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>And every country does it differently Seems like the real world is just choc-full of Liskov Substitution Principle violations :P

The US tax system is the legislative equivalent of spaghetti code / big ball of mud.

>And in a world where we're unable to continue exploiting fossil fuels, whether due to the environmental impacts of their waste, or the lack of future supplies, the present mode of…

This has been my line of thinking too.

You just actually quit if they refuse your hard 'no'. I was asked to be a team lead and turned it down as I know it's not right for me. I left my last company after they asked me t…

Well I just do it by putting the laptop on my chest and using an external keyboard that also contains one of those touchpad mice like laptops have. Works like a charm and costs way…

Comments like this are why I find reading HN to be both depressing and cathartic at the same time. That's quite an achievement.

Sounds exactly like my current job.

Perfectly describes my last job.

>In my mind, it happens when autonomous systems optimizing reward functions to "stay alive" (by ordering fuel, making payments, investments etc) fail because of problems described …

>Oh, we do it better. We just replace step 2 and 3 with "Executive management says the same set of empty slogans they've been saying for years whenever these problems are raised, t…

>Not that I’m bitter or anything. Hahahahah. Me neither man, me neither.

>I'm increasingly convinced that a large portion of our problems as a society is our absolute refusal to hold anyone in power accountable for anything. Well the problem is you try …

Turns out I'm covered in lint and basically a walking fire hazard.

>I asked a psychiatrist friend of mine what they do when someone shows up depressed for reasons that are totally reasonable. She said they try to use drugs and therapy to generate …

>Simply switching from a monolith to microservices makes them more thoughtful about the consequences of design. Well, in my experience it makes _some_ people more thoughtful about …

Welcome to software development. Expect it to be like this forever and continue to get worse. Tech seems to have 5 year cycles in which a problem has gotten enough peoples nerves o…

There is no 'science of future events' only probabilistic outcomes based on models underpinned by chains of inference. The longer those chains of inference the lower the conditiona…

My take on "Don't Look Up" was that it's actually a documentary, but it had to be made ahead of time because we won't be around to make it or see it after the fact. Don't forget to…

>I see this often when climate change is discussed. People seem to casually throw science under the bus when it suits them. I think it's because people see humanity casually throwi…

Thanks for your response. I definitely agree that bikeshedding can be a problem in code reviews and bikeshedding itself is best avoided for sure. Automating that stuff away with li…

>There is a continuous stream of bad ideas being implemented. And when a bad idea gets implemented, it is really hard to undo it and it tends to just create more chaos. This descri…

>We are in an era of mythologizing that old white men are at the root of all problems, so thinkpieces like this have to mention old white men as a matter of course. That we've gott…

Precisely. You could replace the entire thing with "shorter feedback loops" and it would be significantly more meaningful.

>Agile as per the Agile Manifesto isn't bad. At all. If you actually read it it really is just a bunch of words that doesn't specify much of anything at all. To me it reads as some…