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It was such a dumb idea that many folks decided to trade their capital for it, including you.

Switching from vpns to zero-trust networking is as analogous as switching from coal to renewable energy insofar as both of those things involve change. That’s where the analogy ends.

Burnout comes from within, in my experience. Once I learned to manage others expectations of me more proactively, and stopped letting myself be overworked, I haven’t had issues with burnout. Sometimes that may lead to being fired.

Ok, but we’re talking about flying commercially, in case you missed all the context clues.

Contingency plans are not my concern or problem. If the airline has to fly a plane without a person in every seat, so be it. That is good customer service to me — not abusing me so they can eke out more dollars per flight.

A little imagination goes a long way:

- poison in the bedroom is someone’s bedside medicine that would be fatal to someone that wasn’t prescribed it. - some people have ceremonial/sentimental knives on display, above a mantle for example. - a gun could easily be stored in a drawer near a door, like a police officer taking off their gun and badge when they get home, or a farmer keeping a varmint pistol for east access when going out to a field. - the rope could have been in a utility closet in the bathroom, like where laundry machines are sometimes installed.

Poison could be put on a toothbrush (bathroom), cologne bottle (bedroom), tv remote (living room), or a plate (kitchen) and kill without having to be present.

Part of the fantasy is imagining why those things would be where they are; it doesn’t have to be realistic.

More than one person can be in a room at one time I think.

Nearly every aspect of flying in the US is abusive. Over-booking a flight should be illegal. I don’t care about being compensated for it - if I book a flight, that seat should be mine.

I’m wondering what else it will take for me to refuse flying altogether.

I don’t know, I don’t use any of there services. I just noticed on the app page that Threads will request what looks like everything.

Make sure you note all of the data they link to you in the privacy section. This app is no different from instagram or fb in that regard.

I have found myself thinking about this as well the more my career matures. It’s a great thing to consider.

I’ve definitely taken positions due to the work the business was doing, not because of compensation. +/- 25k stops mattering at some point.

Somehow millions of us live here without living in the type of world that our mainstream media portrays. We have our issues for sure, but you’re kidding yourself if you think the USA is not an amazing place to live with incredible diversity of cultures and geographies.

You're saying "can't" like your points are technical limitations instead of product choices.

For what it's worth, my brand new washing machine still can't make my morning coffee, either.

"e-waste consumption slabs" really does a disservice to all of the art that has been created with these devices (visual, auditory, textual), all of the communities that have been built by information sharing and network effects, education that has come from looking up anything at any time, and the exploration that apps like Maps, Weather, Translate, etc encourage and enable.

"I can't compile from a command line, so this is e-waste and only used for consumption." - give me a break.

Why is visually navigating a directory tree superior to telling the computer "show me photos of my family" and having it do a better job than I manually good?

A counter-datapoint of one, from me: I don't miss the file system browser at all. I have been a little bewildered by the iOS "Files" app, and the addition to the sharing widget of "Save to Files" - I never use it. I'm not saying it doesn't have a purpose and that no one would ever use it, but I don't miss it and don't have a need or want for it.

Just wanted to point this out in case you really didn’t see it:

> I long ago stopped using Reddit [except for volunteering to moderate free content for the platform], [consuming the main page content], and [using content from the platform in internet searches].

That’s a lot of usage for someone that stopped using it.

Also:

> Reddit as a platform means nothing to me, [except that it is the home of a niche hobby and we have no alternatives, or aren’t willing to relocate as a community].

Reading these statements really makes it seem like you contribute, use and rely on Reddit infrastructure, technology and platform as a whole.

You can create your own community. Rarely will anyone else do it for you.

As food for thought: relationships are often greater than the sum of their parts.

My tribe/community/circle enriches my life well beyond the experiences I could have by myself.

I was widowed after 15 years and I have been using dating apps for the last few years and in my experience you are absolutely correct on pretty much everything.

I know who I am and what I like. I advertise that on my profile and I take folks on dates that I like to do by myself. I’ve had a lot of success with relationships of all different lengths and levels of casual-ness.

If you are a dude in the dating pool and you are positioning yourself as what you think women want, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

I think the parent is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

> No one sane worries about AI "becoming sentient".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman for a rebuttal to your dismissal.

They are being pretty agile and releasing something for iOS and will iterate to release a custom iPad version later, relying on the fallback mechanism that has existed for years for app scaling. Why does this upset you so much? Just because they are big doesn't mean they have to do everything all at once, all the time. They are dog-fooding their own multi-device app tech. I think it's great.

You can call it that if you want, but it’s not the same as goalpost shifting for well-definable things like “universal healthcare” or “trans rights”. We don’t collectively agree on what artificial intelligence is, so it makes sense that it is constantly refined, and efforts that fall short are called out as such.

Expecting what we collectively call “artificial intelligence” to mimic our own intelligence, which is continuously being refined, does not seem like a quasi-religious belief.

Intelligence and consciousness are at the fringe of our understanding, so this skeptical approach seems like a reasonable and scientific way to approach categorizing computer programs that are intended to be called “artificial intelligence”. We refine our hypothesis of “this is artificial intelligence” once we gain more information.

You’re free to disagree of course, or call these early programs “artificial intelligence”, but they don’t satisfy my crude hypothesis above to a lot of folks. This doesn’t mean they aren’t in some ways intelligent (pattern recognition could be a kind or degree of intelligence, it certainly seems required).

I’m one of these skeptics, but it’s not moving the goalposts. These goalposts are already there, in some sort of serial order that we expect them to be reached. It is good that when tech like this satisfied one of the easier/earlier goalposts, that skeptics refine our criticism based on evidence.

You will see skepticism until it is ubiquitous; for example, Tesla tech - it’s iterative and there are still skeptics about its current implementation.

As someone who has done a lot of the hiring side for technical positions, I never care about a cover letter. I can't remember the last time I saw one.

Interesting take. I have some questions:

> 1) Global pool of candidates

Why not? global pool could potentially get you a lot more bang for your buck. I've employed folks from outside the US and it was a joy to get really talented folks and pay them stupidly well for their location. They were super excited to work with us for that and we were super excited to pay them a lower rate than hiring in the US. Win-win.

> 3) Remote work

Why not?

> 1) Permanent hiree after 3 months of time with us.

I think this works well on paper, but not so much in practice. I wouldn't be interested in wasting 3 months of time (even if I'm paid) just to find myself back in the job hunt process again. I can't imagine on a large enough or complex enough project that three months would be sufficient to be measurably productive. I'd rather use that time to find a longer-term place that is a better fit for me. This is just me though.

> 2) You will be part of our family, we'll build great things together

Oof, no thanks. I'm exchanging my time and experience for money. I don't need additional weird social hierarchy or hidden rules about behavior (not to mention the passive exploitation).

> 3) You'll get a decision when you visit us. Just drop by, no appointment necessary. We'll make time.

Gosh, as an employee there, this would signal to me that I might be expected to be interrupted and context-switch to an off-the-street interview. That doesn't sound like fun.

> 4) If you get rejected, we’ll tell you in the most honest way possible. No HR bullshit talk.

Sometimes that "HR bullshit talk" is to protect you and your company from lawsuits. Honesty combined with "HR bullshit" is possible and not mutually exclusive.

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On another note, I appreciate such visible signals that I would not be a good candidate for your company.

Architecture documentation is not just consumed by programmers/coders. I can't imagine showing Haskell (or something similar) to non-technical leadership or during an M&A process.

Know your audience. Frankly I would loath trying to decipher code when getting a high-level view of the architecture of a system during onboarding.