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Our team switched about a year ago to huge benefit. We’re using VSCode locally to connect and edit repos hosted remotely. VSCode’s remote extensions are really good and from a code editing perspective the difference is almost imperceptible.

One of the drivers for us is we use remote dev databases and services so overall latency is dramatically reduced. It also allows us to much more easily deploy dev environments that are almost identical to production.

The downside is folks can no longer use their favorite editor but for now everyone’s happy with VSCode.

Self care is kind of a silly stupid term but “self” is definitely the most important part. Humans are very different so what everyone needs is going to be different as well. Lots of people need regimen and structure and goals, and for some people pushing those things drives sales and engagement metrics so those things are what gets pushed as self care.

Self care or just taking care of yourself. It can be whatever you want it to be and exactly what you describe. Sometimes it actually means being a little bit “selfish”.

Personally I’m intentional about it and it involves none of the things you describe. For me it’s blocking out part of my work week for unstructured thinking, or making time on the weekend without the usual family agenda. It sounds silly but learning to be intentional about doing nothing has helped me handle stress really well. No marketer is gonna to tell you to do that, but a therapist might.

In theory yes but practically probably not.

I’d be looking for a Twitter/Instagram replacement with: A) no ads B) no data mining C) sensible (to me) moderation/filtering tools D) right to delete E) large network with diverse viewpoints

Truth is most people won’t pay and many who will would be bad actors so E is struck.

Even if a service doesn’t data mine and has a right to delete, others will create scrapers so B and D are void.

Im tired of “being the product” and Kagi has gotten me on board with paid search, but social seems harder to solve.

The tool and department seem real but it’s possible the Reddit post is heavily exaggerated.

JPMC has thousands of managers. If all of them have access to the strangest/most invasive aspects of the tool described it wouldn’t be a secret. It would also be a great way to create a toxic culture.

> And hospitals can now establish law enforcement offices like those on university campuses. The officers must be certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and maintain law enforcement records that can be made public.

They’re certified Peace Officers who have the power to make arrests and enforce warrants… entering people into the criminal justice system. Typically a security officer would detain someone one then call “real police” to make a judgement call.

If there’s an important distinction between what this article describes and police I’m missing it.

For context, New York Presbyterian employs over 20,000 people including 6,500 doctors.

Fact of the matter: at this point if you’re buying anything with telemetry or cloud services, the only safe assumption is that your data may become public at some point in the future, with or without your knowledge.

Let’s say you’re right and only the good content rises to the top. What’s the motivation behind that content? It’s likely not just to improve online discussions and be your AI online thought partner. It will have an agenda and it will be using crazy amounts of computational power to steer you towards someone else’s financial or political goal.

Is this where “tech transfer” comes in and the University gets a piece of the departing business or a perpetual licensing agreement?

What are good Dropbox alternatives for teams?

A fascinating angle on this is how critical chat has become to modern business communication- to the point that the highest paid execs with the highest paid lawyers use it even when doing so is knowingly flying in the face of danger.

As others here have pointed out, conversations not recorded (ie phone, in person, probably Zoom) are not subject to holds. Rather than reduce risk by moving convos offline, they chose to increase risk by creating special mechanisms to flaunt court rules.

That seems to indicate a calculus that said ditching chat is either a) impossible to train people to do in the right circumstances or b) too burdensome. It’s interesting that’s the case even at the highest levels.

Cheers to Nilay for pressing him for a real answer and not letting him shrug off the Q. If we’re gonna spend time letting these CEOs shill their platforms let’s make them answer the hard Qs.

This is such blatant rent-seeking nonsense and I think it will backfire.

These articles always call out Tesla as a success but clearly they have a cult following and have other innovations. Personally, lack of CarPlay is the reason I hate driving Teslas because if you’re not used to it the UI is abysmal.

Sorry but the Buick brand just doesn’t scream cutting edge UI to me.

Hearing both good and bad advice and making smart decisions is what a CEO’s job is. Get as much advice as possible but understand no one knows your business like you do. Being able to hit go hard on the right advice and go slow/ignore the bad is what makes a good leader.

I think search-wise Google is an interesting place. The results page (especially mobile) has transformed dramatically the last few years. Now you get a dizzying array of widgets filled with rich info that’s been surfaced from other places.

Personally I find the way it’s organized haphazard and frustrating to navigate. However the info they’re a managing to put front and center before you click a link is impressive. I think there’s and opportunity for Google to harness this power and create the best possible power search interface.

I also don’t believe chat is the instant death of search. I think many would prefer a killer dedicated search interface over chatting with their computer.

Side note: as someone who loves a good old list of links, I’ve been using kagi.com and have been happy. Big fan of paid search as a model.

Voice commands can be inconvenient and unnatural. In the middle of a conversation having to wait for someone to pause and then interrupt a conversation to interact with a vehicle is poor user experience. It goes against our natural ability to multitask. Also not great when you have sleeping passengers.

Really hard to separate timing from leadership. Bezos got to spend spend spend on moonshots and the market rewarded him. Then Jassy took over, interest rates rose, and all of a sudden the goalposts had moved.

It’s not about the bank it’s about the depositors. The bank is still going to zero.

It’s a valid Q how saving depositors impacts CFO risk analysis. Hopefully no matter what the outcome this scares everyone into diversification.

That was true in this case but unclear if it always is so. Also if you’re not providing the data and are essentially a bystander there’s no guarantee the process works as expected.

I think an important difference is if he “owned” and solelt possessed the data, the warrant would be his to fight (or not comply with) in court.

When someone else possesses your data (not even sure ownership matters) they may just share it and if you’re lucky you get an FYI in the mail. You’re not even necessarily a party to the request and you’re banking on a company rep to fight for you.

IANAL but you’d hope fighting the warrant yourself on the interior cameras would be easy but definitely not necessarily the case.

In theory, a good _independent_ product with an active user base and a profitable model has a better than average chance of surviving (bus factor aside).

Should the creator want to move on, someone should find the revenue stream attractive for some (even small) amount of money.

I’d bet on baseline profitability to keep something alive over an outsized dream of future growth or potential synergies almost every time.

Can confirm. In a past life I had the pleasure of auditing the COBOL code of a major US insurer. They had a separate program for every line of service (Auto/GL/etc.) that would read every claim record and produce their actuarial tables.

It was pretty fascinating to see how it all came together. Also despite the languages age after analyzing it for a length of time it was clearly elegant for that type of financial processing.

On any topic it’s common that the people who comment have both range and depth of experience. From people who built foundational technologies 30 years ago to unicorn founders/C-suite responding directly to user feedback (and lots of super thoughtful folks in between).

That’s a Google problem not a publisher problem. Content should be findable and available to people who want to pay for it.

Google could easily add an option to filter out paywalled content but that would reduce clicks.

Fascinating. Would love to know how driving directions are presented when the streets have no names.

It would be a big boost to the city both economically and culturally if more people went back to offices. That said, he’s not going to make it happen by guilt or shaming people for staying in their PJs.

The city need to do more to help landlords and business owners court workers back to office spaces. Revitalizing areas like midtown and FiDi would be a start. Also tax breaks for people who rent in coworking spaces or credits to rehabbing office space to match post COVID preferences would all be more impactful.

I use both in different applications. Overall SES is no-frills but does exactly what it says it will. Deliverability is on par with SendGrid assuming your traffic is legitimate and not spammy.

The main difference is that SES lacks significant tooling. You need to roll your own monitoring, logging and block list maintenance, all of which can be a surprise coming from tools like SendGrid. Once you do all the work though, it’s largely set it and forget it.

Insane that this is how far cost cutting has come.

Separating entitlements from SKUs makes a lot of sense and definitely saves a lot of engineering edge case nightmares around renewals.

It also gets super messy after a couple years of pricing iterations. Eventually your plan distribution doesn’t reflect feature access which doesn’t necessarily reflect feature usage. Future changes to optimize packaging only have limited impact because it’s so hard to tie back who has each entitlement and why.

IMO it’s super important to document the WHY every time a customer’s entitlements are separated from their plan (especially if an account mgr will ever be involved in a renewal). Also periodically undoing extra unused entitlements helps to keeping things clean.