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I overlapped a bit with Chad in 2015, as he was navigating a professional transition. I wasn't in an especially high role back then- just a guy in the back of the room. In the time…

Per your comment about the effect on socialization: hang in there! That space is improving! I've never gone for drinking, and it was deeply ingrained in the social and startup expe…

So it's down to a contest of whether to trust the government of Iran, or a cloud vendor status page? Maybe we can check something hosted in Oracle Cloud as the tiebreaker?

Conferences can be truly wonderful, but not a universal replacement for publishing. If you think journals are expensive, try sending your whole lab to a conference in another count…

This is a fine example of where someone's understanding of the problem runs ahead of their understanding of the solution. A few scattered thoughts: 1. There is a difference between…

At various points in my career, I've had to oversee people creating data export features for research-focused apps. Eventually, I instituted a very simple rule: As part of code rev…

Recently, I attended an hour long meetup from a high-level AWS employee about CI pipelines using CodeCommit. Of several possible deprecation announcements, the latest of those was …

A bit of an aside, but I really like "guides to things we otherwise take for granted". So few man pages are built around example use cases, but those are often what make the case f…

I think that's the rationale behind organizing separate teams as service organizations (mini contractors who serve multiple PIs). Other option is research "centers" with multiple P…

A lot of the audience fragmented for various reasons, and even within the same discipline, not everyone has converged in a new place yet. I'm told mastodon got more CS/phys science…

It depends. Some of the foundation-funded positions are competitive, and a few centers have surprisingly professional leadership. People are trying to organize, and- even if it's a…

Some departments are starting to hire programmers. There's an effort to define this as a (broad) job category under the heading "Research Software Engineer": https://society-rse.or…

At networking mixers I've attended, often there are a limited number of drink tickets per person and a set event duration. But the drink tickets only covered alcohol, not other bev…

Strange but true: I've been to a number of professional happy hours that offered free alcohol, but didn't provide other beverages. It got to the point that I started bringing my ow…

The local, in-person meetup scene was an absolute treasure! It didn't really recover after COVID; I'm still trying to find where those networking opportunities moved to.

Location: Michigan Remote: Open to hybrid/remote Willing to relocate: No, but travel ok. Technologies: Fullstack web + DevOps. Data analysis and workflows. Python. Flask, Django, D…

"Anyone in the training dataset"? A big unanswered question in the age of AI: how does a system of law work when breaking one law is bad, but the product of breaking many laws is t…

I've also had luck with grocery stores. Especially the produce boxes: they have thick walls and are good for moving dishes. From their side, they are saving the hassle of breaking …

This looks interesting! In the past, I've been a big fan of automatic documentation generators (jsdoc, openapi, etc), because keeping a markdown file full of function names and arg…

I'd concur: the university is the wrong unit-of-ban. For example: what happens when the students graduate- does the ban follow them to any potential employers? Or if the professor …

For web development, error monitoring services like Sentry are a breath of fresh air: instantly find the exact lines of code that are causing problems, even in front end code, befo…

How granular is this? Does that imply that a major news event (such as, say, a new language version) could drive perceived "popularity" simply by people reading/writing articles to…

Per the budget spreadsheet linked elsewhere, preprints seem to be 20+% of site traffic, but only 0.4-1% of storage costs for the overall site. This could indicate that many preprin…

I think the best way to understand the numbers would be to look at the breakdown of costs. Two links that were shared from the twitter thread discussing this might be useful: Prepr…