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Green revolution is no joke. To do this countrywide without doing pilot projects and studying the results is kinda lame and stupid

Yeah, with prolonged humiliation

Where is this Ted talk? I couldn’t find it

Possible if you are from India. I am on the same boat

It is like the ship of Theseus. Aggregates exist because that's how we abstract, even though calling it identity would be wrong. I don't know what a good solution is.

Idk.. animals seem to do fine without a lidar

I am sw engineer in the bay area, and I have a 3 hour commute with sun in my eyes, and I am actually paid well! Even getting paid well won't suffice here :). I have thought of moving to a different area, just for avoiding the sun, not the commute, but pandemic threw a wrench in my plans. House prices reached the stratosphere. Few more years I guess

Hmm. US conducted itself in much saner way than any equivalently powerful country before. Look at pre WWII Britain/Germany and others for examples

any model better than naive intuition is better imo

This is actually ideal when they don’t overdo it. OTOH you have teams that don’t give shit about engineering, rarely apply any thought and push work around. What should take a week takes a year, because engineers don’t take joy in their work, don’t spread knowledge around, learn quickly from others etc leading to Dilbertian managers who want butts in seats, have War rooms to get work done.

Tech industry is ripe with managers who cannot manage without abusing their employees in some form or the other. Like pushing people constantly for years, interrupting their work, make them go through hoops to straight up name calling, heckling, bullying and demeaning them. Applying faulty logic when it suits them, gaslighting and destroying employee reputation is on a daily todo list for some companies, orgs and managers. Don’t go looking for rosy big name companies with high profile job opportunities- the same thing that happens to a lot of Hollywood hopefuls will happen to you. Aka you will fucked and forgotten. What I’m trying to say is, if you happen to work with people you like, and they respect you , it is better for you in the long term to stay there. Or Find and develop filters to screen places, teams like these so you don’t get caught

Yeah, that long term is not useful for the engineer whose skills should be valued right. He will be older by that time

As a counter argument none, not one of their devices failed on me in 15 years, and I bought a lot

Please explain. Apple devices last longer than any Android device, or for that matter 95% of all electronics sold

Recognize the underlying needs. For example,

- People need to read news. It isn't optional for most people. Suppressing it will only make it worse. So read offline, get a physical news paper if necessary. Or read on designated computer at a designated time. Stick to it, and your phone as your connection to the civic world dissolves

- Are you meeting family/people? If you are not, please do. If you use chat/whatsapp, stop doing it. Call them frequently

- Do you day trade options? May be consider changing your investment strategy

- Do you play games? May be play them on console of your choice.

I hope you are seeing a pattern here. If you can see what you spend most of your time on phone(most modern phones do it), you recognize the underlying need, and be able to substitute it.

I think it does. Insurance companies use it to calculate the monthly payments. I am sure they are well quantized.

Hmm.. That’s not true. There were birds then. And a lot of dinosaurs that look like birds. https://twitter.com/serpenillus/status/1226553777983016960?s...

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_birds

Yes. 130 people is sufficient for a good sample.

That’s a great point. But it’s not necessary for the events to be periodic.

Screens or not, people are isolated in COVID times. Even hardened criminals go mad in isolation. Children are way more sensitive than that.

Multitasking is easier if the task you are switching to is well understood. So, one way of knowing if people understand something well is, if they can jump in and out of it without much effort

Under this kind of plausible argument, lie all sort of insects (bugs) in the dark. If people can make time to write tests, so should they write documentation. There is inordinate amount of frustration, productivity loss, and regression associated with having poor/outdated/no documentation.

Lol. You are not entirely wrong. Find a job that is exciting to you, and pays your bills. That is what I am doing. It may not be the most exciting thing in the world, but it is to me, and that's all I care about.

This is ridiculous. Yes, you can cut your hand if you put the knife on your finger than the steak. I wonder if they tested putting a mannequin or a robot with human like head with other cars.

Good one. I see what you did there!

Amen brother! This is why it is important to not take things at face value, like most of our country men. Just because India was a poor country and IIT was a good way out, it doesn’t mean there aren’t other paths. This is just myopia induced by scarcity and poverty

Why the feeling of failure then ? There is nothing there that is not in your company now. You are not a graded apple to be sold at a store. If you are intelligent you will recognize these are human constructs, and nature/problems don’t recognize your degree - they are available for everyone

What do you do now?

You also make the successful people entitled and failures on the test feel like a second grade person in that IIT system. While meritocracy is a valid thing, expecting that a 16 year old has enough maturity or suck it up ness to ace that test while not having enough opportunity Is bullshit

Where did you go to school, if I may ask. This seems like a dream to me, and not relatable at all as a student from India