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RTO is barely being pushed for. They said "you should come to the office these 3 days", but almost no one did and no manager seems to care.

I'm not in the PA that will be sharing desks but sit in one of the affected offices. I can see about 100 desks from where I am right now. All of them are assigned to someone, but only 6 presently have someone sitting there. Occupancy of our corner peaks at maybe 30%?

Something was bound to happen given all the unused real estate. But it's shitty that those of us who actually use our desks, because we rather like work-home separation, now might end up with a desk time share. Maybe all those people who didn't actually want to come to the office should have just filed for permanent remote?

You must not follow many VCs. They're _very_ into hexagonal pics and web3 hype.

That meaning of dropped generally only applies in intransitive contexts. Here we have a thing dropping a thing, suggesting the older meaning of "dropped".

Agreed. I work in the PP's PA and was promoted on my first try for doing unsexy but worthwhile maintenance work on an important tool. It can happen. In my estimation the best thing to do if you want to get promoted is 0) have a positive relationship with your manager 1) read the SWE ladder for the next level 2) give your manager a document that describes your work using the language of the ladder as closely as possible. Said ladder does not say you need to deliver a shiny new thing, despite what is commonly assumed in this forum.

I basically still log in for interest group posts (e.g., photos from my son's preschool) and to RSVP for party invites. I'd love to see alternatives take over for these.

My 3 year old has ASD. I'm interested the finding about disproportionate megalencephaly, as his head is pretty big (but he's also rather tall). Suppose I wanted to see if he falls into the >1.5 SD cerebral volume/height bucket. Is there a way to meaningfully approximate it with his head circumference and height?

https://flywaydb.org/ is another contender in this space, that also allows for migrations written in Java if needed.

And yet the endgame will probably the same as that for all the other travel bans -- the variant will spread anyway.

There's been a big investment in server platforms that strive to enable SWEs to build a new service that follows Best Practices with as little knowledge and handholding as possible. These consist of conformance tests that yell at you while you're coding if you are trying something generally thought to be bad, and semi-automated workflows that help you bring your code to production. When everything works as intended, the production workflows set up a decent set of alerts, acquire resources, configure CI/CD pipelines, and launch your jobs with just a few button presses on your part. (In practice, one of the steps will probably require debugging, but eh, it seems way better than the broccoli man video.)

Yeah, 11:19 hours of daylight at the trough, 12:57 at the peak: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/samoa/apia. The case for DST is exceptionally weak at those latitudes.

And yet the Weihenstephaner, which actually tastes good, goes for almost $10 less.

Oh God, Spivak. The name gives me flashbacks to my first year at U of C. I arrived thinking I was smart about math things. That book humbled me bad. A tough beginning to four tough, lonely years.

Yeah, one consequence of hiring exclusively based on technical skill is that you end up with some employees that are empathy challenged. My employer recently added one "are you a human?" interview to every loop presumably for this reason.

he also seemed unwilling to push at all, just said "okay!" in a sing-song voice that implied "yeah whatever, go die"

Is the idea here that you wanted the interviewer to beg you to stay on the call?

I interview for a BigCo. Most of us do it not because we love interviewing but because 1) It's a way to check the "citizenship" box on performance reviews. 2) A director or VP sent a mass email exhorting us to join the interviewer pool. Everyone I know in fact views interviewing as a chore that takes away from one's day job. But, there's standardized training and emphasis on objective tests and rubrics to minimize bias. Given this assembly line process and the fact that most interviewers want to be elsewhere, there's very little reason to expect a random interviewer to want to sell you on continuing a process that you consider yourself above.

If a candidate proclaimed that they didn't agree to the terms of one of my interviews midway through, I'd certainly exchange a few words with them to try to make them more comfortable, but in the end I would by fine with bidding them farewell and being glad that writing up that interview feedback would be easy.

One of my biggest interviewing mistakes was voting "hire" on a guy despite his seeming difficulty with coding during the interview because he was such a great talker and had great sounding experience. He came on board, couldn't deliver on anything, and sapped the team's morale. There are plenty of people out there who have bullshitted their way through a career.

They do need to retake their boards periodically to stay certified. My surgeon father was pulling out his textbooks periodically into his 60s.

Indeed. It's quite common to move your assets to a living trust in California for this reason, even for the only somewhat wealthy. It's basically SOP to set up a trust rather than just a will if you have assets above the simplified probate threshold. (I'm sure Moskovitz, being more than somewhat wealthy, has additional reasons.)

It seems highly likely that you are not, and therefore that this trade is much less of an obvious win than you appear to assume.

Having a current employee add your resume to an ATS as a referral is the most efficient route. Around SF at least it's not particularly hard to find someone willing to do that even if they hardly know you. This sort of networking is likely harder elsewhere, but perhaps not by much.

Simply uploading your resume to a large tech company's website will rarely get you anywhere, is what I've heard from recruiters.

Yep. The people who optimized for space at the cost of a longer commute are the winners here. Those of us who prioritized a short commute with the expectation of not being home every day for months on end are losing.

The management of individual accounts is generally performed by low-level employees at companies like this. It's operational work that is thought to scale poorly and the costs of it are looked upon unfavorably by public market investors. Hence, there is constant pressure to push it to as low of a level as possible.

Perhaps a higher tier of user support personnel handles verified accounts (or accounts somehow flagged for extra review in a non-public fashion), but I'd still be surprised if anyone particularly high-level is doing the grunt work of using this tool.

(Also POTUS is not authorized to declare any wars btw.)

While true, this effectively doesn't matter given the number of people we've bombed since our last declaration of war in 1942 [0].

[0] https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_a...

It's pretty common to submit a confidential draft. This started with the JOBS Act [1], which loosened disclosure requirements generally for "Emerging Growth Companies" [2] when they are going public and introduced the notion of a confidential draft registration statement. You originally had to meet certain requirements to qualify for confidential filing, but that privilege was subsequently expanded to all companies [3].

Exactly how common it is to announce your confidential filing is harder to assess, but it's not _that_ unusual. They likely decided their filing would leak and thus it was better to get ahead of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startup...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/smallbusiness/goingpublic/EGC

[3] https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2017/07/sec-pe...

We finally got some progress on margins, but it meant degrading the product: food is fickle.

Less money in, worse food out.

I tried Sprig a few times and really found the food quality so underwhelming that I never became a repeat customer. Maybe I caught them during this period.

And perhaps when enough of these like-minded remote workers are living near each other, some of them will find that they enjoy working in the same physical location at the same time. Then some of the space in the community can be turned into hubs for in-person collaboration, or offices!

The EU disagrees: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries_en#28mem....

The UK may still be following some of the EU's rules, but they have officially left the union.

Yes you can. It's called a small business loan. See https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans and https://www.bankofamerica.com/smallbusiness/business-financi....

You'd finance your dry cleaners with debt rather than equity because (unless you are starting a chain) you are not shooting for the massive, near-zero marginal cost scaling that the venture capital model focuses on. Instead, the bank looks for a modest, predictable return through interest payments.

If you're a covered entity (CE) under HIPAA, you are allowed to have business associates (BAs). BAs are other parties that the CE exchanges PHI with in order to provide services (billing companies, cloud storage providers, etc.). According to the HITECH Act, BAs are bound by the provisions of HIPAA.

Per their press release (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/our...), Google is playing the role of a BA as a part of this deal. They have signed a business associate agreement (BAA), as HIPAA requires. This agreement will have defined the permitted uses for the PHI that Ascension is transmitting to Google.

Basically this all sounds utterly ordinary. It's 2019 and even healthcare companies want to be in The Cloud (and especially want to be associated with AI and ML). My last company stored lots PHI in AWS. AWS signed a BAA with us. Now, if someone at Google with access to this PHI misuses it (e.g., accesses it for an invalid reason or sells it on the black market), then they could be in violation of HIPAA and face penalties. But the mere fact that a covered entity is transferring data to a business associate in no way suggests a HIPAA violation its own.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, but know nothing about this project.)

People spent a lot less time working and a lot more time checking the stock price and estimating their net worth. As the stock headed south, and the press started writing mean articles about us, morale went south.

Lunchtime talk started to focus on money. Some people nursed unrealistic fantasies about an upward turn in the stock. Those of us who were more cynical sold our shares earlier and were happier in the long run. Eventually most of us moved on to other companies. The company is headed down the drain, but many of us are still friends. I bought a condo.