Kids thrive with structure but it takes discipline to maintain consistency.

It’s not magic, in a nutshell it just makes sure your kids have a very reliable routine and they are never super tired or super hungry.

Goodness springs from there.

It's WAY harder than it sounds.

Remember Twitter is not a profitable company which means the likelihood of a bunch of low-hanging fruit for savings is very low. That's been done already.

There are not likely "oh look we found a whole DC sitting idle, oops" sort of savings. Any vendors they use are ALREADY giving them huge discounts.

I'm not saying Twitter is efficient or that this is physically impossible (tho it might be), I'm saying its not easy and takes skilled people a long time to iterate to lower-cost systems or designs that don't have massive stability or performance tradeoffs.

Twitter runs their own data centers, which means they own all of the THOUSANDS of machines in them. These machines, and all of their parts, have shelf lives and CONSTANTLY need replacement.

When they are replaced you can't just go to Best Buy with a credit card. At scale VERY SMALL changes matter: oh look they changed something in the disk firmware and haha now your databases corrupt data one out of 1M writes.

New machines need to be tested, burned in, installed. Old ones need to be cycled out.

Same goes for power equipment, networking, all that.

Because you built your own data center, and you were an early scale company it ALSO means a huge percentage of your systems are home grown - asset management, deployment, health checking, metrics, you name it. There are no articles on Stack Overflow. There is no blog post. How that shit works is mostly a function of what people knew about it and, well, at least half of those people are now poof - gone.

This hasn't even gotten to the services themselves, many of which are now running without an owner or any person at the company who has ever looked at them before. The remaining people are now up to their eyeballs in drama, survivor syndrome, fear, and, oh yeah, the work of many of their laid-off peers.

Few people, pfft, give me a break.

I couldn’t, I had these same ignorant ideas based on my fleeting, non-accountable contact with small kids.

Now let me tell you about the time my 10 month old, in the blink of an eye, managed to get a handful of her own poo into her mouth.

The struggle is real.

While H2 isn't great for decarbonization at scale, in specific industries like aviation it might be applicable assuming it's made cleanly.

[1] https://www.zeroavia.com/

This doesn’t reverse anything. It slows warming, but doesn’t de-acidify the oceans or decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere.

Solar engineering is a radical, risky Hail Mary that should only be considered as a stopgap emergency measure provided emissions are being managed. Without that the problem is not solved and if the mitigation (sulfur, bubbles, whatever) is removed the snap back will be extreme.

We need to stop putting CO2 and methane in the air and start removing what’s there, period

I have a circa 2018 Xps13 9370 that I’ve used regularly for non-work coding it generally still works great. Recently it was only lasting 60 minutes on a charge, but $50 to Amazon got me a new battery and now it’s great.

I don’t really need a new computer and the battery is the one thing that is sure to fail. The CPU and 16G memory are fine for Windows 11 and WSL2 (or Ubuntu).

It’s a waste to build machines that are designed to become trash, especially in todays world where hardware improvement curves have flattened so machines are usable for many years.

I played it for months and am anxiously awaiting the last chapter.

It’s rich, engaging, and the visuals are gorgeous.

At the start of the pandemic, my company (a large well known Bay-Area tech company) saw improvements in our developer productivity metrics.

Over 2020, they faded.

I'm at a new company now, we have done a lot of hiring, seen a lot of churn, and it is really hard to get "think big" projects running.

Work that has low ambiguity and needs execution - awesome for remote work.

Work that requires trust and deep collaboration - very difficult remotely. It doesn't it mean it can't be done but the communication fidelity is MUCH lower over Zoom and this cost has to be paid somewhere.

And, yes, employee churn makes all of this worse.

I've been of the opinion that the rush to remote work is unavoidable but the industry will regret letting it get out of hand.

Which I still think is the case. I think we are reaching the point where we see the big limits in WFH show, we see generally lower engagement, more difficulty doing big difficult projects, etc.