You must be young. Social well being is the number 1 indicator of happiness, and is indeed correlates with long life. If this one change was enough for someone to be more social and spend more time with a wider group of people, it could have many positive effects. I see this in my life.
Yes I very much have those problems. It's strange because I'm objectively a good engineer, but semantic retrieval is very difficult for me. It has been my entire life.
When I was a kid I did a round of testing for ADHD, and one of the tests is category fluency. Basically they gave me a category (e.g. Breakfast foods) and told me to say as many words in that category as I could in 60 seconds. I failed miserably; the administrator told me it was essentially as bad as people with severe cognitive deficiency. I just haven't worked about it since then! (Except with names!!)
I want one thing - tell me people's names. I have the unholy ability to say your name several times and have an hour long conversation, and still not remember it next time I see you. People take this so personally that I've started avoiding some social gatherings where I only lightly know people! I'd love to "know" the name of everyone I've met because I'd be so much more comfortable seeing and talking to them again!
Seems like a no-brainer. I wonder if they ever started to build these capabilities in house; I'm sure they already had so much of the tooling available.
Seriously, I work at a FAANG and Zuck would be in the top 5% most talented people at my company. Hands down. That doesn't take away from all the things he's clearly _terrible_ at, one being actually caring about other people, but still clearly an exceptional engineer and business mind.
I lived in Iowa City for several years while my kids were young. It is an amazing city. Everyone is lovely, the restaurants are great, home of an active local grocer, tons of activities by the university, great schools, low CoL, completely walkable, and nothing was ever more than 5 minutes away (yes, when we moved, I had to reorient myself on what "far away" was). I think my kids were lucky to grow up there!
Idk what happened on their end, but someone close to me was recently diagnosed with cancer. After the biopsy came out positive, they wanted to do a pet scan, but had to wait for approval from insurance (which apparently could take several weeks). I offered the same as you, and they agreed and did the pet scan within days.
I don't know if we had bad service or what, but I bought both my kids cell-connected Apple Watches and had a terrible experience. Could never get ahold of them, half the time they couldn't call us or message us, battery sometimes wouldn't last a day, and on and on. I cancelled the plan and the watches sit in a drawer now.
100%. Worst is when the called function is in a separate file, and the most upsetting is when it's the _only_ function in the file. I really wish IDEs or tools like Sourcegraph could handle this better.
This first one is about dominant market position by paying for placement on all surfaces (iPhone, Firefox, etc.) plus chrome. So splitting off chrome and android make sense in the context of the suit.
Sorry my comment was in jest about how those exact lackeys have denigrated out federal workers, and here they are behaving in just the way they claim the workers are. I hope your comment and this one clear it up, thank you!
This must be based on company. At my previous position I worked with MANY Europeans (mainly Munich and London, but also Poland and France) and they all worked late hours to overlap US tzs. I was always so impressed by how little they complained about doing so.
Right? I am astounded by these takes. If every corp and every job was this way, our country would be a high-stress, unemployed wasteland. Any org will drop thousands in a heartbeat. Your family would never be safe.
We work so hard already. We already have such high stress. I do not believe we need to eke out the last %s of profit to pass to shareholders and create crushing stress and work on those remaining.
False dichotomy. They will likely be used to continue tax cuts for the wealthiest (and corporations? I don't remember), which are set to expire. That is neither scenario that you envisioned.
Why do those people still work there? They should be let go individually to find something more compatible. Mass layoffs are not the way to make that decision.
This is a false dichotomy. The truth is we are constantly moving further and further away from the silicon. New developers don't have as much need to understand these details because things just work; some do care because they work at a job where it's required, or because they're inherently interested (a small number).
Over time we will move further away. If the cost of an easily managed solution is low enough, why do the details matter?
There are a lot of transpilers, and they don't get much adoption because the people implementing them are not the people implementing the database.
The database and the query language are tightly coupled. The latter determines the kinds of optimizations that the former can do, and a transpiled language means that optimization info needs to be passed through in weird and inefficient ways; it also means that obvious optimizations aren't possible, because the people building the language are not building the db.
If you've ever tried used query hints, or deeply inspected a distributed query plan, you'll know exactly what I mean.