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If it's anywhere like where I work, the PM took it upon themselves to create the pr (along with 20 others) and did absolutely no testing because they're still under the impression that creating the pr is the work.

Either I'm stupid or [2] doesn't actually say anything at all. It starts with "in 2025..." And later talks about how estimates are expected to rise in 2023 and beyond while referencing data that ended in 1988. What am I missing?

"In 2025, it was estimated that over 163 million Americans were in some form of employment, while 4.16 percent of the total workforce was unemployed. This was the lowest unemployment rate since the 1950s, although these figures are expected to rise in 2023 and beyond."

"Bombings will continue until you stop hating us"

Palantir is an integration company

That's not true at all. I worked with Palantir on a project for a prior company and they'd basically do whatever you wanted if you paid them. They had a very heavy data / "AI" presence and this was years ago. They certainly do not just do integrations.

Not only is SNAP already funded via emergency funds, the administration was just told to resume SNAP benefits and they are unsurprisingly doing the absolute minimum.

I picked one at random (NVKP, "Diseases and Vaccines: NVKP Survey Results") and, while I needed to translate it to read it, it's clear (and loud!) about not actually being a scientific study.

"We fully realize that a survey like this, even on purely scientific grounds, is flawed on all counts. The sample of children studied is far too small and unrepresentative, we didn't use control groups, and so on."

Turns out the NVKP roughly translates to "Dutch Organization for those critical towards vaccines."

I understand being skeptical about vaccines, but the skepticism needs to go both ways

This isn't just a list of highest murder rates per capita, it's got some population threshold- likely the 300k population on wikipedia- which boils down to there being like 5 Republicans that have managed to get elected in large cities.

Completely agree re:leadership.

I worked in a couple companies with the "agenda rule" but I worked at one company in particular where it was successful. In that company, leadership had a "no nonsense" type approach and it only took a few reply alls from leaders to meeting requests with "Where is the agenda?" for everyone to fall in line. It also helped that every meeting they sent out contained an agenda.

3 years ago people understood LLMs hallucinated and shouldn't be trusted with important tasks.

Somehow in the 3 years since then the mindset has shifted to "well it works well enough for X, Y, and Z, maybe I'll talk to gpt about my mental health." Which, to me, makes that article much more timely than if it had been released 3 years ago.

I think the likely reason is they have signed a non disparagement agreement and have no avenue to publicly criticize. Additionally, quietly criticizing just means quietly getting fired, then likely still being unable to publicly criticize.

The only way to say "hey, I don't think this is right and I don't agree with what's happening here" is to publicly resign and hope that alarm bells start going off in people's heads as to why many of these folks are resigning simultaneously.

I don't think it's fair to say twitch "never wanted to offer" when not long ago, that behavior was the base functionality. You could rewatch everyone's entire streams forever. There was a DMCA scare at some point when streamers were getting in trouble for their old streams having music and many took down all of their history, but before then you'd see years worth of streams for people

Depends what you mean by optional join- if you mean you want the flexibility to build up a list of columns you actually want data from on the fly, you would probably have good results from doing left joins to the tables that contain those columns while ensuring you have a unique column (PK, Unique constraint) you're joining to. Your query engine should be smart enough to realize that it can avoid joining that table.

The logic is that you've ensured the query engine that it'll never return more than one row from the optional table so if you're not returning any actual columns from that table there's no need to think about it. Without the unique constraints the query engine has no idea how many rows may be returned (even if you aren't selecting the data) so it still needs to go through the work.

I'm very curious to know if you had an obituary written up for Princess Diana already, or did you only have them written up for celebrities that were "at risk"?

Was there any kind of cutoff in terms of age? Were there obituaries maintained for child actors and singers? So many questions but it's a very interesting topic!

But AWS alternatives ARE just a smattering of open source stuff.

Getting everything into AWS doesn't solve anything by itself, either. Then they'd still need to get everything off of windows, office, exchange, AD, etc. etc. Which is a ridiculous amount of work and they'd be fighting bugs and issues for years and years at their scale.

Those four states are where 90m of the 330m people live, so it's not really all that surprising.

My experience is that it's night and day... in favor of Microsoft. Caveat is that I'm on the data side, but AWS is a hodge podge of open source projects that they "integrated" (poorly). There's issues with data type mismatches between glue catalog and Athena/Presto, you can throw your data into Redshift but that's behind its own security curtain in postgres. You can move your data via glue, emr, MWAA, etc. but they all feel bolted on and integration is always more painful than it needs to be.

Microsoft, meanwhile, is moving towards synapse and fabric which is just everything you need in one spot, (more) easily integrated. I'm not saying it's perfect, but the vast, majority of companies I've worked with don't have the expertise or desire to put together some bespoke architecture taking into consideration the 5 options they have every single step along the way. They want something they can use out of the box.

You're proposing that they fight against all "surveillance?" Who exactly would they fight?

It's gone down 35% in the last year. It's down 50+% off its peak.

I have to be very careful how far I scroll down when reading threads. If I scroll a little beyond the last reply, I get a "See what's happening" full splash screen. Extremely frustrating when you have these X/? Posts and have no idea when the actual end is without checking for existence of the next.

If you're able to take Paternity, take it. It's going to be a whirlwind, especially if this is your first child, and this is likely the first real stretch of time you've had off in your entire adult life. It's hard to bond with a week-old child, but spend as much time as you can with the baby and make yourself available to help mom with anything she might want help with.

The good news is that the baby sleeps... a lot. You can only fill up so much time doing laundry, cleaning bottles, and doing dishes. You will have some free time, especially at the start. Use some of this time dusting off your resume and learning some things that interest you that you haven't had the chance to dig into previously. You should be free from the typical day-to-day work stresses so, if you're like me, this might actually be enjoyable. If you're already confident you dislike your job, maybe even try to get an interview or two scheduled during this time.

Once you're back to work you can evaluate with a clear head just how much you (dis)like your current job, and you should have a clearer idea of how close to the chopping block you truly are. Some employers have a knack for making you feel worthless even if you're incredibly valuable.

Make sure you're prioritizing your family; it's a lot easier to find another job. This is an very exciting time- enjoy it!

"I just moved to this place and I'm getting local robocalls to my cell number"

This is more than likely just a combination of National Change of Address database (which is updated daily, I think, and there seems to be a lot of companies selling it) and some marketing information from one of many services that sell it, almost all of which contain your cell phone.

AWS feels like 700 two pizza teams designing a cloud all in their own black boxes.

Couldn't agree with this point more, and it's enough to make me prefer Azure. AWS is taking open source tooling and slapping a very thin veneer on top to make it their own. Almost nothing is cohesive or easily integrated. You can ask the same question to three AWS solution architects and get three similar-but-different stacks suggested.

Azure seems to be going the way of solid, simplified, integrations between their tooling (things like Synapse), while AWS is trying to be first to market (or fastest, or cheapest) with all of these individual components.

Inflation has been at a historical low until very recently, and this stat is comparing 2017-2021 vs other 5 year periods:

"There were more mass shootings in the past five years [2017-2021] than in any other half-decade going back to 1966"

So no, I don't think it correlates to recessions and/or inflation.

This is said a lot online, but I'd like some concrete examples.

I think that really depends on which policies you're considering to determine how liberal or conservative a country is.

If you're looking at things like Universal Healthcare, Reproductive Rights (which you mentioned, interestingly- but skirted over the fact that they are likely being rolled back to being illegal at any stage past fertilization in many states- much more conservative than other countries), College tuition, universal basic income or workers rights, the US is objectively conservative.

Nearly everyone should have been qualified- many folks couldn't take advantage or had a low enough balance that it didn't make sense.

I don't have the raw numbers, they're almost all paywalled off, but you can see the recent volume of refi has been a multiple of each quarter from 2013 through 2019.

https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/mortgage-origin...

The total outstanding residential mortgages today are roughly $12T. Since 2020 onward, over $5T in volume has been refinanced. That's a large portion of the population with a mortgage that is very early in its lifespan.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/205946/us-refinance-mort...

Admittedly, the raw numbers are difficult to find in an article I can link. However, there has been a significantly higher volume of cash out refis than we've seen in the last 15ish years.

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/cash-out-refis-reach-1-...

Cash out refis accounted for ~25% of all refinances in 2021 (roughly similar numbers in 2020). Remember at the start of the pandemic many people tapped their equity because of uncertainty and extremely low rates.

I wasn't trying to say that anything is coming or not, just that homes losing 30% of their value would be bad for people even if you don't intend to sell immediately.

All the folks that are pretty much capped out on their debt with their new mortgages should be a great position going forward because they're locked in with their 2-3% mortgages and interest rates (and/or market returns) should surpass that.

Nearly everyone either bought a new home or refinanced within the last 12-18 months due to historically low rates. This also means that almost all mortgages are pretty much capped out in terms of loan to value.

If houses lose 30% of their value, a substantial amount of people would be underwater and would likely be better off walking away. Could be very bad.

Yep. But looking at it as a shareholder, I don't think this should have been a negative.

Spending a lot of time to work with an individual client in order to make $1k-$2k or whatever they make ushering a loan over to fannie or freddie is not good business- especially during the recent market.

I see this everywhere but I can't see how it's true.

I'm guessing that a company's largest expenses are (probably in order, too): People, Technology, Office space.

Most companies, especially smaller companies, do not actually own the office space they are in, they lease it. Commercial real estate crashing would greatly reduce one of their top 3 expenses... how is that bad for the bottom line?