I gather that the point was they didn't require someone with radar to see them, they turned on ADS-B so it would show up on all the usual flight tracker sites.
> they made someone so despaired he saw no other way than to kill himself.
Give the man some agency. If he chose to end his own life, that was his decision alone. And it may be entirely unrelated to Boeing. Maybe he would have done it anyway at this point in his life.
Reddits attempt at community moderation killed it.
Even hyper specific subs, like city subs, are victim to the ideological whims of their moderators. My local subreddit has basically become useless because mods have banned so many people, or attempted to ban questions which are generally related to the city. They want typical city related questions or discussions to go into weekly roundup threads, and the main sub is just for current events (read: politics).
It’s extremely frustrating. I know it’s kind of boring to complain about mods, but seriously Reddits moderators are what poisoned it.
Bard – old name of their generative AI service, to be called Gemini
Duet AI – old name for their generative AI in Google Workspace, to be called Gemini
Gemini – three things:
1. the name of their models (like GPT).
2. the new name of their free service (like ChatGPT), gives access to Pro 1.0 but not Ultra 1.0.
3. the new name of the Generative AI tools in Google Workspace.
Gemini Advanced – the name of their paid service (like ChatGPT premium), gives access to both Pro 1.0 and Ultra 1.0
Ultra 1.0 – the first version of their big model (like GPT-4)
Pro 1.0 – the first version of their smaller model (like GPT-3.5)
Google One AI Premium – the subscription that you need to buy to have access to Gemini Advanced
Google One Premium – the old version of the subscription, does not include access to Gemini Advanced
Google app – the mobile phone app, which includes either Gemini or Gemini Advanced
Google Assistant – like Siri but hard to define what it is
Google AI – a generic name for all their AI products
> “Tell me about you. If your life was a book, give me the chapter titles from your birth till now.” Once you’ve gotten the overview, dive into each “chapter” and plumb the depths for their real stories. Go back to their childhood! I learn a lot about their grit and commitment to excellence from their basketball obsession or maybe their experience caring for a dying parent.
I don't think I'd be comfortable sharing this much personal information with a stranger on a job interview.
Additionally, it sounds more like a psychological evaluation, than evaluation of a person's potential at a job. I understand that maybe that's exactly the writer's intention, but I'd personally be wary of companies which ask questions like this.
> Context: When I was laid off from Google, I knew I'd be deluged with questions. I wrote this FAQ to share with friends and family, to prevent repeated explanation.
This is quite sweet in its stereotypical techie approach to life - your friends and family are asking questions about your situation because they care about and want to bond with you, not because they particularly care about the actual information you're conveying :-)
Soundtracks are designed to be thrilling, uplifting, suspenseful, etc and they're an underrated source of programming focus. My muscle memory is to press they keyboard play button the moment I open VS Code. I don't even realize I'm doing it: programming = soundtrack listening.
The keyboard play button always works, btw, only because I've installed BeardedSpice to force it:
brew install --cask beardedspice
I made a Spotify playlist with 32 hours of Soundtracks that help me stay in the zone. It's all sort of epic & uplifting, or suspenseful and building up to something... none of that 8-bit video game beep boop nonsense.
Lots of Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Danny Elfman, David Newman, John Williams of course...
I've often thought the same thing about becoming an adult, especially a parent, in general. There are so many choices that I harshly judged older people for making (how to allocate their time and money, where to live, what to allow or not allow the kids to do, how to behave at work, etc.) that I now find myself making as a married guy in my mid-30s with four kids. It makes me sad, but on each point I'm like, "Oh, now I get it." I fear that this pattern could continue until I become my father in my 50s and 60s. I try not to judge people so much anymore.
Anyway, I appreciate the article as someone who will soon try my hand at teaching. I will have a lot to learn.
After you collapse on the sofa for a few minutes you then get back to work keeping yourself current, right?
A reasonable measure of what it takes to stay current and relevant in this industry is twenty hours of dedicated reinvestment per week. Often times this reinvestment time is not afforded at work and as much as employers want to provide this as a benefit to developers, few offer the resources or time to allow developers to get anywhere close at work alone. Therefore, that time is likely your sole responsibility at home.
If you're like most developers you should be budgeting four hours each day M-F (or three if you include the weekend). I know many that push for even more.
Since our jobs tend to be sedentary and it's probably helpful to budget at least an hour for the gym a day to help mitigate the severe health effects of working a desk job, don't forget to factor time at the gym in your scheduling. Also, if you're like many developers I know you're likely on call and answering e-mails at home as well which is easy to forget about when calculating available time.
This then quickly becomes a challenging schedule even for eight hour days. Those selecting ten hour days are probably not reinvesting as much as they should and will potentially burn out or become irrelevant in the long term. I've attempted a sustained schedule of 12 hour work days with 4 hour reinvestment and an hour at the gym and found it unworkable in the long term.
