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This here. If you follow Prisma ORM on GitHub, some of the pain you’ll see is missing features like “whereRaw”, but really most of the pain is forcing you to use raw SQL. And even then, Prisma is extensible, so build your own solutions on top of it. Like Zenstack which creates auth/role permissions on the Prisma schema.

Way too much ORM hate here.

Sharing the same space and turning off/on the custom instructions is also very annoying.

This is an indictment on poor executive leadership, shareholders, headcount planning consultant hacks and internal comms. It's also an indictment on the law itself for allowing this style of layoffs, legal opinion and HR compliance risk assessment to fester at corporations in the US. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Having worked for years in the HR space and at the intersection of compliance, recruiting, legal, and business tech, it's not a complete argument to say that HR is to blame here. Executive leadership, shareholders (and likely consultants) are responsible for these "layoffs". They are the root cause. It most likely still holds true that their decision making is "bigger picture" nonsense based on budgets and short term gains. It also might hold true that they targeted the "low performers" even if that's an incredibly unfair judgment. Anyone who has worked with or knows Sales/AEs understand that 3 months over holidays is not a fair timeframe.

How HR decided to use the reason "low performance" doesn't look great at all, but from my collaboration with HR compliance folks in the past I don't think it's a violation because it's technically the "truth".

I wouldn't even squarely place the blame on HR. HR is simply a (soulless) messenger. This is an executive level decision that likely has no basis in longterm strategy but rather financial pressures.

I saw it at the enterprise level during the last layoff hell when thousands were let go at my company. On the ground, there was almost little to no logic to the layoffs because the decisions were made by disconnected execs who sit in bullshit meetings all day.

In fact, it goes both ways. Even when teams are expanded out - a decision made in partnership some absurd headcount planning 3rd party consultants - it's almost as if they never talked to the team, but some exec who is 3-4 layers removed from the actual valuable individual contributors who understand the work, have frustrations and desires and should theoretically have a part in influencing planning decisions.

There’s nothing he could have done differently? Really, nothing at all? I’m of the opinion that he could have done everything differently.

I actually think it’s the other way around, his maturity is what makes his values, morals and ethics.

It’s incredible there are still people like you who refuse to accept reality. Bug? Engineering issue? Have you considered that your leader is just a fraud and a hypocrite?

I like it! My initial thoughts are:

* Instead of exporting a file, I'd prefer to see the code in the UI and then decide if I want to piecemeal or just download the whole file with package.json, etc. As someone who iterates it would be annoying to continually download new zips

* Is it possible to define custom primary/secondary colors to use as hashtags? Almost like tailwind config file where I can set up my theme in advance and reuse or @apply through the hashtag. And like tailwind, it would be great to just do #[000000] to set a custom color or value on the fly for a button, etc. or explicitly define #bg-black #text-white etc.

+1 to this suggestion. It’s part of what makes the breathe app on the Apple Watch engaging, the stream of tapping on your wrist really helps. I’m sure the same can be achieved with the phone.

He’s not trying to pull out because of some great strategy on his part — he’s lied to your face and everyone’s else’s by ridiculously suggesting Twitter lied about the bots and that he’s surprised there are bots when that was the whole message in the first place: buying Twitter to rid it of bots (and free speech or whatever other lie he’s clinged to). He’s mired the whole process in controversy and has shown repeated contempt for the law and his own contractual obligations.

Let’s also not forget the core of the matter: this is a class issue through and through. One of the most wealthy and powerful people on earth — propelled by government subsidies and contracts for his companies Tesla, SpaceX, etc. — is only able to do what he’s doing, and flaunt his contempt only because he is rich and powerful. Very few people would be able to do what he’s done and run away with it: calling somebody a pedophile with no cause, essentially claiming victory over his battle with an ineffectual SEC over his misbehavior, getting into a contract with Twitter with a populist energy and dominant conservative support only to (no surprise) cancel it last second etc.

This is an issue of wealthy people evading the rules everyone else has to play by under threat of violence (lawsuits, prison, etc.)

The amount of effort his cultists put to defending him and arguing that this is some brilliant play is beyond ridiculous.

Crime is up after the lull that was the COVID lockdowns. Less crimes occurred when everyone was at home and the economy was essentially halted. Great argument.

Let’s admit the real innovation here. It’s not FSD. It’s the underground tunnels with traffic. Underground traffic for all to be autopiloted through with their Teslas so that we can all meet at the digital town square on our phones.

It’s quite rational to buy a company for tens of billions of dollars on the campaign of “cleaning up the bots”, troll and disparage the entire way through, publicly declare yourself Republican amidst the frenzy, and then act shocked that there are bots and withdraw from the deal for a “positive expected value” chance at a lawsuit while running a bunch of other companies amidst inflation and worries of recession. Very rational behavior for a very rational guy with billions of dollars, 100 million Twitter followers and a cult of personality.

I’m a little confounded that you suggest Elon believes shorting to be “morally wrong”. Why conflate his ego and financial stake with “morality”?

Plus, Elon has proven himself to be morally nefarious more than anything. With the law and social expectations and plenty more.

The only thing I can find about Elon and his utterance of morality is him saying it was morally wrong to ban Donald Trump. What a joke.

Not only was it blatantly obvious from the start, but it wasn’t the first time Elon liquidated Tesla shares while misdirecting. Both his fans and the media continue to fall for his distractions to this day.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-voters-back-idea-of-elo...

https://www.autonews.com/executives/elon-musks-tweet-about-t...

Every comment on this thread is spam from fresh accounts. I assume the upvotes are manipulated too.

This is par for the course. Every time there is big news expected, Elon’s antics are elevated and a coordinated distraction by way of a tweet is posted. See the “political attacks on me” tweet as an example, which coincidentally was posted the day prior to his sexual assault allegations.

The man has bought Twitter for the purposes of distracting and manipulating the public.

Thank you! This is not only helpful but sounds like my ideal program in terms of learning, flexibility, and chance to explore something new.

I’m curious to hear about the SEM (I assume Software Engineering Mathematics) method of qualifying perhaps as a post-graduate (non-matriculated) learner — this taken from the other commenter. This seems like an ideal way to test out the structure and style of a classroom and qualify by achieving high marks before committing and fully applying to the program. Is this a thing that you’ve heard about? There isn’t anything on the website about qualifying for the program through this.

Also, what was the application interview like?

I’m interested in hearing more about this program. How is it, and would you recommend it for an American? Is it even possible for an American to fly in for the week-long intensives like the other comment on here says? That would be worth the experience.

What was your background when you applied and how tough is entry? (I see that there is a 99 application average over the past three years with 70 acceptances?)

And how much is the cost?

Not the least bit surprising to hear this considering his overt advertising on Twitter for Zcash.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1462532222368591884

Peter Todd (Bitcoin developer) was another participant in the Zcash creation ceremony. He wrote a post about it and cast doubts about the process.

https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trust...

A “scientist” on the Zcash team, Matthew Green, spoke of backdooring Zcash once upon a time.

https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1011830929004875777

I’m not saying there’s a conspiracy at play here, but more so putting a spotlight on Snowden’s untrustworthiness.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/913557610858778625

Here is Snowden (un)subtly favoring Zcash over Monero, another privacy coin. Not suspicious at all given his secret ties and financial incentive to Zcash and its curious, sketchy history.

This isn’t to mention the “Founders Reward” that cut 10-20% of mined coins to the creator’s wallets (“ The remaining 20% of the reward was split among various parties including 9.85% to ECC founders, 2.2% to the Zcash Foundation, 5.75% to ECC itself and 2.2% to ECC employee compensation.”)

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/11/18/zcash-undergoes-fir...

Or the fact that Zcash is opt-in privacy, meaning 99% of transactions are transparent and 1% of users opt for privacy (not suspicious at all for those users, wouldn’t one think?)

These were random employees (including one head of media that found himself talking to prominent Saudi contacts requesting the blue check, and one site reliability engineer who ended up becoming CEO of some Saudi non-profit for his thousands of data inquires for the Saudis). The bigger problem with that story is how Twitter leaders brushed it under the rug and supposedly did not care to mention it while the news made rounds.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-former-twitter-employees-...

Because owning a social media company that dominates culture is equivalent to owning a newspaper.

Yeah, a few folks died. “Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.”

Totally a normal country with normal people.

Oh, and that part about the crazy guy who was in charge who instigated it all months in advance — forget about all that. That wasn’t a big deal either.

I don’t think your link is an example of minimal let alone professional design…

Sadly him being one of the more technically qualified congresspeople (degrees from MIT, etc.) is a scary prospect, considering his political values and the implications that can be had on technology policy. It’s easy for people here to live in a vacuum and say “I don’t care about if he’s R or D”.

This is the same guy who voted against lowering prescription drug prices (to name one out of a hundred examples) and who just recently justified voting against the anti-lynching act because he doesn’t believe in “hate crimes” as a legal concept. Just because he’s technically impressive doesn’t mean he’s moral or upstanding, unfortunately.

And now Credit Karma’s tax software is at the helm of Cash App/Square/Block, and I’m afraid that going anywhere besides TurboTax may make it a pain to retrieve my records (tax forms, namely). Just look at the complaints around Cash App Taxes to understand.

Another example: my partner used software other than TurboTax and now their tax work from three years ago can’t be retrieved without paying an “archive fee”. And going through the IRS’ website is horrible to return a transcript. TurboTax offers the most consistent and reliable software, but they are scum. I wish it was easier to go elsewhere. Many people want to mindlessly submit their taxes and be able to retrieve them from one main hub at any time, and TurboTax is unsurprisingly the go-to.

Two of these fake accounts tried to connect with me over LinkedIn, using two very eerily similar but distinct profile pictures (one was white, one was more Hispanic). I knew it was odd at first glance. Then I sat on it and realized a few things:

1. The names are very generic or downright odd. Not to reveal too much detail, but one of them had an Irish last name (e.g. O’Connell) but without the apostrophe. The first name was very uncommon.

2. The second person had a common, generic Hispanic name. What stood out was the fact that they were a contract employee at my company since 2018, in a role that converts contractors to full time usually 6-12 months in.

3. The faces were very centered, without imperfections, and things like the nose and teeth were 90-95% matching, but slightly and convincingly tweaked from photo to photo. The teeth were almost an exact match, and it was only obvious when putting them side to side.

4. Their work history gleams, often capped at 3 past jobs and a generic but known university degree.

5. The accounts routinely posted links to NYTimes, BBC, and Wired articles at least 2-3 times a week, often repeating the same articles week to week.

6. From every example I’ve seen, usually the fake account is a woman.

I’m not convinced by the article’s point that it’s for sales/digital telemarketing. It may be state-sponsored/influenced, but the only thing I could think that they could gain was broad access to people’s lists of connections and build a web on professionals at top companies. People accept requests on LinkedIn today like people did back in the early days of Facebook (now people seem to be more guarded, usually only allowing friends and family into their profile). For the professional world, you have to succumb that that one random person at your company (or even coworker) is going to blindly accept the request and give them access to a trove of data.

Congratulations, you’ve reached “how can I just trust any woman when she claims she’s been sexually assaulted” level of disconnect from reality. Yes, this stuff does happen. The tech bro summation of “facts” and “logic” is hilarious on this website.

You even say recording these abuses is “trivial” and should have been conducted. You have never been in an abusive environment, that much is clear.

I saw the opacity features but I was curious to see if with that feature, the bold text could stay as-is, and the regular text could take on lower opacity so that the full word is still there but only the bold parts are in full color. The opacity demo showed the whole paragraph as taking on an opacity reduction. I’m wondering if making the regular letters less opaque would disrupt the flow or further help focus on the important bits in bold?