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Check, please.

Or simply read your emails from them if you do.

The arrogance of MIT is staggering? I would say the arrogance of paper's author is 10x as staggering that if what Robert Palgrave has suggested is true.

I think MIT is trying to protect its reputation as a would-be place of fraud-free research, unlike Harvard.

This really resonated with me. After reading, I thought "This person is likely from the same generation I am". I started programming in 1987. According to their About page, they've been programming since 2018. I wonder how they can feel that burned out after such a (relatively) short time?!

Reading "The Rust Book" sold me on Rust (after programming in C++ for over 20 years)

> Developers at Microsoft are obviously not rewarded for quality.

I work at Microsoft and you're absolutely correct as far as I've observed. Rewards are for speed and doing things (usually hyped-based) that advance the goals of leadership... these goals are rarely if ever about "let's make sure we nail the basics first". I think it comes down to serving shareholders vs. serving real customers.

Expect many more commits like #12. ;)

Based on how difficult it can be to start my chain-saw, snow-blower, and motorcycle after they've sat without being run for a while, I'd not recommend a gasoline-powered engine to be the only thing on stand-by.

Maybe `grog` (or `grug` from https://grugbrain.dev)? :)

Not sure what to make of this. Most looked the same and I couldn't tell if I was really seeing a difference or not. 12/20. (And I am color blind, so not sure if that has a lot to do with it or not.)

Apologies for the assumption. (Edited).

She said: "I personally love stoicism. It’s gorgeous. It’s brilliant." Maybe that doesn't make her a stoic, but it still struck me as ironic that she seemed wary of rich people using it, that's all.

Is it a bit ironic that the author, a stoic herself, seems bothered by rich people using stoicism to advance themselves?

edit: corrected pronoun

> It never ceases to amaze me that blocking noise/sound (one of the weakest forces) is very difficult

Maybe a result of human evolution? If our ears weren't as sensitive to sound as they are, we might not all be here discussing this.

> These metrics definitely are debatable (they were made in the 70’s…)

What is it about a decade that makes contributions produced thereabout "debatable"?

> I firmly believe that public college should be free, for all, for life

I just don't understand these statements that "this or that should be free". Do you plan to enslave the people who would provide this education? Do you not subscribe to the saying "You get what you pay for?". Public education through High School (in the US) has been free for many generations. Ever wonder what would happen if you make the next 4 years "free"? (Hint, you're not going to pop-out of those 4 years with any skills that are differentiated enough from everyone else who took-up the "free" education and not be right back in the same position you are now.)

If you don't have the motivation to prevent your own cognitive decline by taking advantage of a plethora of already free (high quality) education (e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu), then taxing the rest of us so you can be spoon-fed all the free "formal education" you want for life isn't the answer either.

> At this age you get random aches and pains that keep popping up which make me appreciate my desk job.

The aches and pains could be the result of the desk job. (At least it was for me!) I had to get out of the chair and start moving a lot more regularly to make the aches and pains go away.

As a bit of a stoic myself, I appreciate the appeal to the "some people have real problems" argument.

I think a big part of the frustration or unhappiness of some subset of this generation of software engineer who cut their teeth in "The Golden Age" is lamenting or longing for "what could have been...". Maybe it's our slow realization of Sturgeon's Law and wish that we would have discovered this seemingly universal truth ages ago. Software, being mainly a construction of the mind, has the potential to be truly great (and some is), yet the state is basically "All Software is Shit". Squaring the expectations of my junior self with the realities of my senior self is... disappointing.

Man, you nailed it. I finished EE degree in 1992 and was having so much fun by 1994 writing C for a small software company. That led to a job with a FANNG (actually a MAMAA) where I've been ever since. I'm still lucky to be writing the kind of code I like writing, but the process is way more frustrating than ever due to what you've described. There are way too many people involved now who picked the field because it was high-paying, not because they were inspired by the Apollo program, or tinkered on a TRS-80 when they were 12 and were hooked.

I'm also lucky I went full time remote in 2014, and had managers who supported me taking a part-time side gig as a paid-on-call firefighter/EMT for my local small community. This has transitioned into a great opportunity to "retire" from software and still have something very fulfilling to direct my energy towards. It's just that I'm not ready to ditch the code-writing habit.

Similar age, slightly different experience.

I haven't tried a bunch of different systems, but I admit to liking the principles behind this Johnny.Decimal system and might give it a whirl.

I used to get frustrated that all of the information I'd carted along over the years wasn't "organized". I realized a couple things:

  - I really didn't need most of the stuff I thought I did. So I cull/delete and generally try to minimize what is kept from the start.
  - For the stuff I do want forever, I use "Archive" for mail and a similar concept for files. One folder per year and the entirety of that year's activities dumped there. I'll use search over this when needed.
  - Each year I start somewhat fresh, carrying over current areas still active from the previous year while archiving the rest. I then re-evaluate and try to simplify the current "working index" for the current year and its generally easy to find thing within that narrowed context.

My analogy is that life is an immutable log of records ongoing in chronological order... so a folder for each chronological year. Then index in each year as you see fit... the index/categories/areas for each year don't have to be the same as prior years... they likely won't if life is interesting and changing!

> he is astoundingly good at making himself into a victim of injustice

This was my same thought. And then at the end of his rant, he writes:

> If you are interested in hiring me...

No one who values a drama-free work place would hire this person.

I went through similar time sinks of micro-optimizing my devices to try to game myself into not getting distracted. What finally worked for me:

- realizing I traded one waste-of-time activity (doom scrolling) for another (device/app fiddling to prevent the former)

- realizing that the clock is ticking towards ultimate death and therefore time is precious

- recognizing when I'm looking for a distraction and, rather than automatically giving into it, asking myself one question:

"Do I want to be thoughtful and disciplined with how I spend my time, or not?"

And then being honest with myself, listening to my answer, and respecting the outcome of my choice.

For me, I want to be a disciplined person. When I'm not, I let myself down. Happiness for me is not letting myself down.

Yeah, it wasn't Windows that changed it, they just hopped on the bandwagon. I remember (SunOS)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS] on a SPARC in 1987 that was black in white text, and Macintosh before that.

> Like if this is a crowdsourcing project...

I'm confused by what you're asking. Are you asking me to like (upvote) your comment if this is a crowdsourcing project? Don't we already know it is a crowdsourcing project?

Other people who've been harmed weren't catfish either, but we're not up in arms about that?

I don't care what they call it, I just wish I felt like Interpol was focusing all of its efforts to combat the actual crimes rather than manage the optics or feelings of victims after the crimes have been committed.

> This change is an important step towards humanizing and supporting victims of these crimes.

Great. Message received. Now please re-deploy the resources you gave to your Marketing department to produce and distribute and raise awareness of this "important step" back to the Investigation or Enforcement departments to prevent and prosecute.

While enjoying that read, I kept thinking along the way "I wish the original TeX source of this PDF were available somewhere as I'd love to see this rendered for my high resolution display the way Knuth intended."

I thought it was going to be about the lead singer of Die Antwoord.

  With entitlement evident 
  Victorian engineers denigrated by Internet generation 
  Whose vapidity is greater

Is that poetic enough for you?

Similar observation here. In a statically linked global problem it's the linkers job to enforce the theme of the old "Highlander" movie... there can be only one. So "global coherence" is not some problem brought about Rust or Traits, but it's a fact of life. And considering the author's own admittance of "Local Implicits" having a "Correctness problem", I don't see how it could even be considered as an alternative. I'll take correctness over convenience any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Well, I suppose if you need fodder to fill your CV, this is one way to do it.