PBS news hour is a total of 6 hours per week (weekend shows are 30 minutes each). In those 6 hours, they cover more than any one of the 24 hour news networks. You're killing your mind watching 24 hour news networks, any of them.
If you're a good engineer and good employee then you're not getting fired, but you're not getting promoted either. Welcome to being a senior engineer for the remainder of your career. Floating from one organization to the next with different levels of ineptitude above you. You pick up bigger checks and more skills. The only cost is your life.
And if you're like me, you never follow this advice. It's probably not in your DNA. And if you're like me, you've probably never had a management position. And if you're like me, you've never seen much change take place. So maybe be more like what this person said and less like me.
I heard that its because Texas is one of the few (perhaps only) states that can't just get power from other grids. That, and many other reasons, but if they are set up in such a way that prevents them from leveraging other grids....woof.
None of this surprises me. I've worked for a federal contractor for the last year and I am not impressed with management at all. It has to be one of the worst run projects I've ever seen. It's so bad that if other federal contracts look this way that I question what chance this government actual has. Some days I sit back and wonder how much Uncle Sam (and me and you) is paying for this ineptitude. On a personal level, it makes me wonder what I am doing wrong where I am clearly more capable than this individual, yet I am stuck under them trying to clean up their messes. It would be better if this person did zero work instead of the little work they do. I hope this project is an outlier.
I guess I fail to see how writing documentation is boring. At least for software, I am writing about what I built. I am trying to help people use my software or library. If I value the product of my labor, how could that be boring?
As someone who is anal about writing documentation and wants to give a great big hug to whoever writes good documentation, this part made me chuckle:
"Nearly everyone understands this. Nearly everyone knows that they need good documentation, and most people try to create good documentation. And most people fail."
In my experience, no, most people I've worked with couldn't care less. It's sad. Some people can't even be bothered to write good bug reports, features requests, or tasks...
Seems like free speech was tolerated until it began threatening the republic to me. There are some interesting questions with the power of companies but those questions existed long before this. Uncharted territory.
I was opposed to banning anyone anywhere, public or private, until Wednesday. He inspired a mob that threatened two Vice Presidents and the entire legislative branch. Guns and bombs were found at the capitol. People had zip ties, seemingly wanting to take hostages. This is yelling fire in a crowded theater, plus Twitter can do what they want on their platform. No sympathy here. We'll see what the repercussions of this are, but its not hard to understand the reasoning. Don't be tone deaf.
Its an area that I've neglected a lot in my adult life. I started off the year saying I am going to at least read one book (any book) per month. Currently reading One World by Wendell Willkie FWIW. I don't mind if there is cross-over and if there is that's even better! All about easy goals and progress.
This is how I've decided to do my goals for the year. I split mine into 4 categories: personal, professional, physical, and reading. And then do monthly goals for each and track what I do per day. I don't have to do something in each category every day or even have to do anything any day. It's just helpful for me to see if I am slacking in an area over a stretch of days. The idea is to keep the goals fairly easy to accomplish and not plan more than a month out so I can pivot.
This is my biggest gripe. It's slow and clunky. Confluence is also terrible (slow and clunky). Mkdocs, which is markdown powered, is much better for documentation.
My remaining issues with jira are not with jira at all. Jira can fix its slow ass software, it's feature backlog and I can use mkdocs over confluence. Jira can't fix poor project requirements and management.
How fucking dumb are you if you can't even write a bug report? It's what happened, what I expected, and a how to reproduce bullet list.
I use SQLite extensively for unit tests and demo code bases for my OSS libraries. For the latter because its super easy for someone to clone the code base and run the entire thing in seconds. Huge fan of SQLite in those two scenarios.