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Its so interesting. If you follow dōgaz one more step you get to Proto-Indi-European dheg: (to burn).

Origin of Latin “dies” is also from PIE but a different word: dyews: (sky, heaven).

Interesting Latin dies (day) and deus (deity) are very much related since both come from dyews.

I enjoyed this lecture about dog evolution and domestication.

https://youtu.be/CiD-qZDl9jQ

3 bedroom apt in NYC? There's not a lot of those and that's going to be insanely expensive, like $5k+/month for sure.

I lived in NYC for almost a decade and I don't remember anyone having a 3 bedroom.

I lived in 1 bedroom in Astoria (Queens) for $1.5k-$2k

Well there's Factorio Space Exploration mod which can easily take months to go through https://mods.factorio.com/mod/space-exploration

Sorry

This is a tangent but it reminded me of Christopher Hitchens when he used to claim that waterboarding is not torture. He then subjected himself to waterboarding to prove that it's not torture and changed his mind in 5 seconds.

Despite me not agreeing with a lot of what he said I really respected that he was willing to put his belief to the test and then actually changed his mind when he was proven wrong.

Unfortunately, developers often write code in a framework they don't know well so they end up fighting the framework instead of using the niceties it provides. The end result being that the surface area of things that can go wrong actually increases.

> Culture Amp was well on its way to doing this in 2018, when things started to get hard for the recently-formed Design System team.

This is the problem right there. Design system teams never work well. A design system that’s complicated enough to need a dedicated team always creates more friction than it’s worth. Turns out that it’s really hard to standardize UI components in a way that makes them flexible enough to be used across different teams.

The only design systems I’ve seen work well are the minimal ones that just define the color values of the visual theme and look of some basic components like buttons but leave the implementation up to the individual devs.

I agree. I enjoyed WC4 even though it went a bit overboard with fmv but the story held up and both Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell were amazing. The senate scene at the end when Tolwyn breaks is just great.

Gameplay and story wise I really think WC2 is by far the best in the series. The camaraderie between characters is just beautifully portrayed, and so many moments of betrayal, death, and tragedy were very emotional.

I will wait for you in heaven…

> I’ve seen examples of “write an email to my boss”. It would take me longer to explain to ChatGPT what I want than to write these myself.

You’re a better writer than me also English isn’t my first language.

Besides that I used chatgpt to write a eulogy for my father. I know roughly what I wanted to say but I couldn’t find a good way to say it. Chatgpt helped me there even in my own language (Croatian) and there is just no way I could’ve made it as poetic as it did.

This is my experience as well. I worked at 5 different companies in my career and at 3 of them nobody cared about reporting PTO. Now we have an “Unlimited PTO” policy and everybody on my team takes roughly a month off every year and nobody cares. This is in NYC. Not Silicon Valley but it seems culture is similar.

Oh nice I’ll check that out, thanks

Londo’s arc is just amazing. It made him one of my favorite characters in all fiction

What are you going to do with MBS that aggregated averaged a yield of 1.5% when anyone can get a risk free bond returning over 3% now? Who’s going to buy your mortgages?

Yeah this was bad. The main problem was that the actual simulation was being done on the servers, rather than on the client…for a single player game.

I’m sure the development team knew everybody was going to hate that so it couldn’t have been a surprise.

I cannot parse those 2 sentences at all. I'm not sure if it's trying to say something really clever and I'm not smart enough to get it or if it's BS pretending to be smart.

Agree. Google maps are definitely getting less reliable. I see weird ui bugs often. Sometimes it also forgets the search history somehow. I’ve never seen that happen before a year or two ago

Why didn't I ever think of this.

This is great and really makes things way simpler. Thanks!

I got my first programming job at 31. I was always interested in computers before but never did anything serious. I was a classical ballet dancer.

You could say that I had a career before my 30s but that career was completely irrelevant for my new occupation.

So yeah. If youre interested in tech, 30s is not old. If you’re interested in classical ballet…sorry, you’re just too old.

I think Khan Academy is pretty much made for this.

Boring in a good way, absolutely. Definitely not simple though

I mean if I can still get that pleasure and not contribute to animal suffering why not do that?

I think they meant to say “inferred”

What if I like meat but don’t want to be responsible for animal suffering?

You could just get a check mailed. I lived in Europe then and got a check that I cashed at my bank. I didn’t have a SSN, so but maybe US citizens had to provide it.

Granted this was 15 or so years ago so things might have changed since then.

Absolutely. The problem is that diabetes type 2 is a lifestyle induced condition. People (most not all) get type 2 because of unhealthy diet so sure you can eliminate the need for medication by eating healthy.

Insulin dependent diabetes is type 1. Eating healthy still helps but you will die without insulin injections no matter your diet

I left NYC a few years ago because I got tired of the city. The rest of engineering mostly moved out during Covid. It wasn’t a company strategy to hire out of city, it just happened

I work for Intersection, a company behind LinkNYC kiosks deployed in New York City: http://link.nyc

The basic idea is that we have ~2000 kiosks deployed across all 5 boroughs. Each screen has 2 displays so that's ~4000 displays playing various ads. Kiosks also provide free Wi-Fi for the public, free phone service since they replaced the payphones, and there is an Android tablet that can be used for various online services such as applying for food stamps.

We have some kind of partnership setup with the city, and we also get money from ad plays. The business structure is a lot more complicated than that but I don't want to go into details because it's highly likely I'll say something wrong.

Like most things, it's a mixed bag. Working with hardware that's deployed in public changes the game in interesting ways. Things can break for so many different reasons since they interact with the physical world all the time.

There was a funny moment when we noticed one of the kiosks being down. It wasn't responding, we couldn't reach it over the network at all so we decided to take a look at it in the street and....it wasn't there. A 7-8 ft kiosk just disappeared off the street. We later found out that a truck smashed into it in the early morning and it was all cleaned up by the time we realized something was wrong.

Hot weather, cold weather, car traffic, people smashing kiosks with a baseball bat because they think wifi spreads covid, there are a lot of things that can break physical devices on the street and it's been fairly interesting dealing with it.

Bad stuff: Ad tech. I hate the whole advertising industry with a passion of a thousand suns. I have moral issues with it and every ad tech thing I touched is horrible from a technological standpoint.

Good stuff: It's interesting. I work on a ton of different stuff. I could be doing a lot of operations work for a while, then go develop a new service next week, then design a bunch of analytics so we can get more insight the following week. Engineering team is not huge and we all have to do everything. We are all remote and the company made sure to ship us all the hardware we need, which is nice.

Nice stuff: Free wifi covering most of the city is a useful thing for people. I'm happy we provide it and it's what makes me feel good about this. Kiosk tablets are also used by the poor and homeless to apply for various programs such as food stamps.

Tech: Nothing very surprising. Various single board computers, Linux, Python, Go, js, SQL, Ansible.

I work for LinkNYC. We have a few thousand kiosks all around New York City.

I work remotely from a different state without any issues, as does the rest of engineering.

They shipped all the relevant hardware to my home address. It was a bit of a hassle to put it all together and it can take a bit of space but it's definitely doable.

My fiancee is a nurse. Conditions are absolute shit, especially in states where the patient to nurse ratio isn't legally protected.

I think that the Great Resignation is even more obvious in nursing because of nursing contracts. Nurse contracting became really popular when the pandemic started because the hospitals were overwhelmed and contracts were ridiculously lucrative. Hospital management is always so short sighted that they just don't want to raise the pay of their core stuff. Core staff is paid on average $35/hour. Nursing contracts start at $60 and can go much higher. This has lead to the situation where the core staff resigns en masse and goes to work as a contractor (sometimes even at the same hospital).

The hospital where my fiancee is contracting now has literally 0 core nursing staff left. There is not a single full time nurse employed in the whole hospital. Problem is that the contractors leave after ~3 months and go look for a more high paying contract so they are rarely at the same hospital for a long time.

The result is that you don't have a single nurse in the hospital that actually knows that hospital's procedures, doctors, people to call, storage lockers, and all of that institutional knowledge that you need to have to be effective.

I switch back and forth between IntelliJ products and VSCode.

As a pure editor I prefer VSCode. It's fast and has a great plugin ecosystem. Another great feature is that it's config is just a JSON file that I can put into git and push it to my dotfiles repo making it easy to share config on all of my machines.

However, there's just some functionality in IntelliJ that I miss in VSCode like running tests. Of course there are plugins but they are all clunky and don't give you the great UX that IntelliJ does. I want the IDE to figure out where all the tests are and give me an easy way to run a single test/file/suite/feature. IMHO this is the killer IntelliJ feature for me.