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On a related note, they built their digital ID so that third parties could verify attributes (it's NOT just a single-service login across government + a linking ID across governmen…

IMO there's two reasons you'd want the very best engineers. A) you're working on one of the hardest engineering problems in the world. B) you've a track-record of failing to delive…

I would just add the IsAllowed etc. as a comment next to the relevant line. Often the explanation is bigger than what you'd want in a variable name, I find it less overhead than ma…

Because security locked-down anything more tech-savvy. Tbh I think the only 'allowed' way of sending data out where I work is to build an API and surface it from a data exchange pl…

One thing that I've noticed is that AI has made it even more abundantly obvious that the low IQs of middle-managers are the main problem. They have a great faith in AI (which is un…

The article is claiming that people need to put more effort into organising social events with tips on how to do it. And the tips around escalating discloure etc. are very much lik…

No-one ever suggests the simplest explanation... maybe socialising is just getting worse? Where I live there were long covid lockdowns and most people expressed relief about not ha…

that's a comically archaic way of using the verb 'to be', not a grammatical error. you see it in phrases like "to be or not to be", or "i think, therefore i am". "the feature isn't…

Or in other words dumb people are less impacted by social desirability bias when responding to the survey because they don't realise that 'impartiality' is something to be desired.…

"This is not an educational system problem, this is a societal problem. What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty …

Definitely this is what was happening mid-century (when indeed everyone else was ripping out their tram networks entirely). But I think if you look at modern light-rail projects th…

I once found some old price catalogues (early 20c) for shoes etc. and estimated the items there are barely any cheaper today in real terms. Now obviously that's partly because we h…

AAA games are eye-wateringly expensive though, management aren't imagining it; my point is things becoming more expensive is a symptom of decline. I'm sure the late romans consoled…

While I suspect the root cause is managerial dysfunction ultimately the disease spreads everywhere. I've stopped honing my technical skills because I don't expect to ever work in a…

the simplicity is underappreciated because people don't realise how many dumb data engineers there are. i'm pretty sure most of them can't unpack an xml or json. people see a csv a…

I think people need to get used to the idea that the West is just going backwards in capability. Go watch CGI in a movie theatre and it's worse than 20 years ago, go home to play v…

It looks like they want the sort of person who wouldn't work at the sort of place they are.

My experience precisely mirrors that described in various posts here: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/ I live in Melbourne like the author and I certainly d…

When people think AI is going to lead to rapid automation I genuinely don't understand what mental model of the economy they must have. I'm trying to pivot out of data which IMO is…

think this has something to do with zig building part of the std which other languages ship as binaries. incremental compilation will remove this small overhead.

Same with the WFH debates. 'We're going to force workers into the office and hope they do some work out of boredom' is taken as a serious strategy because the average manager is mi…

I work in government and middle-management morons are continually pushing for the dopiest projects imaginable (e.g. we have no good data and everyone who can fix this is being told…

i feel like i'd want operator overloading when dealing with quaternions, which zig eschews for no good reason

I have seen this, but it's still never competence based. I really don't see anything preventing someone who's been catastrophically incompetent at every job they've ever held becom…

It doesn't with me, because it only made sense back when firms hired lots of young people and promoted the most competent. This isn't how most firms work nowadays. I've never even …