Tinfoil hat time but I think they definitely did _something_ at that time that "changed" the system. It's the Cambridge Analytica/Trump time and I believe that FB definitely "changed" at the same time.
This is what I don't understand about this policy. There's no way a senior has enough spare capacity to be the gate keeper on every PR made by AI below them. So now we are just making it so the senior people use more AI to keep up but now they're to blame for letting it happen.
It sounds like a piss poor deal for seniors unless senior engineer now means professional code reviewer.
Early in my career I tried very hard to "be concrete, cold, and direct" because that's what I thought a good communicator would do. It was seen as attacking to anyone below me and confusing to anyone above me. I was naive and I suffered for it.
I definitely agree with what you're saying here where these words actually do mean something, but it's completely opaque to those outside the "know". I also have found that there's not any better way to express information to those in the group than in this coded language, even if it makes completely no sense to me.
I wish younger me understood that the way I'm being perceived is the only important thing, not choosing the "best" words to technically describe a situation
This feels like such a valid solution and is how past $dayjobs released things: send to the free users, rollout to Paying Users once that's proven to not blow up.
This is the reason I left the "main" social media and what keeps me from engaging too much with Reddit/HN or any of the other new hotness like Mast, nostr, BlueSky, etc: it's just rage baiting or karma farming
This is a good callout/distinction you're making. How we view the goal of the experience determines our experience itself. The guitar analogy is really good because if your goal was to learn guitar, it's definitely not wasted but if your goal was to learn this one specific song as quickly as possible, I could see how my perspective would be different.
Cannot agree more to this sentiment. I call it "throw away code" and it's always seemed like the easiest to change in the future, and we all know everything is gonna change in the future.
BM25 is definitely a big deal when you're doing FTS. It's one of the reasons I've switched to Arango as my DB for the project I'm working on that needs FTS. The fact it also comes with graphs means I don't need to bang my head against CTEs either.
Not saying Arango can replace Postgres but for my needs, it's a much better fit AND it offers the FTS that I need out of the box.
Oh this brought back memories! Getting a PS file, using px for everything to "match the designs", random jQuery snippets to get a hamburger menu. Not a damn clue what I was doing but loving every minute of it.
We played tag or hide and seek at a school one time after dark. We were probably 16 or 17 since at least some of us could drive by then. Cops called all of our parents and said we'd go to jail if it happened again.
The funniest thing to me was my parents just straight yelling at me about it as my only rule at that time was "don't get in trouble with the cops". I tried explaining it was just tag, the cops were over reacting. They didn't buy it. I told them "I was with Friend A and Friend B. I'm telling you the cops were being ass holes". They immediately changed their tone to "oh, if A and B were there, those cops were ass holes"
What if you try to treat people the way they want to be treated instead of how you want to be treated?
I think the "golden rule" has been often misinterpreted as " treat people how you want to be treated" which leads to this misunderstanding that you called out. If we change it to being empathetic towards them and treating them how they want to be treated, the NPCs seem to become fully fledged characters.
I read somewhere long ago that there's some chemical released when you talk about your plans, similar to the chemical that gets released when you complete your plan. So when you talk about your ideas, you feel like you've already accomplished them.
Ever since I heard this, I've been protective of what I talk about and it seems to have helped me ship more things than before.
I can definitely second janus. At previous job, we used that for video calls/streaming mixed with FFMPEG for some transformations along the way. Really reliable stuff.
I 100% agree with this. Have always called it `throw-away development` where you build a prototype just to understanding what it is that you are actually solving/building. Then, once you understand, implement the _actual_ thing you need to, taking the learnings from the throw-away. It takes a _tad_ longer than if you had magically known what to do from the get-go but the learning is invaluable.