows sellers of digital goods to ask users to waive that right before they make the purchase, provided the digital goods are delivered immediately." -- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/sorry-europe-you-stil...
Great point, but how do I make that happen?

Do I email them just saying I want to talk about your business? Walk in and strike up a conversation? In the latter case I feel like I'm actively obstructing their ability to work and not sure about the former.

I like the idea, just not sure how to implement it
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THAT'S what you gleamed from this article?
No real manager and colleagues who sleep during the day? This sounds like a dream job. You're free to do what you want. Don't rush and quit, work on whatever interests you. If Agile, "transformation" and "change" floats your boat - start doing that. If you really want a job doing something else, start training yourself for those interviews
The context was reproduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijEsqT2QKQ

"You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will breed?"

"No, I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way."

Then later on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-6I8f89K4

"Life found a way"
> doing the bare minimum and working on bettering your skills on your own?

If done correctly, this isn’t doing the bare minimum - it’s actually going above and beyond. What he didn’t clarify is whether or not somebody is breathing down his neck to produce results. If they are, then he needs to push back on that person that he needs some help getting up to speed. If not, he can spend as much time as he wants/needs learning the existing codebase - write some unit tests, try to create an isolated testing environment, do some profiling, read up on all of the libraries/frameworks/tools that the product uses… find useful (but relatively safe, for now) things to do. That may be what they actually want from him. I personally wouldn’t be in a hurry to find a job where somebody was handing you daily assignment, but I also wouldn’t take unreasonable advantage of the situation - if you don’t have a specific task to work on, do something that’s at least work related.
That's possible but not generally true. Those "deep" checks are pricey and, unless you are aiming to work for gov, highly unlikely.

Most checks are just to make sure you didn't steal your SSN (or using a dead person's one), and very high-level felony check.

This is for tech jobs only though. Other industries are more strict.

Some tech startups don't even bother with bg-checks at all.
Conveniently leaving out the hundreds of times that Google has randomly terminated APIs or entire products with minimal if any forewarning, or reduced API functionality or pricing without forewarning, and the complete and utter lack of support [edit] Google provides to developers who don't already have their own twitter following.
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Related: CGPGray made a great video about boarding methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
Remember the PR disaster they had when they bundled Pocket?
I'm curious how much do jobs like this (this=allow you to sleep on the job while meeting in a conference room) pay? is it north of 150K USD base?
Thanks for the detailed responses.

>I have a serious medical condition. As best I can tell, this is a much more common root cause of homelessness than the addiction and mental health issues that get so much more attention.

I'm just now realizing that my (and possibly other's) unpleasant interactions with homeless people probably skewed my sense of how many homeless are mentally ill or drug addicted -- simply because those are the ones more likely to accost people on the street.
>Crops are generally loving climate change though, as more food will be produced than with colder temperatures

This is not true.

"each degree-Celsius increase in global mean temperature would, on average, reduce global yields of wheat by 6.0%, rice by 3.2%, maize by 7.4%, and soybean by 3.1%."
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/35/9326
The Sound of the Earth (2013)
I've worked for a company(or, should I say, corporation) where side hustling was fairly common.

Mostly because the employer had enough money to keep a lot of staff and make them do bullshit projects, half of which wouldn't reach production.

Only instance when someone got a slap on the wrist was when they, ahem, showed the wrong demo. Hilariously enough the only objection here was the perpetrator used company equipment.

The guy who got escalated for going to the swimming pool during work hours(even thought he stayed later to make up for the lost time) upon hearing that was furious.
It's both. When I worked there, the Foundation (non-profit) owned the Corporation (for-profit). If you donate to Mozilla it's going to the non-profit org.
Actual paper is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.01412.pdf
Because iphone is bigger here and I assume you understand momentum and iphone exercising their oligopolistic practices of keeping people on their brand entirely rather than opening up their iMessage protocol. I don't know about your country, but in the USA it pretty much takes the federal government to take on one of the biggest companies in the world.
Yep, almost certainly what's happening.

It's very common to constrain your central "game loop" for several reasons. A game like Hotline presumably has some basic loop like "process inputs, process events, update AI plans, process AI actions, redraw screen". When the logical tasks are easy (e.g. most of the AIs are dead and you're standing still), that's essentially just a busy-wait that redraws your screen as fast as it can. Constantly maxing system resources is obnoxious, and it can be jarring when things slow back down. 40FPS might look just fine, but you can still 'feel' the change when you ramp up and down from 60FPS, so it's nicer to just cap the whole thing at 40FPS. Mouse inputs probably don't adjust the cap itself, but to avoid laggy responses they're usually interrupts which might refresh the screen.

A fun aside: some games fill out the time until the next redraw with more "thinking time" instead of sleep(), which leads to bizarre behaviors like an AI that gets smarter when you turn down the graphics settings.
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A core implication of the article's thesis is that it's very hard in general. Otherwise, the owners of any organization would just issue an order saying "everyone's gotta have skin in the game". (In fact they do try to issue that order; a typical corporate middle manager will get quite a bit of their compensation from performance-based programs and company stock they're culturally discouraged from selling.)
Though this may violate the philosophy of the LowTech Mag site, AI WBM link should the battery expire:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181014192521/https://solar.low...
although personally I've always wondered why this is desirable

When I was fat, I paid extra for first class tickets so that I wouldn't be the slob jerk who overflowed into my neighbor's coach class seat. Because of that, I had a lot of coach-mindset first-class seats.

Boarding first in first class gives you an opportunity to get some work done, to relax a bit before the plane takes off, and almost always you get to have a drink and a snack before the plane leaves the ground. It gives you a chance to put your head on straight for the next leg of the journey, or catch up on stuff before the ascent.

If you're a busy person (as I was back then), boarding first really makes a difference.
> I feel like I was sold something in the interview process that is not accurate.

I would say that's standard practice, on both sides of the table. Everyone tries to put their best foot forward in an interview. Anything not written in the contract might simply have been said to try to close the deal.

Large companies are not known for their amenability to change.
Or self improve. Or push more changes by yourself.
Only a tiny part of Firefox is in Rust now.

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components .
Before doing this, just find out what you signed when joining regarding ownership of works (things you make during your own time). You will also need to make sure you log that time because even so you don't want to have it look like you worked on things during business hours. (commits etc...)
Yes. The residency programs are heavily weighted toward and really designed to ensure that every graduate from an American medical school has the ability to enter the residency program. Those to who attend the Caribbean schools or who are trained at a variety of other institutions abroad are given what is left over.

Personally, I have mixed feelings about this. I don't really mind the federal government giving priority to graduates from American schools. Frankly, the federal government likely gave them the loans to attend, so it helps to get that money paid back, which will only happen if these graduates become attending physicians and residency is a requirement for this to happen. On the other hand, the U.S. denies reciprocity from virtually all physicians from abroad outside of Canada. In order to practice in the U.S., physicians need to repeat their residency in an American program and it can be difficult for them to get a residency in a specialty in which they already practice. This is wasteful and I'd like to see a process to expedite this process as long as we can ensure these incoming physicians understand the American standard of care, which is differs between countries, for better or for worse.

All that said, the U.S. doesn't need more physicians in general. They need more physicians in certain specialties like family practice who want to live in small markets. Simply flooding the market with more physicians won't guarantee that this will happen.
You are correct - Firebase can order server-side. I also believe I could integrate it without sacrificing elegance. At some point I'll put out a new version that takes advantage of this.
If the conditions are so harsh that no new pollinators can evolve then they are too harsh for plants to grow anyway (eg, desert conditions).

Plants have an evolutionary strategy where they give away food (nectar, fruits, etc) to any animal that is willing to help them reproduce. Evolutionary speaking; when free food is on the table there will be takers at any temperature.

How, if our crops are being routinely doused in horrific poisons designed to kill all insect life I can see why that might cause all insect life near humans to die off. Maybe I'm just being a cynic on that.
I imagine they wake up when the new guy ruins the current flow of things.
Right - It's very rare that the availability of carbon is the limiting function in plant growth. You can force more greening by providing a higher-carbon environment but it's almost always other combinations of nutrients, sunlight, or water that limit plant growth.
I don't understand Mozilla. How did the go from a lightweight Mozilla Browser alternative to a company that spends $450m annually and dedicates $43m just for future endeavors? Why couldn't they just focus on making the best browser possible with a small dedicated team?
Until they don't, and then the air hostesses who are just trying to get everyone seated have to become policemen as well. They have enough to do.
Internet Explorer and Edge are two different products and co-exist. I wouldn't expect a Unix user to understand the difference though.
Great, so what will be tracking us now, something harder for us to block? The article says there are already things in place that won't affect the bottom line if cookies are cut, so, what are they?
I would do as others have suggested, hand your notice in now and start looking for your next thing. Maybe try contracting for a while? No need to explain this short stint at all then.

I'm in a similair situation right now myself but almost a year into it. The job description and job title absolutely does not match up with the reality, no leadership / direction and I really struggle with motivation. I have mentioned this but it still continues.

I think the only thing left for me to do is quit, the only problem with that is I have a nice remote deal that would be hard to match. Feeling kind of stuck. I might try contracting myself.
It doesn't use a TUF-like update protocol that Chrome uses?
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General Electric was famous for doing this is the problem is you cant keep doing it every year.

Also people just game the system and only do what will get them a good review.

I know some on at a big UK company who was bucking for a promotion and they blew through 1 Mill and 15 Man years for no good reason.
And yet when I open Edge, I get a million ads for crappy tabloid news websites thrust in my face, while when I open Chrome I don't see any ads.
I think 3 months is long enough to figure out if a company is a good fit for you or not. If you're suffering then leave. Particularly if you enjoyed the last place you worked. Folks may ask but just tell them you left of your own accord and you didn't feel like a good fit for the team. Don't do anything suddenly unless you have the cash to make it a month or so or a job already lined up. The leave, be nice about it, and never look back. I did two short stints of around 6 months each before ending up at my current place of employment and they didn't ask anything when I got hired.
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It used to be hard to kill someone. You'd need a sniper team, or a strike force. You'd take out your target and anyone putting up a fight, including collateral damage. You'd run the risk your team would get killed. Today, you don't run those risks. The stakes are low. More people can be killed with less fuss, and little political fallout at home.
Employees don't drive a large company's focus. Driving the focus and direction of the company is the job of Mozilla's leadership. It's the directors' job to transform that direction and focus into actionable plans, the managers' job to drive those plans, and the employee's job to implement the plans.

The employees, in all reality, don't have the power to drive the direction and focus of a large company; that's a benefit limited to startups and small businesses.
Thanks for the write-up. It speaks to me a lot, and serves as a warning for doing too many things rather than focusing on just a few.

Side Note: as someone who already has a ton of graphics videos on YouTube already, you shouldn't expect to get a lot of views there...
never realized how awful some of my own posts were with such errors until I ran my favorite ones through Grammarly after having paid for it last year to help me with writing a book draft (I abuse the hell out of commas apparently too, I blame Reddit).

Worse, some of them I'd sent to people dozens of times to read and there were these horrible typos cringe.
Telegram has been criticized over and over for home grown encryption by people I consider experts so I skip it and stick with Signal.
Have you chatted to your manager about how you feel? They might not know how bad the situation is, or may be in a similarly tough situation. If they don't want to chat you can always try grab a coffee with one of their peers or their manager. People further up the chain might be pretty surprised by what is happening, and a bit of initiative on your part should get recognised.

If they turn you down or you get negative feedback about how you are feeling in the team you should get out of there for sure
Cisco did sue Apple over the trademark for iPhone[1]. When Apple later used the name iOS they came to a private agreement with Cisco[2]. If they just used the same name without coming to terms with Cisco, they surely would have been sued again.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-cisco-settle-iphone-trademar...

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/08/cisco_licenses_io...
Most companies I've worked for have a formal trial/probationary period of some sort, typically 90 days. Personally, I consider that to be a two-way street -- I'm trialling them just as much as they're trialling me. I have never had a problem with leaving within that window. For the few companies I've worked for that have no such period, I just figure 90 days anyway.

I've left a few jobs that, like yours, were not what I expected -- usually on the last day of the trial period.

Not suggesting an action for you, but if I were in your shoes, I'd just do the same: I'd stick it out for three months and if there's no sign that anything will be improving, I'd move on.
But Microsoft has a long history of providing good customer and developer support. Why would they change for just this one product?
I'm not sure why they don't largely sack half their marketing budget and concentrate on community outreach from the developer side... that's how they grew in the first place.

I'm also surprised they haven't tried to create commercial mail and communications products. Thunderbird used to be one of the best options out there, and they could easily spin this off into a SaaS and self-host product on the server component. As much as I hated Lotus Notes, something between Lotus Notes, Outlook and MS Teams could be something great and that the Mozilla org would be in a good position to create.

I know they may have good reach with the VPN service as well... I'm unsure how they can reduce security, qa and release management people when orchestration, automation and verification are such huge needs.

They get enough income from search (for now) that they could concentrate on best of breed tech, build mindshare from that, then re-introduce marketing for critical mass.
Think of it as an electronic universe, to complement the physical one we've had for eons.

We already have a metaverse of sorts, whether it's coordinating events via Evites, playing fortnite on an xbox, or texting a friend.

And it can also connect us with the physical world. Ordering something off of Amazon, buying a plane ticket, getting a job on a gig site. And so on.
f2fs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS) is now popular for Android-based mobile devices.
Paywalled/subscription/sign-in demanded.
I thought they finished that recently when they announced the UI was no longer XUL based. Is there still more work to go?
What research? Facebook made $18B the year they pushed pivoting and they're a one-stop shop for eyes. Hard to make the business case under traditional principles to keep the status quo.
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Im pretty much in the same situation as OP and I REALLY tried to be the Napoleon, but the more you try the bigger resistance you are met with. (You look like the „unfun” and „bad” guy who wants people to actually start doing what they are paid to do)

You just get worn out over-time and give up.
That is false. A quick search reveals 21k+ code points indexed where `IConsole` is found. It could be in a comment, it could be in part of a string, it could be anywhere. But these are not 21k+ projects - it may be like 2k+ or something assuming `IConsole` appears on average 10 times in a project.
> and passes that type information down the pipeline

That's the big question mark to me, how is the type information passed along. If I do

open foo.json | bar

then how will bar know (or will it?) that its input is json? Or is the type information only internal to the shell and not exposed to the individual pipeline parts?
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For me a part of it is indeed the overhead luggage space issue. But also I'd rather just be "on my way". If I'm sitting out at the gate, even if I'm reading something, I need to have part of my attention trained on the PA system, waiting for the boarding (or other) announcement. Once I'm on the plane and in my seat, I can read, put on headphones and watch something, whatever, without my attention divided, until we land.

It helps that I don't find airplane seats all that uncomfortable, at least no more uncomfortable than the seats in most gate areas.
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