bayraktar
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Lacks plausibility.
Doesn't attempt to describe the context in which this Russian first strike against NATO might occur.
Doesn't mention battlefield nukes, EMP attacks or even high-altitude demonstrative detonations that might more plausibly proceed an actual high-yield land strike on Europe.
Doesn't even mention the yield of this first strike, either. Really, what's the point?
They could have done this "simulation" back in 1983. In fact, it makes me think like I'm watching a certain movie from back in '83.
'83, what a year.
Comment · 4 years ago
These niche use-cases exist, but they are niche, and most companies, who think their use-case is that niche so it doesn't fit the cloud, are probably wrong.
Talk about broad, sweeping statements. Care to substantiate?
Comment · 4 years ago
Okay, I'm with you - but I meant for, like, people who have some idea of what they're doing (and don't just impulsively reach for a massive framework to deal with routine content dispatch).
What do you suggest for manageable SPA-like development -- for those of us who have actually thought the matter through and have decided that's what we need (at least in certain corners of this otherwise lean and mean, mostly static / old-school website we're building)?
Comment · 4 years ago
So what other kind of thing do you suggest (and which currently has some traction)?
Comment · 4 years ago
I hate my spouse's lousy cooking; the slow, clunky way their hips move when they walk; but most of all, their cringe poetry. But until I find someone better or at least less embarrassing to be seen with in public, I'm sticking with 'em.
OK, so what about Vue.js? Or is it dead to you already?
Comment · 4 years ago
Looking at the bigger picture - would seem that the Texas state legislature's unwillingness to tackle the issue of overly permissive firearm access is the "lazy take" to be concerned about.
Comment · 4 years ago
Being as they of course "just can't" do anything to stop people from bringing guns into schools -- in a way, this makes a certain kind of sense for them.
Comment · 4 years ago
But how does it take a over week to answer the question?
Sounds like the more basic problem is that we keep ending up working in companies where the "higher ups" are constantly shoving decisions down our throats.
Which, ultimately, is probably the root cause of most of the caginess, the yak shaving, the compunction to use cloud databases and cloud-everything, and the silly support tickets that stay open forever and ever and ever.
Comment · 4 years ago
There's a difference between "being" stressed out -- and your employer taking specific actions to make you stressed out so that you quit.
Ramping up work expectations
With the specific intent of causing the employee to quit, you meant to say. This in fact fits precisely with the language of the California Supreme Court in the section you referred to.
Comment · 4 years ago
Getting myself "managed out" at the expense of all of those things would be hugely problematic.
Agreed - and corporate life often gets that way.
But another way of looking at the payoff matrix might be: "I've got kids to support - and that means having parents they can trust, and look up to in this chaotic and morally ambivalent world. Even if it means we might have to work a year or two more before being able to retire more comfortably, or we might not get to take that vacation to Tulum this year."
Comment · 4 years ago
It could also mean creating an inhospitable environment for work, like demotion, allocating drudge work, removing responsibilities, etc.
Right - it's actually far worse than outright firing or laying off people. As in, genuinely harmful to people from a psychological (and hence physical) point of view. All so the company can save a few dollars, and hit certain quarterly targets a bit sooner.
That's why there's a name for it (since long before the "quiet" meme), and legal precedents that are supposed to prevent companies from doing this (if any of them would take heed, which of course they won't):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
So the question to our friend thrwawayacc up above is -- OK, so this is what the director told you to do (and thanks for for sharing, BTW). But are you actually going to -- go through with what you were told to do? Are are you going to tell these people at the director level some version of:
I understand your concerns, and the financial position that the company in. But at the end of the day, this isn't the right way to go about conducting what everyone can plainly see it as -- a layoff. Ultimately, if we go this route, it will be harmful to the company's reputation and long-term growth -- but more importantly, it will cause genuine harm to people who, until now, have been considered part of the Amazon Family.
If Corporate insists on going this route, there's no way I can stop them of course. However, for my part, in my role, I will not be be able to participate in this extremely ill-advised course of action.
This is your moment. So what's it going to be?
Comment · 4 years ago
You know, it's pretty easy to just ditch social media entirely, and to essentially forget about your smartphone as well (beyond the bare essentials that we're kind of forced to use them for these days), actually.
The article specifically puts climate change at the top of its concerns, which is a "step off of the train tracks or you'll get hit" problem if there ever was one -- but in slow motion, of course.
The point of the article, as I read it, was that these problems really are urgent, but our brains and our politics trick us into not seeing them that way because they are either (1) slow moving or (2) call for tedious, fat-tail responses (rather than sexy, exciting, silver bullet fixes).
Rather than "yeah, I should get out to the gym more" a better analogy would be: "Okay, it's time to face it -- I'm definitely an alcoholic. If I don't change my ways, it may not kill me tomorrow, but it's definitely going to catch up with me soon enough. So I better start figuring out a way to turn this boat around, before it heads over the edge."
Which is categorically different from the "aspirational" sense of urgency you seem to be describing.
The ability to discern that certain problems are, in fact, "urgent" (despite their being slow-moving or incremental in their effect) is one of the highly valuable traits that enables some genes (read: species or individuals) to succeed, while others fail.