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10x engineers most certainly exist, I've had the fortune of being able to work with a few and their true impact isn't in the code they themselves write but in the higher-level strategic/architectural decisions they make that impact the team as a whole. That being said it is also my experience that most self-described 10x engineers are anything but, so if one bases their impression of 10x engineers off those self-promoting cases then I can see how it would appear to be a myth

I mean in a sense traditional record labels are already exactly that for the music industry, it's the same financing and payoff model (record labels front an advance to the artist and recoup the advance and more on album sales/revenue share from touring, 90% of signed artists will likely flop but the 10% that take off could become the next Beyonce or Justin Bieber)

MEAL Team Six at it again I see

"it's ok, there's only a 1 in a trillion chance of this happening"

Congrats on the launch, a question on the technical side of things -- how much computational overhead does your desktop client incur on the host machine? If you're running CV algorithms locally, would that necessitate higher minimum system performance specs beyond those recommended by Riot/other game vendors to avoid impacting the performance of the game client itself?

I have yet to deep-dive into the techical details of Pegasus so this is pure speculation, but if Pegasus demonstrates the feasibility of deploying and executing arbitrary payloads on remote devices without the owner's knowledge or consent wouldn't that raise a blackmail vector with this new program? Again I'm not familiar with the specific exploits used by Pegasus, but is there anything stopping another malicious actor from relying on the same exploits to say install a bootloader that downloads images that would trigger a positive scan?

Given the tone of the rest of the letter I don't think that statement can be taken at face value, it comes across much more like a backhanded jibe adding insult to injury

I think a lot of the muffled aesthetic is a consequence of the decisions made in the recording/mixing process, there's a strong room reverb across the recording particularly noticeable on Ringo's drums which combined with the high-end softening of the Fairchild 660 compressor featured on Beatles records gives it a "rock concert while standing in line for the bathroom" color. I could be mistaken but it sounds like a lot of the instrumental parts were recorded in single takes in the same room compared to say Abbey Road where it sounds like they were tracked independently. A consequence of tracking multiple lines together is there can be cross-instrument fuzzing that results in "muffling", it can be an intentional effect though for a more live sound. Just my 2c

Going with your proposal for a decentralized Airbnb/Uber -- how would you handle dispute resolution and trust mediation without a centralized authority in an IRL setting, off-chain? If you have a bad actor in the system, how would you screen/remove them and conversely, how would you prevent abuse of the screening mechanism you propose? Relying on the blockchain as a decentralized database/audit record is one thing, but I think IRL enforcement and mediation of off-chain matters are critical prerequisite matters that need to be addressed before these types of marketplace businesses can even be considered feasible as dApps

I have a few counterpoints to those made in the article:

- As much as current developments have made for more accommodating work/social environments for introverts, I wouldn't go as far as to say that "introverts have the upper hand". If anything, I would say the shift towards increasingly digital modes of interaction tends to reward those with a flair for self-advocacy even more -- just think about who tends to dominate discourse in online forums/social media/conference calls. I personally rely heavily on non-verbal cues to express myself/gauge others in social settings but there isn't really a channel for that type of expression in digital environments. That in turn leads to me feeling like I need to be more verbally engaged despite that not being my natural inclination, which then feeds back into a spiral of mental exhaustion -> degraded conversation and thinking -> more exhaustion.

- The characterization of extroverts as shmoozers and social climbers and introverts as doing "actual work" is rather unfair -- in the past, I've worked with both "introverts" who recognized they could skate by just doing the bare minimum to say they did something in standup and staying out of the way of everyone else and "extroverts" who would actively drop by to check if I needed help with anything. Moreover, in roles like that of a technical lead or solutions architect, being able to clearly articulate and discuss designs is a far more important skill than being a code-cranking steam engine which by the definitions of the article are "extroverted" qualities. When it comes to implementation I'd agree that heads-down, interruption-free environments are the most conducive, but the further I progress as a software engineer the more I've come to realize that implementation is only the tip of the iceberg.

I think introverts as characterized in the article do have it as good as ever as employees, but that is still far from a "reign of introverts". With the growing trends of creator economies and self-employment, self-advocacy is only going to become an even more crucial skill set and mentality to develop -- I can anecdotally attest that the notion that dedication to your craft alone is enough to carry you is a fallacy, and I think those most prone to burnout/depression in creative and self-employed endeavors are those who don't anticipate the level of self-advocacy needed to break through.

Had a relatively similar experience (finally understood what drinking out of a firehose meant), the silver lining of the experience though is it finally dispelled any notion of imposter syndrome when I realized everyone was running around as much of a headless chicken as myself ahah

Aha, sneaky little particle thought it could make a clean escape without being noticed, did it?

Same with the UC system, if you look at the Asian/Asian-American demographic it's in some cases close to double that of comparable non-race blind institutions. When I was going through the college application process in my day, the unspoken Asian/Asian-American quotas for top private institutions were accepted as a given rule of the game which led to some pretty vicious rivalries among my peer group (whether accurate or not, there was a notion that our district was allocated a sub-quota of the overall quota, so it was perceived to be a zero-sum game as to who would get HYPSM offers each year). Even if the recent court rulings weren't in their favor, it's heartening to see newer cohorts of Asian-American applicants start to challenge the rules directly instead of solely focusing on their internal competition