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WFH made me and my coworkers work later since it bleeds easily into daily life. It feels harder to setup boundaries. I took a vacation to get work done. I needed to get out of meetings and not have to check slack so much.

I think the relationships in a corporate environment aren't conducive to bringing out the best in people. If you work in one, the best you can hope for is for your team to be left alone and managed by earnest and diligent engineers that have earned the trust of PMs and POs.

I agree that Service Meshes should be easier to use and configure both statically and dynamically. The cost of running them is also a con. Those extra sidecars make your pod heavier and slower to start.

I disagree that they should fade out of sight. This sentiment is to a larger extent applicable to reverse proxies too. My experience debugging problems when the service mesh is not accounted for can be painful.

For example, setting keepalive parameters and max connection age parameters for gRPC clients and servers. If the intermediary proxies and sidecar components are not accounted for, connections may close sooner than configured on the server but still be open on the client. Similar permutations of this abound.

Another example is retry logic. If retry mechanisms are configured between client and server, there can be a multiplicative blowup of connections established/dropped to/from servers due to intermediate proxies retrying.

I think hiding the service mesh will end up with complications similar to "dll hell".

I hate it when I'm emailing someone with a deliberately long response and by the time I send, the thread has already gone on and I have to re-merge it.

You as the consumer accepted the terms of service of the hosting site. So don't be surprised when things like this happen once you've violated the terms of service.

corporate totalitarianism... but for good? 2020 is weird. The Government needs enough autonomy and power to regulate corporations. Of course, corps send in their lobbyists to control government. They'll live in a constant tug of war. What's scary is what happens when they're both evil.

looting isn't the same as storming the capitol.

Bitcoin is a denomination. Currency is a religion. The value is based on faith.

I find that it is important to have these during a psychadelic experience: 1. Medical supervision - the security makes it easier for one to let go. 2. Professionalism - be led by someone who has guided others and who the person trusts. 3. Integration - reflect on the experience to learn from it.

Can you share tips on how to pop their balloons?

I think the popular conception comes form the fact that if you are a good leader, you want them to make decisions. From a management perspective, this means telling people what to do. Of course, leaders recognize that bossing people around isn't sustainable.

People will try anyway. All that responsibility and yet no accountability. The fact that the pandemic is a rare event is not an excuse in my opinion. If anything, it's a reason to hold them accountable.

"The risk of long term effects is actually very small - almost insignificant"

Do you have sources for those claims?

I find it fascinating how we submit batteries of tests to code as software engineers. Yet when it comes to our own health as a species, the rigor suddenly falls.

I agree. The question to ask is "how do you boil those problems down to computational problems?". Those problems you've listed are broad but solutions to subproblems would go a long way. I'm surprised this hasn't been explored deeply yet.

I agree. How can mental health issues like depression be affecting so many people, yet all we are settling for as a solution are pills that don't even work that well, haven't been studied in the long-term, create a long-term dependency, and have unholy side effects??

social justice issues. I'm waiting for a computational model of government so we can question and improve these models without violence. It seems that (in America at least) politics is so tightly woven into a person's identity that to question their political beliefs offends them personally. Thus we languish without being able to critically think of better forms of government/politics.

Also mental health issues (which is closely related to human rights issues). After watching Medicating Normal, I've lost hope in the psychiatric/pharmaceutical system. Why are there no better solutions to depression? It seems to be affecting a large number of people.

She is an adult. Lauren Ipsum is a cute book though. I'll have to remember that one.

Research should be reproducible but some research would be too constrained by the cloud.

I'm a fan of IBL style courses. I don't know if it scales well but it isn't obvious to me that it can't. If a student can teach better than the teacher, then that should be good enough. The point of higher education is to create independent critical thinkers. IBL is particularly good at this in STEM courses by my personal experience. It's a narrow perspective admittedly.

I suspect this is how education was really done before all this non-sense about grades. Elite schools select for the the best teachers anyway. Plus, knowing that students can eventually produce other students makes it easier for researchers to focus on their specialty. They may even come to the students for help.

I'm not a big fan of time and deadlines either. Being quick and clever is great but you can do just fine being a conventional thinker that is persistent and diligent. The point is to refactor the academic system to be robust enough to adjust to a person's life. Right now it is a rigid system traumatizing the people it's supposed to serve.

I really don't believe in the academic system we have now. It feels like an elitist club. Grades are only a snapshot of your current understanding of something. Given enough time and interest, anyone can earn high marks. If I was in this class, I'd only care if I was able to learn what I came there to learn.

I have friends who go through hell being on their anti-psych meds and anti-depressants because of uni. I wish the culture in university was more empathetic to their needs.

Pascal was tongue-in-cheek alluding to the ability to deeply analyze problems. In any case, solutions are often better with human interaction. I like to think of Bourbaki as an example.

those options don't have to be mutually exclusive

I'm concerned about the long-term effects of taking these mRNA vaccines. Have there been any studies? Is it true that you may need to take the vaccine more than once?

If you are a CS graduate, it is up to you if you want to use what you've learned in the field. I've found that it is a useful perspective, sometimes it is overkill, but it's better than any testing sometimes.

Software engineering is all about making that domain knowledge useful. So sometimes you can just be lazy and "import" the knowledge.

programming and trig can be elegant. I think interviewers sometimes look for elegance. They want to believe they are hiring someone smarter than them. Elegance is one feature they look for.

We need UBI

My hope is that major cloud providers standardize the price around these collaborations with open source. If Azure and GCP did the same thing, why pay them differently?

The factors contributing to the rise of psychadelics are due to the "push" away from western practice of treating mental illness with books like "Anatomy of an epidemic" by Whitaker and screenings like https://medicatingnormal.com/watch/.

The older generations definitely helped Big Pharma. I just hope these new treatments free us from the antipsychotic/antidepressant pseudoscience.