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Have been seeing both the LA and SF Waymo operating zones increase steadily. Also seen Waymo's being driven manually outside of those ranges presumably for further development.

I love things like this. And it's impressive that you do surgery + travel + programming. I can hardly manage just the last one.

For launches like this, the blocker for me signing up is seeing an example of the UI. Productivity tools, especially ones for trip planning are so heavily design + vibes based that I'd need to see what it looks like before considering how it would be helpful for me. I think others might feel similar as well.

Congrats on the launch and good luck!

I feel similar to how the parent commenter feels, but describe it using different words. Therapists and psychiatrists will use similar language, dopamine, motivation, and executive function.

How do you recommend one does this? > I strongly recommend trying to break it

I currently try to hack my main activities to prevent myself from being too lazy to do them. Would be happy to hear your suggestions!

Hope next.js 14 isn’t the framework behind the “simple SSR site”

Woah, the pompous eccentric billionaire(?) is actually not altruistic, never heard this story before!

/s

You're right, there's plenty to be grateful for, and even folks working for the same tech companies have it worse in non-U.S. offices than their U.S. counterparts.

Just because we have it great as tech workers and much of the rest of labor is absolutely fucked up in many ways, doesn't mean we should stop fighting to make our situations even better and use the privilege to advocate for those in worse situations.

I build CRUD apps at BigCo and most of the LOC is pretty mindless but needs to be deployed yesterday. Copying over 100 different memberVariable = DATABASE_CONSTANT in different forms becomes much easier when copilot starts guessing the format.

Including the US, but here bribes are legal, it's called lobbying!

Completely agree with you, not only are they for profit but they’ve gotten a lot of help from Uncle Sam along the way too!

Losing my sweet, sweet TC is the threat.

> rather than let the other person work out the solution in isolation only for me to then suggest a totally different approach in the PR review

This is my biggest frustration when working with new people. Too busy to explain context, then let me do it my way, then in PR review tell me to flip the whole thing based on specific context only few people had along with team specific style nits. Finally, manager asking why it's taking me so long to complete the work.

at work? just shoot me then

I don’t think so. It has more to do with police brutality, unnecessary use of force, power tripping and ego, murdering of unarmed civilians sometimes children sometimes people in their own home, etc. than specific details about investigation of fraud. The bar is still very low of what we can expect of our “civil servants”.

Always surprised when people buy (as opposed to rescue) one of those health issue ridden pups which are constantly hobbling around and panting from just walking. Some people find it cute but it really is sad to see the little gremlin have a painful life trying to do normal dog things.

Maybe it depends on how you look at it? If gratification is "working on my side project instead of finishing homework due tomorrow" then it wasn't delayed much, they were gratified the whole dang time!

Could go either way in my social group. Some folks hit ivy and then ended up at mediocre tech jobs anyway, others hit ivy and struggling to find work. Others went with the flow and still made it to the same mediocre tech jobs. And the ones who failed through school and barely made it through community college have successful small businesses because they were charting their own path the whole time.

I rent a car around 6 times a year and I like trying out a different vehicle as often as I can. Adding car charging time into my short vacation in an unknown place, and being on the hook for returning it charged, etc. Might as well not deal with the hassle!

At least they didn’t kill an unarmed person in their own home. The bar is very low.

It’s funny how the market works that way, right? The smartest engineers I know aren’t the ones making the most, and that carries for a lot of other things too.

I’VE never been turned down. But I’ve seen others get turned down who don’t look like me ;)

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Sure but in capitalism you have to do right by your shareholders and a personal gripe against some kid related thing isn’t directly shareholder related.

So are we doing snowflake feelings capitalism now? Or delivering shareholder value?

No one gets a promo for maintenance work. Especially at places like google.

Agreed it’s deliver value for shareholders >>>>>>>>> everything else

Took me a second to understand this, but it was faster than clicking the link and finding out for myself. Thanks!

Justifying lower pay with "we just want people who truly believe in the mission"

That’s been the case at most medium and large tech companies I’ve worked at. The incentives always seem structured that way.

Came here to say this, glad other people have it in mind as well.

The current U.S. economic system doesn't support or incentivize caring about those things. Would you advocate for a system or policies that does incentivize it?