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I think about this a lot. Early on, as a self taught engineer, I spent a lot of time simply learning the vernacular of the software engineering world so that I could explain what it was that I wanted to do.

Not that strange. Handicaps are quite common.

>But where I also really notice it is in idling: just writing this blog post my CPU was right at 46°C the whole time, where previously my computer idled right aroud 60°C. The whole computer just feels a bit healthier.

I get this same feeling whenever I change the fluids on my cars. I know from a practical perspective, it's very little changed, but I can't help feeling like the car just feels like it's in a better place. Which I guess it is? But I know it's entirely mental.

> If the internet has taught us anything, it’s that humans + anonymity = unpleasantness.

Aka one of my favorite axioms: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

The Smithsonian in DC

Lots of leaps of logic here. I'm certainly not fine with Sweden having a higher disparity of wealth but I don't live in Sweden so I can't effect much change there. We're also ignoring how many safety net benefits Sweden provides its population, ostensibly because it reasonably taxes its wealthy. If Swedes are ok with their situation, it's probably because it's being handled adequately.

The issue with disparity is it's a reflection of the unfair conditions of compensation. Elon Musk's employees make him that money, not Elon. He could make all of his employees multi-millionaires overnight by granting more generous stock plans commensurate with the money they've made the company. Reasonable profit sharing plans basically ensure this, but since companies all collude to not grant them, we see them as relatively rare in the working world. The state should be requiring companies to grant profit sharing. Not gonna bike shed it here, but it needs to be done yesterday.

This entire thread is nothing if not a perfect indicator of how difficult it is to get an good/accurate gauging of employment health.

Another suggestion: API so I can curl and get this in my terminal.

Sorry, I was referring to the Smithsonian National History Museum

Those look a lot like the ones I saw in the museum. Very cool plant!

I guess "bullshitting as a career" isn't going away any time soon.

It would also be good if the perspective of the article would stay put. This "we" and "they" thing was at best confusing and at worst possibly a way to get more clicks or pretend the author had something to do with the work.

I recently visited the national history museum and finally got a sense of the _weirdness_ of prehistoric trees. No bark, a green trunk (utilizing photosynthesis), tall like a palm tree. I'd love to see something like that now.

Tell me about it. From my conversations with many other engineers right now, this seems to be the standard. For some reason companies really have us by the balls at this moment.

In my experience they seem to be, granted that is anecdotal.

What's the risk of not doing this? Better code but slower velocity for an open source project?

I think that particular brand of risk makes sense for this particular project, and the authors don't seem particularly negative toward GenAI as a concept, just going through a "one way door" with it.

Having been at this long enough to have put Easter eggs of my own into works I've done, I can say that the biggest issue is the lack of stomach for introducing a possible failure point to the software for little more than shits and giggles, especially when software has gotten so complex and big. That and who has the time to build silly stuff at work anymore. I feel like we're constantly at 120%.

Keep going. This isn't unique to basically anything. Theres an analogy here for practically any case where there is scarcity and some manner of investment.

That said, I think this article is wins on providing me a window into the college athlete's world. It's a space that I feel like rarely shows up in popular media, is ripe for abuse and the stakes are definitely very high. Very interesting read for that.

One trick I learned a while back to just sort of get my mind right first thing in the morning was to make my bed. I got it from a TV show, The Bridge, I think. It's such a small and seemingly insignificant act, but the routine is comforting and it feels good to have done something that will also bring me comfort when I go to lay down that night. It's nice coming to lay down in a nicely made bed.

I'd love to learn more of these sorts of little actions that bring calm and joy to my brain.

I have to say that you sound very biased in the way you're talking about the bill. If a primary goal of this administration is to cut and make government more efficient, this bill is about as big of a failure as one could conceive. Any reasonable person would have to admit that.

I'm fine admitting that I would benefit greatly from this bill. I also hope to heaven it doesn't pass because an additional trillion dollars to suit me sounds asinine. I don't need help.

Meta: god articles like this drive me crazy. What ever happened to the inverted pyramid hierarchy of information? I have to read 3 paragraphs of unmitigated filler before they actually tell me what's changed. It's not just this article, it seems like every article on newer media sites is like this. I understand why, but fuck them very much and the incentives that drive this behavior.

Forgive my ignorance: are these scenes rendered based on how a scene is expected to be rendered? If so, why would we use this over more direct methods (since I assume this is not faster than direct methods)?

It's funny. I had a similar analogy with some legacy systems recently. No one seemed to own or know where the data egressed to or whether it was even used anymore.

But it was also low-value data and even in the worst case we surmised the most we'd do is anger someone in marketing briefly.

I think so long as you can ascertain that the stakes are low, this is a good tactic.

> It usually comes from a good place, but is typically given by two groups of people:

> those who tried to invent a wheel themselves and know how hard it is

> those who never tried to invent a wheel and blindly follow the advice

There's a third, and I think more common group: folks who know all that's involved with reinventing the wheel, and how to do it, and know the juice of doing it isn't worth the squeeze, and there's no value in doing it yourself, educational or otherwise.

Just would like to say I really appreciate your consideration of releasing breaking changes. I know not all libraries can employ your methodology but I wish many more of them would, as a frontend platform engineer.

I literally said the same thing out loud.

I had heard about CRISPR a while back but most reporting on it kind of hand waved over the mechanisms of how it actually accomplishes its work. What these researchers have figured out to make this work absolutely blows my mind.

I agree, it's very fluffy. I think "testing with ambiguity" is the new version of "culture fit."

Yes on this: It reminds me of when candidates ask me how they did at the end of the interview. It shows an extreme lack of decorum and empathy. What if you did terribly and I wouldn't hire you in a million years? Do you really want me to tell you that?

There's no good answer and asking a question like that shows real narcissism imo.

It sort of works like pseudo-science and woo. It sounds impressive and even plausible but at the end of the day, it's asserting something unknowable as though it were truth, but is largely a product of projection.

Nevertheless, I can still read and appreciate it from _that_ perspective because it's always interesting to me to hear how others see the world.

There's something glibly poetic about having finally found a way to convert lead into gold, but it turns out it's much more efficient and lucrative to build tons of graphics cards and power them and consume tons of water to create digital currencies for what is essentially numerous pyramid schemes.