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Lately I’ve been using caffeinate to run long running scripts without interruption from sleep on Mac. Nothing crazy but could be useful to newer devs.

That’s interesting since this has been my exact opposite experience.

What type of coding are you doing? Did you locally roll your own coding assistant with a local model of DeepSeek or are you prompting via the web?

I studied civil engineering at an ok engineering school however I was lucky to be there in the “golden era” of the department. I caught the very best professors before they retired. They were old school and really pushed us without worrying about the drop out rate. They took cheating and academic rigor very seriously.

After graduation I got a job at a top 10 nationally ranked engineering firm which has a very strong reputation. My coworkers were the top of their class coming from much better engineering schools. Compared to them my education was better as judged by the number of calculation mistakes in my work vs theirs. I also had a better understanding of some core concepts. So comparatively I do not regret my degree given I landed where they did, with fewer student loans and a comparable education but I definitely got lucky.

Overall I would say my studies prepared me very well for certain things like working hard, preserving through difficult problems, learning how to be more analytical etc but it really didn’t prepare me for basic usage of the tools, learning the building code or working professionally with a manager or on a real engineering team as opposed to a team of students working on a BS design project in some engineering class where the professors don’t really grade the final output.

I think your experience is similar to mine. University teaches a “foundation” level of basic understanding and leaves out a lot of the basic professional skills or when they do try to “simulate” real work it is extremely phoned in. At first I did feel some amount of regret that my degree didn’t “fully” prepare me for professional working life but I think that’s just a result of dealing with “gaps” in development since we can’t possibly learn everything in our degree. If I had gotten internships during my undergrad degree then I think I would have probably had a more complete education with less buyers remorse.

As universities become more market as opposed to academic dominated I think this dynamic might invert.

The real regret came when I saw my paycheck and when I heard what software engineers make. I later switched into software and have never looked back.

Nope. OP stipulated that at some point mortal combat happens and also suggests that it happens within arms length for example dropping a large rock on an even larger Rock.

Short answer no. This is because what gets exhausted is aerobic capacity. When you get within striking range The Rock will still have access to fast twitch muscles & some reduced amount of glycogen for energy release. This would probably be enough to grab you and choke you out. Basically the Mountain vs the Viper fight from game of thrones.

If you were of similar size then yes. Basically being smaller really sucks in a fight. So if you can reasonably deflect the Rocks wrestling & grappling offensive you could rope a dope him causing him to gas out and then win. Higher weight MMA fighters & boxers use this tactic all the time. They let their opponent “punch themselves out” and then get off their own offense.

Dang I was hoping the article would have been about non-traditional higher level fractional factorial designs. Like for example you have an experiment with 3 factors and 5, 4, 3 levels each but can only run 20 experiments.

Life was considerably more difficult. Logistically a lot has been simplified. Yes modern life is more complex today but we manage it through specialization. This stress takes a toll on people and they look older.

What practical lessons did you take from these books?

Thank god

Watching them work at that age made me super sad.

Where might someone find this Fast Development workshop?

There may be a lot of cost savings in labor but there’s a huge risk in technology transfer & following lab protocols. In biotech lab culture and best practices are actually a tighter package than “low” skill factory work. So you get really variable outcomes when you unbundle the lab.

I think it’s more competitive than that.

Company B isn’t just looking at company A’s “success”. Company B’s levels of attrition are increasing because its employees are going to company A. So company B has no other option than to open the hiring floodgates or else they can’t meet bare bones maintance tasks let alone growth.

Not your comment but most of the comments on this thread are whacky. It’s like people completely forgot how hot the software market was during the pandemic. Anecdotal but I had 2 friends trying to break into the software game at the same time. That didn't happen during the pre 2019 boom so who knows what that means lol

Clickbait title but I generally agree being direct in code reviews is great especially if it reduces the feedback loop & doesn’t drag out the code review process.