You're probably not wrong. In the Guardian article they mentioned, there's one quote that pretty much sums up what you're saying: "I’ve always known in my head that it was probably better for me to do the work on my own [...] I’m kind of a bit worried that using ChatGPT will make brain kind of atrophy because I’m not using it to its fullest extent."
All valid points. And having been at Amazon for two stints, I think it's fair to say that it really depends on who's reviewing the PR/FAQ.
I did review this PR before Werner published it, and can say that in this specific case, attributing the quotes to anyone for public release was not allowed. However, I would definitely expect the name of a real person for any quote in a PR/FAQ I was reviewing internally.
Those aren't valid points!!! That wasn't my message at all. They're idiotic nitpicking points from non-technical managers whose only job is to pedantically edit PR/FAQs as if they mean anything. And each manager has their own opinion about what should or should not be in one.
That document is perfectly fine. It clearly expresses both the idea and the business value of it, which has obviously been borne out by the unmitigated success of Lambda.
The whole company has become brainwashed by moronic MBAs. The amount of stupidity I dealt with writing and re-writing PR/FAQs has taken years off my life.
The only real message my comment has is to show the poor suckers still working at Amazon the bullshit that they should expect when writing one. Thank all that is holy I never have to deal with those idiots ever again.
The $1mil number in itself doesn't seem too impactful, but when you take it into consideration with other reported findings, such as $55mil spent in the last year to influence the general public during election season, or the $5mil spent to honey pot activated and enthusiastic partisans -- it starts to add up -- and I imagine the numbers are much bigger, especially when you consider legitimately funded misinformation from Super PACs and the like.
The Citizens United decision and resulting Super PACs are one of the worst things to happen to US democracy. Money is not speech. Free flow of untraceable money into our elections means that political ads cost more for the direct candidates because of competition. There's only so many hours in the day so if someone can buy ads for 95% of the reserved ad time, by necessity all other speech is reduced. I think we need a constitutional amendment to address it.
I particularly like his comparison of learning Rust to writing docs at Amazon, which are a frictionful minefield.
> Rust has a reputation for being a difficult language to learn and I won’t dispute that there is a learning curve. It will take time to get familiar with the borrow checker, and you will fight with the compiler. It’s a lot like writing a PRFAQ for a new idea at Amazon. There is a lot of friction up front, which is sometimes hard when all you really want to do is jump into the IDE and start building. But once you’re on the other side, there is tremendous potential to pick up velocity. Remember, the cost to build a system, service, or application is nothing compared to the cost of operating it, so the way you build should be continually under scrutiny.
Shame that this is a misleading title, because it's actually an interesting article about how the FBI caught a predator in what's basically a case of dumb luck.
There are companies like Terraformation that have been doing this for a while. Beyond the biodiversity angle, seed banking seems to be very important to the long term success of regrowth projects.
but then did more research, because i've been interested in forestry for a while and was geniunely curious and wanted to understand my investment more.
i pulled my investment once i learned that these sort of projects don't actually work. terraformation targets land in areas that aren't meant to be forests. also decided to pull it because i don't completely understand the space. (sure, "planting trees will solve climate change" seems easy enough and makes me feel good because "i'm planting trees!" but nah, not really, let's maybe rethink this...this is coming from somebody who spends a lot of time in the woods and finds trees to be an important part of my life.)
Author does a great job of capturing the anxiety the captain and crew felt and the poise they demonstrated. Maybe my favorite line, "Quintal’s cucumber-cool support".
