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Interested in the outcome of both of these cases, but also in what went in to building the site. It feels agent-led, but in a good way.

@laurex are you the creator? Can you tell us some more about how it was built?

This happens frequently in courts in my home country. There's even polite lawyer codewords so that you don't have to trudge in to court and say

'I'm sorry your honor, I have to withdraw from this matter because my client, who is a bit dim, has just told me at the lunch break that he totally did the thing, and also that he's going to lie his ass off about it when he gets up in the witness box in just a minute'

But the next time you hear a lawyer withdraw because they're 'forensically embarrassed', you'll know what happened

One of the best things I've learnt recently is how to apply the zero blame, process improvement approach that (many) air safety regulators take to my own teams.

I'd sat through 'five whys' style postmortems before, but it was reading air safety investigation reports that finally got me to understand it and make it a useful part of how we get better at our jobs.

By comparison, the way we're investigating and responding to self-driving safety incidents still seems very primitive. Why is that?

From the Sanctions Order: "The Levidow Firm primarily practices in New York state courts. It uses a legal research service called Fastcase and does not maintain Westlaw or LexisNexis accounts. When Mr. Schwartz began to research the Montreal Convention, the firm’s Fastcase account had limited access to federal cases."

And isn't that as big a story? That in 2023, in the richest country in the world, there's no publicly searchable index of the laws of the country?

My 7 year old son is vegetarian - Neither of his parents are (although we've always tried to be awake to the ethical implications of what we eat)

When I asked him why he'd gone so all-in on vegetarianism, he said "Daddy, animals are my friends. And you don't eat your friends"

The little bastard derived the whole thing from first principles, with no input from his parents.

I've tried to use the vegetable-based mince alternatives in pasta sauce, and we're always really unsatisfied with the results. He much prefers lentils / tofu / tempeh and frankly so do we.

We're in the target demographic for these products, and I can tell you: THe problem isn't the price, the branding or the level of ethical awareness. It's the product! It's a lousy substitute for the meat-based alternative, and it doesn't even stack up well against the raw ingredients they're derived from, which have the advantages of being cheaper and tasting better.

> I'm pretty sure almost all of this team was laid off (certainly the people I knew who worked on it were).

That's really sad news. The crew I interacted with (Alex, Omari, Tobias, others) were top-flight engineers who also really understood the problem space and how to navigate the internal complexities of Meta. Hope the laid off / repositioned staff are OK, and if they're looking for new opportunities my email's in my profile.

I'm not saying it's a fair metric, but when I compare Twitter's open output to similarly VC-funded-but-now-public companies, the engineering output doesn't seem particularly exciting.

For comparison:

Meta / Facebook:

* React

* PyTorch

* Fasttext

* Their unsung-but-indispensible-for-humanitarian-orgs Data for Good program

Google:

* Flutter

* Go

* Kubernetes

* Tensorflow

* BERT / Large language models generally

* Mapreduce / Hadoop

The much-maligned Uber:

* H3 Geospatial indexing

* Kepler.gl

* Manifold

Even AirBNB!

* Airflow

* Superset

I use most of these products (or their descendants) every day in my work. When I think of Twitter, all I think of is how they arbitrarily shut off humanitarian access to their APIs (and earlier, the Twitter firehose). There's not a single Twitter-supported open product that I use.

Am I the only one? Is there a great Twitter-supported project that I missed?

Even though the author is critical of the GPIAAF's report, it's amazing to see how thoroughly incidents like this one are investigated - With a real focus on process improvement. Frustrating that the obvious mechanical fix for this (have different shaped connectors for each aerilon cable) wasn't adopted by Embraer, but still a great reminder of how we can do incident handling better in software dev

Get them out, but let them vest.

Don't delay the decision - You've had performance conversations with them already, so this won't come as a surprise.

Tell them they're on leave immediately, and then pay them whatever they're owed in terms of leave, set their effective termination date for just after their vesting date.

Talk to the team, explain that it didn't work out, but that you're not the kind of founding team who will screw someone out of their equity weeks or months before their cliff.

The team will respect you doubly : For getting the under-performer out of their team, and for treating them fairly. This may sting a bit, it's your company and you're killing yourself to try and make it worth something.

Consider that the cost of learning how to be a better boss and not having made the hard decision earlier.

If you go the other way, you risk killing your velocity and losing the people you need.

I've recently switched from Firefox to Orion. Ideologically, I'm Firefox all the way - But even in beta, Orion is such a better browser. * Vertical tabs * Support for most of the extensions I need * Much better battery life (at least 1hr+ extra on my 14" M1 Pro MBP) * Better RAM usage

I get the occasional tab freeze / crash, and it has some glitches with Google Docs / Sheets, but it just feels so much faster and uses much less RAM too