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Getting onto the allowed vendor list for the US Government is a dire process even for the largest of global service companies, by design by the folks already on the list.

I was able to work as an individual as a subcontractor for a subcontractor for a company on the list. Rates aren't as high, but with federal regulations (for now) mandating that subcontractors be paid as soon as the primary contract holder was paid meant that there was 0 chasing after invoices which is actually very nice.

Source: Trust me bro

I'm sure there have been bat changes all along the way, and if the Yankees hadn't scored 20 runs that day we wouldn't be reading about this either.

Remind him that he needs to turn in his interlocking NY for an interlocking LA.

The concept is out there -- different players would have different tendencies that would require slightly different adjustments.

This will make the team owners either do their own analysis, or come up with yet more excuses to hide the fact that while they could afford it, they won't.

This supports the inverse square rule for seafood restaurant quality vs. being near the ocean. There are good places, but right on the water? Universally bad.

I imagine bringing up the current situation with John Deere and how the law would enshrine the right to repair the tractor that you bought with your own money would go farther than most arguments with those folks.

Reminds me of the equivalent you see so often about driving where people slower than you are morons, while those faster than you are crazy.

Reading through this, the main thing I'm seeing is the opportunity for impact. They think you're doing great, they promoted you, and now they are looking for you to lead this new (to you) underperforming team, in order to get them moving in the right direction.

Devil's in the details, but you have full control in your hands; you need to realize that you have full agency in your situation and lead from wherever you are in the org chart.

In my GenX brain, a Van Halen album* comes to mind.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxg1nB9yQ8

Same, and now I've spent the last two weeks trying to convince YouTube that I don't need several different videos of Christmas music playing over a fireplace.

Feels a whole lot like the dumb emails I get from places like Home Depot, where because I bought a table saw they feel I should know about all these other table saws they have.

The Sky Follower Bridge browser extension[1] works really well to find everyone you were following on Twitter and find their Bluesky accounts. It finds matches, close matches, and maybes so you do need to review, but the tool doesn't autofollow, just makes it easy to follow.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...

One of the big things that keeps me where I'm working now is the org structure that keeps managers & non-managers on separate career tracks until significantly higher in the org chart than most big companies. Moving between manager & not isn't a promotion or demotion; it's a sideways shift.

The key to largeco success is to understand that when you own a certain area, especially if it's an area that will generate opinions or a visibility boost, you will need to manage your full stack, not just the code you write. Code access, PR acceptability requirements, roadmap, triaged backlog, and communication upwards, downwards, and sideways.

If you're not doing that work, either someone else is going to do it or it'll cause issues down the road. Look at it this way: you can either be grateful that so many folks are wanting to help you in your effort and coordinate that effort, or you can stick to the code and complain that someone else is trying to steal your credit.

All of this hinges entirely on your direct manager (and to an extent their manager) being an actually good manager, and not a microcontroller, pass-the-buck-er, or an empty chair.

Anyone know if eggs are officially good or bad for us this year? I lost track.

Every manager I've ever had that couldn't let go of their IC hat also had a pile of manager hat work that wasn't ever getting done.

For me, it's my ability to give feedback directly to a dev team building out an imperative language for use in our products: what was easy, what's a PITA, what are big, glaring gaps making things impossible, etc.

What helped me finally remember "left of what, exactly" is to imagine a timeline, left to right. Shifting left is moving things earlier in that timeline.

> Based on what previous in-real-life examples is this a realistic worry

My interpretation is that the post you replied to was 100% satire.

This is all academic for me until Bluesky gets the functionality to get an account back onto their main network, for DR if not peace of mind that an "undo" is possible.

> On Windows land you have something similar

I'm still waiting to hear about a kernel-level exploit that starts with Visicalc or similar.

Unless they aren't in a space where telling that truth is safe, be it from familial pressure, peer pressure, pressure from their significant other.

Same for the young men, honestly.

> Which goes against accepted logic that women would be more likely to conform socially.

Citation needed. Where is that coming from?

> As a student, the only thing the next institution will see is GPA, school, major. Roughly in that order.

And every non-educational institution after that will see school, degree as a checkbox.

In this particular case, it's helpful to remember that two people can be wrong.

I had a similar experience -- their (age 2 & 5) favorite thing? Was it the rides, meeting all the characters? No. The parking lot tram.

I like wearing chunky glasses -- they fit my face well.

These things look at least twice the thickness of anything I'd ever consider wearing in public, in any circumstance.

Or so the devil would have you believe.

Same, but for me it's because as I've gotten older, sometimes my finger gets unsteady enough to double tap something, mostly on touchpads rather than a mouse.

I can tell that you're trying to make this work, and I very much appreciate the effort, but where is the no-code part? The YAML is definitely code. HTML & CSS are code. My rule of thumb: if you screw up the punctuation and that causes the thing to break, that was code.

Second, too much zooming. It was really hard to wrap my brain around what was going on when everything was moving around so quickly.