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I belive you are describing the the article quite aptly.

Well; Feature X is about to be released and the industry just invented feature Y and its all the rage and if its not in the pipeline the shareholders and the critiques get mad. So, The boffins decide that the company needs to get on it ASAP and cannibalize feature X team to make feature Y team and the "best" need to get on that team otherwise their career suffers. So the unwilling/incapable are left to sort out the kinks. They are divided into two camps which play a 0 sum game to get feature X released. Losing is bad for the losers, so you either resign t being an asshole for the benefit of the product or you try to not get your teammates fired at the detriment of the product. Maybe you try both and see. Either way youre resource starved and dammned either way. Maybe noone cares if you caught a bug before release. Maybe the guys that catch the bugs at the end of the line get praise and attention. Maybe everyone just gets mad that youre holding up the release, cuz the boffins wanted it done yesterday. After a while youre in a meeting debating whether an issue is not an issue and after an hour everyone has somewhere to be and one camp insists that if you hold it just so its not really an issue, and some think that this is a very rare edge case and would never happen IRL. one guy thinks this isnt a bug at all the user just has bad expectations. Others are tired of having to speak up and just wanna get on with their day because there might be a feature Z team and even though you got passed up for Y , youre actually a really god fit for Z s you better shut up if you wanna leave this mess. The guy who would have stopped this train rage quit 6 months ago. Finally everyone just calls it a non-issue and full send. Six months after the release there is an issue and now the regulators are coming, and you feel very vindicated that this was an issue but you didnt speak up , but secretly told Gary at lunch that this is gonna come back. Gary was in the meeting with the VP and the regulator ad made an off hand comment to the VP that you actually spotted this way back. And now the VP is mad that this issue could have been stopped, and now they think youre a pansy for staying mum , in fact this is unethical behavior and so youre off Z team and back to X. So you figure you never wanna be in this mess gain and switch to a diff org/company/ rage quit.

Rinse. Repeat.

Aren't haplotype groups essentially "race"? Certainly there is not white/black race, but a southern costal Indian would self differentiate from a central one, you can spot the difference visually,culturally and lingustcally and there is also well understood predispositions of different groups to specific ailments (see diabetes). Not my area of expertise so might be way off

Thanks for writing this. Had similar thoughts when I was reading the refwrenced article. What happens when "the next generation" actively resist education, convention , disregards the value of Canon, and the overhang is 1000ft over their heads? Just last week I gave up on the next generation dug a moat around my core libs and resigned myself to watching the slop tidalwave from my little island /sigh.

Same. I stopped reading after that. I get the sense that most of these people thing all code is web or mobile or something non critical. Granted im not a web or mobile guy so I cant presume the complexity, risk, cost of such things. But I assume its in a different category than safety/mission critical things. I do dev tools for ASIL-B systems devs now and even then I cant say im comfortable not reading the generated code. Some of my junior peers are though, and im very frustrated that I feel like I keep having to play AI janitor, dont think the bosses care.

These all seem to be gross simplifications that dont really help the argument. While we could certainly make a case that no value is generated in trading certain derivatives,commodity futures and options are very imporant in regulating price/ supply supply shocks in the global market.

Im always frustrated by such journalism; "why won't they do something!?" . What is there to do besides, face id , chat controlor, heavy moderation, and if it were done, a whole other crowd wpuld have their pitchforks ready to go.

Somewhat out of my league in this thread but,I think I am.one of these people. I do remember a time before I had an internal monologue , in fact I remember the day in elementary school when I learned, after having been explained to me by my teacher, that everyone else was "talking to themselves in their head". I think I spent the next month or so obsessing over this new found ability. But before that day I was perfectly capable of thought, and conversation, and writing. Even now I can "switch modes" and have coherent thoughts occur, with no labeling or accompanying narrative. I can distinctly identify concepts and transitions between them but there are no words involved until I open my mouth. So I dont know if it was just a hidden background process before that day. But it definitely "feels' different when its in the foreground or back, or nor there.

Disagree with your take about how much you can trust the GPS. Maybe on a sparse road network this may be the case, but on a dense road network, stacked roads with adjacent lanes (like on a highway interchange )it can be downright wrong, even after corrections. But like you said in those cases we would have to rely on other inputs to compute precuse lane level location.

Where are these figures sourced from? This data does not seem to be consistent with EIA reports which bucket the contribution of renewable (including hydro and biomass) closer to 20% for 2023.

Hello, I am interested in your area of research. Would you mind linking to some of your work?

Another season of tech bros ruin everything.

I worked in this industry. It used to move slow and consistent. Incremental progress or evolutionary improvent some used to call it. Wisdom borne from time and experience culminating in modules that ran on hundres of millions of cars, they to five years to finish but golly was it finished, no updates needed. They sold to every competitor, and even our own suppliers. Across the Atlantic and the pacific they scoffed at our POS cars, flimsy plastic trim, akward power trains. But, the beating heart of their cars ran our code.

Lots of grey beards, round tables, lecture rooms, the new kids like me squeezing into whatever room we could find to listen in. For some of these geezers their day job was just to investigate, educate, bring up the next generation. Some just sat around doing mostly nothing at all, schmoozig around the coffee machine, except when an exec or a new hire got a smart idea, skewer and stop them dead in the tracks, back to caf. They used to brag about how refined their bom was and the lengths they went to test the foundation that we now stood upon.

The age of #innovation. New ceo, new board, new directors. We aren't a car company, we are mobility! We are SAFE, scrum, stories, velocity! 5 years? No! 1 year, or else. That's how the apples success don't ya know? Features! Bugs? Bugs don't have story points and we aren't in the business of shipping bugs so why are you talking about the last release? Why does your test bench cost $5mil, can't you do that with a raspberry pi and a beagle bone? Why do you have so many testers and QAs, this team we hired from the valley is gonna white the AI that can auto-test everything. Why are you paying so much to license this esoteric tool chain? O P E N S O U R C E buddy! The car is a phone ...with wheels!

The grey beards are gone, picked up and left when the winds changed or forced off the boat altogether. No promotions unless you're a yes man. SV kids that have never opened the hood of their cars or been around at a company long enough to see a product live and die in the market. More product managers than QAs. If you have a mortgage or kids, better put up and shut up.You get the idea.

Assuming youre not a quiet quitter , youre not double dipping and you have some interest in your job. I'm pretty sure WFH is more productive and efficient. I'm pretty sure corporate knows this as well. They might even have the numbers to prove it but don't wanna show it. BUT i think the reason they want us to return is that if we stay home.. we will use the efficiency and productivity gains to optimize our personal lives and not the bottom line. It would change white collar culture fundamentally and that would not be good for the status quo.

Style nit: This is a badly written article; it about to a series of inconclusive quoted from experts duct taped together.

General observation: Discussions about not eating meat in popular and social media seem to forget that 2/3rds other world don't exist. India, te most populous nation consists of 30~40% vegetarians and the rest have a very low animal protein diet compared to western standards. This is the same for much of east and south asia. The diet is heavily plant based, is healthy, nutritious and delicious, and does not contain much processed ingredients. It has been this way for hundreds if not thousands of years. Animal farming culture is very different and less industrialized. Many countries don't have a dairy industry to speak of even though dairy products are consumed. Whether you're a non meatertarien on nutritional or ethical grounds, the east seems to have an answer for you. So you can stop eating meat...or you know eat less of it and still have a good time. I'm not sure why we in the west keep talking as if it's not possible without having some conglomerate reinvent meat for the 11th time.

What a jarring style! Is this a twitter thing?; No capitals and single spaced everything... Don't you have to go out of your way to do these days with auto formatting and all?

I've seen this style become "popular" and I have nothing but morbid fascination.