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I imagine bringing up the current situation with John Deere and how the law would enshrine the right to repair the tractor that you bought with your own money would go farther than most arguments with those folks.

Reminds me of the equivalent you see so often about driving where people slower than you are morons, while those faster than you are crazy.

Reading through this, the main thing I'm seeing is the opportunity for impact. They think you're doing great, they promoted you, and now they are looking for you to lead this new (to you) underperforming team, in order to get them moving in the right direction.

Devil's in the details, but you have full control in your hands; you need to realize that you have full agency in your situation and lead from wherever you are in the org chart.

In my GenX brain, a Van Halen album* comes to mind.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxg1nB9yQ8

Same, and now I've spent the last two weeks trying to convince YouTube that I don't need several different videos of Christmas music playing over a fireplace.

Feels a whole lot like the dumb emails I get from places like Home Depot, where because I bought a table saw they feel I should know about all these other table saws they have.

The Sky Follower Bridge browser extension[1] works really well to find everyone you were following on Twitter and find their Bluesky accounts. It finds matches, close matches, and maybes so you do need to review, but the tool doesn't autofollow, just makes it easy to follow.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...

One of the big things that keeps me where I'm working now is the org structure that keeps managers & non-managers on separate career tracks until significantly higher in the org chart than most big companies. Moving between manager & not isn't a promotion or demotion; it's a sideways shift.

The key to largeco success is to understand that when you own a certain area, especially if it's an area that will generate opinions or a visibility boost, you will need to manage your full stack, not just the code you write. Code access, PR acceptability requirements, roadmap, triaged backlog, and communication upwards, downwards, and sideways.

If you're not doing that work, either someone else is going to do it or it'll cause issues down the road. Look at it this way: you can either be grateful that so many folks are wanting to help you in your effort and coordinate that effort, or you can stick to the code and complain that someone else is trying to steal your credit.

All of this hinges entirely on your direct manager (and to an extent their manager) being an actually good manager, and not a microcontroller, pass-the-buck-er, or an empty chair.

Anyone know if eggs are officially good or bad for us this year? I lost track.

Every manager I've ever had that couldn't let go of their IC hat also had a pile of manager hat work that wasn't ever getting done.

For me, it's my ability to give feedback directly to a dev team building out an imperative language for use in our products: what was easy, what's a PITA, what are big, glaring gaps making things impossible, etc.

What helped me finally remember "left of what, exactly" is to imagine a timeline, left to right. Shifting left is moving things earlier in that timeline.

> Based on what previous in-real-life examples is this a realistic worry

My interpretation is that the post you replied to was 100% satire.

This is all academic for me until Bluesky gets the functionality to get an account back onto their main network, for DR if not peace of mind that an "undo" is possible.

> On Windows land you have something similar

I'm still waiting to hear about a kernel-level exploit that starts with Visicalc or similar.

Unless they aren't in a space where telling that truth is safe, be it from familial pressure, peer pressure, pressure from their significant other.

Same for the young men, honestly.

> Which goes against accepted logic that women would be more likely to conform socially.

Citation needed. Where is that coming from?

> As a student, the only thing the next institution will see is GPA, school, major. Roughly in that order.

And every non-educational institution after that will see school, degree as a checkbox.

In this particular case, it's helpful to remember that two people can be wrong.

I had a similar experience -- their (age 2 & 5) favorite thing? Was it the rides, meeting all the characters? No. The parking lot tram.

I like wearing chunky glasses -- they fit my face well.

These things look at least twice the thickness of anything I'd ever consider wearing in public, in any circumstance.

Or so the devil would have you believe.

Same, but for me it's because as I've gotten older, sometimes my finger gets unsteady enough to double tap something, mostly on touchpads rather than a mouse.

I can tell that you're trying to make this work, and I very much appreciate the effort, but where is the no-code part? The YAML is definitely code. HTML & CSS are code. My rule of thumb: if you screw up the punctuation and that causes the thing to break, that was code.

Second, too much zooming. It was really hard to wrap my brain around what was going on when everything was moving around so quickly.

You are severely overestimating the average person's ability and understanding.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

More likely: "You worked overtime to save systems across the planet from crashing due to a potentially botched update?"

"Yes, sir. We're 'Site Reliability Engineering', after all."

"And nothing has changed. Updates are a smooth as usual."

"Yes, sir. Site Reliability Engineering, at its finest, sir!"

"You're fired."

Combined with this, presented as a change they could potentially make, it's a killer:

> Implement a staggered deployment strategy for Rapid Response Content in which updates are gradually deployed to larger portions of the sensor base, starting with a canary deployment.

They weren't doing any test deployments at all before blasting the world with an update? Reckless.

This one grants a right for the service to use your content however they wish. An absolute showstopper for me, honestly.

From their Privacy Policy: "You retain any and all of your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Service and you are responsible for protecting those rights. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for Content you or any third party posts on or through Service. However, by posting Content using Service you grant us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through Service. You agree that this license includes the right for us to make your Content available to other users of Service, who may also use your Content subject to these Terms."

https://twenty.com/legal/privacy

You have to assume that it does.

Airplane manufacturers' customers are the airlines.