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Yeah, I know some people that worked for meta and they called it the most psychologically damaging environment they've ever worked in. And they were all originally game devs.

One went back to game dev, one decided to retire early, and the other went to Google.
Like I said, I've been through this first hand.

I was exceeding expectations, and given a big promotion in the middle of it. But people I worked with and interacted with every day were feeling extremely stressed and worried about their ability to meet the new bar. Now, in many cases, they didn't need to be worried, but it's natural to question these things in an environment where you're seeing people get PIP'd and unceremoniously shitcanned regularly.

Morale was through the floor, it was an absolutely miserable environment to work in – even though I was personally doing quite well. So I said "fuck this" and was the first person out the door on my team. The second highest performer quit a week later.

The least technically capable person on the team was there for another year.
Same issue with the numbers on sexual abuse in Sweden, they are more often reported and the definition is broader than the common sense belief. Numbers appear ridiculous (to the point where the alt-right loves taunting Swedes with "rape capital of the world" and such) but it's just a matter of much better statistical collection, and more nuanced (and broader) interpretation of what configures sexual abuse.
>Just a quick note, something my dad taught me. Break apart the garlic into segments, peel them then use a broad, flat kitchen knife and crush the garlic with the heel of your hand. Once crushed, gather together and finely chop.

Thank you for the suggestion. I am already aware of that method (as well as several others).

It's not that I find mincing fresh garlic onerous. Rather the taste difference (feel free to disagree, I don't mind -- please do exactly what you want to do) for me isn't big enough to compensate for the convenience (and lower cost) of dumping a couple spoonfuls of pre-minced (in water, not oil -- although if you prefer oil, then have at it) garlic and off you go.
> That's a bit disingenuous, isn't it?

No, it's not. Well, at least it wasn't intended to be.

The whole point of my post is: What were you supposed to do with all of the expensive cache chips you bought for your 486 when the Pentium came out?

--> They weren't soldered on, but you couldn't use them anymore if you wanted to upgrade your Pentium. <--

How is the situation with RAM today any different?

The only difference I see is that we now expect cache to be soldered on. I imagine in the future we'll expect the same of RAM too.
Perhaps because China is focused on defensive capabilities, not offensive?
Why on earth would you say something like that? Its not necessarily a bad business move doing it...but loudly announcing it?

Reminds me of the musk "sleep on factory floor" macho bullshit.
i find that lightly crushing the garlic before peeling helps separate the skin and makes peeling easier.

also, touching stainless steel helps remove the garlic scent from your hands.
No one has the moral right to do anything since the entire idea of moral rights is absurd. Yes, Zuckerberg has a duty to act in the best interest of shareholders. Courts have repeatedly ruled that good faith belief is all that requires. Unless you think his interest in button ui is somehow in self interest over company interest he didn’t do anything wrong.
Yeah manufacturing companies that have existed for much longer are more likely to have sold more products so you see those products far more often. Amazing, how did you come up with that insight? And internet companies are of course different in terms of how easy it is to reach people.

Tesla went from a few 1000s to now more then 10% of what Toyota does while producing far more next generation BEV then both of them together. Tesla are by far the most common BEV on the streets. In terms of yearly production they are getting close to companies like BMW who have 100 years of history. And they are continuing to grow for the next couple years at least and will end up being one of the larger automotive groups on the plant. While being the largest produce of grid batteries.

And yes actually improving the lives of 1% of global people who live in places not easily reached with traditional infrastructure is actually a very large achievement for any single company. Not to mention changing the airline and shipping industry. And that isn't all that SpaceX does by a long shot either.

> quietly instead of monopolizing the airwaves

Given OneWeb, Kupiter and many other planed constellation are managed to share them and there is no monopoly at all.

> When you move the needle in terms of quality of life on a global scale you don't need to fool people telling about how you are gonna do so in the far future because duh you are already doing it today.

So nobody should ever start thinking about improving global quality of life because if they were going to do it, they would already do it. Great way to approach live.

And given the absurd amount of advertisement and political influences the company you mentions buy and their long track record of breaking law your claim that those companies don't need to 'fool' people is hilarious. VW didn't need to fool people, the Disel-scandal never happened.
That is a killer feature!
> very clear expectations

Unfortunately, this is beyond most companies when it comes to software developers.
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> “Part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me,”

Translation: We feel bad letting people go because we're all fam so we're going to make it your fault you were let go. If you can't meet the arbitrary and unequally applied goals we set for you then that's on you.
Sorry, but you sound like tech skeptics in every generation ever, saying “the Dewey Decimal system works perfectly well, why do we need computers just to find a book”? (Yes, I have heard this exact objection raised by radio hosts to early computer pioneers who tried to explain why computers will become useful for regular people.)

Email became useful and replaced the post office

Web 1.0 became useful and replaced TV, radio, magazines

Web 2.0 became useful and allowed people to communicate but still hasn’t been truly decentralized

What makes you think that Web3 replacing trusted gatekeepers is not useful? You think “just trust me” is the best system we can possibly have for writing code that does some business logic?

For me it’s simple: if there is something that’s very valuable (some NFT, some role, some election, some large balance of USDT) then I prefer that my customers custody their own keys and deal with that themselves. Less liability for me. Rather than having a guy with keys to the database log in and potentially change the result of an election, and having to track down logs and deal with lawsuits etc. I just want smart contracts to deal with it, and each participant can only take the actions they are allowed to take - no exceptions. No central point of failure for security. No need for audits OF TRANSACTIONSby auditors who can also be corrupted.

How do we make sure that smart contracts are correct? Audits, battle testing and with Cardano we even have provable correctness. UniSwap likely has no exploitable bugs, for instance, or they would have been found. Every instance of UniSwap AMMs comes out of the same factory. THE END RESULT is far more reliable than any code that runs on only one machine by a “trust me” corp.

Sorry buddy, you can shill your centralized “trust me” all you want but you sound like Peter Schiff and his gold. You just don’t get it.

1. No liability for transactions, only for code

2. Open source infrastructure

3. No central entities who can corrupt the system in unlimited ways

4. People can only do what is allowed, no matter what

5. Code operates regardless of whether the central entity is around in 20-30 years

6. Different incentives (selling tokens is far more user-friendly than selling shares to a parasitic investor class that will cause you to extract rents forever and introduce dark patterns and lockin at the expense of the public).

7. Interoperability — on-chain data can be used for other smart contracts and any websites can read the data.

8. Global interoperability, no need to rely on a patchwork of currencies and money transmission legs and banks that Stripe takes care of for you. USDC is an ERC20 token and you write code, not connecting to a billion little APIs. Similarly to HTTP letting you go worldwide vs what Twilio had to do for you, or negotiating syndication by radio stations.

Of course I think blockchain is a first-gen technology but it enables this and a lot more !
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If my CEO said:

> “Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg said during the meeting, according to Reuters.

I'd probably start looking for another job. It's one thing to fire poor performers, it's another to make vague allusions to "people who shouldn't be here". If they shouldn't be there, fire them. Otherwise, this just sounds like management has no clue.
A very reasonable interpretation of turning up the heat is exactly to start doing a better job of holding people accountable to your already established ladder.
I have a special document in case I die. It has

- My password for bitwarden and the MFA codes. This is in addition to the fact that we share important logins with the family

- List of banks to contact

- List of people to contact in the office to get information about insurance, bonuses etc.

- Information about where the important papers are

- A description of how to de-automate my house

My wife has a copy, and do does my best friend. He surprised me messy year when he told me he could not access my bank account. When I asked him WTF, he said that he is doing a DRP test :) And he find a flaw.

People ask me if I am depressed when I tell them about that. For me this is a natural thing to do to help those left behind.
I'm not sure it can get better to the same degree. With X, we ended up mostly with X.org dominating the space, and that meant that it became the de-facto standard way to do certain things - I honestly don't know how many of setxkbmap, xrandr, clipboard management, color management, etc. are X11 features vs X.org features, but either way they were all centralized and worked the same no matter what window manager or desktop environment you put on top of Xorg. With Wayland, there's nothing to ensure that they will converge; GNOME can pick a way to do keyboard layout and just stick with that forever, and wlroots can pick a way to do keyboard layout and just stick with that forever, and users will forever be stuck having to look up how each compositor does or doesn't support changing keyboard layout. (This is not an idle problem to me; I recently found a wayland compositor that I wanted to try, and discovered that in spite of using wlroots it didn't actually expose any way to configure keyboard layout. With a X11 window manager, I'd just run setxkbmap and be done, but with wayland it's literally impossible for me to solve without writing code.)
Yes, that is so cheeky… We are going to put pressure so that we do not have to pay any severance because they will leave “willingly”.

Good luck with keeping just the good people with that technique.
If you are confident enough in your ability to convey the entire full safety message to your kid and take full responsibility for anything they do as a result of that information, then go for it. I'm just saying for $20 it isnt really worth it. I dont want my kid fucking with electronics outside the designated use-cases it was built for, period. Cheese in the toaster? item needs to be cleared by a professional again. I dont care if I feel personally competent enough to clear it myself. I have very easy and safe alternatives.

Odds are the toaster company doesnt want you mess with it either. This isnt the old days where you can just use some elbow grease and fix everything on your property. Liabilities need to be managed. Electrical items need certifications. Doing it yourself takes hours. It's just a lot of things that are unnecessary to deal with over a toaster.

If I am going to teach my kid anything about fixing electrical items it's that if it isnt working then he (or she) should unplug them and then he shouldnt touch them until certified to do so. It'll encourage them to look at the bigger picture of the problem.

Sure, as an adult we can see through red tape and feel cool about it and want to teach the same to our kid.. but it's really not worth it. Kids that are smart enough to learn the will likely experiment with new things they learn. Just because they safely unplug the item before working on it doesnt mean it's safe to plug back in afterwards.
These videos are produced in giant production houses in China. That’s why there’s no voiceovers. They’re designed to be distributed in every language.
Nobody knows for sure, and a single summary statistic of a huge economy cannot capture the dispersion of lived experiences, but yes, there are objective indications suggesting recession is possible.

For one example, the Atlanta Federal Reserve runs a real-time GDP forecast called GDP Now. The update today is -2.1%

https://twitter.com/atlantafed/status/1542922843511574528
It looks like the award is given to those "who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity" of the United States, not necessarily whoever was the smarter of the two. Given that Jobs-era Apple pretty much bankrolled the US with their tax money and then followed it up by joining the NSA's domestic surveillance efforts, I get why they'd want to acknowledge him. Jobs sure did a lot for this country, it's just up to your interpretation if those things were good or bad.
I'm not trying to be mean, but, perhaps your relatives are watching too much state TV. I also have relatives in there, and, unfortunately, a lot among the elder generation are irreversibly brainwashed.
Google loses two execs: one for Messaging and Workspace, another for Payments
My jokes don't always land well. I'll consider this a success.

I prefer to look at DOS as "stable."
Exactly.

Top Gun 2 is great example of understanding the audience. it was a love letter to the fans.

Gilbert made it all about himself with no awareness of what other people thought. That's his biggest mistake. He keeps saying he making the game HE wants to make. He really doesn't care about the fans, and they noticed. I strongly suspect it will only get uglier between the deep monkey island fans who kept the brand alive and Gilbert.

If Ron wants to make art, then make art. But Monkey Island was never art for the sake of art. A far more successful revival that pleased the fans was Broken Sword 5.
The good people are the ones who don't have to stay in a hot kitchen if they don't want to

I wonder... will the people who hired deadwood get shafted, or will they consider how to improve their hiring process? (ha. ha. ha.)
What you say makes sense, but have in mind that it's not that easy to selectively fire employees (as opposed to mass layoffs) in big companies, at least in California. It's arguable whether it should be easy to do that, but firing any employee - even with a very good reason - can open your company to a nasty lawsuit in many states. You can simply call it the cost of doing business, but big companies are scared to death of big labor lawsuits, especially class actions, as clever lawyers can often find some interesting pattern in the fired employees.
Yes, there’s no reason for the expected total value of your payments to inherently be higher or lower for a tontine vs an annuity, after adjusting for time value of money.

Typically a tontine would have lower payments in early years with much faster acceleration later on compared to an annuity. That means that healthier people would generally do better with a tontine than an annuity, and less healthy people would do better with an annuity. It also means that the nominal amount of payments from a tontine is higher than those from an equivalently priced annuity, but that difference is entirely due to the tontine having more time to earn interest on your money before it pays out.
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This feels very disingenuous. Nothings stops those countries from adopting a demurrage currency and outcompeting the US-aligned systems.

1. Russia currently can't make its outstanding foreign debt payments, because a large part of it has been cut off from the global financial system. :)

2. There's also the occasional bit of regime change and freedom bombing that comes around when you consider shifting away from, say, the petrodollar. (Maybe? [1])

There is some credit to your point, but it's not at all unassailable, especially from the perspective of the 'other'.

[1] I'm not entirely sold on the claims for a strong causal link between the two, but it does seem like a somewhat weird sort of coincidence.
Hmm. So a little venting is fine?
I'm glad you assumed a very limited scope of danger being direct electrocution death because in my class I learned there are many compound forms of electrical accident. To quote NEC textbook:

"Even low-voltage installers can still experience unsettling shocks, especially if they are working in an unsafe environment, such as if they are ungrounded or standing on a wet spot,” Johnston said. “While it’s unlikely that such shocks will cause serious injury by themselves, they certainly could literally knock someone off balance, which could be a real safety risk if an installer were standing on a ladder.

“In addition, an arc in a low-voltage system has the same potential for igniting explosive materials as one in a 120-plus-volt system. Chapter 5 of the NEC provides rules for installing electrical wiring of any voltage in a hazardous (classified) location, specifically those locations with high concentrations of flammable or combustible liquids, flammable or combustible vapors, conductive and combustible dusts, and so forth.”
Anybody can grow tobacco too. I do it most years just because of the pretty flowers.

Much easier than growing cannabis, actually.

The curing process is a bit of work, but for cigarette (as opposed to pipe or cigar) quality tobacco not so hard.
>It can be thought of as Go <..> also with nice additions like sum types, enums, string interpolation, if expressions etc.

I've noticed the language design itself is rarely criticized, it's mostly about the implementation. So I think you're on the right path here.
I think you're misremembering. The 2001 and 2007 crashes were very widely foretold. The current recession risk concensus seems pretty weak to me right now. That's just perception but the popular joke goes something like "economists have predicted 8 of the last 3 recessions".

The risk of an unexpected recession is much worse than a warning that doesn't come true so warnings are always pessimistic. Risk right now still feels 50/50. The next CPI report after the major Fed action will be watched very closely.
Wow I had no idea - every day's a school day! Thanks for sending those links over, the Doom engine continues to surprise me :D
Neat. What web mapping library do you use: Google Maps, Mapbox/Maplibre, Leaflet or something custom?
Add on top of that huge pay cuts, Meta stock is down 50%. Doesn't sound pleasant.
It's the same ammo depot that later turned out to be a barn?
My partner is impatiently waiting for me to pull up the garlic I planted, which is not ready yet. First hot spell turned some leaves brown but that doesn't mean it's ready.

She does use jarred garlic for some dishes, we still go through a lot of store bought garlic, but she says it's rather bland compared to the stuff from the garden. I haven't done a side by side comparison but I don't have any reason to doubt her. Transport stable crops tend to be lacking in other characters so that probably is a lot of it. But most heirloom and landrace garlic has to survive at least 4 months and preferably 6 in storage to be viable as seed garlic, so it's not like peaches or mulberries where you have to eat, cook or can them by day 2 or they're mush.
There is a graph of your submitted commits/LoC/code review comments over time, overlayed with the rest of your teams metrics.

Managers will tell you that those metrics are not important to your performance review , but it is absolutely not true. They didn’t make the graph so it can be ignored.
> It's absolute insanity that they don't see that the best talent can and will walk out the door if this happens. E

When your 51% CEO has so little life experience, what did you expect? There's a reason why - IN GENERAL - the best CEOs are older than 55.

Zuck got lucky with FB and made billions selling personal data and retained 51% control. Did we really think he was actually GOOD at anything?
According to the "tabloid rag" themselves. That's really not the best way to back up your point.

The links contained in that article referencing an "admission" just go to another NYPost article referencing the same "admission". Those links then go to other NYPost articles doing the same...

I finally got to a link that took me to a NYTimes article[0] that did reference the laptop and e-mails. Those references also contained a link to a NYTimes article[1] from more than a year ago referencing the existence of, and analyzing what was known about, the laptop and emails in question.

What a conspiracy. What a miscarriage of journalistic integrity!

0. https://archive.ph/Z2yeW
1. https://archive.ph/NsVQ9
Why is that better?

Making everybody suffer until some people leave because it’s intolerable to them… that doesn’t sound better to me.
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