ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '21
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I want to stay up and F5 Twitter/4chan for hot election shitposts but I have to go to work tomorrow. D:
Definitely agree. One of the more challenging parts of my job is having to be the guy who who says, "Okay, you want this app to be HA... but why? If you can justify this to me and tie it to some positive business outcome that merits the extra engineering hours spent, we can do this. Otherwise, no." I've only ever worked on understaffed teams and so I've always had to be extremely judicious when allocating engineering effort. Most ICs want to do this kind of thing because it's cool, or "best practice," or they see it as a career builder/educational opportunity. FWIW in 1:1s I ask what their career growth goals are and actively try to match them with work that will help them progress -- so I'm not entirely unsympathetic to their wishes).
Yeah, it's pretty grim. The only place I didn't have to deal with that kind of thing was at a place where the entire leadership consisted of former software engineers. Otherwise it's a constant battle.
Everything you listed except Celery is how I got into tech and make six figures now, lol. I don't know how computers work** since I don't have a CS degree and don't do tech stuff for fun (anymore), but I agree that a lot of people use the tools you listed terribly (especially Terraform and k8s, wtf). But I'm curious what your objections are to the tools you listed. How would you do things differently? Usually when I run into someone who pooh-poohs those tools, they're the sort of person who wants to write their own epic genius 1337 codegolf in-house tool that has zero documentation, is full of idiosyncracies, and will become someone else's pain in the ass when they leave the company in a year. And then it's a part of the workflow that I have to use/work with/work around/slowly start making plans to sneakily deprecate. I dunno, I'm in my mid 30s. Maybe in a few years I'll start to get crusty too.
**by this I mean I have only basic knowledge about DSA, time/space complexity, Linux internals, etc. compared to turbo nerds who spend every weekend contributing to OSS for fun
ETA: One thing that I think is lost on a lot of engineers is the value of legibility. Terraform might suck, but you can explain what it does to some dumb non-technical stakeholder or some mid/low-quality engineer. It has tons of docs, and there are lots of slick videos explaining it on YouTube. HCL sucks, and it reinvents a lot of basic programming concepts but worse (for_each), but it's pretty easy to get started with.
There's also the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" factor. As a manager, part of my job is pushing for new/better tooling. If it's something mainstream and there are case studies or tons of threads about it or some Gartner bullshit or whatever, I can budget approved easier. What I pick is almost certainly not the optimal tool/software, but I have to get shit done and I can't let perfect be the enemy of good.
This also comes into play with public cloud (touched on by @ArjinFerman). I've never worked anywhere that has fully optimized cloud spending, there's always tons of waste. But after the corporate card is attached to the AWS account, I can provision servers/containers/clusters when I need to, and I only get yelled at about billing once a year as long as nothing ever gets out of hand. Is it wasteful, inefficient, and dumb? Yes, but that's just a reflection of the wasteful, inefficient, and dumb nature of the vast majority of human organizations. It's not a technical problem.
tl;dr a lot of the devops/infra people know these tools are dumb/inefficient but the alternatives are endless red tape or deadlock.
McDonald's would build a restaurant near Harvard in a wealthy area and the manager (probably an elite who would usually not actually be present at the restaurant -- some middle class schlub would be hired as assistant manager to actually run things) would in practice only require well-connected prospective Harvard student employees to show up on a single day in their 6 month shift and excuse all other absences. It would just become another node in the elite influence and favor trading network. You would need a powerful sovereign of some sort to actually impose this on the rich and well-connected.
Which one of you motherfuckers
Found JD Vance's grandma.
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You're missing that this has been continuously violated for decades. The state will gladly fund and evangelize for belief systems based on essentially religious principles ("equity," "egalitarianism," "blank slate," etc) as long as the belief system can disguise itself as "secular" and "basic human decency." This isn't punish violation of "separation of church and state," it's punishing heresy. An extracurricular about LGBT identity (theology/catechesis) or civil rights history (church history) would face no such scrutiny.
Does campaigning in swing states make a difference? If so, how? Are there people who weren't planning on voting for Kamala/Trump who suddenly will make the effort just because they delivered a speech somewhere in the state? Or does this effect only work on people who actually show up to campaign rallies? And if so, does it help at all, since I doubt there are truly undecided people who would spend time going to a campaign rally?
And who goes to these rallies/speeches, anyway? What kind of person thinks that's a fun afternoon? I'd rather Google what Trump/Kamala believe, make a decision, and then do pretty much anything else. I'd probably rather go to the dentist to get a cavity filled than sit through a political rally, at least I'll leave the dentist's office better off.
Does anyone go (or know folks IRL who go) to these? Can you explain why? And do they really increase voter turnout or generate new votes?
Working out until exhausted.
Getting laid.
Going on a hike or chilling by the water.
Venting to friends and family.
Martial arts sparring.
Alcohol, sometimes. But really not a good road to go down.
Key is to put your mind and body in a different context so that you see the thing that angers you from a different perspective and realize that there's more to life than that.
t. coping with seething about work for months now
That's really rough luck. You and your daughter have my family's sympathy and prayers. Hope the adjustment isn't too painful.
"But I have not yet gone to college."
I'll keep an eye out for the first installment.
I think that's totally fair and reasonable, since for some reason Jew-haters seem uniquely dedicated and patient in carefully drawing people into "JQ" discussions and barraging them with an endless supply of factoids. I can't prove I'm not a troll, but FWIW I don't believe in any kind of global conspiracy to control non-Jews or suppress The Truth or anything. Jews just seem to me like an exceptionally powerful ethnic group who are very effective at leveraging their economic and political success, like Indians or Chinese. If Chinese could get American children to learn about and feel bad for the Century of Humiliation, I'm sure they would.
Now, please give me your evidence
I can't provide you any evidence about an alternate historical scenario that never took place. I'm openminded, what do you predict would have happened had Germany won? Jew-hatred appears to me to have been an expression of German paranoia and and inferiority complex, once geopolitical rivals have been vanquished and the German people felt strong and unchallenged, would it have continued at such a fever pitch? It seems like it would have become politically unnecessary in peacetime and probably a diplomatic liability.
I wish there were more shades of difference between the binary of "Holocaust Denier" and "Holocaust Believer(?)". I don't think I'm a "Denier," I believe that some holocausting surely did happen, I don't know/care what the exact numbers are, because 6,000,000 or 300,000 is still an incredible tragedy either way. But I've come to care much less about it because AFAICT Holocaust remembrance is almost exclusively used as a heavy rhetorical cudgel for character assassination and silencing dissent, and it really seems to lend credence to the idea that a lot of Jews are Jewish first and second. I don't even necessarily think that's a terrible thing, I'd say I'm Catholic first and American second (sorry pre-JFK Catholics). But more people realizing/admitting that would prevent Jews from having their political cake and eating it too.
I guess I'm "Holocaust Indifferent" in the same way that I'm indifferent to the Armenian Genocide. I weakly hope a second Armenian Genocide never happens again, because genociding people is bad. But I'm not Armenian, so I don't think I'd be willing to spend much of my country's blood and treasure to prevent it (sorry). And if someone tried to tar an author or political opponent as an "Armenian Genocide Denier" or "Anti-Armenian" I would probably find that mildly interesting but it wouldn't stop me from voting for that person or buying their books. I wonder how manynother millennials feel this way. It really seems like it's mostly the boomers who are completely steeped in the Holocaust mythos.
Like I said in another comment, I'm not a mind killed Jew hater so I'm open to hearing other perspectives.
And two: his unhinged Twitter takes
I guess I'm finally no longer able to see both of the"two movies on one screen." That doesn't seem unhinged to me at all. Slighty provocative (only slightly because "nazi" has been abused so much that it stings about as much as "commie") but to me fairly obviously true. Jew-hunting was likely transitory and once the exigencies of war vanished would very likely have disappeared*, while the near complete destruction of the family and basic relations the sexes is something that it's not clear a society can ever come from. So Jesse's outraged pearl clutching to me reads as "it's okay for a a country's native culture to be completely corrupted as long as no Jews die." I'm no white nationalist or jew hater, but come on.
*I guess this can be argued, but I just can't see a sustained long term appetite for murder of Jews after the war. I'd guess they'd reach some sort of emancipation agreement with the governments of the German puppet states and probably would have been encouraged to move to Israel. Not very nice I guess, but that still seems less terrible than the complete degradation of a nation and its identity to me. I wonder if Jesse would have preferred Israel to adopt strong Laicité and import tons of Arabs rather than fight to keep its national character by hook or by crook
There are varying degrees of countryside. We live within several hours of a tier 1 city, and covid outmigration put upward pressure on rents. If you live somewhere tucked away in a valley 12+ hours away by train from any major city, rent is probably stable.
But you also have to consider that housing that's >20 years old (a generous estimate) is essentially condemnable in the minds of the Japanese public, so when there's upward rent pressure, it's on a small fraction of the housing market (recent construction) which magnifies the effect. I've seen apartments near the station in my medium sized town, which is in a prefecture that does not border a metropolis, that are now asking near the same rent as in the suburbs of a metropolis. Truly nowhere is safe in developed countries.
Apologies in advance for typos as I'm enjoying some fine sake this evening.
Please no, rent is already increasing enough out here as it is.
Japanese politics never ceases to disappoint me. How things got so bad used to be a mystery until I began working for a Japanese company. "Wait, the entire society is just one gigantic bureaucratic logjam?" "Always has been."
Raising the status of mothers is the correct answer. When we have lived in close knit communities where my my wife's peers were other mothers with 3+ kids, my wife was very happy. When we've lived in metropolises where restaurants, transportation, and general social life are all very unfriendly to mothers with children, she was miserable. Simple as.
How to do at scale? It has become apparent to me that egalitarian liberalism is a civilizational injury that an ER doctor of nations would diagnose as "incompatible with life," so I'm blackpilled on the prospects of liberal democracies mustering the fortitude to sit up on their sick beds long enough to even begin to do something about this. In my own life, I'm preparing to participate in a more heavily armed version of the Benedict Option and to pour my human capital into strengthening that community and its mothers without regard for, or even at the expense of, the surrounding economic zone "nation."
The Magician's Nephew with my daughter. Still just as fun as when I first read it. It might be my favorite book of the series.
Dick & Jane with my boys. Simple is best. They like the simple, classic art and it's easy for the older boy to read.
The Shadow of the Torturer has been on my shelf for a while. I got 20 or so pages in a while back and put it down. I need encouragement to pick it up again.
It's because you know, and the Used Car Salesman knows that you know, that you're rounding everything he says down by 50% and probably just straight up ignoring some of it. It's a game you're both playing. If you called him out on his BS, he'd probably concede immediately "Well okay not quite zero to sixty in 2 seconds, maybe more like 5 seconds, but she's zippy! You're gonna love her!"
Whereas when the Lawyer lies to you, he thinks he's the only player in the game -- you're too dumb to play. He either sincerely believes you're too stupid notice the subtlety of his lie, or he knows that his lie-by-omission is well-crafted enough that refuting it would take an order of magnitude more time and energy and make you look like a fool for trying. If you call him out he will not concede, he will just persist in his bold-faced lie. Glib, simplistic political slogans are a closely related type of lie, which is why they are so effective at enraging political opponents.
Nitpick, but plenty of lower middle class and what we Americans would consider "white trash" people drive in Japan as well outside of Tokyo. There's even a stereotype that if you have fake blonde hair, heavy make-up, and buy your clothes at Don Quixote, you probably drive a Toyota Voxy. My wife wouldn't let me buy one because it's a lower middle class marker.
Just like America, as soon as you get outside large metros, everyone in Japan owns a car. And even in Tokyo, once you get to the "outer" wards (e.g. Adachi, Suginami, Setagaya, Katsushika, Nerima, etc) many people own cars. I live in a medium side city in a rural prefecture, and every functioning adult I know owns and regularly drives a car. The city does have bus lines, but the few times I've taken them there are only tourists or the very elderly aboard.
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