canucklady

Yes fascism has broad appeal without a cohesive ideology. It seems like in your telling that's a positive?

Spotify is dumping tons of resources into live streaming video podcasts, I guess they heard "people pay for videos" and didn't realize the video had to be good

There are communists who believe in accelerationism as much as there are white supremacists who believe in it. Basically "destabilize the current status quo to provoke an outright war, and then we win that war and take over".

When I went through something similar it would have taken way longer than a month to recover. I didn't know how long when I took the break. Also I was too burnt out to interview well.

If the current job is causing a lot of stress/burnout, carrying that into a new role is setting yourself up for failure. Having a few months gap isn't a problem IME and it helps with recovery.

Do you have significant equity vesting? That would be the only reason I would hang on/coast in the current role.

It sounds like this is stressing you out big time and you're very burnt out. How many months of runway do you have if you quit today? I would anticipate 4-6 months of unemployment but it sounds like you're not in North America so it might be different where you are.

Basically my advice is quit immediately, live off savings for at least 3 months and don't think about applying for jobs. Don't even code if you're not enjoying it. Do something else, feel like you're mastering some hobby, and after 3 months start looking for jobs. You'll find you have a lot more mental capacity to deal with interview bullshit and hopefully in the next role you won't burn out as quickly.

I bought my almost-new Subaru Forester for $17000. There is no amount of maintenance and fuel savings that would make up the ~$18k difference to buy a _used_ Tesla. I could have gone even cheaper but I wanted premium features like AWD and lots of space for my business.

People who talk about TCO for a car are already setting the bar crazy high to justify buying an expensive car that they don't really need.

Externally he has a personal writer whose whole job it is to make him seem smart. He's the darling of the Canadian tech industry, which badly needed a win since the implosion of Nortel, so he has a ton of advantages. In SV he would be a mediocre wannabe founder but in Ottawa he's hot shit.

They didn't "cut headcount" by firing people, they just didn't hire new people into those roles. Instead they let people move internally to work on projects where teams wanted more headcount.

As someone in a stupidly rigid organization where managers all fight each other to get the limited headcount by inflating their own roadmap, it actually sounds refreshing.

I think dunking on the rpi is harsh - if it allows you to prototype and get your small-volume product out the door quickly, there's lots of other areas you could optimize the BOM first. Better to make a product with 75% gross margins as a single dev in 6 months than a product with 80% gross margins with a team of 6 in a year. Of course, they also overhired and wasted money on other BOM components

These things ebb and flow - I see more kids on scooters and BMX bikes locally than I do skateboards now. Rollerskates and quad skates have come back in a big way, especially for aggressive skating. Skateboarding also seems to have fragmented into street surfing, longboarding, and a bunch of other disciplines that have different equipment and techniques.

Also ex-Shopify. Tobi has done this a couple times, and IMO it comes from a place of narcissism. It's applied very arbitrarily across the entire org at random times. It very much feels like he wants to do something big and visionary instead of the boring day-to-day of actually managing like an adult, so he just throws bombs that generate headlines.

Even for devs who didn't have a lot of external meetings it was a pain because the executive leadership is basically just undercutting the authtority of managers. When I was there Shopify's middle management was extremely ineffectual because devs basically had free reign and executives didn't put any effort into top-down management, they just focused on "vision" (like joining the doomed Facebook crypto project, or hiring interns based on their esports experience)

Where I live the zoning laws require better noise isolation for new builds on major roads, because this is such an easy way for investors to save money and screw tenants.

Umm, during the run-up to the 2020 election Trump was the president. He appointed Christopher Wray as head of the FBI. So whatever is in this tweets was done by a Trump appointee

I think using social media to gather intel is entirely reasonable. Given the number of people who have committed mass shootings and other acts of domestic terrorism after being radicalized online, they would be negligent to not be proactively looking at the internet.

Your whole argument is just "sure this is reasonable now but what if there were 8000 agents online and they could extraordinary rendition you". 80 agents for the whole country is not absurd. That's less than 2 per state.