Simon_O_Rourke

Beautiful, but definitely not worth invading or sending our troops to take over, if you don't awfully mind Mr. President.

Just don't fall off the side of those platforms.

It'd be interesting to see what additional "personal atmospheric floatation" devices would be needed.

So what happens if she racks up a few million in fines and declares herself bankrupt, say in the UK, where you can't then be held responsible for earlier debts?

This would lead to literally murder in my part of upstate New York. Heck, my neighbor will even park on his own lawn to avoid the ten foot walk from the pavement.

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It's absurdist whataboutery from Kushner, and no doubt the Israeli foreign ministry pulling the strings.

One does not equate to the other.

What it does do however is undermine current Israeli domestic policy, which can be neatly summed up as keeping their PM out of prison by focusing on the external enemy.

As a manager a lot of the annoying interruptions I put down to, and I chafe at using the word, a lack of hustle.

Okay, so I view my job as primarily giving devs some strategic direction and priority, but also unblocking them from getting work done.

On the later, the kind of interruptions I get are from folks who just don't want to do and figure some things out for themselves. Need access to a database... Go ask infra support. Don't know who wrote this API client, go look in git. There's folks who just don't bother to go search for these things themselves.

Close, travellers mostly.

Not very is the answer. When I worked in finance in the UK a few years back, the credit control team had a few ex-commercial bankers. Those guys had wild stories, the best ones were usually how much money they'd find being added to children's accounts for "birthday gift money". Usually with certain groups who have traditionally large families, the children would all have regular four and five figure cash lodgements.

> If the selection function for senior leadership is tuned to a certain personality type, you're doomed to repeat your mistakes.

Amen, Amen... Preach brother!

All this rings true, from the complete org dysfunction, to the security theatre, all of it paints the hellscape of large enterprises in great detail.

My own personal struggles in this corner world resonate strongly here. I worked in a large energy company, with layers upon layers of incompetence and waste.

Including paying a consulting company a small fortune to build a data warehouse that was so locked down that they had to pay them more and regularly, to access the data it contained.

Security theatre where bozos would open your desk drawer if it was unlocked and confiscate your paper notes and books unless you crawled back to the apologizing.

But who would attempt to live their life using string theory as an organizing principal?

Occult is nonsense, if it does the kind of manipulation of reality it's supposed to do, then go prove it.

This is one step removed from swinging a crystal from a piece of string and using it to divine the stock market. Absolute nonsense the lot of it, and a waste of good printing paper that would otherwise have better use as a instruction booklet for a TP-link router.

I could never figure out the attraction of all this occult nonsense. If it works go empirically prove it, if not just cut our the wishy-washy BS involving the waving around of swords, casting spells or spelling magic with a 'k'.

Thank you PuTTY for saving my butt so many times in archaic security-theatre companies who would block all ssh apps except leave the PuTTY website and downloads still available.

> Eventually countries that don't spend most of their treasure on their military will win.

Win what exactly?

Let's have it correct, businesses pay folks to do work. While they make some allowances for what's happening in a person's life, they're not therapy nor are they charities.

If you can't manage whatever you're suffering from sufficiently to do your job then pity for you.

If it's used to track folks out on bail or already convicted of violent crimes then great. However seeing what the UK police are like right now it's likely to be applied to harass genteel retirees protesting about Israeli barbarity in Palestine.

> Two experiments using the same sets of materials may yield two distinct orderings of the materials.

A quantum static effect?

I've worked with lots of folks on the spectrum and to be honest it's more fun dealing with them as team members rather than "normies".

One guy particularly stands out, he joined the team and started off on a solo run with a couple of projects a few others were involved in. A few weeks later I asked him if he'd setup any meetings with the team to get context and, you know, say hello and his response was "why should I do that, can't they read my PRs?". Classic.

Another one was the very loudly self-diagnosed neurodiverse girl, who seemed to just use it as cover for being a total jerk. Eventually she had to be managed out, as she tipped the scale between doing good work and tolerance of odd behaviors too far - screaming in meetings, histrionics and stuff you'd expect more of someone living on a street corner.

You'd think A. Scott Howe might at least smile in his photo bio.

He looks like one guy you don't want to end up cohabitating with you for centuries on a generational starship.

> responded by having him arrested on grounds of making anti-war speeches, tried him in a military tribunal despite Vallandigham being a civilian, and sentenced him to imprisonment, before Lincoln commuted the sentence to banish Vallandigham to the Confederacy)

That was good enough for him in my book.

There's never a problem so bad that a Californian police officer can't make it worse.

There's a massive fat guy in the local area here who goes blasting around the place on some over-powered, over-noisy bike - but doesn't (or can't find the right sized) leathers, so instead goes out wearing bluejeans and a denim jacket. Just waiting for him to take a slip one of these days to see the folly.

Attention is relative, like if you're in the middle of some code review and your kid calls saying they've got a problem, then you may get distracted - but rightfully so.

Not like this jerk, who's kid had to put time in his calendar for playing chess with him, because he was too interested in his own career https://www.pathtostaff.com/p/work-life-balance-slows-career...

I mean the smallest possible detectable object within reasonable distance to make an intercept maneuver.

Say got example that you can only detect an average sized mosquito from a range of 1cm, then you're in random collision only territory.

Generally yes, but sometimes no. Take for instance the requirement to have the fire alarms at toddler height in our local daycare.

Best of luck on your job search, hope you land something soon!

There's an awful lot of complex navigation, signal processing and trigonometry required here, good luck.

What's the fidelity of the sonar in detection of flying mosquitoes?

> There is a huge difference between what you can feel and do, and what you can say.

Agree 100% - if I were to bring my authentic self to work I'd be fired in about a minute flat.

> That’s why, and call me unethical, I never do more than necessary at work. Never help outside of business hours, never engage with rich bosses. Switch every 2-3 years to new places. Maximise my income (in real money, not imaginary stocks) while trying to work the minimum.

That's not unethical at all, in fact I think that's a highly intelligent strategy to look out for the little guy (namely you) in the bear pit of tech capitalism. Anyone buying into the "we're more than a company, we're family" schtick is just another sucker to be worked remorselessly to line the pockets of the VPs and C-suite.

My previous employers included me in their Director/VP meetings, and the family schtick evaporates pretty quickly when they start talking cuts. One VP in a meeting, quite literally, proposed laying off an entire team of veteran engineers (most with young kids) and the very next thing that came out of this doucebag's mouth was "are we ordering in some lunch?". They do not care a whit about you and once you realise that then you should just look to yourself first and foremost and forget accepting below-average salaries just for some "mission".

They will happily kick you to the curb for any of the following reasons, which I have personally witnessed in the past few years,

- Their pal is looking for a job that's currently occupied by someone else. So they fire and hire.

- They want to deflect blame for their own failures, so they fire a bunch of folks who had nothing to do with the failures.

- They want to appear 'ruthless' to the CEO, so fire people to enhance their own image.

- They do a clear out of their previous incumbents staff once they replace someone and bring in their own crew.