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This is a bad, and incorrect, definition of what unit tests are:

> Unit testing (the process of checking small pieces of code to deliver information early and often)

Not simply but don’t want to dox myself

If you can, close slack while writing code - someone will call or tap you on the shoulder if there is an emergency.

Unfortunately, incident response was the first thing that I thought of also. You might be an SRE if? :-)

A fine article. Really appreciated the candor. However, the last bit here left me thinking:

> “ So, this is what I think about when I need to push through. I am at the right place because it minimizes future regrets.”

What is the point of it all? There is probably a reason that the “pursuit of happiness” resonates with people more than a saying such as “minimize future regrets.” I’m not saying the author is wrong - minimizing future regrets may indeed maximize long-term happiness - but I can’t help but feel a little bit of hollowness in the proclamation “minimize future regrets.” But if I’m honest with myself, this may be a projection of my negative mood as I deal with a major current regret (divorce). So maybe there’s something to this idea after all?

I suppose my point is that avoiding pain or regret, while perhaps a necessary precondition, is not necessarily the same as the pursuit of happiness or the pursuit of a meaningful life or life well lived.

Pretty relevant for an open source project.

I don't want to be too harsh, but this answer is incomprehensible.

Thoughts on SafeInCloud? I just opt not to sync to the cloud.

Missed the point by a mile.

You seem to be in denial that this phenomenon exists. I’d suggest reading _The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are._ Quite insightful. Status matters more than you’re letting on, and the perception of it is subconscious. No one (hopefully) is actively making an effort to look down on someone for riding their bike to their job at Pizza Hut - but many subtle things get registered by humans around us every day whether you or they are aware of it.

I’ve heard good things about Kraken. I’d be interested to learn more about who the founders are and how reputable they seem, as well as learning more about where the funding originates.

“Exercise turns out to be the closest thing to a wonder drug that self-control scientists have discovered. For starters, the willpower benefits of exercise are immediate. Fifteen minutes on a treadmill reduces cravings, as seen when researchers try to tempt dieters with chocolate and smokers with cigarettes. The long-term effects of exercise are even more impressive. It not only relieves ordinary, everyday stress, but it’s as powerful an antidepressant as Prozac. Working out also enhances the biology of self-control by increasing baseline heart rate variability and training the brain. When neuroscientists have peered inside the brains of new exercisers, they have seen increases in both gray matter—brain cells—and white matter, the insulation on brain cells that helps them communicate quickly and efficiently with each other. Physical exercise—like meditation—makes your brain bigger and faster, and the prefrontal cortex shows the largest training effect.” - Kelly McGonigal

Kind of interesting that they mention Toby Ord in the article and not his (similar) book, _The Precipice._ William's book _What We Owe the Future_ sounds similar, but rather than research on avoiding disaster as a species, it seems _What We Owe the Future_ will spend more time convincing people that the long-term matters. Please let me know if someone has read both (already) and can compare and contrast the two.

ETA: I see a link to the 80,000 hours podcast mentioning Ord's book as well: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/toby-ord-the-precipi...

This is a good article.

I think about this a lot working in SRE: Disaster avoidance is invisible and often under-appreciated.

I’ve also been reading Toby Ord’s _The Precipice_ and avoiding getting too depressed while in a bit of awe how close humanity was/is to really destroying ourselves.

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I’ve seen a few of his blog posts but never checked out his book! Thanks for the recommendation.

Those last 3 links are all the same, no? Just “https://sre.google/“?

Thank you very much for the recommendations. Do you know of any good books that cover how and what to automate? Let’s say that you have strong SysAdmin fundamentals (Linux, Networking, Python, Etc.), which books would you recommend to learn more about automating in a large organization?

> The characters are just obviously incompetent and/or malicious.

Maybe Sarah, but I think the book makes at least three good points: (1) It is challenging to get an organization to change and to stop viewing IT/Ops as a cost center; (2) It is critical that IT/Ops understands how the business works; (3) Getting the organization to the point that The Thee Ways of DevOps are implemented requires cooperation between Dev and Ops to create the feedback loops necessary for both improvement of daily work and continual experimentation. This necessitates buy-in from management to try new things.

The book is based on The Goal by Eli Goldrat, and while it may be a bit heavy-handed in the portrayal of some characters, IMO it gets at the point that transforming a company’s culture is hard while also illustrating some of the steps necessary to get there.

_The Splendid and The Vile._ My sister recommended it, and it was great on audiobook. I found the stories about Beaverbrook especially interesting. I found the insight fascinating into what Churchill was thinking during the war, how much he leaned on his closest advisors, and how badly some of Hitler's advisors fucked up. I wound up reading (or listening) to it through the lens of how important relationships are in whatever kind of work that we do. Also, in 2021 I read _The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are_ and it was the best book I've read in years.

> The Phoenix Project but it just fills me with rage.

Why?

> Broker-dealers, unlike an investment advisor, are NOT fiduciaries and are not required to act in their customers best interests.

I agree broker-dealers are not fiduciaries, but aren’t zero commission trades for customers better than commissioned trades? And is not about maximizing the payments as the SEC says, it is about the lack of “toxicity” in the orders; the assumption is that trading against retail flow is that it is more valuable to market makers because the trades are less likely to be informed on which direction the market is going to go. This does not mean retail traders are not getting the best price, just that market makers are willing to pay a premium to interact with this flow.

> As I recall, broker-dealers are legally required to get you the best price they can.

With PFOF, broker-dealers are still required to honor the best price posted by the national exchanges as per Reg NMS.

> I'm not convinced retail investors are so dumb that lights and noises make them trade.

Are you sure about that? IMO, It isn’t too dissimilar from making brokerage accounts more like slot machines or candy crush. If you can make something more addictive for your customers to use, it could be a problem. Making it illegal to use push notifications to trigger FOMO seems like an easy move to make on this front.

WOW. That is a lot to take in.... I'll have a read through!

That was great thanks for sharing.

Do you have a lawyer? Have you ever had a lawyer look at any of these contracts? That is where I would start.

HOLY COW BATMAN! It is almost like these social media companies don't have the bests interests of their users at the core of their mission!

I opened an office in London for a trading firm... So at least one?

Who is touting a "Singapore of the West" idea?

Firms move. Then people move. Check out MiFID2 (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mifid-ii.asp). Firms used to be able to satisfy ~~German~~ EU regulations to trade on Eurex, German futures exchange, with HQs in London. Not so after Brexit leaves the UK no longer in the EU.

Where does one buy said book, "Manifold: Space"? I'd prefer paperback or hardcover (no options on UK Amazon)... sounds very interesting.