> then have rest of the day off to enjoy things I like

But that's not what companies expect from you, even if you owns AI. They expect you to output more, and when you do, someone else is probably out of work.

They just sent out email about the scam. I was so annoyed that even after opening the app, the notification icon still persists, wondering if the hack on the notifications exploits some loophole in the Betterment app

I am at the stage of life where I appreciate this wisdom and desire the practice of it, but lack the will power to not get caught up “trying to win the game”. Once a while I get anxious about leveling and compensation, overwhelmed by comparison with peers. For people who had the similar struggles but managed to overcome, what worked for you?

- Surround yourself with friends who also aren’t playing the game.

- Get really clear about what your actual financial goals are, not what they’d need to be in order to maintain status among game-players.

- Get compensated in ways other than money. For me, working four days a week instead of five, and working remote from anywhere, is worth a whole lot of money. And working at a smaller company is a hell of a lot more fun if you like being part of product decisions.

- If you can, find ways to do things that your ladder-climbing friends can’t do. Spend a month in Europe without taking any holiday. Spend the whole winter in Thailand. Use that extra mental energy from that day off to do something amazing.

I left FAANG about 10 years ago and took a massive pay cut. I’d do it again.

Are you working from Europe or have unlimited PTO?

That much time off at a small company sounds rare.

By telling yourself it is ok to feel this way and going back to things you are good at, things that you love and people you care about and enjoy being with. Also exercise - that works.

There is nothing to overcome. These feelings rise up sporadically. Acknowledge and move on.

> At the same time treating software like an art is probably not very useful. That code is (typically) not written to be looked at, but to make the computer do something useful.

FWIW you can argue the same for woodworking, a chair is typically not made to be looked at but for people to sit on. I tired to think what inherently makes writing software treated less than a craft than woodworking, but couldn’t think of any.

depends on the kind of software, the visuals are part of the ux and ergonomics. ratio, spacing, how to convey state with just the right amount of visual cues. a chair is not a tool your interact with to create. now there are some software that is like this, you want to start it and forget about it as long as it does its thing while you think about your goal.

Sometimes with software the reat art has nothing to do with anything the user sees.

that is true, a lot of gems are forever hidden under the hood

didn't even realize that, have to double check and saw the "read full story" banner

So it only solves a tail problem. I would assume the percentage of subscribers with poor internet is low.

Why would you assume that?

It also helps Netflix. Lower bitrate means less server load and lower internet bills.

Surely there is a lot of workload is delay-able, but there is equal, if not more, amount of workload that do not have the luxury of waiting. Is it fair to say the serverless platform has no advantage for the latter workload?

Yeah, you can't do synchronous stuff on it, like you would say lambda, or what ever google calls theirs. I think calling it serverless is probably confusing to a lot of the outside world, as to them serverless is cgi-bin for the docker generation.

this form of serverless is very much batch jobs with some modern bits sprinkled in.

perhaps they should have called it serverless batch, or Batch-as-a-service, async-serverless or serverless-futures.

I can understand the downvotes, but at the same time it does makes sense, especially given the target is a logician.

If I read the article correctly, Gödel's rationale is pretty much "The world is orderly organized, therefore after life is supposed to exist"?

I must have read it wrong, because I couldn't see the causality at all.

As someone working in tech and following along the progression of AI, I believe I have the right expectation. But still feels surreal seeing myself speaking a foreign language in my own speech style.