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Former environmental engineer here. Landfills are not that bad indeed but only if they’re properly constructed - i.e. concrete bed poured, geological survey done beforehand and the seepage of stuff into the ground and settling is continuously monitored. The problem is that constructing _proper_ landfills is hideously expensive so regulations are skirted all over the world. Then you have problem of the stuff decomposing and seeping into groundwater, etc. It’s not all milk jugs and bottles. It’s paint, batteries, motor oil, old non-RoHs electronics that seep mercury and lead everywhere, etc. That’s the main problem with landfills.

Isn’t it easy to attack the post itself then? They are rarely solid.

If it’s a small/medium company/team - sure. But if you try doing that in a giant behemoth of a company as an IC - this is a recipe for quick burnout and/or ruining your mental health.

Not even mentioning that the approach the author takes assumes that everyone is a rational player and will not actively try to undermine you and ruin your career if you (even inadvertently) point out that their project may have flaws. I’ve learned that the hard way.

Or just talk to them regarding how you feel. I concur with one of the commenters below regarding FAANG - you rarely get good feedback if your manager is not supportive of you.

Not the OP but sounds like Google’s “Perf” process. You can take a search through HN and get a couple of accounts. Generally; you write how well you did, then you get a couple of peers to confirm it and give you feedback. Then your manager works with a bunch of other managers to “calibrate” to make sure their view of the world is not skewed (think you did poorly but you actually did well and vice-versa). Then you receive a rating based on that calibration.

It may be general resistance to a concept. More and more services are becoming subscription based, so 5$ here, 5$ there and the cost creeps further.

Thanks for this comment, I’m so glad now I switched to Debian-based for my home server now as it’s essentially just docker+mdadm machine.

Thanks for editing and clarifying on the original comment, appreciate it!

You could try working for yourself - it doesn’t necessarily needs to be a new product/business, it can be consulting or algorithmic day trading.

Care to elaborate? Genuinely interested.

Google’s internal OpenSource releasing policy is actually public: https://opensource.google/

It’s written from a more process/legal viewpoint but you might be able to pick up some ideas in there.

It’s one of those things where I don’t have a reference anymore (since Opteron is no longer actively used) but I distinctly remember AMD Server processor family being notorious for weird unexplained memory issues.

I think this is one of the examples (old as though): https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7768

Weren’t those the ones with weird NUMA issues?

It’s a solution that needs controlled pressure and 60+C temperature in a bioreactor...

It depends on how you define the cognitive decline. If it’s losing your creativity, generating less ideas, not being able to be focused on a book - it may be a psychological trauma. I would recommend going to a good psychologist and trying to see if something is behind your current state.

Not the OP but if you like recording personal statistics, you might like http://reporter-app.com/. I've been using it for personal experiments a bunch of times (like measuring stress levels).

This sounds like monoclonal antibodies. Aren’t those extremely toilsome to produce, therefore cost tons of money?

Because it’s not profitable to them. It’s absolutely trivial to get purposely-built public housing locations into a database and set up a process to deal with exceptions. But then they would lose their commission.

You are correct. As someone who used to be on very restrictive visas for a while - your job is not “just a job” anymore. It was very much a source of constant stress for me knowing that political shifts at work or a terrible boss could very well send you packing in a matter of days.

I’ve been using Tomboy, then Evernote, then plain Markdown flies and now I have migrated everything to Notion (notion.so). I think I’ll stick with the latter for a while as their organisation system resonates with me quite well.

Or just bad rollout procedures.

I did like this article a lot. I recently acquired asthma out of the blue and struggled a lot with asking people to accomodate. Need vs Request is especially hard. I’ve had breathing issues when we changed the office building but real estate said it’s too expensive to call in cleaners out of their usual once-a-year schedule, even when my manager chimed in. I was afraid to escalate past that because I didn’t want to be a hassle. As a result I had to suffer through it for 6 months before I changed teams and moved buildings. Looking back on it I should’ve made a statement and stuck with it because the 6 months of wheezing and subpar work because I was constantly suffering wasn’t worth it to me or my company.

You’d be surprised but that’s how a lot of medicine works. Your common paracetamol (Panadol) has a mechanism of action that is “not completely understood”. We’ve come a long way in the past 100 years but certain areas are still pretty much trial and error.

Gecko linux?

I recommend taking a look at http://container.training - it has a nice long self-paced intro to containers&docker that is quite thorough.

This is a good suggestion but be careful of runaway costs. It’s easy to misjudge the amount of money you can get charged for SD logging and ingress/egress.

His column was the only reason I still remembered PCMag exists, that’s such a dumb move.

Seems like a build pipeline may be the way to go. Check out Concourse CI or Jenkins Pipelines.

Those allow to define multi-stage builds with custom triggers, which should allow you to trigger rebuilding dependent images.

It’s probably referring to people using Chef cookbooks blindly without any knowledge of how to configure or maintain the service itself.

I have interacted with people who run production workloads via Helm but struggle to do very basic things with kubectl (like recreating a service).

This is an argument that can be used for any high level abstraction, however. I guess Chef is used since they have very good testing tools so Cookbooks are relatively more stable than other CM definitions. Until things go wrong with the service that is.