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I think sometimes flip side is that the engineer looks like they just shipped a bunch of "small features" A, B, C... because the solutions were so simple

IMO, there should be 3 categories of users, and they can choose a system wide setting that applies across all their apps and settings:

* Bulletproof

* Privacy Conscious

* Normal (recommended)

That way users are roughly opting in and opting out in a way that aligns with their desires

I don't know, I'm of the opinion there is no true substitute other than jumping ship to a better learning environment. I think as long as you're cognizant of it, maybe that time comes in 2-3 years, maybe sooner.

I didn't see anyone mention the rationale. Here it is:

"Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the everything app. This is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing.

The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140 character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting – but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video.

In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1683656350046232578

Probably because Threads is more suited to the unidirectional follow model

Right. Article is from 2012 as well. The communication landscape arguably has evolved a lot since then.

With Slack, for example, you have so much fine grained control. I don't know if it makes sense to implement a blanket "shut off communications after hours" policy

spez will care, because, well who uses digg?

Snooze alerts? Why don't you direct people to use team channels.. that way over time the knowledge base is there.

Sounds like you have to decide if you want to focus on being an IC vs managerial

In the long run, I look forward to people and companies sorting themselves to their respective camps of "remote" vs "non-remote". Economics will prove which one works better.

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, this is mostly referring to Internet enabled goods and services.

As other commenters have pointed out, it doesn't apply as much to actual physical products.

So this leads to reason, should any of this be accepted as the norm?

It's just like building a Facebook app back in the day

Replace social media / graph APIs with the ones from OpenAI

The easy solution that should've been implemented is to let you "ride out" your last cartridge.

What is the compensation range for software engineers in the auto industry? Is there a place to look at job descriptions?

This is likely untrue. I think tone is something ChatGPT excels at. The issue is more likely with your prompting. Sure, with standard prompting you'd get the "college essay" feel.

However, I do think long form writing is something ChatGPT isn't really able to do.

Neat! How did you make the graphics for these poses? Love them!

What could've been done differently with a "competent" CFO?

Say it is an assault.

Some guy / lady yelled at you for 10 seconds aggressively. Are you now going to call the cops / file a police report?

I think a majority of people would just move on with their day. So yes, to your point, this wouldn't show up in any statistics.

Lead Detective's Police Report:

Case closed, mugging. Occam's razor.

I think you are trying to pigeonhole Eskenazi's argument into the standard "progressives don't care about crime" punditry that's popular on the right. I would suggest re-reading the column with a more open mind. His argument is that feeling safe is as important, if not more important from a policymaking perspective, as empirical measures of safety ("real risk") such as violent crime rate.

From the article:

But the city’s violent crime rate is at a near-historic low, and is lower than most mid-to-large-sized cities.

Lee’s death, however, was packaged in the media and on social media into a highlight reel of recent San Francisco misfortunes and crimes: large groups of young people brawling at Stonestown; the abrupt closure of the mid-market Whole Foods, leaving San Franciscans just eight other Whole Foods within city limits; the severe beating of former fire commissioner Don Carmignani in the Marina District, allegedly by belligerent homeless people — it all adds up to a feeling of a city coming undone.

This manner of coverage, however, does not capture the actual lived experience of the vast majority of San Franciscans.

I'm reading his article again.. where is his argument that feeling safe is important?

He states that violent crime is low, and that newspapers shouldn't be cherry-picking and sensationalizing how bad it is, and that he knows this is not the actual experience for the vast majority of San Franciscans.

People who are downvoting this... care to justify your point of view? Genuinely curious.

Is the weakest link here iCloud backups?

Afaik, the backups are encrypted but Apple has the key and is the one doing this encryption.

Sure. However the "lack of safety" perception is real too.

If a homeless person walks up to you and aggressively threatens you as you are passing by, no crime has occurred. But if you're an SF native, you've learned to shrug it off as a commonplace occurrence. You've learned to become thick skinned towards these incidences. And when a real crime has happened, you'd likely assign more gravitas to it.

This is why there is a disconnect between numbers and quoted statistics and how people feel.

Meh. I'd argue that the conclusion for Metaverse/crypto hasn't been reached yet. (Why? There's a 1.2T market cap saying it hasn't). It's like saying internet grocery delivery is dead because Webvan died in the early 2000s.

I'd give those two another 5-10 years before I expect to see real results — so much needs to be built first at the foundational layer.

Just a few notes I quickly thought of:

- SF has policies that encourages homeless to emigrate there, one of which is being pretty lenient to anyone who sets up camp on the streets

- SF allows open drug markets that has become a hotbed of criminal activity

- Police aren't fully empowered, and many people because of their ideology tend to hate police

- Lots of catch and release going on, both anecdotally and on news

- They offer drug kits (think needles, pipes, and other tools). The kit looked to be worth around $100

- They gave free alcohol/marijuana to homeless during lockdown

- A large subset of the population seem to give no shits about the city or other people: public urination, defecation, harassment, drug use, property theft, vandalism is common. The lack of enforcement has allowed these activities to increase

Interesting that you say this after our progressive DA was recalled & our mayor is trying to supplement the SFPD budget by $27.6M.

Not commenting on the current DA's performance yet, but even "good changes" take time. SF didn't get this way overnight.

Why do you have to be so short-sighted and only think in the US?

You can reform and adopt working policies here too.

Not saying you're wrong to be doubtful, but I would imagine being connected in the same locality would get you closer to "the right person"

What type of workouts were you doing, were they unusually strenuous?

This reads as if the general population doesn't work out — if they did, your workouts wouldn't be that out of the norm.

My take is that for GPT-4, it has mastery of existing knowledge. I'm not sure how it would be able to push new boundaries.