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My misunderstanding, I misread part of your comment and was thinking you meant using the sideway as a car driver for some reason.

I am a bicylce rider, that wants to survive.
I dont drive by car.
Some car drivers are reckless and the cars they command are pretty dangerous.
That makes me avoid car lanes.

My prefered solution is separate bike lines - separate from cars, separate from pedastrians.
To avoid #1 problem listed on the page I prefer crossings that are ultimately regulated by traffic lights, i.e. no free right turn when light is red.
Otherwise the safest spot to cross a street is on official crossings, best is with traffic lights, where you have enough distance to road turns or intersections.
So that car drivers have a lot of time to see you crossing the street and you can see cars coming on both lanes when checking in both directions.
When it is too close to a turn, a car can appear from around the corner without you being able to see each other first.
A bit like the "right cross" and "crosswalk slam" issue from the website.
Almost all the other issues are related to driving on the car lanes, hence the call for separate bike lanes.

I know it is not applicable everywhere - what can you do when there are no bike lanes...
Fortunately in my home town we have enough space allocated for those and lots of traffic lights.
I've been around some very successful people and execs at mature companies and you're sorta right but also so is the title. People with experience have more expertise than most people but they're also just much more comfortable making low-information decisions because they know they'll get away with it most of the time and they can recover from a mistake. There is a common misperception that they know exactly what they're doing when they really just know slightly more than the rest of us and are comfortable being decisive.
Count me in to this bucket. I’ve had to work remotely for most of my 12-year software career, and I just find it frustrating and unproductive compared to being in the same room with my team. I finally got an in person job a few years before the pandemic and loved it, highlight of my career. But now the company is all remote and the entire industry with it. I really dislike it.

(Before you flame me, I am very fortunate and have an A+ detached home office setup; I also have done the co-work thing to try and replicate the social aspect of things, and it’s not the same.)

I wish there was a way for remote to be a personal preference and for everyone to get their preference, but unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. If the team is strict about in office then nobody who prefers remote gets their preference. But once anyone is remote then everyone is dealing with remote, and more of the team will have reasons why they want to go remote too… and very quickly it’s 30-50% of the team. Then in practice you have to be full remote and Async or it all falls apart, so even if half or more of the team preferred in-person, they don’t get it.
Companies settle all the time if the payout is less than the legal fees. Sometimes they also figure I the distraction too. (Non-googler here with no specific details)
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This is just an honest assessment of one individuals experience. I've heard it myself from my father who was at the top of Europe's largest corporation. He definitely is an expert in his field, but still had a healthy dose of doubt and was clearly honest with himself. Hubris is a far more dangerous imo.
But this is not necessarily a matter of the dentist being greedy (though it no doubt can be). Anyone who has had a toothache on a Friday evening, knows how long it can be until Monday morning when you can get into see the dentist. A dentist could just be eager to avoid such an agonizing experience for the patient.
Wasm executing in the browser can't do anything on it's own. Can't make requests, cant update the dom, can't ask for input, nothing. All that still needs to happen in javascript.

So I don't see much has changed.
It'd be nice if I could align my identity to my service provider: gmail for Google, iCloud for Apple; and ... Amazon-mail for Amazon; hulu mail for Hulu? AT&T-mail, ..

For the "big" players it seems it'd be eaay enough for me to use a keychain application synchronized across multiple 3rd-party platforms. This would let me define my "total" identity privately (in my personal keychain) without having to worry about cross-vendor contamination.

The hide-my-email hack from iCloud is not a "real" substitute. A change-in-behavior from Apple would cause issues everywhere else.

This really feels like a place a co-op or a govt agency with incentives aligned to its members could really help...

Alternately, a bit of legislation requiring email-less account generation, or allowing credit card providers to enforce such provisions would work.
A compelling book on tooth care is Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye by Ellie Phillips.
It advocates for:

- Using flouride toothpaste.

- Using a combo of bad-bacteria-killing mouthwash and flouride mouthwash (especially before bed).

- Eating or finishing meals with tooth-protective foods.

- Chewing xylitol [0] gum or mints. Xylitol is a sugar-replacement (with a lower insulin response) found in plants . I think Epic Dental has the most reasonably priced stuff that I would trust.

Her routine is here [1]. I think her suggestions are reasonable. She has a product line, but you can use generic products that fit her guidelines. Just match up the ingredients.

Also, a couple good points in the book Breath by James Nestor:

- We have malformed mouths and teeth because we don't do enough serious chewing. Think bread/mac and cheese/peanut butter vs carrots/steak/celery.

- Mouth breathing is bad. Your mouth dries out and this assists tooth problems. You can solve this while sleeping by taping your lips together.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

[1]: https://issuu.com/zellies/docs/zellies-cmcsbooklet?mode=wind...
>- socialized dentistry, where unless you're screaming in pain dentists take two peeks into your mouth and say it's fine and tell you to get out so they can take the next patient in the 200 person line outside (and shill their afternoon private practice to you if they happen to be the more shady type)

What would you define as socialised healthcare? Like would Belgium or the like qualify?
bro you've been a quant for 8 years at least, aren't you retired? :P

I'd keep on money rolling as a quant, or enter academia, or doing consulting as a quant. Don't waste that knowledge, it's super difficult stuff
I was able to find a good dentist by checking whether they offer CEREC. Of course, this is only anecdotal. But it worked for me a handful of times. I'd like to think, if a dentist is offering specialized services, that may serve as a proxy for their competency.
5 out of 7 I can do already. Western Union and NFT are the use cases I can see as unique. Although wasn’t there an NFT exchange where I can buy in dollars now?

That’s not to say it should be mutually exclusive, but it’s not unique and probably simpler with hard currencies. And probably more safe guarded as well.
I have been on the other side of this, and the only reason I was not fired like OP, was because I was an FTE, instead of contractor.

OP’s advice is 100% on the mark. Hiring manager is the face of company. And you won’t see anyone higher if HM hates you
A paragraph with just one 50-word sentence doesn't have varied sentence length either ;)

For technical writing, "no more than one thought per sentence" works quite well in my opinion. Or at least it's a good guideline to apply in the first pass of proofreading.
> - slowing down customer-purchased devices before pushing new devices to the market. Not every Apple user wants, needs or can afford new phone every year or two

Making this point throws the rest of your comment into question. This isn't at all a fair telling of what happened, it was done to prevent phones from shutting off as the battery got older, not some machiavellian plot to get users to upgrade.

> - forcing users into SaaS model via secretive security updates. One can't have secure device (well, secured up-to-date, not saying that fully updated iPhone is secure) without Apple gutting existing software, changing UI/UX and doing whatever they please on the device customer has paid for, against the customer

What are you even talking about here? Please give an example

> - blocking the possibility to upgrade the OS to previous version. IMO many versions of macOS and iOS were downgrades in comparison to previous ones. We couldn't rollback iPhones and now we can't even install macOS that came with the computer. Just the newest one (at least that's my experience: every installer but the newest one crashes at the very end)

I'm fairly certain you can install back to the version a mac was released with, your issues with downgrading sound like a problem on your end, not apple's. As for the phone I'm conflicted. Honestly I think Apple made the right choice is making the updates one-way for security reasons. Maybe now with the secure enclave there is a safe way to allow for "user-approved" downgrades but I don't know enough to say one way or the other. The goal, of course, is to prevent the ability to downgrade a confiscated/stolen device to a version that has a known-exploit to bypass the lockscreen. With how much sensitive data people have on their phones I have a hard time seeing one-way upgrades as anything but a good thing.

> - pushing their agendas by forcing EVERY Apple device to download a shitty U2 album because Tim Cook says so. That's what I will remember Tim Cook for the most.

It was a failed marketing stunt and people get so worked up about it. Did it really impact your life so negatively? This is what you will remember most about Tim Cook? Ok...
> at a time when phones were dumb and hardly anyone had a PC

It was a time when "LAN house" were common here in Brazil. Think of them as the Internet equivalent of public payphones: a "LAN house" is a place with several computers, networked together in a LAN (thus the name; LAN-networked games like Doom or Quake were huge back then), with Internet access, often with several software pre-installed (including games), and paid by the hour.

There were also other factors. It was not long after Plano Real, which not only fixed the hyperinflation we had before, but also (as part of its mechanics) temporarily fixed the exchange rate at 1 USD, so importing PCs became cheaper; and also not long after the import restrictions ("reserva de mercado") for computers had ended. Each family having its own PC back then was not as uncommon as you might think.
And that's just fine!

Quite reminiscent of 'Permutation City' in fact... (In which uploaded human consciousness is slowed down arbitrarily... And worse.)
At least in the US, getting a permanent (union) position is super hard and takes years as a sub / on contract. On success (which is not guaranteed), it is seniority-based and starting at 38 you are at a pretty big disadvantage.

While you are on contract, you get crappy assignments that no one else wants: substituting for a semester, classes with difficult kids, etc. States differ, but I think this is a common picture for many.

If money is not particularly important teaching at a community college is much more pleasant. Competition is pretty low (because the pay is low), but you get respect and a lot of freedom to teach what and how you like. I know a few folks who semi-retired after a high paying career into a part-time community college teaching and really liked it.
Huh, TIL. There's no C interpreter fallback for WebAssembly in Firefox that works on all platforms?
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Yeah, I completely agree that I brought the outcome on myself.

I'm glad you looked me up on LinkedIn! I have received zero value from that site so my profile there is not serious :)
Translation: "Apple has the power to materially impact our business in a one-on-one competition"

True.

Good.

It's called competition and strategic positioning. I'm willing to entertain that Apple have too much power. But to hear this coming from Facebook?

* throws complaint out *

* case dismissed *
.NET

IIRC, Orkut was a super early adopter of .NET - which was interesting in particular at that time since it was windows only & LAMP was taking off.
Costco plays hardball with its banking partners. I'm sure it was about money.
> ... studying computer science, all kinds of advanced algorithm stuff. He's utterly clueless at...

One thing I notice in some rhetoric (not necessarily yours) is the idea that people are static. That if one is clueless now, they'll always be clueless.

People continuously evolve personally and professionally. The road to mastery and understanding always begins with confusion and uncertainty. It's totally reasonable that a student learning complex theoretical material will have a hard time, initially, with the day-to-day grind of doing practical work in a job.

Many workplaces have unreasonable expectations usually framed around the vaguely militaristic notion that their people have to "hit the ground running". It's based on bull. The only way to progress towards mastery is to periodically do stuff that one is "unqualified" for, sometimes that involves failure, re-tries, wasted time, and being seen as incompetent.

So many folks who are now "ninja's", "rockstars", or "10x-ers" started out as clueless newbs who were willing to put themselves out there, make embarrassing mistakes, be called cargo-cult practitioners, and who nonetheless continued with grit. Along the way, some helped and mentored them and others dismissed them.
Manager is higher in hierarchy, so manager stays. Contrary to naive belief, company is not fair and unbiased institution.

OP should have left the team at first opportunity.
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Because women are better with people and men are better with things. A few decades of liberalism can't erase millions of years of evolution no matter what wokers would have you believe.
I wonder if anyone in the '90s thought being tracked by web fonts would be an issue.
If you accept the adage “the greater my sphere of knowledge, the greater my contact with the unknown” (I do), you can see how the author’s sentiment exists even as we age and even grow in wisdom and knowledge.

One of my realizations is that it’s harder to telegraph what you don’t know than what you do know. It’s easy to see that older people have journeyed the paths were on, and seem to “know what they’re doing.” In reality, what they know (to some degree) is what we (the less traveled) are experiencing. But they, having thought they were coming to the end of their journey, have found their is yet more to learn and sometimes pop up in moments like this to exclaim “guys, this journey just keep going! I still don’t know! Acquisition of knowledge and experience has no end game!” It’s humbling.
Who said I trust FB? FB is not your competition and "open source" means nothing to literally 99% of users.

Look, you’re not the first guy to come up with an idea like this. We’ve all thought about it and shot it down 5 minutes later because building anything useful on top of email is really really hard. I brought up at least one serious technical problem that makes the E2E encrypted webapp you described very tricky. Why not just use email for optional contact discovery like every other app instead of shoving all the data through email?
> company where you can be CTO and still write software.

why would any company give CTO coding role to someone who has no experience in software.
I believe some groups are offended and will call you a TERF if you use "women" because that refers more to the biology and less to the self-identified gender.
You are right that selling teaching services on the open market doesn't pay very well, being something considered not very valuable.

However, selling teaching services to the public sector, where price is determined by what a group thinks feels right rather than demonstrated value, can be quite lucrative and on par with the typical software engineering job.

It is true that software engineers have more moonshot opportunities. You will find more software engineers raking in millions of dollars per year than you will teachers. But only a scant few engineers end up in that position. The vast majority of software engineers will land around the same range teachers in the public sector will (with some regional variability, I'm sure).
> A CTO at even a small software company that is writing code is doing their job wrong if they aren't quickly evolving into a role where they don't even touch code.

hard disagree here. When I worked at Fastmail (less than 50 people), our entire leadership was technical. Even our least technical leadership person (CFO?) was more proficient than most junior developers.

It's a beautiful thing, because business goals get aligned with programming goals, on a long lasting technical project that is very important. No more jostling over what some person with product vision wants versus what needs to happen, refactoring, etc.

I actually think the biggest challenge for the leadership team at fastmail is the leadership part, not the programming part. A bunch of really really smart tenured developers suddenly navigating how to be managers, CEO, CTO, etc, is much more challenging than writing some fixes for a new Apple Calendar quirks. It was cool to see growth from the leadership who took the part of 'ok I am a real C level at a company with a growing headcount how do I do this right the first time?'

I think, having a leadership that still keeps their hands in the dirt is a good thing. Plus they happened to all be the best programmers we had. Leapyears better than anyone else I think.
>expertise is far more transferable than ever

Small nitpick on this statement that makes a significant difference to me. I think the spirit of what you are saying is that "Experts are far more accessible than ever"

The youtube video that helped you, your neighbor, the instruction manual, are all sources of expert information. In earlier times people would have to find the right book in a library, or travel the world in search of an expert.

You are still trusting experts, which implies that they exist, which is different than assuming "well, some guy on youtube could do it - so it cant be that hard ill figure it out myself". you are instead acknowledging that the "guy on youtube" is an expert that you thankfully have access to because of youtube
The really smaller villages in the mountains are only connected by postal bus. The villages in the valley and what I could call small towns are connected by train, but it is far from ubiquitous.
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They had similar superscalar abilities (2 instructions per cycle, in order) but it was not based on the P5 as far as I know. It was a pretty deep pipeline, unlike the one in the P5, and didn't have any AGU stalls.

Larrabee was based on the P5 though.
In your scenario, Apple is not a restaurant. Apple is the tomato farmer that makes perfectly genetically engineered red tomatoes, with extra vitamins and whose yield is unmatched by any other.

It seems great, until you realize that all restaurants end up buying from them and after some years they put all other farmers out of business and you have no other choice in the market. Now they can charge whatever they want, and if you are a cook who would like to use some different variety of tomato, you are kindly told to get lost.

Also, we all have to spend the rest of your lives praying that there is no new disease that can come up and affect the tomatoes sold by them.
I'm gonna be honest, my mind got bored in the long sentence and completely skipped like half the words. I think I'm just too used to reading documentation and skipping 50% of the words so I can see how to do something quicker.
see the author's take on both:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478125799660261376.html
> for instance, changing the physiology of the brain through drugs or trauma has predictable changes on consciousness

Assumes a definition of consciousness, which is not in evidence. What drugs or trauma alter is experience, which one might define as the content of consciousness, i.e. thoughts, beliefs etc.
That number was from Immoscout24 listings of parking spaces for rent [0].

If you have vacant spaces in blue zones near you, that's a viable option. There are plenty of places where that's not the case though.

[0]: https://www.immoscout24.ch/de/parkplatz/mieten/ort-zuerich
That's why I qualified with the word certain. I'd never use an inspector recommended by my agent and I'm not sure how to find a trustworthy inspector. In the past I've used a person recommended by somebody I trust.

What you said is true though and it became clear to me during the inspection. At the time my realtor told me my inspector was being ridiculous because he was documenting lots of things that weren't really problems but were recommendations and things to be watched.
Jira jobs desirability are variable.

Some places allow you to have a say and decision in what comes into the queue and what gets worked on, I think those are a lot better.
> If companies or managers just want to do the infinite monkeys typing shakespeare approach with 0 critical thought, don't hire / contract senior people.

Senior people should know how to read the situation and either A) figure out how to persuade management to their way of thinking and failing that (repeatedly) B) STFU and do as your told.

I'm not opposed to making suggestions/recommendations, but some people don't want to hear it, for whatever reason. As a contractor I'm not going to upset if you don't take my recommendations and it takes longer (after all, contractors are usually hourly...more money, more money). If you're unable to "STFU and do as you're told", bide your time and find another position on your own terms.

That's the lesson this person needs to take away from this.
It’s not. They’re members of a larger group. They have to abide by the rules of the group if they want to enjoy the benefits of society.
> As a quant, you have to optimize for getting stuff done quickly at all costs. In software engineering, there’s more focus on testing, maintainability, and readability.

I would have expected the opposite! I've never been a quant and have mostly done software/data science at smaller companies where there's very little focus on testing/maintainability/readability. I'm sure at bigger tech enterprises those things are stressed more. I figured a hedge fund would also care a lot about those things, at least testing, because a bug can cost a lot of money in a very direct way. How do quant shops get away with looser software practices?
I see it as coming from 2 different perspectives. One is as you note, an antidote to imposter syndrome ("no one else knows what they are doing so I'm not alone"); the other coming from the opposite perspective: the autodidact who realizes no one around them understands the underlying systems and principles as well as they do, and so is frustrated for the opposite reason.
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