pengaru

In the end, it's basically a Toyota Hilux.

that's quite the optimistic end! There's absolutely zero chance this ends with a pickup powered by the venerable Toyota 22R-E I4 or an equivalent.

"I4, proven" proven to be genai slop and nothing more.

think window shopping

which upon writing I realized may not even be something folks born after 2010 have even heard of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_shopping

fiction

FreeBSD has never played a significant role in the Free Software Movement.

Frankly I'm surprised there was any GPL code at all in the FreeBSD base repo in 2026.

will we ever be free from the curse of believing correlation == causation

My impression of new car design aesthetics is they're mostly ugly to me because they're optimizing for selling to a different market than mine (USA).

New automobiles starting looking Alien after China started buying more of them than the US, and it's continued ever since.

It's arguably a good strategy to make mountains out of mole hills from their perspective. It drains the regulators' finite resources on relatively trivial matters, and I think it goes without saying there are less trivial and more egregious exploits continuing, more unchecked now as a result.

TL;DR distract the enemy with resource sinks

it's externalizing the real work all the way down

In the context of US roads, it's an extremely rare specimen which by itself makes it interesting.

But even beyond that, lightweight, mid front engine, rwd, turbo variants, this is the stuff of proper race cars. Anything Colin Chapman would approve of is automatically interesting.

AIUI This relationship between PG&E and SF/CPUC has a corrupt history dating back to the 90s with Willie Brown and later even Kamala Harris.

It's a part of why Republicans actually have some grounds for calling Harris corrupt - Willie Brown's office when mayor of SF was notorious for being a pay-to-play situation, she worked there (and even dated him).

  > Or, as Supervisor Aaron Peskin described it, “mind-boggling.” He said
  > the “city family” that grew up under Mayor Willie Brown, continued
  > working under Mayor Gavin Newsom, flourished under Mayor Ed Lee and
  > stayed on under Breed “were all doing favors for one another and
  > living in their own little bubble.”
  >
  > “They all convinced each other that they were like a family, and
  > family can give gifts to their children,” Peskin said, noting those
  > same family members took the city’s required annual ethics training
  > like everybody else and must have known what they were doing was
  > wrong.
  >
  > “They just got too cozy over too much time, and they lost their way,”
  > Peskin said. “Now I have to look at everybody going, ‘Are you a
  > crook?’ It’s not the way I want to see the world.”

It's trivial to find articles about the conflicts of interests between Brown and PG&E, I think even to this day he still represents their interests.

"extreme pro level"

how old are you?

There's no need for missing answers as to why copper is appreciated as a water transport/storage medium. It's the same reason it's traditionally used as cladding on boat hulls, and is still added to many anti-fouling bottom paints - it's antimicrobial, but also toxic.

Rogan is obviously pro psychedelics, and was even featured in the oval office during the recent Ibogaine approval signing. I think it's worth noting if this N=1 "study" has any association with such an obviously biased and influential individual.

If everyone in the team behaves this way there's no substrate creating opportunities for people like this to capitalize on.

I often fall into this role, and historically have made some quite large impacts because of it. But I take issue with TFA's position of doing nothing being a critical component of being effective and available to attack these problems.

I'm practically never doing nothing when employed. But I'm often looking like nothing is being done through the lens of ticket-oriented accounting. If the author means doing nothing by the metrics, ok, I can agree with them there. But it better be because you're too busy down in the weeds becoming one with the product and grokking details of created messes past and present.

If you're literally doing nothing, you won't be positioned well to understand the implementation details, and you won't be positioned well politically/socially within the org to thrive and be genuinely appreciated by your peers.

This is a complicated precarious path to take if you have any intention of lasting in the org. It's difficult to not accumulate enemies with every win you take at the expense of everyone else being too busy being the substrate you're scavenging. Management and your peers must come to appreciate you're filling a critical void, but the void is implicit and unaccounted for, making this tricky - it's built on trust.

They can see your selective work as exploitation while they take up the slack you create. From their perspective they're overworked because people like you don't do enough to balance the workload.

You need to be recognized as an enabler, the one minding the details, omnipresent - not AWOL doing nothing. Catching the fuckups early, preventing incidents while the green-field chaos monkeys carry on. The win is for the team, and you're effectively being a self-directed janitor cleaning messes nobody knew existed.

The reward for this role, as it really is otherwise somewhat thankless, is the autonomy. It's a management failure when these people get put on a pedestal and promoted more than the people doing the grunt work. That creates animosity within the ranks.

disclaimer: not a manager, not a lead, but often the guy in the corner course-correcting and fixing/preventing horribly broken customer-impacting mistakes. These are just some observations based on decades of startups and in recent years FAANG experience as an SDE.

The GenAI mess has delivered a new form of Eternal September[0] but for the software development communities.

I wonder what it will be referred to as, after the dust settles?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

You also got older and probably less fit.

As a bald man my experience has been the main determining factor is how hard am I working on maintaining an athletic physique that year.

If you look up either "half measures" or "unintended consequences" they should both say "See also: California"

wow, that's a charitable take

IME the manager just approves the PR themself to "bias for action", someone else will pick up the pieces

I've noticed there's a pattern of behavior with folks living in the forested parts of California where they expect everyone else to subsidize their impractical choice on where to put a house.

Extreme wildfire risks? let everyone else shoulder the cost, don't deny our fire insurance.

Power delivery infra costs (and associated risks, see wildfires)? don't make us actually pay for this, we're all in this together guys!

"intelligence"

seems like an obvious application would be game development? procedural curve functions are used quite a lot, look up "tweening" for instance.

wiring up an RNG to your CLI has fairly obvious risks, the root of the problem is ~everyone's treating GenAI as if it's AGI - the rest is popcorn fodder.

A lot of comments in here are obviously describing Americans, as if that's representative of some global human reality, without acknowledging the elephant in the room is a cultural problem.

Americans in particular tend to have a highly entitled and confused "time is money" view governing their existence that enables them to do nothing except when paid by employers, which obviously results in doing absolutely nothing in retirement.

What was that saying about paving the roads to hell?

even my 95 miata drives itself on a straight flat road...

I want to believe Brovdi, good for them.

April 1; I see what you did there, well played.

Donating fuel to terrorists on the other side of the planet isn't cheap

I worked in one of those independent computer stores in the 90s, assembling white box PCs in a dimly lit back room, and systematically removing drivers on early Win95 machines until they'd stop crashing to identify which one was buggy.

PCs were so dynamic at the time, half my paychecks were spent on discounted upgrades before I ever saw the paper. EDO ram? sign me up. 512K of pipelined burst L2 cache? yes please. HX chipset? of course. Dual socket pentium pros? I need a raise.

I suspect it's a dead ringer for Corporate America at any large American company.