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I recently joined a group of architects that aren't responsible for delivering anything and you are not totally wrong. But it isn't the architect role to involve themselves in weeds of the implementation - that's your job. They should be helping if the project is falling behind, though. Then again, if the project is falling behind, then that is probably more indicative of a poorly-run product team and/or a bad SDLC process.

Dexedrine is powerful. I took that when I was a teenager for ADHD and I lost tons of weight down to maybe 140 and it drove a strong compulsion for more drug seeking. I also got straight A's and started my own website business, but I also would have terrible fights with my mom and got kicked out of my house.

I think you may be able to attribute a lot of your experience to that drug.

When I switched to Adderall, my entire life changed and things started feeling normal again.

Yea, I always thought of PartiQL as a replacement for the overly-complicated DynamoDB SDK (it has 2 different 'versions' and multiple query modes - a low level API and a higher document level).

what a missed rick-roll opportunity

wow 89% use Atlassian tools..

Crypto is #3 on the greatest innovations in the ransomware space behind computers and the internet.

I have a BS in neurobiology but have been working in software for 20 years. I'd always wanted to get into a more biology-focused software after interning at NIDA (NIH) and saw how bad the software support was. I spent most of internship developing software to make it easier to digitize the dozens of giant drawers full of index cards where they recorded all their raw data.

The problem is that the organizations involved in this sort of work often still consider software development as a cost center and therefore do not offer competitive salaries.

The CEO at a previous company went to a Montessori school until middle school. He said he could barely read when he got there. He still had major problems spelling basic words in his late 60s. I guess it didn't hurt him but he was already a smart guy. It's hard to tell how much it mattered.

That is mostly true, but I've run into issues where you have to actually compile on a mac to build mac-compatible binaries in certain circumstances.

They got the equivalent of their years-long salary paid out every quarter?

I've found RedisInsight to be unusable. The only worthwhile GUI client is RESP.app (formally Redis Desktop Manager).

If I was an executive at Meta, I'd be pushing to partner with Roblox and work on developing cheap Google Cardboard style headsets that work with phones. Roblox VR with a $10 headset would be a killer app at the grassroots level.

I'd like to see an attempt to predict the movement of an NFL defense based on the starting positions of both the offense and defense. Seems like a much harder problem than volleyball, yet is something that human experts can clearly do on the fly.

If you are saying that the profile photos on dating sites seem a lot less staged, than you are right. Good quality cameras on cell phones were not nearly as ubiquitous in 2010 as they are now. I think it was better back then because you could get a good sense of the person's personality from their photos than you can now.

If you had a science background, the term "Gold-standard trial" would have meaning to you as a term for randomized double-blind studies with a large sample size. I don't know what textiles have to do with it.

I've been doing front-end development off and on for 25 years and I still had a moment like this just this week.

A different team updated a library we're supposed to use and all of a sudden, the deployed service was crashing on startup (worked locally). It appeared as though the problem was some EMCA6 syntax wasn't playing well with Babel configuration that seemed fine to me.

I got so frustrated that I ended up removing Babel (because it wasn't needed to begin with), which meant I had to change all the import statements to 'require' and had to change all the export syntax to CommonJS. Finally got it working after many hours and refactoring...

Except then I realized that the base docker image in the dockerfile was node 12 and not 16. If I had just updated the dockerfile, I wouldn't have had to remove Babel and would have saved myself a day.

Modern front-end development is sort of like child birth. Your brain conveniently forgets what it felt like to push a watermelon through a straw.

While at a house party during summer break while in college, my summer-time girlfriend and a girl I had dated in high school started making out and I was so surprised about it that I missed an opportunity for a threesome. I later talked about it with them and they admitted that they were thinking about it and would have done it if I had suggested it. Can't tell you how many times I've regretted not acting that night.

So this is a SaaS product that triggers code execution on your production resources? IT would never let us use this.

Hopefully the author of the C sharp port did actually do some manual testing.

I've just been exploring what it can do. Lately, I've been playing around with it to see if I could get some cool ideas for interior design.

I've been playing around a lot with Stable Diffusion lately.

What's up with all these "X uses Rust!" articles recently? Is it that surprising that a memory-safe, low level language with a large community is actually getting used in production?

"sloppy roe"

My wife had to drive all the way back home from the phone store recently because I wouldn't pick up my phone for this exact reason.

After my own heart

AWS makes it trivially easy to distribute across more than one datacenter... The only time that outages make the news is when they all fail in a region.

I understand where your cynicism comes from but I think it might be overblown in this case. These drugs do help people and psychiatrists want to help. The fact is that we just don't know that much about how higher cognition works. I have a neurobiology degree and was very surprised how little we actually know.

We don't know how to really measure things like depression, so we rely on animal models and medieval tests such as "Lets throw this mouse into a bucket and see how long it takes for it to give up treading water".

When we are able to take 'in situ' measures in a live person without risking their life, we may start to make progress on better treatments.

This is like the right/left brain generalization that everyone seems to still believe in.

I've lived in both the graphic design and engineering world and this is true. Most computer screens are way off in terms of color accuracy and it can result in wildly different results depending on what computer you are using. Viewing angle also has a huge effect on some screens - particularly the cheap ones.

I thought I had a good handle on my kids' online activity until COVID hit and suddenly they were home 24/7 for a long time. In order to keep working, I had to give up on a lot of limits on screen time in order to retain my sanity. The rules we have settled on is that they can't use devices until at least 3 or 4pm. This manages to limit their screen time considerably and forces them to use their brains for most of the day.

I installed Qustodio on their computers and made sure that everything on their is set with an age limit (including their windows account, youtube, and chrome account). You'd be surprised how much support there is now for limiting content for your kids.

I also strongly discourage them from watching youtube videos and prefer them to actually play video games.