brianlweiner

parent comment roughly paraphrased the advice... the core advice is to never speak to police WITHOUT YOUR LAWYER present.

Certainly providing the menu that might exonerate you is probably fine -- but that's what a lawyer is for.

URL is blocked by my company VPN as being in the Russian federation

I don't even know if it's cargo culting as much as engineers using their day jobs as opportunities to learn marketable skills for job hopping.

Nearly ever new technology introduced at places I've worked was because someone was keen to get it onto their resume.

Two factors that I'm aware of:

-- Early in the pandemic, travel was way down. Rental car companies unloaded a lot of their fleet that were sitting idle. Now that demand is back up, they are back on the market for vehicles.

-- Semiconductor shortages: automobile manufacturers cut their orders in early 2020 anticipating a decline in demand. That decline never happened, so they're now now able to obtain sufficient chips for new vehicle manufacturing. Thus a decline in new car availability that might push some car-buyers onto the secondary market.

FYI you probably meant 'egregious'

What's your model?

In at least some cases ... the prices you see on grubhub may be higher than the actual prices the restaurant is charging. E.g $17.99 vs $14.99

Probably the ludicrous notion that somehow Hillary Clinton is to blame for electing Donald Trump rather than the millions of people who voted for him despite overwhelming evidence of his lack of fitness for the office.

Seems like it ... my experience with Algolia was fairly lukewarm -- it seemed expensive for the capabilities offered.

John was a professor of mine, so I'll defend him a bit here :). To be clear, he's certainly a contrarian, and has a fairly pessimistic take on modern scientific progress.

I pushed back in class quite a bit about his 'End of Science' claims, and we disagreed frequently - but his actual claims are usually not as strong as they're made out to be. He simply doesn't see the same sort of practical gains being made from scientific research that we were making in the 19th and early 20th century.

If we look at the research being produced by obviously impressive scientific endeavors like LHC - I think you can see his point. We're obviously gaining knowledge, and negative results are still valuable, but we're investing more and more to make incremental progress in many fields and the actual research is becoming less and less accessible to the average person.

Anyway, it's not my job to defend John's work (he's more than capable of responding to critics) but I always found him to be interesting, patient and encouraging to his students. His class was one of my favorites and even if I disagree with his claims overall I don't think they deserve to be dismissed so readily.

Employers have significant tax advantages when offering health insurance that individuals do not have access to.

I applied for the Baltimore City director of digital operations position. I interviewed with Frank Johnson and a variety of other city department heads.

I got the impression they were a group of people that broadly understood their problems and were finding it very difficult to steer the city towards good solutions.

Although Mr. Johnson was the City's Director of IT, realistically he had very nominal oversight over many of the city's actual IT departments - which were spread across a series of departments with their own employees, budgets, and resources. This was something he had been actively trying to improve but with limited progress.

I don't know what the best solution is - their hiring process is flawed and it's difficult to remove or replace problem employees. The budget is about 60% of what it probably needs to be and there's no path towards improving it.