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There's plenty of snowy winter weather within an hour or two drive of LA. I'm sure they test in the Angeles Mountains as much as every other car manufacturer I saw test up there when I lived in those mountains.

I was lucky to learn this a decade ago when I was an intern; except it came from the electrical engineering side of the department (a department who produced products that were seen as the gold standard for that part of the medical device industry)

Manager (who was a world class electrical engineer): "why did you reuse this?"

Friend (who was also an intern): "I assumed ${staffEngineer} knew what they were doing and it would be fine to just place it in this design"

Manager: "never assume that anyone knows what they're doing here or at any other organization."

Should an engineer be tracking what their company is telling media outlets? No one else is tasked with looking at my code except other engineers; why should engineers spend their precious time making sure that other business units are performing their duties ethically?

> Oh, and “finding” a cofounder is not something one does by searching on the Internet.

Why not? I've had serious offers to co-found companies from random seatmates on bus rides between Silicon Valley and Los Angeles.

Frankly, the biggest obstacle I've had is not in finding team-players (with all due respect to everyone reading this, team-players are a dime a dozen; how could any company function if the majority of people in our society weren't team players?).

For me the biggest obstacle (by far), has been, finding people with drive. I mean, think about all the people who struggle to do remote work, how are they going to find the drive to produce when they don't even have a boss anymore?

People "sign" their content with their faces on TikTok; it doesn't stop the deluge of complete nonsense that's widely accepted on that platform (much to the frustration of many academics trying to combat it).

I guess I can buy that some of the criticism is objectively gratuitous but, humans hating everything another human does, if that human is hated themselves, isn't really anything new.

I guess the real question is, why should anyone expect Elon to have exemption from the hate game that everyone else is apart of?

Why should anyone care about a PIP quota? Someone getting laid off or even fired in times like this wouldn't remotely make me think negatively of them.

I was born in the 90s, been programming since I was 12 (nearly 20 years), and I've only ever heard IBM.

ONLY if your wages keep up with inflation.

Wasn't worth the hype for me at all. My m1 MBP might have better performance than my x1 carbon but my x1 walks all over the m1 in terms of software I can install thoughtlessly. I tried for months to get parallels + Ubuntu to do everything I needed it do to but I had to switch back to the x1 (which I could reformat today and have my productivity be the same within an hour); what a waste of time and money.

I literally thought that was the case until I went full-time on my start-up. I was delusional to think I could do a 9-5 well while trying to build a company.

Frankly, I should have realized this was the case when some moderately complex problems felt impossible (because I was giving the best hours of my day to my 9-5).

I've definitely seen CEOs with enormous amounts of success (in the companies they led previously) bring in dogshit teams to their current company. I've also seen dogshit CEOs bring in amazing people.

Just because warehouse owners have the leverage to make it impossible to demand more doesn't make it any less humiliating.

I really doubt that. My mom has quite a few friends that are retired (she's in quite a few hiking and cycling groups) and all of them are doing at least some part-time work.

I think it's incredibly cruel that they have to work at all at their age. If my mom hadn't planned her retirement well and people tried to put her back to full-time work, I would eat the cost of taking care of her needs if the state didn't. I mean she was really struggling to do her job at the end.

If it wasn't for the last two sentences I would have thought this wasn't satire.

Good god, from calling an order of magnitude in difference as only "a few" to the false equivalences, you really nailed the poor logic I saw at the beginning of the pandemic.

Most Millennials wouldn't really be interns at this point either.

> Do you have the right to straight up kill other developing life in your body? It's your body after all, same stupid logic.

Precisely what do you think is happening when you are given medication to kill off something that is making you sick?

A lack of ability to imagine something shouldn't cause someone to believe it can't happen. There are any number of ways someone can go homeless including under the conditions of having the skills to program. I've been able to program since I was 12 and definitely could've gone homeless any time between now and around 3 years ago (which is nearly 2 decades of time).

I think if I were homeless, a FAANG SWE job would definitely be greener.

Nope. It's possible to not even realize you were dating until after the fact.

In TFA:

"A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000."

I mean, they can only go meaningfully higher if people can afford those higher prices. I'm not convinced they can go much higher without wages going up substantially.

I regularly see my thinkpad exceed 20 GB with vscode, YouTube music, and docker hosting a frontend, backend, and simulated load.

I've been sitting at 27 GB for the past two days with PyCharm open as well.

Do you think that sw engineers at startups aren't largely writing code for most of their job?

> It comes down to who get the power to define truth. That is not a problem if anyone is allowed to leave their opinion. There will be people that abuse that right and that is the cost of it.

I don't understand how you can call my issues with it trivial when I've heard this same propaganda over and over again for decades. I think the issue is that people made this propaganda their religion and are now unable to see that nuance can be used to safely reduce free speech.

You can't yell fire in a crowded fire when there is no fire can you? Why do you act like these safeguards don't already exist for other things?

> Democracy requires free speech. So, if you're against free speech, then you're also against Democracy.

Why does democracy require free speech? Can I not vote for whoever I want even if I'm mute?

> So, what concrete alternative do you propose?

You get that there are many other countries in Western Europe that don't have as much free speech as the US right? You get that the lock down policies of many other Western countries seem Draconian relative to our policies right?

You get that giving me some of the most extreme examples of alternatives makes it seem like you are arguing in bad faith right?

Why do we need a brand new form of government? We didn't need a new form of government to ban saying "fire" in a theater.

Thanks for the strawman; you know as well as I do that you can be fired for a lot less than calling your co-workers obscenities. I've seen people fired for just mouthing off about their office job while they're at the grocery store.

Also, don't tell me it's important if you're more than willing (re: you're going out of your way to defend it being taken from you) to have it taken away from you. Don't tell me I'm being obtuse if you can say that it's unimportant for one of the most valuable portions of your life.

It doesn't feel remotely level-headed. Just about anyone in my AP English class could have made all of that up 12 years ago. That is, using circular logic to defend something like freedom of speech is something I expect any high school senior to be able to do.

What I would like to know is, why it's so important if, for most of us, for the best and most capable parts of our lives, we don't have anything that resembles free speech. In fact, we expect to have our income and Healthcare cutoff if we really speak our minds often in the workplace.

What I would like to know is, why it's okay for a few people to lie about the gravity of a pandemic and cost us 1M of our countrymen.

What I would like to know is, how countries just as capable as us manage to lead better lives despite not having free reign over discussions on Nazis.

What I would like to know is, why the staunchest proponents of freedom of speech choose to hit that down vote button to push comments like mine into oblivion rather than have an honest set of questions seen.

I haven't really heard anyone use anything but propaganda based circular logic or slippery slope fallacies to answer why unbridled free speech is necessary.

Moreover, it's hard to believe there is much substance to people's positions on unbridled freedom of speech when people are so religious about it. It's hard to believe that we have the right answer when we don't allow an ounce of nuance in the discussion.

I mean, your parent's doctor doesn't tell you a specific date your parent is going to die from cancer. Why would anyone else be able to predict dates that depend on more complex factors?

I've met plenty of people who've never left their metro area in the 3 decades they've been alive.

On the other hand, when my girlfriend asks me what I would like to do, she has to qualify it with: "inside of this state." I have driven across multiple states on a whim a few times over the past couple years.

The degree to which people crave novelty varies greatly.