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> I enjoyed the comradery of those gentler times and have no regrets.

I had just closed twitter when I read that. Indeed, the times are not gentle on the internet.

That is exactly what it’s trying to do, going off the “4th trimester” theory. Make the baby feel as much like it is still in the mother’s womb as possible.

This doesn’t make a big impact in the end because of how prevalent password reuse is.

I'll tell you what pierced the veil for me: being involved with code reviews and looking at other people's code. "Oh, THIS is what constitutes senior software engineering? Then I'm much more skilled than I thought I was!"

Wait a second. The entire population of New York state is 20 million. How could they possibly have paid an extra $616 million? Each person in New York paid an extra $30 million?

Companies here are so litigation-averse that they’d never fire someone outright for being too old. They have an entire department (HR) to help build a solid, believable paper trail for firing them for “performance issues”.

Exactly this. There’s nothing special here, just a new generation that will learn a hard lesson.

Are you the exception or the rule for the population?

I think this would be a big step up for more than 90% of the population, do you agree?

also it’s not static linked, so you need to make sure all of the shared libraries exist on the host, requiring to install a whole bunch of trash.

If I was living in India I’d probably take that deal.

Since when do we send snake-oil salesmen to prison? There must be more to this story.

In your free time you can think about any cool problems you want.

It’s always fun to bring cool solutions back to work from my own personal weekend hacking.

The Wells Fargo effect: if you optimize for a number, you’ll get that number.

When they can write AI to understand and implement the entire US tax system, then I’ll start worrying about the incoming AI apocalypse they’re always taking about.

Telephone numbers are well delineated between counties with “country codes”. I don’t think anybody is confused about which country owns what number.

Seems like the right idea for IP addresses, but not domain names. I don’t know why they can say all three belong to the same jurisdiction. I hope there’s an appeal.

That’s a really narrow view of the world by someone that’s probably never sold to business. MS products worked exactly the way people who were paid for them care they worked.

They’re not talking about the mechanical operation of the car, it’s things like gap consistency between doors and the frames.

> Right now I’m working in the previous position with almost double my paycheck, so it’s a great turnaround.

I don't know if this was a good idea. You've signaled to your company that you're willing and able to take legal action against them. How long will your employment last when your neck is sticking out 2x farther than your coworkers and there's a layoff coming around?

How can this work with no fire stations? Won’t a single fire wipe the entire city out?

Can AI help us defeat nimbyism?

Basically doing the work of the same IDEs we’ve been using for decades?

>As that'll not happen all by itself because there's less money

Aren’t we both reading the same article about that happening “by itself”?

Yes, and that value is commensurate with the number of remote workers.

Let’s just get a few things straight regarding remote work:

* Your job is not to “write code” no matter how much you wish it was that simple. Your job is to provide value for your company.

* You provide much more value for your company when you’re available in-person than when you’re remote. You provide value to your coworkers who can communicate to you easily, effectively, and timely.

* it’s much easier for your manager to gauge that value in person than remotely, so you create less work for those that are responsible for you’re performance (and your job).

If you over-simplify your role, then it’s easy to wonder why remote work isn’t more successful. When you become responsible for the health of the business, then it becomes much more clear.

Even if it was just “this is the cash price for item X” this would be a huge benefit for he consumer.

> Some companies will dangle money at you as an alternative to going on the PIP.

Can someone tell me a little about this? Is this a situation where a company pays you to quit without firing you?

I really don’t think anyone is underestimating it. We’re just not buying into the hype. We somehow managed highly-realistic fake images. Why can’t we do the same with video?

Gossip about people you’ve never heard of or seen completely defeats the allure of gossip doesn’t it?