In reference to the part where he talks about wanting it to be easier to create 3d models in biology - the complexity of organic molecules is very, very high. Not only are they complex, but they change shape a lot. In fact, the more realistic a 3d representation of an organic molecule is, the less likely that it would help you actually understand it. Microbiology is messy.
I found my son floating in the pool at a beach rental house when he was 3 (the pool door was broken). I managed to revive him with CPR and he's totally fine now. Years later, I still feel trauma from it. I often think about what my life would be like if I had found him a minute later. I feel deeply for your neighbor.
This is a great question because I find that when I use soft language like this, a lot of the suggestions get ignored. Sometimes that is fine but other times, I have to follow up after and explain that the 'suggestion' wasn't actually optional. I find it hard sometimes to protect egos and quality at the same time.
We should not be punishing smart kids even if some of those smarts may be due to income inequality that may have some basis in racial inequality. It's not the kid's fault that their grandparents generation thought that lower taxes were better than good governance.
I have found the opposite actually. I have three young children and I feel like they have forced me into much better time management habits, which has helped my productivity a lot. The caveat to that is that I can't put in as much time into work anymore, so while I'm more productive, I don't have as much time to be productive. It ends up being a wash.
Superficially, the AI-drawn images seem better. But I showed these images to my wife asking if she could tell the difference and only the human ones invoked any sort of emotional reaction from her. The human-drawn ones were more interesting visually and told more of a story. She laughed at a few of them. She couldn't really tell the human from AI, but she definitely enjoyed the human-drawn ones more.
Your theory can be anecdotally refuted by simply observing that people will eat more when food is well salted. French fries are an easy example. If you have two piles of fries - one salted, one not salted. Which do you think you'd eat more of?
Isn't that what the author is saying? The deeper problem was that the wife felt that the authors' inability to do something so simple for her sake was indicative of disrespect. Not acknowledging that your partner is worth a couple seconds of consideration is a pretty deep problem. The author probably demonstrated this disrespect in multiple ways, but the glass by the sink is a succinct way of summarizing the whole problem.
I was about to disagree with you until I read the part where you are using terraform with k8s. IaC starts breaking down once you start using k8s - especially if you are using a flavor like EKS that is both kubernetes but is also its own IaC platform.
If you are implying that I was rude to this person, you are mistaken. I treated the interviewer with the same good nature and respect that I would treat anyone. The difference between someone less than 5 years out from school and someone who has been doing this for decades is that, when you are younger, you believe that software engineering skills have anything to do with what you learned in undergrad. I misspoke on a topic that I hadn't thought about for years and I heard the shift in his tone. When I interview people and they miss something that seems obvious to me, I usually give them another chance and think of a new way to ask the question.
From what I've read from managers of recruiters from FAANG companies is:
1) Recruiters at these companies are under a large amount of pressure to bring candidates in.
2) There is only so much time in the day
3) They feel all of their time must be spent on potential hires because of #1 and #2
4) No one likes giving bad news
I don't feel like any of these reasons excuse you from being a considerate human being. Ultimately, it happens because recruiters are never rewarded for being considerate. People who fail the interview process are treated like legal liabilities.
I would agree with you if the interview process included ANY feedback to interviewees when they were rejected. Prior to COVID, I got flown to Seattle mid-week for 2 nights and interviewed well (the recruiter told me to start looking for houses). But 20 days later I was basically ghosted by my recruiter and I had to escalate to their manager to get a response that I was rejected. They gave me no feedback at all.
The interview process asks a LOT of the interviewee and then does not provide anything that could help the person improve next time, so the entire process feels like a complete waste of time. In my case, I was also disrespected by the recruiter.
The next time they reached out, I failed the phone screen somehow by someone who sounded 20 years younger than me (which is frustrating when you have already passed these same steps before). I don't respond to Amazon recruiters anymore.
I did a POC using service fabric years ago but I have not really read anything about it since. My company at the time was unable to give me three servers per tenant, so I had to drop it - but it's good to hear it's still being used.
Everyone that uses kubernetes must run into this at some point but we all end up doing exactly what is in this article. But we do it quietly because we all think we must be idiots since there is virtually no one else writing anything about it.
Some of the input interactions in Factorio are hard enough even with a mouse, particularly if you are trying to find an item to build that you haven't built since early-game. It's hard to imagine any sort of controller-based input working without significant changes to the UI.
Yes, obviously it is about the day/night cycle and not about absolute time because people on the other side of the planet are just fine. But while the absolute time may not matter, the time you are awake during the day/night cycle does matter. You can try to tell yourself you can live outside this day/night cycle, but we just didn't evolve that way.
One of my top gaming moments ever was launching the rocket in under 6 hours. I launched it at 5:59:40. Then I realized the "There is no spoon" achievement was for 7 hours (and it's now 8 hours after 1.0 launch).
There are multiple studies that show that the time that you sleep does matter. There is a higher risk of diabetes and obesity for people who sleep during the day and are awake at night.
I'm not saying this to be a buzz kill, I really wish it wasn't true. Anecdotally, I used to keep very, very late hours and sleep a lot of the day - and I did this for years. I thought I was fine. Once I established a normal day/night cycle (kids and wife do that to you), I realized that I had been grumpy most of the time and not particularly happy. Soon after establishing a more normal rhythm, I also lost a considerable amount of weight (about 15lbs).
My problem with responding to recruiters - especially FAANG - is that once you start a conversation it's hard to stop. I find it very hard to leave if I'm in the middle of a big project.