FYI the scene this is from. If you "so bad it's good" media I highly recommend Danger 5. It's one of the very few things to initially try that and pull it off.
You might know it from this gif.
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If you live by a major university, they likely have property disposition where you can pick up slightly older equipment, sometimes for super cheap.
All that makes sense. Mentoring junior engineers is something I've always enjoyed, though I haven't had as many opportunities as I would like. I should mention that I don't have a job right now. Laid off from Amazon during their big layoffs earlier this year, though there's no way I could have been an SDM at Amazon. I would die.
I see SDM as a combination of people management, project management, and tech leadership. The former is something I thought I could never do, but I no longer think that's true. But I would have to grow into it. The middle I don't see as an issue, though if you have any particular courses or books on project management I would love to hear them. The third is a nonissue, as I've done plenty of tech lead work. My main weakness in that area is delegating, though Amazon did help me a lot with learning how properly define and track work.
I'm still struggling with what type of company makes the most sense. I was leaning towards more specialized SDE roles, but now I'm thinking that doesn't matter they just need a really good SDE -> SDM pipeline. Probably larger, more established companies? I'm not sure how to break this to 18 year old me, but I'm actually considering one of the gazillion fully remote Microsoft openings.
I kinda hate to be like this, but if you are in a tech position, past the early entry level nonsense, and not making six figures (in the US) then you need to be job hunting.
I don't know if any particular certification will get you there, but IT remains a great practical field to be in. Don't make any sort of "I'm just in this for the money" apologies.
Absolutely, and you can generalize that to any sort of requirements are worthless if they don't have as much teeth as the power they are trying to check.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE) - We don’t think they can. If anyone can explain how they technically would, please let us know. Even if Meta forks Lemmy and gets rid of the original software, Lemmy will survive.
It doesn't start out with maliciousness. The rank and file technical staff at Facebook aren't evil. Facebook understands the value of top tier tech talent and top dollar buys you smart people.
The initial federation is rough, but the problems are resolved surprisingly quick. None of the doom and gloom comes to pass, and Facebook consistently acts as a trustworthy actor. Their employees aren't really different than their open source counterparts. They make good faith contributions to open source codebases. Their collective experience with distributed systems proves useful in solving growing pains as the Federation grows.
They eventually start to make proposals to ActivityPub. There's outrage but no one can come up with good technical objections, so they are approved. The doom and gloom didn't come to pass, and looks like it never will.
Facebook doesn't need malicious intent for what's going down. It slowly, maybe quickly, becomes the dominate actor in the space. Facebook is pouring money into making Threads the best it can be, and what's wrong with them trying to build an audience?
Thread's improvements set an increasingly high standard for what people expect. More uptime, cleaner UI, more responsive API calls, more personalized frontpage algorithms, higher resolution videos - more and more features. More and more cost. Even people who kneejerk reject Facebook recognize how much better their site is. There are still important reasons to go with Lemmy or Kbin over Threads, but FOSS projects have never been good at making their case in ways random-not-technical people can understand, let alone why they should care about them.
After a while, Facebook starts walling people into their platform. Starts with little things like how Reddit added video and picture hosting to replace Imgur et al. It's not malicious, but rather from TPMs who are under pressure to increase engagement. After a while what else is there? Just don't turn the heat up too many degrees at once.
It's wrong to think of Facebook as a uniquely bad actor. This isn't 90s/2000s Microsoft with blatantly transparent EEE aims. There have always been bad actors. There will always be bad actors. There are bad actors with us right now.
Facebook needs to make money, and they won't do so by directly charging users. There's only one path forward for Facebook in this, and it will come at the expense of its users and everyone else in the Fediverse.
Build something useful, then put up walls around it, and then exploit it for profit; the internet's monomyth. You don't have to read the writing on the wall, but it is there. Federating with Threads is signing your own death warrant.
If the Fediverse experiment is going to survive, it needs to be able to withstand these bad actors. One of the ways it can do so is to recognize and reject them. Facebook has so many resources and so much power and we don't have to run the experiment to know where this will go. It is important to explicitly say "your goals do not align with what we are trying to build, and therefore we will not voluntarily interact with you."
You are voluntarily here and finding common ground with an ADHD meme. If you've felt like there's something different about you and have been waiting for a Sign, this is it.
Just keep an open mind, since a lot of different things can cause ADHD like symptoms. "I actually don't have ADHD" is also important information, and a good psychiatrist or therapist can help guide you to wherever the truth lies.
It's where a lot of tech employees hang out. You have to verify that you have an email address with the company's domain to post, but otherwise super anonymous. It can be super toxic and you see a lot of fake posts, plus your account isn't revoked after you leave the company, but the original OP definitely has/had a Twitter email address.
Seems apt to me. I describe it as suddenly being in the driver’s seat, and realizing just how much I wasn’t.
At least for the first week and a half, when your body adjusts and then realize why it can be a very long process to find the right dosage and strategy. (Come back focused productive me, that was great.)
So this is dumb but I’ve been carrying around a little notebook to write random things down, and I’ve taken to recording names of new people I meet. Also people are way more forgiving of forgetting names and I’ve also accepted that people that aren’t are not worth being around anyway.
I don't have a medical background, but my suspicion is the process of formulating a thought, deciding what meaning you want to convey, and then settling on what words accomplish that is far more complicated and delicate than we give it credit for. I suspect any sort of issue can wreck the whole process, which might explain why really good communicators are so rare.
For myself, ADHD medication really helps slow my brain down and thinking things through before opening my mouth. Turns out that's an important part in (properly) verbalizing thoughts.
I think you are broadly correct in that we can't snap our fingers and simply change the amount of money flowing back to the coffee bean growers. However, I'm highly skeptical there's any inherent reason why markets should spread the profits this unevenly. If no one was growing coffee beans there wouldn't be any coffee shops either.
The questions you should be thinking about is why are the profits so unevenly distributed? Market forces, of course, but how much are these forces inherent or created? If they were created, what caused it to be the way it is? Would a system born out of powerful countries trying to advance their own interests (cheaper materials) and willing to exploit power imbalances to do so be an explanation?