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I like the idea of moving away from the hard/soft delineation and towards a more qualitative description of each skill. The focus on bucketing into just two things distracts from the differences between all of the things.

I also think, as you describe, that it's very valuable when technical folks have at least some baseline of communication skills (not specifying whether that is hard/soft, especially considering that they may need to communicate about very complex topics). I'm not optimistic about anyone being the best at both, but it's not impossible.

This is exactly right. It is definitely possible that the email protocol could be as open as what I'm describing, but that has not functionally been my experience anywhere.

It's definitely possible that in my post I conflate openness coming from Slack vs coming from my company's culture. Maybe the openness I'm describing would persist with many different apps, as long as the company fosters that culture.

Excited to see this launch! I think there is a lot of opportunity for a terminal that is aware of the fact that the one-computer-per-dev model is not really how it works anymore. That, and a terminal that can help me avoid big mistakes, help me remember commands, and more. It's great to see innovation take place in this space.

This site seems like a great example of how the EU forces productive folks to jump through all kinds of regulatory hoops. Hopefully it’ll help them navigate the complex legislation.

Using 2FA with LastPass (Google Authenticator) makes me feel a lot better about the security. Even if my password were compromised, it would still be hard for an attacker to get access to my LastPass account.

Note that 2FA with SMS is much less safe than a code generator app, since it is much easier for someone to get access to your phone number than to get access to the code generator.

In the post there is actually a graph showing that Transaction Logs filled the database in just 6 days (11/24 through 11/30). This doesn't add up to ~100 GB if we assume that each event takes up 16MB of space, but maybe each event took up even more storage than that.

Why are paper authors able to also act as reviewers? This seems to be a big part of the problem. Is there a lack of topical experts?

Serious question: why are paper authors allowed to be reviewers at all? That seems like the main logistical issue in this review process.