> Your level dictates your salary, your stock grants, and most importantly, the scope of problems you are allowed to solve. I found myself in a situation common to many engineers at large organizations. I was operating at a “Senior” or “Staff" level (...) but my official title and compensation were stuck at just above junior level.
This has to mean that the "level" does not, in fact, "dictate the scope of problems one is allowed to solve", but only the money part.
It's certainly legitimate to want more money, esp. when you think you deserve it compared to others. But it's a little weird the article spends so much time trying to explain they want a more senior position for other reasons after having said they're already tasked with solving senior problems.
To be fair, if you're a higher level you're more likely to be tasked with problems that have a wider scope, as opposed to having to actively seek them out and balance them against day to day work.
Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. Capture the text somehow and send that, and reconstruct it on the other end; and the best part is you only need to send each new character, not the whole screen, so it should be very small and lightning fast?
If drones are a threat to national security, then all existing drones should be grounded, regardless of the manufacturer. Or, if Chinese drones are the threat, then all existing Chinese-made drones should be grounded?
I don't understand how banning future drones helps national security in any way.
It is about money. If they ban drones that are already inside the US, they risk lawsuits by drone owners/importers for expropriation of their property. Banning things that are not already inside the country is easier as nobody has an absolute right to import stuff.
It is akin to weapons bans. Banning future sales of machine guns is far far easier to implement than outlawing those already sitting in gun cabinets across the country. The former is free to implement, the later very expensive.
It's just how these things normally work. Assault rifle bans. Magazine capacity bans. Automobile safety requirements. The old, determined unsafe items are allowed to remain, only new are prevented.
In this case the geopolitical shift is relatively recent, so the fear is companies will be pushed to do more than they were in the past.
Well this would be step one to try to motivate some US company to start manufacturing. Then once it ramps up they can step in with banning existing stuff without causing too much disruption.
Exactly, it's about supply chains. Banning existing drones with no replacements on offer would be unnecessarily disruptive.
Though the US should probably just learn from China: Does DJI want to sell in the US? Setup a 50-50 JV with domestic production, skill and technology transfers, or go away.
Wouldn't you want the opposite? Once domestic production ramps up you gradually lift import restrictions to create more competition. I guess that's if the intention is to improve the domestic market in the national interest, rather than to just make people rich.
That is exactly what you never want to do under protectionist policies.
Domestic producers are shielded from Chinese competitors.
This means they are under less pressure to reduce prices and innovate.
I wouldn't read too much into the national security justification.
It's a political argument to an economic policy.
If this is about military capability, why ban all foreign manufacturers, including proven innovators like Helsing and Baykar?
Instead of blanket bans, targeted contracts could leverage Ukraine tested designs while building domestic capacity.
Innovation happens under competitive pressure. The US just created a domestic vacuum.
The national security justification is that we need expertise building/designing drones. We won't get that if we allow China to out-compete domestic manufacturers.
The grandfathering clause is the tell. If these drones were an active national security threat, they wouldn't let civilians keep flying them.
This looks like industrial policy masquerading as defense in order to clear the board for domestic manufacturers just as the Pentagon starts handing out contracts to politically connected players.
Case in point: Unusual Machines just secured a massive Army contract for drone motors. Their advisor and major shareholder? Donald Trump Jr. [0]. Banning the import of foreign "critical components" conveniently forces the market into their funnel.
If that was the reason, a case by case analysis would make more sense than blanket ban. There’s no plausible technical explanation for this that doesn’t apply to any other devices, components, or software. If it could be made dangerous in theory then preemptively assume it will maybe at some point and ban it.
This is from the same people who brought you “let’s break all your encryption because you might become a criminal in the future”.
But does it? Or is it bad logging, or excessive logging, or unsearchable logs?
A client of mine uses SnapLogic, which is a middleware / ETL that's supposed run pipelines in batch mode to pass data around between systems. It generates an enormous amount of logs that are so difficult to access, search and read that they may as well don't exist.
We're replacing all of that with simple Python scripts that do the same thing and generate normal simple logs with simple errors when something's truly wrong or the data is in the wrong format.
Terse logging is what you want, not an exhaustive (and exhausting) torrent of irrelevant information.
"at scale" could mean they had direct access to a server or to storage, maybe because they had an insider giving them access, or they found secrets that had leaked somewhere?
Yep, never again. I tried to take a pragmatic position with the DRM, and it is just not possible. I buy the crap out of DRM free stuff, but if it's not DRM free, it's not for me
> Search results ads help customers discover your app right when they’re searching for apps to download.
One would think it's good search that helps users find what they want. But noooo! It's ads!
Ads help users! One has to love this kind of orwellian language. And one has to wonder if it's ever written in good faith? Or is everyone lying as a matter of course, to people who know perfectly well they're being lied to.
Is it even lying if you know they know you're lying?
If I were an app developer I would feel this is extortion.
Users that are searching for your app can find it as the top result, if you pay enough. Don't want to pay? We'll show them your competitor's app, no problem.
This has to mean that the "level" does not, in fact, "dictate the scope of problems one is allowed to solve", but only the money part.
It's certainly legitimate to want more money, esp. when you think you deserve it compared to others. But it's a little weird the article spends so much time trying to explain they want a more senior position for other reasons after having said they're already tasked with solving senior problems.
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