would this mask any errors that would occur later in the validation?

While this is probably a large factor in their decision to do this, I wouldn't say that "no one expects a computer to work exactly the same way as a phone or tablet". My parents would definitely say otherwise. In fact, there's been some discussion on HN before about today's kids & teens not knowing how computer file systems work [0].

Obviously the majority of folks on this orange site have a strong understanding of how computers and filesystems work. However, there are more and more people that will grow up fully on tablet and mobile devices that will have a completely different mental model of what a "computer" is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526

Hopefully we can normalize showing appreciation from all directions (direct reports, sr mgrs, directors, etc.) for those who deserve it.

I didn't appreciate this skill until I had a manager who did the same for me. Having a manager who can ruthlessly prioritize, set expectations, and help navigate all of the corporate bureaucracy is a godsend.

[1] https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

This! It's very empowering and one of the things that drew me to tech/computers. Being able to understand things helped me realize the potential of what is possible with computers/computing technology.

I majored in EE in undergrad and didn't really appreciate my EE education until I got older (I was more interested in software).

[1] https://www.discourse.org/

[2] https://discord.com/

Technically you're correct. If only a handful of employees migrated, they could probably be let go pretty easily. No skin off Facebook's back.

Now if hundreds or thousands of employees migrated, Facebook needs to make a decision whether enforcing the RTO or not will hurt them more. Regardless of technicalities, demanding a non-significant percentage of your workforce to uproot their lives is not an easy ask (or great look).

Lack of financial literacy is another problem that, I think, exacerbates the above.

[0] https://nextjs.org/telemetry

FWIW my team uses bitbucket and the PR experience is significantly worse than github/gitlab unfortunately.

That's an interesting solution. I believe this is similar to what Joel Grus does [0], except %s/jupyter/ipython.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U

The closest thing that we've found has been to use the notebook percent format in a simple .py file [0][1]. It plays with git much nicer than an .ipynb and it is still interactive enough for rapid prototyping. However, it would be nice to have some first-class support from Jupyter on this.

[0] https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html?highl...

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

At least with lithium-ion technologies, for larger applications, this ignores a lot of the degradation phenomena and electrochemistry of the battery.