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Ok, now tell me something which isn't obvious

What's wrong with mediocrity and laziness? Once you do enough to put a roof over your head and food on your table there's exactly zero reason to do more.

This is a ripoff.

They can handle just the bureaucracy for a small fee. Some of them refuse to do so, but they totally can.

That's why Italians don't to this directly. We go to an "autoscuola" (driving school) which not only teaches us how to drive, but also handles the bureaucracy for us. They book the exams and stuff.

If you own a car in Italy, you have to locate the nearest autoscuola/ufficio pratiche auto (literally "car bureaucracy office") and get in friendly terms with them. They do all sort of car-related stuff for relatively small fees (the only one I remember is the 1€ fee for paying the car tax).

This is not the case in Italy. While Rome is probably more accommodating to foreigners than a random 100-people village deep in the Alps, Rome is also the worst mess of a city we have. Milan, Turin and Florence are probably more suited for somebody who doesn't speak the language or understand the bureaucracy. If you can afford to live there, smaller municipalities used to deal with tourists are also a good choice. At least they'll speak English.

I think one of the most important things to keep in mind, if you want to move to Italy, is that Italy is a diverse country. There are places which are very open-minded and welcoming and places where people don't want even other Italians to move in, let alone strangers. Doing some research before moving will help a lot.

I used to just skip any job posting which required a cover letter but now, thanks to AI, I can fight their bullshit with more bullshit!

I'm not involved in my current company's hiring process, but in past companies I just skipped the cover letter.

It doesn't say anything useful anyway.

The whole Reinassence happened without copyright law and they did just fine.

In fact, a lot of masterpieces we have from that period would have been illegal under current IP law because they were the result of a lot of iteration on the same concepts by different artists.

I'll just take a quick look at you, so we can be sure there's someone watching those who watch those who watch the watchers

Yeah. I don't host anything on their repo, but now I have 30 days to go through all every Docker image I use and check if they have moved. This is extremely disruptive for me (and something I'll remember next time I'm considering something offered by Docker Inc or dependent on them).

I've seen people getting some nasty bytes from it, though

Heck, I don't think I'd manage to have $250k in liquidity in my whole life and this is my standard operating procedure for my money.

You never know when some weird, once-in-a-lifetime stuff is going to hit your bank. Learned the lesson the hard way when I ended up stranded in the middle of nowhere without a working debit card for a damned IT outage.

Yeah, but platforms fail, go out of business and can have issues.

If you use this service (or any other of the ones mentioned in the other comments) you'll need to periodically check that they are ok (and that all your details are up to date).

Great thread, if you need to polish your shoes

> Heh, are there actual companies where this is possible?

I've seen companies where this was presented as a benefit. The small ones said things like "you have X ours a week you can spend working on whatever part of our product/infrastructure you want, even outside your current role!" while bigger ones restricted it to "corporate hackathons" (aka work after hours for a cold pizza and some warm beer).

If there's a why to persuade an engineer to work for free, out there there's at least a couple MBAs who've tried it.

For being the point of the article (and it is), it's very well hidden. I like the article and feel like we need more of this out there, but they should be written a little better.

No, it probably means you're getting assigned your personal security guard tracking every step you make until you leave property. And that the moment you look too awkward a very friendly guy is going to come to you and start asking questions.

To be honest, this also makes you stand out. Maybe Disney doesn't really care, but when I worked on people's data a bunch of "ghosts" entering our system without really leaving a trace would raise all kind of eyebrows and maybe even get a team assigned to them to find out what was going on (to be honest, one of my tasks was to find out malicious actors, and this is exactly the kind of behaviour you expect from them).

At this point, surveillance is so massive that not leaving a trace is a trace of its own.

No. Not about programming, anyway.

I was passionate about programming when I didn't do it 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week, most weeks of the year. It was a fun, new thing and I could spend my free time on it. Now, I spend most of the day on it and want to do something else when I clock out. Also, I already have some trainings on the job and anyway we're always trying something new so I already learn technical stuff anyway.

A couple of times a year I have some non work-related problems and decide to solve them coding stuff, but I still view them as chores, as much as changing a lightbulb or painting the porch.

But most people don't seek a random image of "pink Cadillac with a man in a black top hat". They either search a specific picture they can describe that way (famous photo, specific guy to reference...) or don't know what it looks like and need a refence (and the uncanny, not-quite-right thing AIs tend to generate on unspecific prompts is totally useless). In both cases, AI-generated look alikes are the wrong answer to the question.

It might work for some use cases, but it would never replace the search function.

That's exactly what "effective altruism" means. It's just philosophical marketing to dress the basest selfishness as altruism. Google the phrase up the next time you feel you have too much faith in humanity.

They fired and sued the CEO, which means they should probably have noticed something before having to fire 10% of the company.

Durov has been pushing a lot of blockchain nonsense over his app. I really like Telegram as a chat app, but his stunts are making me wonder whether it's still a good idea to depend so much on it.

To be honest, I expected a bigger discussion on this topic.

Yeah, luckily, those exceptions are really rare. Last time one happened to me I wasted three days before finding the culprit.

I have an M1 Pro and Jira is barely usable every other day. I don't think it's a matter of processing power.

> There’s undoubtedly legacy stuff and tech debt there

That's for sure, but I don't remember many instances of tech debt or bad architectural decisions which had been solved by just shutting things down.

This may be true in the USA, but not in the rest of the world. I live in Europe and, even if I often drive by a Tesla dealer on my way to work, don't know that many people driving one. Basically all the discourse I hear about Tesla comes from the Internet (and most of it from Twitter, even if I don't actually use that site).

The next time I have to buy a car, my decision to buy or not a Tesla will be heavily influenced by the information I already have, which comes from there (obviously, I'll also take other things into account and even pay a visit to the dealer - but still, I wouldn't consider it if nobody told me anything about the brand).

This is a big change, which is evoking some powerful reactions in people - it's pretty obvious that a company might want to get some distance between its brand and the maelstrom. They can always come back later, when things calm down.

This way, if nothing happens, they can always come back silently (or spinning the story in a way they want). If some PR disaster happens, they are safely away from it.

For me, this was to be expected and is a testament of how important Twitter has become in the marketing world that it isn't bleeding out advertisers even quicker.

Either they pay or you can sue, publicly complain damaging their reputation and so on. That's why you never quit in this cases, but make sure that everybody knows that your BFF is a lawyer.