That was just ridiculous! On top of Muncy tying it. The Padres and Giants are doing pretty well too, but the Dodgers just stay ahead of NL West.

Short version: alleged sales and investor fraud + AI.

Wonder:

• How do they handle someone who may not be performing as well as others?
• What’s the process for conflict resolution? Both professional and inter-personal.
• Not sure if they’ve been through a big global recession yet. That’s usually when companies and their policies get tested.

Not to take away from their unique model. Just curious how the idealism handles the messy parts of human nature.

At one point in my life I was working on a massive Android AOSP fork that itself had lots of variants for different downstream devices. Custom drivers, specialty services, etc. Thousands of people were actively working on all parts of it, and it had been around for at least a decade.

There was incredible tooling around onboarding, local dev, testing, PR management, CI/CD, and post-release telemetry. Almost everything was automated. All code was reviewed at least once, and sometimes more for critical components. It was an immediate rejection if there wasn’t sufficient test coverage. Big subsystems took months to architect, build, and deploy.

Nobody got to cowboy things and just push to release. It was much slower than a solo or a few people at a startup. The whole point was consistency and predictability, and you could see why.

Github actions and docker containers. A match made in heck.

RFC 2549: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

This problem was solved years ago: https://spectrum.ieee.org/pigeonbased-feathernet-still-wingsdown-fastest-way-of-transferring-lots-of-data

You may want to do some research into Japanese wood joinery. There are some amazing techniques out there. Just one of them…

I believe that over the past several years, A.I. systems have started surpassing humans in a number of domains — math, coding, and medical diagnosis, just to name a few — and that they’re getting better every day.

This is why I stopped reading the columns and unsubscribed from the podcast.

Coming soon: American Airlines “express exit from wing” as a paid add-on to each flight.

My wife and I used to tag-team. Only one person got to lose it at a time. As soon as one person got that distant, exasperated look, Parent 2 jumped in and Parent 1 could go cool down, watch a show, have a drink, or take a bath. If solo, we’d use distraction and humor. If too much, you stick them in a playpen with toys and let them self-sooth.

If it’s any consolation, they won’t remember diddly-squat of anything that happened before ages 5-6.