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The general point seems to be that the Fed can only do 1 substantial thing for the economy, raise or lower interest rates. (yada yada quantitative easing, forward guidance)

And interest rates, devoid of any true monetary policy, creates a damned-if-you-do and dammed-if-you-don’t situation for the lower 90% of wealth owners.

The government wasted 10 years of free money by not investing in infrastructure and the clean energy transition. Instead we got 10 years of 1% loans to corporations and billionaires to do stock buybacks. The fed can only lead the horse to water, but if there is a filibuster the horse will never drink.

On a side note: it’s news to me that home values have plunged. A market softening for sure, but a plunge in sale prices? Not in my metro area. Plus a 20% plunge doesn’t mean much when home prices are up 20% yoy

I think that’s the point.

Elon takes the “freedom from consequences” interpretation of free speech when it comes to his complaints about twitter and “cancel culture”, then turns around and effectively cancels these employees for speaking their mind.

For the uninitiated, could someone explain why this is important? Is rendering triangles really that difficult?

It’s possible most of the 6.3% did not own property and we’re not in the market to buy property, so there was no change in that market.

This is easily solved for with a decent rain jacket and rain pants.

When I started commuting via ebike I was convinced I would take the bus or drive on rainy days, but in reality I’ve found that riding in the rain (with rain gear) is still vastly more enjoyable than sitting in traffic.

I live in a city famous for its rain.

If you plan on riding on anything other than perfectly paved and mostly flat concrete the ebike is much more practical.

There are lots of decent ebike options < $2000 and they generally require very little maintenance.

$1000 for inner tubes, break pads, and chain grease is not a reasonable estimate.

I agree with the general premise that consistently shipping and chunking your work to make that possible is very important.

Personally I know that I feel a lot better on weeks I ship vs weeks I don’t ship.

Obviously there is no 1 size fits all solutions for, well, anything.

In my first dev job I was hired as 1 in a pair of jrs to start at the same time on the same team. We never got along. After about a year I was promoted and the other person was let go for performance reasons.

I never really put myself in the other jr’s shoes so thanks for sharing your story. At the time I was pretty intimidated by her and all the other engineers, I can only assume it was much worse for her.

In retrospect it was obviously a bad idea to hire 2 jrs at once. It was a small company (~10 engineers) and we were their first jr hires. I think the company thought that it would foster camaraderie and a little healthy competition, but I think most jrs have too much impostor syndrome for that to work out.

On a side note I think they did have a good onboarding program for new developers. Outside of normal jr level tasks it was roughly 50% technical support: talking to customers, collecting bug reports, reproing bugs, then finding the right engineer to fix them. Over time I started diving into the code myself to see if I could find what was breaking, then eventually putting up fixes myself. It was a good way to contribute real value to the company while learning how a codebase works.

Write down everything you’re going to eat for the day in the morning.

I’ve used logging to great effect for weight loss, but I found it cumbersome to open my phone and log the calories every time I ate. Eventually I started logging my meals before I ate them just to get it out of the way. This led me to pre-logging the whole day. That made it much easier to time my meals and snacks so I wouldn’t get hungry and could stay under my calorie goal

FWIW I have been building web applications with JavaScript for about 7 years - sometimes very complex applications with literally millions of MAU - and I couldn’t have told you with any depth what most of these LOC actually do.

YMMV