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I’d be more likely to work with Twitter now to be frank. Elon is obviously trying to implement an engineering lead organisation where coding and productivity are valued.

A lot of these companies tend to be manager heavy, I’ve worked in places where it seemed over half the people in meetings were managers or other unproductive people. It frequently felt like these people were stifling the work as they all had their own agendas etc.

Elon is an engineer first and has s big vision. If you’re one of the people left it must feel like the company has taken a new direction.

I don’t think these salaries are normal in Dublin maybe senior level at Meta would go up to €115k max (I recently talked to a recruiter about a job there and that was the level)

Personally I’m on around €80k and senior but not in Dublin.

I'm in the same situation. I'm demotivated as I'm not that interested in the promotion opportunities as I wouldn't enjoy management. I think working in a different company would be be better. I'm considering a smaller start up but now might not be the best time to move.

I'll leave this H.L. Mencken quote here that aptly describes the Economist. The nature of periodicals and newspapers especially militant, crusading ones is timeless.

“One of the principal marks of an educated man is the fact that he does not take his opinions from newspapers -- not, at any rate, from the militant, crusading newspapers. On the contrary, his attitude toward them is almost always one of frank cynicism, with indifference as its mildest form and contempt as its commonest. He knows that they are constantly falling into false reasoning about the things within his personal knowledge, within the narrow circle of his special education, and so he assumes that they make the same, or even worse, errors about other things,whether intellectual or moral. This assumption, it may be said, is quite justified by the facts.”

I'm curious why you consider a periodical that you admit is heavily biased and has a certain agenda, the "most respected".

I read the Economist occasionally with exactly the caveat that you mention, it is an extremely biased periodical that only presents a certain world view. To be frank I feel this takes away from the quality and definitely verges on propaganda so the two are related.

I moved to brave when they made that blog post [1]. I’m very happy although I agree it’s better to have competition in the browser space.

I’ve also moved to brave search recently after DuckDuckGo announced they were downgrading Russian sites. I might try Yandex too as I don’t like the brave search layout.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

In Ireland the national grid is under strain due to electricity usage from data centres, so much so that there is discussion to deny permission for new ones. I very much doubt that the electricity costs are negligible, it’s also one of the reason data centres are in Ireland as due to the relatively mild climate it reduces hearing/cooling costs.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/data-centres-could-...

I’ve tried both blumat and arduino style watering, in the end the water can is the simplest and most reliable. Sometimes technology doesn’t enhance things e.g. the soil moisture sensor gets wet, doesn’t give good readings, hard to calibrate etc. Blumats are very sensitive to tuning mistakes, can dump gallons on a plant in a few hours and don’t distribute the water well but only water one small spot

I live in Ireland and get less than €70k as a senior dev. Ireland is considered to have relatively high salaries for software developers, at least in a Europe.

I haven't heard of FreeOffice before, it looks like an interesting product. How do they support devlopment? It is closed source and doesn't appear to have a pricing model.

EDIT: Investigating a bit more there appears to be a paid version called SoftMaker Office, so I guess the free version acts as a funnel.

Yeah I moved away from FF as well after they got too political, very happy with Brave.

Agree 100%, this was a great response amongst this sea of self righteousness and scorn

I was more thinking along the lines of what’s this PayPal deposit to “furry art 4 u” (not my thing btw) or “Free Ross Ulbrict” with the mortgage advisor rather than anything requiring block chain analysis.

How would anyone at work know your block chain wallet hash? It’s a cryptographically generated hash not linked to any personal ID. People can see that money is moving around to different address and if law enforcement or mortgage advisor requested the exchange account details they could see you deposited this money in this address and then it moved to this address etc, but it’s not trivial to identify who owns any of those address once it’s left the exchange wallet.

If I was dealing with work people and trying to isolate them from other transactions, I’d just generate a separate wallet address for them which is trivial.

I think many underplay the real advantages of crypto assuming it’s all used for nefarious reasons, I use crypto quite frequently now, especially BCH (Bitcoin Cash), I can send this internationally for less than the cost PayPal changes for international payments. So why not use it, if the other person accepts it.

In addition here is a real business (gpu.land) going only crypto as it provides better options:

“I’m reaching out to let you know that as of today we'll no longer be taking cards for top up, and instead we'll be taking crypto payments.

The problem is fraud. A lot of people try to use stolen cards to mine on GPU.LAND, despite all the defenses and pledges not to do it. When chargebacks come through, we're on the hook, and to date that meant losing 30% of our revenue.”

In some cases Some might prefer to keep their bank from knowing exactly what theyre spending money on even tho it’s perfectly legal e.g. paying for porn, supporting a political dissident etc.

Sanitary is a good way to describe it to be frank. It’s relatively cordial but also not someplace you come for unconventional opinions or out of the box thinking.

I like the substack model, in order to comment you must be subscribed to the newsletter (say $5 per month), while others can read the article and comments.

I agree 100% but his path to the grail was stifled where he was.

He made the right decision to escape but maybe he would have been better off living like Grigori Perelman and devoting himself mind body and soul to the grail. That’s what it takes, he should have left as soon as he felt the misalignment with the grail and the toy models he was working on as he was involved in fruitless make work.

It's a beautifully written essay but he misses the obvious. What was the point of spending all this time in what he admits but doesn't make explicit was a dead end. He would have ended up spending his life pretending to make important discoveries and doing something worthwile, in reality he would have been making "toy models".

He definitely made the right decision. I don't understand the "I quit" angst, it's sunk cost fallacy, no he didn't quit, he made a rational decision. It was a waste of his time and most likely everyone else who he mention's time.

Seems crazy to do things this way. Why not use signal or telegram secure chat, get lost in the crowd

What is federation in this context?

Does not federated mean not using a jailbroken phone?

Or is it related to how the app is installed?

Or the underlying infrastructure relying on a central server instead of distributed?

I’ve just never really used word by sticking to a theme, and tend to end up using custom formatting quite a bit e.g. I use heading 2 where I shouldn’t and should be using heading 1, use paragraphs in the wrong place etc.

Use some custom formatting in a paragraph when I should be using a preset default etc

Agree, pandoc makes the best word files IMO. It doesn’t allow you to make too many style formatting changes so write in markdown and use pandoc to create the word file using simple headers, standard formatting.

Seems hard to replicate this approach in word in my experience without good discipline

My understanding was that the real action takes place in the anonymous chat rooms on the Bloomberg terminal, But I don't know if this is true.

Could you expand a bit on this? Do you mean the quality of the people in employment has gone downhill or do you mean that equality of life for employees has reduced? Less job security, poorer working conditions etc?

I grew up in Western Europe and experienced exactly what the author of the article is talking about so it’s not just an American experience.

However, there was a strong American cultural influence e.g. shows like Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Simpsons etc were all popular and had strong nerd as social outcast themes.

However I don’t think they were the cause of this social dynamic, it was much older and entrenched.

Yes both those people seem credible and have no reason to make up their stories. I’m surprised he lasted so long, obviously he’s not trustworthy and unprofessional.

I do agree with her that most woman would not have gotten away with these kind of comments.

Assuming his claims are correct it seems a pity to resign due to online pressure.

In his position, and provided I had the support of the management I would have stayed and not let a baseless online smear campaign force me out.

Leaving this way gives credence to those disparaging his character.

I thought it was much better back then, you could find niche sites that were of interest.

Google seems to have banned all the interesting wild content that made the internet so fascinating in its early days. Blogs seem to have disappeared completely for instance and I have to specify the site to search to find anything e.g. site:Reddit.com

However it does have an amazing ability to find comments on stackoverflow relevant to my needs based on a few keywords.

Exactly, the single feature that made me use google over yahoo/altavista was the clean interface, I was using dial up back then and it loaded very quickly the others were covered in ads.

Seems like a rogue presidential order wouldn't get past the "war room at the Pentagon", they need to actually send the message to the silos.

I assume they are fully aware of the threat level and aren't going to level London on a Tuesday afternoon for no reason.