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Curious if those who were incensed by “performative wokeness” have any insights to offer on this phenomenon… or if their anger around semantics only cuts one way Edit: feel free to downvote, but if yo…

I think it only takes a few moments of skepticism to show that "Is X the most important thing about being a Y?" doesn't mean anything. Being good at something obviously comes down to mu…

I think this is a decent article, with some distilled wisdom... Though I also think it has some repeating status-quo mumbo-jumbo. Every time somebody says a soft-science claim and presents it as a fac…

I won’t presume to suggest a cause, but it’s worth acknowledging how terrifying it is that any of a number of compounds in a relatively small dose could cause wild effects on the human mind or body.

My intuition is that if there isn't capitalism/meritocracy within your company (i.e. competitive forces that allow superior people to move levels quickly) then the company itself will be m…

> We wouldn't have to guess and allow for right-wing conjectures if FAA were just transparent on the process and if any changes have been made. There's no world where you out-research eve…

No, they haven’t lowered the standard to graduate.

So how it works is there's a selection process to go to ATC school/training. Just getting into training doesn't mean you get to be a controller, you get tested a lot and hard with very …

tl; dr -- "Pinning Last Night’s Disaster On Diversity Hiring Is Unsupportable"

I suppose it’s at least nice that it’s so unsophisticated about its bias, for now at least.

Asgs can do both of those things, it’s a 5% use-case so it takes a little more work but not much

I’ve never seen a single company use kubernetes or terraform to move vendors; the feasibility of that was massively over represented

I think you’re comically misunderstanding what 95% of companies actually are doing with kubernetes

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

> There's not really any other (well supported) alternative if you want that You don't think AWS autoscale groups give you both of those things?

Not really.

I think you're sort of hand-waving here. I think the concrete question is -- do you need to learn more or fewer abstractions to use kubernetes versus say AWS? And it looks like kubernetes is more…

I think the point is that there are abstractions that require you to know almost nothing (e.g. that my laptop has a SSD with blocks that are constantly dying is abstracted to a filesystem that looks l…

I'm not sure what your point is here... Where the author went wrong in this post is that he tried to interpret an error ("I was asking claude to solve the wrong problem"), was wrong, an…

This roughly mirrors my experience so far. Mind you I'm an extremely qualified engineer who has worked at FAANG. Except I'd add that as one gets experience working with the AI I can only ass…

> At the dawn of a second Donald Trump era, Mark Zuckerberg has been busy sucking up to a president who last year threatened him with life in prison. I'm guessing most of the upvotes are schad…

The sad thing is, I feel like Meta has used up so much trust that I wouldn't even entirely dismiss the possibility that this was a deliberate thing to show a reduction in certain metrics on certa…

The internet was a government project. It's laughable to even imagine that if these billionaires didn't exist then nobody else would have invented video chat...

Good thought. The only change I'd make, to make your neutrality explicit, is to say - A specific trans person can be an an asshole. A specific trans person can be a saint. - A specific white man …

That's a really weak argument. Let's clarify: 1. An anti-free-speech government that arrests people for discussing certain topics that controls a company that seems not to show certain topic…

No, I'm saying that if they aren't even willing to assert innocence of manipulating what trends then we certainly shouldn't presume innocence. I'd like for them to testify under …

This feels pretty convincing to me. It also feels to me like we shouldn't have to reverse-engineer platforms to deduce whether they are pushing an agenda... If they aren't doing any interf…

My question was whether they are allowed to go viral. Sounds like there's evidence in another thread that they are actively manipulating what goes viral on key current political topics... which s…

Well, I looked up Taiwan protest and the 4 I looked at were all allegedly Taiwanese protesting against their own independence.... (For context only 10% of Taiwanese support unification with China pe…