supernovae's comments

azure doesn’t run a gui

Nothing stops this. You can hear what you want to hear.

What's funny is, y'all claim you should be able to hear what you want to hear, but when others don't want to hear it - you scream "cancel culture".

You can't have it both ways. Either grow up and run your own businesses/communities and attract revenue to support them or realize your ideas are bad and can't be sustained. This happens to everyone regardless of their beliefs.

You can't take successful companies and force them to be unsuccessful by embracing communities that fail.

Reddit is highly moderated and censored.

You can't even post facts in /r/conservative without being banned.

Reddit also has a Terms of Service and it has banned hate groups under such terms of service. With a large bias towards far right hate groups because there really is no existence of far left hate groups.

So of course moderation seems biased when your views are hateful to begin with.

Advertisers generally want nothing to do with advertising on low quality networks unless those advertisers are targeting people because they profit from their misery.

There wouldn't be disdain for Texas if Texas didn't do stupid things.

And reddit was a massive experiment in far right takeover. It went from hosting the rally for reason to electing Donald trump at lightning speed.

Not because of the overall community, but because of business actions, manufactured turmoil, and well funded trolling.

It's unfortunate we think of management as "keeping bullshit at bay".

I much prefer "clear the runway".

The great teams I've worked on, shared context oozes from the team and managers often don't know what that shared context is, but they protect it.

Once one studies complexity science, it becomes less "bullshit" and more "navigating complexity" and that's how i approach it.

You're gonna have a bad time in engineering if you think everything not engineering is BS.

I purchased my Jeep Wrangler in 2018. I found the color I wanted Online. Pre-qualified with my bank. Contacted the internet sales address, told them I wanted the car and I'd be by at 6 to pick it up and they had it ready.

My best car buying experience has been Tesla though. Ordered on the app. Put 500 down. Got a build date. Got a notification when it was in delivery. Added my payment info. Got a time to pickup car. Drove home.

Twitter isn't biased, people on twitter have opinions.

"Finishing what you start" has no meaning. None.

In the weakest definition of "finish what you start", it means "I cleaned my desk, I finished what I started" but the reality is - the only way for this to be "done" is to have no more work and no more desk. The work of maintaining that desk cleanliness is never ending work and herein lies the problems we create for ourselves.

Take the burger example and put it in a system - you're on to the next burger and some shmuck wants it without ketchup and with extra pickles. Then you have to cleanup the burger stand but cleaning up one day won't be the same cleanup as another and sometimes you may have to shutdown to deep clean - it's never done until you forever stop making burgers and close shop.

For me, it's all about mindset. I look at work as rewarding when I never stop learning. The notion of done is what makes people crazy because it's never about the work being done, it's about not want to do the work to begin with and not seeing any value in doing it.

My kids rooms are messy, i say they're lazy, but really they see no value in the work - to them, it's a waste of time. It keeps them from doing other things they would rather do. I laugh when they say they're done cleaning their room because without a doubt, not even a day later, it will be a stink mess again.

Also, context switching... these discussions never make sense because they're always discussed in terms of state as an exception to the system. Your flow state is uniquely you, the system you operate in is complex and dynamic.

I think all to often people put way too many words to paper trying to control complex interactive systems when they should really make them safe and resilient to monitor, observe, anticipate what's next and have the autonomy to make decisions.

That autonomy and decision making and anticipation still requires effort and work - and i'll be honest, some of the best flow state is safely operating in complex dynamic systems while being able to mental model your position in it and have empathy for others - realizing that your model is yours and others will have there's.

Done is imaginary.

isn’t that a 401k?

I wish they raised the limits.. it’s woefully inadequate after years of inflation.

august is by far the hottest month in texas. and yes, i just chose Toyota because it was easy to identify them since they are huge.

you should go by their factory sometime. you can get a tour, it’s pretty awesome.

The reason Texas has failed is because this state is a state of excess and they’re proud of fact.

If we incentivized efficiency we’d be much better off but instead we champion mocking that as something Californian.

It’s consistent. I can be very happy getting an Americano in Austin and an Americano in Boston and know i’m getting a comfortable cup of coffee.

I do appreciate the specialty roasters we have here.. but i don’t need to hate on starbucks - other than the ones that treat their employees like crap

I love IPAs and hoppy beers. Everything else is forgettable.

So glad we cleared up that everyone has opinions.

I’m just glad we have so many options to try and do many craft brewers having fun with it.

We never transitioned, wind was just the most economical growth opportunity for generation and it works really well in that regard. Just because we have increased wind doesn’t mean we don’t need to increase base generation. Not sure why you frame it like this.

no idea, but turning them off saved 1,500mw - our senators have been working hard to get more to move down here. It’s all power arbitration to me anyway.

the thing is, wind in general has far surpassed its expectations.

1,500 megawatt is what i heard, so about 2% of grid and growing.

it’s unfortunate many local utilities in Texas actually punish for solar. It’s a good thing off grid solar and battery storage is really coming down in price.

we haven’t even hit our hottest month and yet and this week alone the grid hit an effective 100% utilization rate and was only saved by asking manufacturers and crypto miners to shutdown. Toyota has to close their plants by 2pm. That’s pretty messed up