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God yes. I work in a regulated industry, and here's the flow:

InfoSec raises vulnerabilities that show up on reports that get managers scared.

Developers have to continually update to accomodate. Even for non-prod deps. You can raise exceptions, but that's a completely separate can of worms.

Managers wonder why dev work is slowed down.

I would agree, but if you're mentoring right a lot of those problems get delegated to the junior engineers - not status meetings though.

My previous team had zero problem onboarding people remotely. The steps are extremely simple:

1. Have a collaborative culture. This is difficult at some places. But an environment where people are free to spin up zoom meetings and ask questions goes a long way. RTFM culture is the worst. Yes there are devs who don't bother reading the docs, but I find they often don't know how or where to look.

2. We had watercoolers in the afternoon. People could just chat. It may seem like a hugely ineffective process BUT... about 30%-40% of the time it would be about work. Knowledge would be distributed to multiple people, social bonds would form, and blockers would often be resolved. This led to high trust teams with multiple SMEs some of whom were "JR" devs.

3. README or wiki. Currently working at a FAANG company and several repos have no README. Wiki's are out of date. Knowledge is fragmented. I don't blame other devs, but it's kind of insane how much technical debt there is.

Also a UT Option III student, same as you. I too regret doing the program. It just feels like such a hassle and to your point it is extremely disorganized.

I will say certain instructors like Vijay Garg make the program feel worth it. You learn new material, read research papers, and have implementations around research papers. His courses were the reason I stuck around. I took his advanced algorithms and distributed systems courses which were great.

I hate this planet

I blame the mathematicians anf the engineers.

Sorta related, where can one find some of the latest research into self repairing machines?

One of the great things about the US having distributed governance is that, while this occured, it was barely a blip in my life. It didn't really affect any crucial services or facilities.

Much like people turned to Trump, people turned to alternative media because they feel the neoliberal establishment isn't telling them the 'truth.'

I don't blame them, but it is what it is. People act as if the government and "Large Media Corp" deserve to be trusted when the US is more than willing to foment unrest in foreign countries. Whose to say they aren't willing to manipulate the cattle within their own confines?

That's pretty cool. I feel like these people (who very smart people choose to lead), must be some next level incredible intellect.

You've met Dava?

+1 for Understanding the Weird Parts

It's a good course that explains things from first principles.

People fall for it. It's horrid, but smart from a tactical perspective.

I wonder if there are resources on creating divisions. It's a very interesting social science topic.

/sci/ is a weird place, but there are some extremely brilliant, bored minds there. They published a guide: https://sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide/ that was great for me as an undergrad.

I have a peer who says this is the greatest tool ever. I mostly just use IntelliJ for compare and merges, directories are seldom a problem.

LARPers with nothing better to do.

It is snarky, but an accurate representation of the current climate.

The haircut comments drive me up the wall, particularly if you know someone who owns a small business and their accompanying struggles. Economic money movement was stalled, which can have an enormous impact on livelihood. While I can absolutely understand being critical of when protestors wanted things to re-open, it shows a deliberate attempt at being unable to empathize.

I think the assumption was people would be packed like sardines in protests.

The virus does not and will never care about cause or justification.

I am a hispanic and this is exactly how I feel. We are not pawns that need to be manipulated for social points.

"We do know that it looks like it's a propaganda machine, and it definitely matches the Russian and Chinese playbooks, but it would take a tremendous amount of resources to substantiate that,"

It seems irresponsible to say then. I feel that while bots are prevalent, so are idiots.

What he's saying is that BCS is in it's infancy stages as a city. It's starting to draw in more jobs.

I'm curious about the economic impact to CA if a lot of those jobs migrate out. But CA has plenty of other industries, so they'll be fine.

There was a comment about Paypal migrating some jobs over there. Don't know about their veracity.

Funny as I'm moving back to Round Rock, but as a remote worker. Housing is about to get more expensive I gather. :(

OK, thank you. Mathematical maturity isn't really my problem, it's more intuition. When you mention the Agarwal book is that this one?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ORN4BmJmL...

Anyone have any resources on electronics and electronic design? This was a great piece, but I'd like to have deeper knowledge in the field.

Thanks for the sanity. This site is slowly devolving into reddit with out of context political videos that, while they certainly carry merit, lack a holistic view of the time period and the media opinion of the time.

Nope, it was Garg in the ECE department. Fantastic course.

Took a graduate distributed systems course at UT Austin and it felt like a Leslie Lamport's greatest hits course. The best part was that all of his papers were actually really easy to understand and interpret... aside from Paxos which was easily explained by others.