RobRivera

Once upon a time I worked at a famous BB bank in an electronic trading shop. I had joined from a 10 year military career as technology specialist. I had a chummy colleague introduce me in the elevator to a peer in a different but related functional. Upon the introduction, I made eye contact, stated 'Hello it is great to meet you and I am excited to collaborate with you' and extended my hand for a handshake.

He gave me a look, scanned me down-and-up, and then looked forwarded at the elevator door. That concluded the social interaction. He had attended Dartmouth. I had attended a nonIvy.

Reading OPs first paragraph with that experience in my mind, it conjures the question 'has this Ivy grad (multiple times over) possessed the curiosity to know about other lifestyles? If not, why? Did he think himself above? Is it possible to navigate one's entire life without knowing how to empathize with a man who is a tradey? Was he not a Red Sox fan? Did he not celebrate the same rapid fire successive championships that Boston had acquired in the 2010s across football, baseball, and hockey?' And then I posed myself the question 'Why am I reading this random elite author? Why am I not reading about the Plumber? What is the motivation of the author to portray his privilege as a detriment and disadvantage?'

Ultimately, this kind of writing, at least for me, is a reminder to keep grounded and be blind to class to see people for who they are.

UX feedback

Me: hmm, this title confuses and infuriates Rob.

[Clicks link]

Me: Sees same title, repeat feelings of confusion and infuration

[Scrolls article down on my smartphone]

Me: Sees jpg with the same title, repeat feelings of co fusion and infuriation.

[Closes tab]

[Continues living rest of my life]

I hope this feedback is well received and understood.

Just play the games. They're good fun.

I need more dopamine headlines like this to justify my dopamine addiction to coffee.

That's just, like, his opinion man

Oddly enough i have a similar bit about electronica, but its a fine line between productive programming and distraction

>If the violations are intentional and easily fixable, then just pass laws/regulations requiring AV's to follow the law or else cease operations entirely.

I have to stop reading the rest of the comment right there.

If the violations are intentional and easily fixable is an incredibly loaded presumption to start any type of conversation, dialogue, or debate. To the point, asking the question 'how do we qualify intention? How are we measuring difficulty of fix? Costs of payroll, computer, deployment, and potential regression testing? What about the very nature of the context that led up to it? Did an external 3rd party cutoff a robotaxi and require that the robotaxi veer into the oncoming traffic lane, bc sensors indicated it was the best decision to avoid a collision, prioritizing safety and human life over traffic law?

What happens when following traffic law statistically leads to a greater risk of loss of life over violating the law?

I must insist we move the dialogue upstream to reality as-is, and there is plenty to discuss there.

I will in good faith issue a starting point: how should we measure the robotaxi driver license wrt suspension? Do we issue a point system that is averaged across the fleet, e.g. violations/car before suspending all operations until licensure evaluation? Personally I think that is a fair starting point amd am completely open minded to alternative views.

Github stars are such a terrible metric, completely gameable. The facy it is taken seriously appalls me.

Lmao, anonymization of usage

Oh man time to see if there is a chrome Bonzai Buddy extension

I wake up, there is another psyop, I go to sleep

From my point of view

The Jedi

Are not nice

Thanks for the lead on the details, this has been on my spring cleaning todo list. Sounds like I have my weekend errand picked.

Hhmmmm,

Could be a sell off if it isn't managed...measured buy-backs scaled over a timeline that maybe offers them an opportunity to invest in other commodities may be preferable.

Actually now that I think about it...I should probably keep a pulse on ME holdings about 2 or so decades from now

That's not a productive stance to take, if you're trying to be good faith and an agent of progress, even assuming morality isn't realitive, and the context nuanced.

Frankly, I love the idea of an automation engine printing out tangible works. I actually build spritesheets that way! Load a bunch of individual gimp files as layers, set them offset by a given parameter, and boom, done!

Would be rad to incorporate some statistical procedurally generated designs based on my own aparatus.

What I do not want to see is this realm of LLMs hijacking decades of hard work and consideration for integration channels to more tailor towards their LLMs, not for the diligent engineer.

If they want to put their tentacles as far as they want while making products more difficult to work with innovation of a different color, they are making enemies out of, at least me.

I have to ask you for coaching advice here, as I may or may not be experiencing similar things. Does the correction impact your political capital? I am a firm believer in critique in private, but in key meetings where capabilities are the inputs to other discussion, it is difficult to bite my tongue

Shrimp and all

Its a fun line, but the volume of money they have and the way its managed says they are looking at retaining that wealth somehow

That's genuinely my baseline, then I ask 'why do we want to manage this dependency?'

I can appreciate the desire to close gaps on expertise deficiency and make a vendor responsible, but the whole schtick of 'outsource everything and focus on your business for advantage' always rang to me as just an excuse to give our money to vendors.

Its almost as if the whole case for vertical integration is just taken as a wash

Make mine p p p p p p vicodin

Financial services?

Ha! I have been taking similar personal notes for writing a book.

I am picking up what this author is putting down.

Yes

I mean - uh - gotta find all the signals that may exist.

I...admire the diligence

From my point of view, the Jedi are a state-funded militia coded as a tax exempt non profit!

Yet another opportunity to provide an alternative that keeps data private

So I was able to create all the bits necessary to introduce the palette change in a similar manner (3x256 changes) on the triggerz and at the moment of truth instead of grey I got a GREEN and PURPLE fadeout (I wasnt sure if you meant rbg or rgb for the ratios so i tried both).

I also tried 128 across the board for grey, and it just made a dull fade which may be the best I can do with my method.

I think it may simply be because rather than have palletes controlled by rgb, I load predrawn sprites using sfml's sprite and texture classes. So the default rgba is 255,255,255,255 - so I have a sidequest to figure out the RIGHT WAY of applying rgb changes to predrawn sprites.

It may very well be a simple matter of "sfml does it differently" or perhaps having grey variants of all sprites and toggling. I feel there has to be a way to accomplish the fade to grey programmatically. Fun little dive tho! I'll have to post an update when I figure it out.

I havent gotten behind the console, but thats like, exactly what I was gonna do, except precompute like 5 or 6 tween values for r,g,b between 255 and the target for greyscale.

But rather than do that and cache them for timing triggers, I kind of like the scaling down by multiplication approach.

Edit: manipulate the rgb values that is - I wouldnt have converged on those hard values on my own.

Oh rad! Thanks for the heads up. I'll do a post-dev comparison to see what I land on and what was done here.