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While there are areas where my functional convictions have greatly diminished, my mid career zeal had the tremendous benefit of illuminating new architecture and data design princi…

It would have been a beautiful "footprints in the sand" moment if you had turned off the ignition and carried the motorcycle those last hundred feet for the photo.

> I gave up after a paragraph or two. It looked like it was going to moan about people trying to have fun and do some self care. I don’t have time for that. The author had quite th…

My perspective is that I had recently realized that I didn't have a great justification for having used JWTs in my last two projects (and worried I had been part of a cargo cult my…

You can track JWTs on the server, via a sessionId or whatever you wish, it just breaks the intended pattern. If you have to do a lookup on each request (necessary to invalidate the…

And my favorite album, Abbey Road, was composed right before the crash. The concluding medley may only exist because they were spinning out. RIP George Martin, you gave us much.

Fascinating. Do you think (remember) that the incentives for bands were different? I know people listened to more full albums because it'd be tedious otherwise, but was consuming m…

Love it. I feel similarly about the quality (don't know what else to call it) of the many songs I listen to from that time, compared to similarly popular songs over the past decade…

I have similar thoughts but they can be broken into two distinct feelings: Ideally everyone would routinely have their attention called to the sword of Damocles, or at least listen…

It may seem so boring at first because it is so real. The depth of insight into the characters and culture is what makes it so moving as the plot picks up. Another perspective shif…

I think his point's logic is as follows: If you don't think the default school is important, why would you care if a kid switched? -- If the response was that it's too expensive to…

I agree about the contradictions and hypocrisy but the answer can be much more pragmatic: > As a non-US, non-Chinese citizen, is there something that makes TikTok espionage and Fac…

> Overcomplicating things leads to overcomplicating things. This would be the most efficient title, subtitle, and entire contents of most posts about programming principles. Howeve…

I appreciated their synthesis but I think some general recommendations would have also been useful for the public (imperfect but helpful): 1. Ask primary care physician for a lab r…

Oh if only the fallout stopped there. The proliferation of these sources have torpedoed my Google effectiveness. Not only do these sources amplify themselves, they are of near nece…

It's strange but really cool to zoom out and see various meetings between people in different rooms, or when we bring an outside contact into our space for a meeting you can introd…

I think it's a good point that there are many more domains within large organizations than one might expect from the outside. However, people are undoubtedly in more specialized ro…

+1 from a manager of a fully remote small team. I find the mental overhead of the always-on camera exhausting, and I prefer voice only communication for certain types of conversati…

Are you able to compare the experience of being at a Big Tech company against a very small team with wide responsibilities? I'm in my 11th year as a developer and left a pure tech …

Are you referring to people often misapplying the concept, or its replicability issues (which I had admittedly come across before but don't hold in active memory)? I'm confident I …

Love it. I do think there is more activism at play than you might. At a minimum it provides the fear mechanism that prevents employees from challenging the work, particularly if th…

Yep, I had struggled down these lines too but the always lucid John McWhorter cleared things up for me, and as a linguist it's right up his alley. "On metaphor, master is a useful …

Sincere question: since idioms and metaphors are rooted in history and shared experience, isn't dropping extremely common usages kicking the can (if you will) in the other directio…

Same age, same boat but I wonder about two independent factors: how my cumulative health decisions have depleted my energy reserves, and if being lower on the Dunning-Kruger curve …