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Self check out at Whole Foods is great. I think they’re using AI to detect produce because there are suggestions that are often accurate. I bring a backpack and like to organize it by packing big heavy things first.

I live near a Facebook office and have years of consulting experience. If I show up willing to work in the office and eat shit till shit gets done, would that be a breath of fresh air, or is there an institutional resistance to productivity?

I’m looking for a way to share links from my phone to a web app. How would you add that to a system like this?

I’m charging $100/hr for dev work, team coaching, and strategy consulting. My plate is full for the foreseeable future, so I will be raising my rates soon. I find work through my professional network by talking about why devs quit their jobs, and how leaders can build strong, productive teams and retain talent.

Or in that moment you realize demand for your service exceeds supply and the correct response is to raise your rates until you have a reasonable workload. If they won’t pay $5k+ monthly retainer for someone who knows how to build their system, surely they have a cheaper alternative. Meanwhile the clients with budgets you really want to work for are happy to pay your fees because they’re cheaper than your comparable salary. If you’re selling a monthly retainer and hit that collision you describe, you’re in a fantastic position to negotiate rates. Better to be on a use it or lose it commitment than accruing unspent hours, otherwise yeah you can get screwed.

I quit a job to start my teaching and consulting venture. Teaching devs, and consulting companies on building teams.

I don't think managers intend to burn people out, they would rather have efficient, productive workers. Good workers can get overwhelmed and not get time to focus on tasks or not enough support to be successful. To sustain a high productivity environment, there needs to be clear communication and a good relationship between managers and staff. It took me a long time to learn about managing up, and it's still hard sometimes. We need to be able to say what we can and can't do, be trusted that we are still working hard, and set reasonable expectations that can be met reliably. If I'm doing my best and my manager acts like a coach, we can grow together quickly. In hindsight, I could have fixed jobs and relationships I bailed from by asserting my intent, desires, and boundaries more clearly. I was in fear of looking bad if I said no, so I worked harder until I burned out. If you can fix things and find balance, take a shot. If they retaliate, you're in a bad relationship with someone who is not receptive to your needs and you need to move on. I quit my last gig because I couldn't get the changes I needed. There are many more places to work, I may as well move on till I find a happy place.

For now, I landed a consulting gig, helping a small agency improve team dynamics and build the company they want to work for. I'd like to expand into technical training, mentoring, and find more clients. I think this industry has potential for awesome careers, and most of the struggles we feel comes from resolvable problems. Fixing these things would lead to higher productivity and happiness.

My uncle owns a small business. He says it's great because he can pick the people he wants to work with and fire ones he doesn't like.

I pointed out I have the same choice by walking off a bad team and finding a good one.

Yeah, Amazon search results are often infuriating. Most searches are flooded with similar items that need better filters and some notes on product differentiation. Amazon feels like a bazaar set up inside a Walmart where everyone is yelling at you to buy from them and you don't really know what you're going to get. I know it's a hard problem, but I can often look at the results and imagine some easy UX improvements. Maybe they have higher priorities than helping me buy insulated pants.

I worked in a campus bookstore with an old terminal system to access the inventory database. It was a simple text interface. What I loved about it was that the commands to navigate were quick to learn (key was first chars in command) and the response time was instant. So you could jump to any part of the system with a few keystrokes ingrained in muscle memory.

I'm training new developers and they often have to lean the terminal as well. Having some training wheels in there would be awesome. I can see a future where team development environments are highly customized and easy to spin up and onboard new people. Custom apps will be more friendly with this overlay UI.

An 8.0 earthquake is 31.25x energy as the largest thermonuclear weapon.

I have been working on a knowledge base for things I'm leaning about bike parts. Notes on compatibility, part weights, bookmarks to helpful links, etc

A big challenge I have is when I add a new tag, I'll want to apply it to relevant content I already have. But this takes a long time and until it happens the relevant data can't be retrieved by the tag.

I am curious how the semantic hash is implemented in a conceptarium. If I could focus on adding content and it can drive relationships automatically, that is awesome.

I mean we have enough rednecks to get it done. Declare open season and even provide a bounty and it could be done shockingly quick. It's probably not a good idea though. I don't know, I'll yield to the science on this one.

Before we had people vaccines, we social isolated. It will be even more difficult to get deer to follow isolation and masking protocols and to show up to a vaccination clinic.

All evidence I've seen shows the vaccines drastically reduce chance of infection and severity of symptoms. What are you referring to?

Listening to music can help us focus and work harder. Poetic experiences let us appreciate life and understand people around us. Some things give practical utility and some aesthetic value. Neither is more important than the other. We have to eat to survive, but that is only the bare minimum.

I definitely appreciate things more that provide valuable utility or some other derivative value. You're right that some works are appreciated beyond their utility, for how they are experienced.

I do think there may be utility in these things even when the pattern is more apparent than the application. A good poem makes us feel something. I just wouldn't get the same feeling from a math problem unless it solved something for me. Not to diminish your appreciation for this, just that I find a poem more accessible.

Sometimes I see potential for growth in situations derived from a mathematical model. Think big O applied to a business opportunity or team dynamics O(x) means linear growth. O(x^2) means exponential growth. You can use the model to analyze your current situation and describe what the next level looks like.

I don't know what the potential of chu spaces is either. But I look at this concept like I do at articles about categorization and graph theory. It may not make sense now, but we may encounter a situation where these models that make sense mathematically help guide us in certain situations.

I am so fascinated by all of this. The impact on internet history and culture. The challenges of creating and growing communities. The lifestyles and faults of leaders and the controversial realities we live in.

I know about SA, but was never an active participant. Likewise I know about 4chan and other communities.

From reading the first page of this thread, it seems very critical of the creator of the community. Even at a glance I can tell that is because of the personal flaws of that person, the mistakes they've made in their life, and how they hurt other people. I feel like it is such a shame for this to be your legacy to your community. I feel like we lost a pioneer, but it's now on us to learn from their mistakes and continue to build communities that we want to be in.

Progress bars are like project managers. They try to provide realistic perspectives on what's going on, but at the end of the day they only have a vague understanding of what's happening and how much work is left.

Rent seeking? For antivirus software? No way...

I did not hate using teams. I thought it was a decent competitor to slack and zoom.

I primarily have used debian based systems. Mint is my go to for web development on my laptop. It's easy to set up and I like the cinnamon desktop environment.

Any fedora enthusiasts want to share how you're using it and why they prefer over other distros?

I just installed freeBSD and liked it :P

I can't read the article because paywall, but Cixin Liu's three body problem trilogy had had a big impact on me. A big theme of the books is how we collectively process information and make decisions.

The world is threatened by an alien species and different people have different strategies for deference. They need to pick something that can't be predicted and defeated. Essentially earth needs a collective poker face while rapidly innovating a unique solution.

There is an implied parallel between human behavior and quantum particles. Our decisions are influenced by the information we have and signals from people and our surroundings. Quantum particle movement is influenced by the dynamic combination of forces on it. Both have probable outcomes from an observable state, but that observation influences the behavior of both.

I'm left thinking about the nature of reality. Some things are probable, and some seem random. When we see an option we like, we can nudge the situation towards it. When we don't like the options, we can take a walk or try something new and shake up the probability field we exist in to generate new options.

We can't predict the future because it depends on a series of interactions that have unpredictable outcomes. The three body problem explains how this is difficult to compute linearly. The best we can do is identify probabilities based on the information we have and our understanding of the model.

Quantum particles exist in a wave until they are observed in a specific point. When the wave function collapses, it goes from being probably here, to definitely there. I experience this in situations with dynamic outcomes. IE, I think this client is likely to sign today, but they may not. Sports plays are another good example. When we no longer have the ball in our frame of reference, it is probably somewhere in the direction we last saw it go. When it's in the goal, everyone sees it there.

It leads me to think about free will. We can go with the flow and give in to our influences. Or we can be decisive and do something else. The effects of our actions influence others in expected and unpredictable ways. I can have a great time being passive, just watching a movie or having a drink. I also enjoy being creative and taking risks. I get to experience the things other people contribute and share what I've found. I don't know what's out there beyond our understanding, but I've come to really appreciate the system we exist in.

As a Drupal developer, I understand what this article is saying. The issue is that these systems are built for an older paradigm and not meeting the needs of today's developers. It's taking time to adjust existing code to the new ways, and the developer crowd that built them is interested in new things.

Some projects need the rapid development capability of a CMS, but want the front end flexibility of a js app.

The problem is that the plumbing produced by these systems are geared to serve whole pages, and not an API first app. We've added the ability to layer an app on top of the CMS, but most of the content and admin pages don't fully use ajax (at least in drupal).

The reason for the current problem is that these open source frameworks required a ton of contribution to become successful. That effort has moved on to new projects with fresh architecture. But those still don't have nearly the same level of features as traditional platforms.

One of the challenges I see for building the perfect system is having all the front end features and components integrated. In Drupal, a module may add a component with template and some css/js. Other modules are free modify or mix this component with others, so the data model, styles, and js all need to be compatible. Drupal solves this by standardizing on jquery, which was a wonderful solution for the last decade but now people don't want to use it.

I think to get the same level of compatibility in a js app, you would have to define the components to be included by the system. These are the batteries they currently don't include. It's less of a technology issue and more of a challenge of defining standard ways of doing things that are not overly opinionated.

I would love to have an easy point and click CMS that lets me quickly assemble 80% and a streamlined development experience for the rest. I can imagine something integrated with the cloud and IDE that is super quick and cheap to spin up a complex application.

Sorry if I'm just complaining about drupal in a django thread. I think the issue for both is whether we can get where we want from here or if recreating the ideas in a new language will get more traction. Or if these platforms are good enough, they'll continue to have a place in the back end, allowing users to manage content and data for custom apps.

That's insane, I didn't realize it was that much. If we could see cars drop carbon turds on the road instead of venting it invisibly in the air we'd all be freaking out right now.

When you invent the internet but forget to register your own domain... oops.

I have a kinesis freestyle pro, and it's great. About 18" of separation. I only wish it had a steeper tilt angle.

I always thought full size keyboards should split the alpha keys and put the numpad in the middle. That would drastically improve ergonomics.

To read this on a phone, you have to trick the content into loading by scrolling past it, then scrolling back up.

By using the same metric they user to evaluate engineers, they can measure if drivers are meeting expectations. Are they meeting expectations or causing problems in the workplace? If you get off work and take a toke, it may not affect your performance vs having a drink. Even occasional users can be banned from work because it stays in the system longer than any other drug.

It would be interesting to see a study on how substance use affects employee performance, including nicotine and alcohol. Clear evidence of correlations with earning potential may convince people to reduce or eliminate use. If there is a degrade with pot use and Amazon is willing to pay less for it, so be it.