gopher2000

I won't buy a Tesla due to Elon's antics.

But it's not some attempt to punish him. It's because I don't trust him to be a stable long term owner of the company that is building and servicing my car.

I could see myself buying a Chinese EV.

How does that make me a hypocrite?

For me it's not about bankrolling Elon. It's about not wanting to sink a ton of money and become critically dependent on something that is built and serviced by visibly erratic ownership. If Elon was making toasters I wouldn't care. But we're talking about a $50k+ purchase and my only means of transportation for years to come.

Because first impressions matter. See the current perception of Gemini and its "woke parameters".

> if I try to translate that mental model on-the-fly into an explanation for others, it typically comes out as an incoherent jumble of loosely related phrases

In software engineering, I've found that this is very common. And if I look at what successful senior engineers have in common, it's that they've mastered a way to present complex technical information in a way that's easily understood. It's a super power.

It's a fair point but I'd caution that making the "smallest possible good decision" really needs emphasis on good and not smallest or this results in just delaying. And there's a ton of people that cause delays. Especially in the corporate world.

This was also while Elon was spewing that he was a "free speech absolutist" yet was kicking very specific accounts off Twitter. So the hypocrisy was a little different.

So what would you advise?

Large layoffs are rarely, if ever, performance anchored at the IC level. They're anchored in the performance at product/unit level. So the major decider for layoffs is whether you're working on something that is deemed as business positive or not.

> Is a google employee in US somehow more competent than the one in India?

Broadly speaking, I would argue yes.

Are you sure we're reaching that point? The market has certainly cooled but tech jobs are still available. I do think that many new grads will have to adjust their expectations from high 6 figure jobs in FAANGs to normal-but-still-fine compensation in tier 3-4 companies.

I would also argue that it's hard to predict what the market looks like 4 years into the future. That's a reality people should acknowledge when they start a CS degree, etc.

I've never seen a company where performance evaluation gets as much focus as it does at Meta. Some people's entire existence at the company is to game PSCs.

It just makes it a strange argument to use against the Lightning, specifically.

Also, in higher earning roles and industries (e.g. tech), a high % of compensation is in equity. So you'll see some roles advertise wages as $180k-$280k but actual compensation be in the range of $600k-$1M (made up but realistic numbers).

That's not why. E3 lost out to the big game publishers doing their own events. And so it lacked purpose. I also don't think it adjusted well to COVID.

The Game Awards has a similar but different format with a clearer purpose. And it is thriving and has largely replaced the games aspect of E3.

I would feel very confident saying that the percentage of gamers is higher among tech people than people in general. It's easy to point to pretty direct relationships with tech and gaming - and with overlapping cultures.

> I do regret the obsession I had with video games when younger because of the huge time sink I put in

Don't regret time spent doing something you enjoy. So as long as you enjoyed it, feel good about it.

Lots of teams/groups have open video conferencing rooms where people can just hang out without any specific purpose - while doing other work. It works to some extent.

This is standard procedure for Broadcom and acquisitions. Not necessarily a symptom of industry conditions.

> It is extremely easy to disconnect from work.

Clearly that's not the case for everybody. Don't assume that your reality - and what works for you - is universal truth.

> The only skill you need to get promoted is to laugh at the jokes of your boss and schedule meetings to demo your n-th rewrite of the same thing.

This is some bullshit that losers subscribe to.

> But I gave it up because counting calories is soul sucking.

In the beginning it certainly is. But once I did it for a while, I found that I had developed a mental understanding for what various foods represented in terms of calories and could navigate it with much less effort. I started with spreadsheets and apps.

IMO much of the value in calorie counting stems from those early weeks where you suddenly realize how many calories each food represents - and relative to that how filling you find them.

It connects you with products and services that are relevant to you. If you're buying things that you shouldn't, that's on you.

It offers value to you if it improved your ability to discover products or services that you need.

If offers value especially to small local advertisers because it allows them to target a local audience on a very limited ads budget.

Because they are for-profit organizations and thus greedy. Pretty easy.

> Also everyone: "you should work more and take on more responsibilities at work"

Eh this doesn't sound like something everyone says.

The article is literally titled "Association Between Slow-Wave Sleep Loss and Incident Dementia". Association is not causation.

Why would they offer it at a rate that certainly loses money compared to existing ad options?

That speaks in favor of the value of personalized ads. Yet people will generally see it as a bad thing if asked.

> Tell that to the current tech layoffs - while there's some middle management heads rolling there's very little "top level" layoffs.

From an organizational efficiency standpoint: If a large company lays off 15% of its work force, it'll still need its top level people. It hasn't suddenly removed the need for a COO, etc. So what you're proposing doesn't really make sense.

> A company that fires the "ground workers" quickly gets no work being done.

Got any examples of this ever happening?