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So is that one a dupe? Weird seeing it pop up again a few hours later with a different url.

>you realize that everyone, including yourself, is doomed to incompetence

Appreciate the perspective of applying this to one's self instead of only others.

I've often wondered if I can escape this or delay it by refusing management positions or other promotions beyond an IC role. Continue gaining efficiency and knowledge and striving to excel in a lower position I'm competent for.

Maybe the best hope is just delaying it. And even then you're probably just limiting yourself in other ways, which can lead to resentment.

I agree with this completely.

A small but important suggested addition: if it's someone who's funeral you would go to, tell that person now what they mean to you. Then they can hear it while they are still alive.

It is not a given that you will have enough time to tell them later.

Similar vibes to lawmakers that have public hearings with airline execs and talk about air travel issues as if it's an issue American voters frequently think about.

Most Americans travel 0-2 times per year. About half don't fly at all.

Another possibility is that unexplained and unintended weight loss is associated with increased risk for many types of cancers.

DSLR quality has been a buzzword for phone cameras for a while now. And in some cases it is. But when comparing photos across a range of conditions from my phone to a full frame DSLR with a good lens one is clearly better. As one example, simulated bokeh isn't as nice looking at the real thing. The resulting photo difference is more pronounced in long telephoto portraits.

The software, convenience, and always with you aspect ensure phones will probably always be dominant. But as Leica is showing there is still a hunger for photos that look better.

With photography, optimizing hardware (sensor, glass) is going to yield more results than optimizing software. Sensor size has an impact on the resulting photo.

Every situation is different.

I live in a city that had a huge influx of migrants. And with them, children. It feels different when those asking for money or trying to sell goods have children with them. Rather than someone who looks like they've struggled with addiction and homelessness for decades.

Everyone should do what they feel is the right decision at that time. One blanket answer for every context and every person out there isn't the answer.

Some people like to help everyone, others only in certain situations, and yet others never give help at all. And that's OK.

OP is correct in my anecdotal experience. I live in a large urban area and wait time for PCP is several months out. Even longer for Women's health as I hear from my partner.

I don't remember it being this bad in the past. Perhaps things have changed in the several years since those publications were published.

Thanks for that reminder.

Waiting has the side effect of making the perception of time go by slower.

I remember how when first taking digital photos around 2010 I noticed that I remembered very little and time seemed to fly by because I was looking at a screen the whole time (on the back of a camera).

And today we're all looking at bigger screens all the time in every place and have more photos than ever. And time seems to go by faster.

That, as well age. That does it too.

I'm not commenting on who makes a trend, only the patterns that emerge in new products for sale.

It's pretty easy to see. Go to redfin, go to any city, and then filter by new construction.

Random example, Atlanta: https://www.redfin.com/city/30756/GA/Atlanta/filter/include=...

White, off white, beige, black is the overwhelming color palette for non-masonry color choices.

Builders buy what people want. And people want the trends they see on HGTV and social media. Not my preference, just pointing out what is most common.

It's interesting to present as colorful cars. There are much fewer cars on the road these days as they are being replaced by large and expensive SUVs.

From the article:

>The culprit? Corporate cost cutting. As profit margins got tighter, automakers went looking for ways to make assembly lines run faster and cheaper.

I'm not so sure this is the reason. If you look at houses, current trends are black and white or a combination of the two.

I think it's more just current tastes than anything.

Many or most older people spend their days watching television for very long stretches of time.

I would much prefer my older relatives to play dumb phone games to watching TV all day. In this case they engage their mind more than melting it via 24 hour news or other programming.

An asynchronous daily check in via chat and a weekly meeting is more than enough to cover the important parts.

A virtual or in-person meeting scheduled at the same time every day is mostly performance art for management and is not necessary to get everyone on the same page.

Nope, hence the word probably. 100% anecdotal.

Last recession was 2008 and job prospects for a software dev are much worse now compared to then. Go back further and it was dotcom bust a little more than 20 years ago.

Absolutely. This is the worst job market for tech workers in probably 20 years. Many employed in tech are hoping to keep their job, let alone bargain for higher wages and remote work.

Hard to imagine this effort having as much leverage if it were to happen after the election.

Two categories currently saturating consumers: ambiguous AI product advertisements on social media feeds and companies offering AI chatbots instead of a human for customer service or support.

Neither are very appealing.

Those in leadership positions are usually offered bonuses for successfully executing key initiatives such as cost cutting:

>The manufacturer is also moving skid steer and compact track loader manufacturing units from Dubuque, Iowa, to Mexico to curb its manufacturing costs.

>How is it possible that someone sends out an update affecting the behavior of kernel mode code, all at once, simultaneously, to millions and millions of systems around the whole globe at once!?

>I've participated in many roll outs, and never would I allow a big-bang roll out like this. CrowdStrike should be charged with negligence for having this type of process. It's just plain irresponsible.

Agree with all of this. Related to deployment process or lack of one, the hour of the deployment has always struck me from the beginning. The largest impact was in the United States yet an update was pushed very early hours US time.

Presumably the off-hours deployment wasn't because of lowering the potential impact as they sent it to everyone.

Consumers have been loudly saying they want hybrids[1]. Full electric vehicles are not practical for most people just yet. But instead manufacturers have made larger and larger vehicles and went too far with EV options instead of just providing hybrid options.

https://info.oregon.aaa.com/aaa-interest-in-evs-wanes-more-a...

When Medium first arrived I thought it was fantastic. The readability and lack of distractions and badges was quite different than most reading experiences on the web at the time.

But at some point the identity seemed to switch from reader friendly to reader hostile, throwing up a paywall/login wall for seemingly every link. This created a negative feedback loop where I avoided any Medium link for anything and haven't given them another chance.

Now it seems less relevant than ever.

One can hope that museums and attractions that have a ticket/admission booth but require online ticket purchase will follow this lead.

Having to fill out a bunch of form fields and manually type out credit card numbers on your phone is so much worse than just handing someone your card and walking in.

NPR was been a constant presence in my life starting when I was young and continued in to middle age.

But around the time of the pandemic I stopped. I can't put my finger on any one thing but it's no longer a place I go to get information. I've found this is something common in my social circles too.

Not sure I agree with all of the original essay but something changed at NPR and I just don't listen anymore.

It also dies behind dark patterns that prevent you from canceling the subscription. I've subscribed to a few publications over the years but not any more.

After getting burned a few times from an easy to sign up but impossible to cancel user experience I have sworn them all off.

I refuse to support subscriptions that require talking to a person. And waiting on hold and having to navigate the operator trying to prevent you from canceling. In my experience all media and news subscriptions do this.

>However, I was told, they had decided to keep the plastic boxes, and were making use of them.

This is more of an insult than a consolation. I'm still in disbelief that they were tossed out rather than offered back or donated elsewhere.

I remember this for other informational text files going back to the 90s. The caps made it stand out in the list of files so it was easier to find first.

Another example is FILE_ID.DIZ. Just learned the extension is for description in zipfile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ

This problem isn't just websites and social media.

Not mentioned in the article but pink slime sites also send out printed newspapers that look like what traditional newspapers look like except a lot thinner.

It arrives in your mailbox and plenty of people have no idea it's a complete partisan advertisement disguised as news. Some assume it's just partisan news like most news is now.

They saturate mailboxes and are probably effective at reaching older voters who are much more likely to vote.

You can click reader mode in your browser to read the article.

It is disappointing that this form of discrimination which is very real and impacts so many is ignored at all levels.

Companies bend over backwards to show they are not discriminating on just about every identity trait except for age.

Companies are OK turning away someone based on age when that person would likely be a more useful and productive employee than someone significantly younger.