deodar

Hello, I suspect your first comment is flagged because of this second one. I do not agree with the flagging decision, you are definitely entitled to your opinion.

My opinion is that the world is not nearly as messed up as the news and the social media outrage cycle will lead you to believe. Humans have always inflicted suffering on others knowingly or unknowingly and the world has always been messed up to some degree.

Addiction replaces this existential pain with other problems, be it addiction to chemical substances, gambling or even internet addiction (which is likely the opiate of choice for a lot of us here including me).

IAC I hope you do take a break from news and social media at least and feel better. Best wishes.

That's reaching rather far to defend violence against human beings just for the color of their skin.

Maggi noodles are ubiquitous in India. Two generations of Indian kids have grown up eating them and the ads aggressively targeted kids. In my generation, most Indian origin adults still love it and consider it an occasional indulgence, knowing how unhealthy they are.

Even the recent finding that Maggi noddles have egregious levels of lead [1] has not dented their popularity one bit.

1. https://recipes.timesofindia.com/us/articles/features/maggi-...

Here's my anecdote.

It was really good, as someone who flew pre 9/11. I remember reaching Logan airport 20 minutes before my scheduled flight in 2001 thanks to Boston's traffic. I walked to the gate unimpeded (nothing to check in). Zero stress.

Part of it is also that flights used to be much less overbooked and the overall experience was better and this isn't just nostalgia.

However I don't think it's completely fair to blame the TSA for the worsened experience. The threat model has changed since then. Add to that shrinking seats, worse customer service, more crowded airports, and the experience is much worse.

A few years back, we decided to minimize air travel and take a lot more local vacations. Yes, we miss flying but at some point the hassle exceeded the desire to visit exotic locales.

Yes. This is misplaced nostalgia. I am biased though - I simply cannot stand the sound of chalk grating against a blackboard.

Couldn't agree more. There seems to be some fundamental human dynamic at play here that I don't fully understand. Teachers and school administrators know exactly who they bullies are, yet they will tolerate and even actively enable them. They will punish any victim of bullying who dares to fight back with alacrity.

My personal and unproven theory is that most school staff are bullies/cowards themselves (two sides of the same coin). They have a instinctive fear of punishing bullies and dealing with the blowback from their parents because the odds are good that bully parents will raise bully kids. Victims are often socially awkward and an easy target to punish without much risk to the teacher.

Yes in Hindi you have different nouns and adjectives for uncles, aunts and cousins depending on the relation path:

E.g. Mother's sister = Mausi

Mother's sister's child = Mauseri/mausera

Father's younger brother's child = chacheri/chachera

And so on.

Although some of these are more obscure and I'm not sure how commonly they are used these days.

This is horrifying. What exactly in the manufacturing process could cause such egregious contamination?

This may be due to moderator inaction.

I moderate an Apache project mailing list and the amount of spam it receives on on some days is silly. However thanks to the good work done by the ASF infra team it takes very little effort from ML moderators to keep the spam from reaching subscribers.

Dumb question - are you saying the employee count sounds too low given the valuation or too high?

I put one (possibly wrong) interpretation in an earlier comment.

As for the mother part, in many Hindu traditions monks and voluntary celibates are encouraged to see all women the same as their mothers, to remove temptation. Now he's an ascetic ergo his ex-wife is like a mother to him.

The cryptic yet amusing tone is much like a Zen koan, not a Hindu parable.

It's almost as incomprehensible as a Zen koan. I think the husband is showing the difference between talking and doing by, well, doing it. A radical way to demonstrate it.

Looks like it applies to vscode too

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_82

Unfortunately that's not true. It is not easy even for strong programmers to polish up on Leetcode, find a new job, get a written job offer, have the new employer to file for an H1B transfer, and get an acknowledgement from USCIS all within the 60 day window. The 2021-2022 job market was an aberration where anyone with a pulse could find a programming job within a few weeks.

Even in the best case, as the 60 day deadline gets closer you also have to plan for the contingency and start planning how to uproot your life. Pack your belongings, sell your car, plan to take the kids out of school for at least the current school year. Even if you get the H1B approval a few days after you return to your home country, visa stamping can take months so you have to plan for an extended absence and the good possibility that you won't be able to return.

Sure we can say that this is exactly what H1B workers signed up for when they came to the US and it is true that no one goes into this blind. However it is not a pleasant situation to be in, and the fear of facing this, especially in the kind of job market we saw in 2023, takes its toll on families.

Hello, I'm not a sycophant, you can check my comment history.

In this case I genuinely believe the post was borderline criminal and grossly irresponsible given the situation the world was in on March 20, 2020.

I'm non-white. My friendliest and kindest neighbor is white, an old timer who has been in the same house for over 50 years. His wife bakes cakes for us and they share produce from their vegetable patch. The only other neighbor who talks to me regularly is also white. He is also from an "older" generation with grown up kids who have moved away.

The rest of the neighbors are a younger and more diverse crowd who have moved here within the last decade. A few of them will wave hi occasionally. More commonly they will avoid eye contact.

IMO it is a generational thing and not racial.

This article feels too self-congratulatory. Love of reading by itself doesn't impart any special critical thinking or creative skills. At the extreme it can be another mode of passive consumption that hinders one from developing the creative muscles.

Reading is just one part of an all rounded development.

This is exactly right. Lightning is more resilient to damage. Lightning also puts the fragile part on the charger side and not in the device. Two of my USB-C devices developed loose connections after a year or so that replacing the charger wouldn't solve, a camera and a Windows laptop.

I reread this essay once every few months. It is a good reminder that there is no shortcut to being an effective engineering manager.

A common mistake many new and seasoned managers make is to delegate and then disconnect from the details. Once so disconnected, it is a one-way street where the manager progressively operates at a higher and higher level. Now they are no longer in a position to evaluate the reliability of estimates from their engineers or the output of their work. Worse, they lose awareness of the technical debt being accumulated and tradeoffs being made.

This works out fine if they are lucky to have a highly competent and conscientious team and it is a disaster otherwise. The latter is more likely in the real world especially if you are not working for a company that can afford to hire top-notch engineering talent.

Rickover's approach outlined in the above article keeps managers grounded in the reality - delegate but do not disconnect from the low-level details. The flip side is that this may come across as micromanagement (and Rickover was a notorious micromanager). Effective management is anything but easy.

From The Article, I assume.

Acknowledged.

I am also late to your response dang, however I believe you need certain level of karma to flag.

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