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I agree, the guys clearly legit. I was just indulging some recreational morning pedantry before actually getting some work done.

I mean it, he's a more accomplished engineer and mentor than I'll ever be. That's why I added the edit.

One thing I sometimes point out to software engineers Im tasked with mentoring at work is the importance of showing other engineers that you care about the code and the questions you're asking via slack etc by proof reading what you write and reviewing your own code before reaching out to others for help. The frustration of reading ia garbled slack message or pulling over to look at a code snippet and realizing the person didn't even look over it themselves is real and has real negative consequences in terms of professional perception.

Like when someone misspells radical candor in the second sentence of a blog post about mentoring.

Seriously though, everybody makes mistakes but when I do slip up like this I don't expect people to engage with what I'm writing. And I do think proof reading is an incredibly important skill for new and experienced software engineers.

[edit] I just noticed the author is a staff engineer at MongoDB. He can misspell whatever he wants. I recant my sassiness.

(Incomplete) Summary > Personal pride in home properties, tradition of businesses volunteering some of their employees to regularly clean their neighborhoods in organized / shared groups, more regulation generally for garbage with paid vouchers for individual bags, no janitor systems in many schools / offices forms habit of cleaning up after oneself from an early age, the act of ritual cleaning / purification connected to Shinto tradition still active part of religious activities for clergy and visitors in shrines / temples.

Spoiler alert, it thinks I should.

Couldn't agree more, anything and everything by Liu Cixin. Although now that I think about it Three Body / Dark Forest / Deaths End are the only works of his Ive read where theres any serious amount of quasi time travel. But its just done so incredibly well.

Just have to give Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson a shoutout too, could definitely use some time travel though...

Sorry, spoiler alert?

Deeper origins / info: https://www.google.com/amp/s/hekint.org/2017/01/25/the-model...

Is there any career overlap between software engineering / data science and fighting climate change? Was hoping the article would touch on it.

Is there any career overlap between software engineering and fighting climate change? New to the field and not sure where to start.

This might be a dumb question but curious what the issues are with discord? Im a little concerned since I just finally got convinced to start using it.

its down :( anyone got a link?

I agree he makes a couple important points and misses a couple important points as always but Im more struck by his general affect. I used to find Chomsky refreshing and motivating but something seems to have changed in the last couple years since the last time I was listening to him regularly...

Thanks for the considered responses, this was all super illuminating! And thanks for the hot tip on Firefox containers too :~I

Im just curious, what are the motivations for a company to make this move? It seems like a death sentence to me but I cant think of any examples off-hand.

I love the founders inspirational story beginning of "When my wife and I bought our second home in lake tahoe..." (paraphrase)

Well, Im a shameless imposter masquerading as an employed software engineer. Thats one. Or two maybe assuming you are?

Interesting (also funny), I never thought of HN from that angle. Does this feel true to HN users or is it more a joke?

While I was transitioning to a software job I found myself checking HN a lot because it seemed like a raw discussion forum for what software engineers were thinking / talking about. Seemed better than Reddit. Still haven't found a better alternative.

There are some great points being made here and Im really glad to see the generational issue come up. Wondering what role people think California boomers are playing in these problems as a distinct subset from Californias population as it will exist in ~30 years when they're gone?

Just to be clear this is referring to Amazon Game Studios employees, not all Amazon devs. Interesting regardless tho.

They're gonna feel so silly when they get all the way here to kill us and realize we solved their silly little problem and they have to turn right back around and go home. The looks on their translucent non-existent face things...

Seems like there might be but wondering if theres any overlap here with the frozen brain solar sail nuclear bomb space detonation acceleration idea from Liu Cixins Dark Forest romance novel?

Thats an excellent point. The subtext there is borderline positive. Or at least borderline actionable. Anyway Im reading the Ministry for the Future and its August so I need to either kill myself or join the Children of Kali or something... Whats the deal with brown coal?

I taught this stuff for years and never came across this. Excellent post.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruniquel_Cave

> archaeologists of a traditional bent tend to have a particular thought structure called essentialism, which means that they do everything they can to come up with a coherent story according to a progressive view of social change. They keep looking for and exaggerate specific evidence to fit that progressive model. Southeast Asia is different. It offers an outstanding example of bottom-up social change, of community-level decision making. It’s a chance to study prehistoric societies in a more granular way, and it’s a fundamental shift for archaeologists. We’re still early on in trying to promote this different point of view and in using metals as a vehicle to gain this perspective.

Summary seems to be that testing the metals of different regions showed evidence of community trading not facilitated by ruling elites?

Just for anyone else scanning for the TLDR reminder of what I probably should have remembered from 8th grade science... Im totally going to take the author's advice and buy my kid some plastic plankton toys :^p

> But if fossil fuel does not come from dinosaurs, then where does it come from? Plankton. That’s right. Petroleum does not originate with the Earth’s largest organisms; it begins with its smallest. Most of the biomass in any ecosystem is contained within the bodies of its humblest members, the ones way down near the base of the food chain. In the oceans, that’s phytoplankton, also known as microalgae. These microscopic organisms, mostly diatoms and dinoflagellates, are wondrously able to turn starlight into food. Through photosynthesis, they produce proteins, fats, and carbohydrates — complex carbon-based molecules. Like most tiny organisms, their generations turn over rapidly. When they expire, their minuscule bodies rain down upon the sea floor, where they form organic oozes that may be miles thick. If these biogenic deposits are buried by younger sediments, and cooked by heat and pressure in just the right way, oil and natural gas may form.

> Taking the long view, petroleum is really a type of solar energy. That may sound nice, but it’s not innocuous. When we burn it, we take carbon from another age, sequestered by ancient plankton, and dump it into today’s atmosphere. There, it traps heat, causes global warming, and acidifies the oceans. In a sense, we’re adding the power of the ancient Mesozoic Sun to today’s Sun, and it’s overheating our planet.

> I’m sure this won’t come as a shock, but don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Dinosaur toys are not made from dinos, but they are made from dinoflagellates that used starlight from another era to stitch together the carbon-based molecules that today we turn into plastic. A quick search revealed that there are actually plastic plankton toys available online, plastic plankton toys made of — plankton.

Love both of these ideas / tips! Any suggestions on specific air filters?

With that 60k number on the table Im wondering where people think a universal basic income might fit into this discussion?

So do amino acids self-replicate on their own in some way independent of DNA / protective membranes etc? A little beyond my 8th-grade understanding of science but trying to get there...

Thats a great thought and those are great suggestions. Thank you! :)

Do you have a link to an article on that? Would love to check it out.