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Depends, do you want to give an honest answer? Do you have a stake in your employer succeeding?

Donald Trump has shown that as long as you shake down the money rather than go through Congress to get it, the President has tax and spend powers. The presidency is really a mafia don seat.

Haul in all the VCs and tech CEOs and charge them a "donation."

> US-East-2 staying up isn’t my responsibility.

No, but you can be blamed if other things are up and yours is not. If everyone's stuff is down, it is just a natural disaster.

> Don’t you want your customers to say, “wow, half the internet was down today but XYZ service was up with no issues! I love them.”

See any companies getting credit for it in the last AWS outage? I didn't. My employers didn't reward vendors who stayed up during it.

GL can absolutely do this already.

All the reporting I have read suggests that they are roping anyone and everyone they can into doing redactions. So I suspect many simply lack the experience to do it well.

They are for the same reason. How do customers react to either? If us-east-1 fails, nobody complains. If Microsoft uses a browser to render components on Windows and eats all of your RAM, nobody complains.

If IBM still had a good reputation, I probably would.

This to me was the real lesson of the outage. A us-east-1 outage is treated like bad weather. A regional outage can be blamed on the dev. us-east-1 is too big to get blamed, which is why it should be the region of choice for an employee.

Or, people will just pay.

Gerry Tan's X feed makes it pretty clear where YC is politically aligned nowadays.

Code review is an unfunded mandate. It is something the company demands while not really doing anything make sure people get rewarded for doing it.

One of the challenges is that few people are genuinely interested in a comprehensive view of a topic. Most of the time, I want just enough to get to the next step and get rid of a problem.

I never wish to learn about Docker. I want to know enough to get my containers running. In a pre-LLM world, I did take a course on Docker. I have learned my last bit of Docker in an LLM world.

Or simply… lying.

There is no need to be honest to a Trump voter. Honesty is work and they will believe nonsense anyway.

Equifax? Capital One? 23andMe? My basis for this is that you can leak everyone’s bank data and barely have it show up in your stock price chart, especially long term.

Security simply doesn’t seem like it matters much based on the mild consequences.

I can't say I know many engineers who object outright to deadlines. They just get frustrated when an estimate turns into a deadline as those are different questions.

The far more common pattern is being asked to provide such an estimate off hand and those are all about what you mentioned, giving the PM whatever number you think they will accept.

The problem with accessibility is the need to think about it at all. It doesn't matter how easy it is to implement as the problem first and foremost is the mental and organizational bandwidth consumes.

Perfect accessibility on the web as it stands requires every dev to be working on it. Especially in a world of AI, efforts on this would be better spent on AI agents that replace screenreaders.

This is basically it. The US at this point has shown that the winning move is to just lie and scam and loot and then do it all again.

I will be held to the standards of billionaires and politicians. Not one micron more.

Push has come to shove and has been shoving for nearly a decade. Europeans continue to be incapable. As a Canadian I wish they were not, but they are.

> Keep in mind that a lot of the benefits go away once patients come off GLP-1

All medicines taken for chronic conditions as this way.

"Newly skilled" means needs supervision. If you have to supervise the work, then an AI is definitely superior.

I kind of wonder whether we are past the point where waiting to be trained is feasible.

> Number three economy by any non-dollarized Gross Domestic Product estimate

What non dollarized metric has them above India or Japan?

> One Trillion Dollars In 2023: How Russia's Military Came To Outspend The United States

What is this drivel?

> Driving the news: Axios' Dan Primack asked Choi whether the donation was intended "to keep good relations with the White House," to which she replied "sure."

The next Democratic president should just haul in every billionare and imply that a 2% wealth "donation" will be required to keep good relations with the American people. As the President can effectively tax and spend now.

It is kind of joyless that my day is now wait 20 min, QA, report back.

Sounds like a junior developer?

They can usually write code, but not that well. They have lots of energy and little to say about architecture and style. Don't have a well defined body of knowledge and have no experience. Individual juniors don't change, but the cast members of your junior cohort regularly do.

As an introvert, that's a pro, not a con.

The burden of human interaction is removed from building.

Do security breaches actually break companies?

Arguably this isn't a new category either then.