It's not a best practice, it's a fad. 99% of people who recommend or use Postgres barely know how to use it. Another trendy database will come along and you'll stop seeing all these posts about it. Happens every decade. I'll link back to this post in a few years with "I told you so".
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throwawaaarrgh commented on Postgres is eating the database world medium.com/@fengruohang/p... · Posted by u/Vonng
throwawaaarrgh commented on Why are most sofas so bad? dwell.com/article/dtc-sof... · Posted by u/jtsnow
Built my own sofa. Fabric from JOANN, foam from a shitty IKEA thing thrown on the street, some plywood and pine from Home Depot, hardware, staples. Cost me $75. It's comfy and I can lay on it or sit on it. What the fuck about this is supposed to cost >$1,000, I have no idea. Are they stuffing sofas with live minks or something? It's just wood, bolts, foam and fabric.
For cushions I already had some, but you can easily make them with more JOANN fabric and a big box of poly stuffing. Extremely basic sewing skills and a pair of scissors are all you need.
Give a man a fish...
> Good management is like a teacher in school who checks if students are completing their work, and if they aren't, gives them assistance.
This requires the managers to know a lot about the technical aspects (nitty gritties if you will) of the work. In my experience, most line managers, and certainly the bosses above them, are so woefully clueless about the work that they are unable navigate timelines, scopes and challenges.
Often, the bosses interests are also misaligned. Rather than take a step back and rescope/reevaluate the project, they want to squeeze engineers to get "something" done. Why? Because some upper manager will lose a fraction of their bonus or stock or promotion due to optics.
The result of all this is Boeing of 2024.
Immediate managers must have some experience with the report's work, absolutely. But farther up the chain, they still need to check work. There's certain details of progress you just can't fake.
If you have 10 pieces of work, and you show each piece getting done at regular intervals, along with demos, then you can show your actual results and exactly how close you're getting to finished. Even someone who has no insight into the product can follow along and see the progress's results and trajectory. The more detail you get about the work, the harder it is to fake (you can fake a demo, but it's much harder to fake an entire Jira board)
All of this is very true! Thanks to the author for being open about their mistakes.
If you want to avoid this scenario, your company needs good leadership. If you're at a company where the managers don't do any due diligence in terms of verifying the progress of work, you are at an either inept or toxic company. If all people do is ask you for a "status report" and they just hope it's correct, they're setting everyone up to fail.
Good management is like a teacher in school who checks if students are completing their work, and if they aren't, gives them assistance. The teacher must actually check the work, and be interested in the welfare of the student as much as improvement.
throwawaaarrgh commented on School lunch breaks in France can be two hours (2012) karenlebillon.com/2012/04... · Posted by u/taubek
I don't know what I'd do if I had kids in the US. The education system here is so toxic. It's like a factory designed to churn out little automatons. Like everyone's purpose in life is to become a cog in a business wheel. "We're preparing you for a life of work."
Art, play, love, nature? Waste of time. Personal finances, cooking, repairs, wayfinding? Useless. We need you to learn advanced maths by hand, for that job you'll have at McDonald's where you need to handle advanced algebra. We need you to learn this highly curated view of history that excludes most of the important events in world history. Philosophy? You'll have to go to an expensive college for that. Psychology? Why should you have an insight into relationships, the human mind, emotional intelligence? It's not like that would come in handy at some point.
If I ran a school, the curriculum would consist mostly of teaching people to curate their inner and outer life towards their own goals and interests. The purpose and benefit of intelligence as a tool to use too improve their own life, and the lives of others. The benefits of benefiting society and our loved ones. The benefits of love. The things nobody should learn by accident.
throwawaaarrgh commented on Among the A.I. doomsayers newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/preetamjinka
It's fun seeing how much threads like this are mostly folks' hot takes on the title as opposed to anything in specific to do with the article.
The intelligence level of the average HN comment is lower than your average chat bot
GCP sucks so bad as a product, that the only way to tell what IAM policies apply to your service account, is to run some kind of analysis query thing exported to a BigTable (which will cost you money).
You'd think you could just go into the console and click on the service account and it'd show you which policies are linked to roles are linked to your service account? That would make sense, and be convenient. But this is Google we're talking about. Engineering principles will always trump customer experience.
It's much worse than that of course. The default roles give too many permissions, for nearly anything you want to do. Often you are limited by what you can control, to only at an Org level, or Folder, or Project. Yet making a custom role is often difficult, leaving you to usually just slap on the default roles, making your resources insecure. Much of the time, a user must have an Admin-level permission over all VMs in order to SSH into them with GCP creds. Kind of defeating the purpose of having IAM to begin with.
I think the only reason we haven't heard of more GCP accounts getting compromised due to the shitty default policies is, thankfully, GCP has few customers.