Another way to think of it: if you merge early, then the actual correct time to merge becomes indeterminate. Do you merge when you see the sign? Wait till you see a good gap? What if the person behind you doesn't have a gap, and they drive right past to keep looking? It becomes chaotic, and everyone thinks they are getting picked on when someone decides to merge in front of them or passes them. So much wasted anxiety and anger. It's a lot easier (in congestion) to wait until you need to merge, then merge.

In free-flowing traffic, it's a bit different, but the Minnesota page on zipper merging acknowledges that at the end of the article.

Sometimes it can be fun to get into the medieval mindset and have the rules reinforce their erroneous beliefs (maybe bloodletting is treated as a useful treatment for diseases, for example). But in this case, if the armor types are based on a misunderstanding in the Victorian era, I don't really see the fun in pretending that these other types of armor both exist and would be useful.

Twitter as a brand becomes less valuable the more he alters it, since he's such a polarizing figure, so changing the brand to break continuity seems pretty counterproductive. It just reminds people that Elon is still fiddling with it.

I'd use whichever works for your ecosystem and diagram lifecycle. The syntax is similar enough that I think the diagram creation constraints are often a bigger difference.

Is anyone using Buck/Bazel and also using frameworks like Spring, or React, for example?

Why be transparent (or try to appear transparent)? To convince people to trust your platform (or to recruit - which seems to be another goal of the post). Why would Twitter want or need to do this now? Well, there is a bit of context. This disclosure doesn't exist in a vacuum.

But really, if people respond to Twitter's actions politically, that response exists within a context that was certainly influenced by Twitter's prior actions.

In my personal experience, negative emotions are strong indicators that should not be ignored, overridden by external motivation, or powered through with discipline. Emotions seem to be like mental shorthand for different kinds of problems, or like flashing signals from the subconscious trying to get my attention.

If I interrogate that feeling, I have a chance to address the root of the problem. Or I discover that I'm never going to solve the problem, so I need to find a way to accept it.

The reasons for being stuck, feeling unmotivated, or whatever, usually boil down to a few simple problems. I don't know what to do next, I don't know how to get started, I don't want to do this thing I have to do, I don't think I should be doing this at all, I don't think I can do this well... blah blah blah. All of those problems translate into the same kind of emotional malaise, but there are different strategies for addressing each. The strategies aren't very complicated, but I first have to acknowledge the feeling and try to understand it.

(Note - as an ADHD-enhanced person, this experience may only be relatable to others with the same gift. Maybe neurotypicals have magical executive function juice that lets them power through anything, but then... why are they reading this article?)

I understand why it all vanishes (the privacy concerns are non-trivial, storage isn't free), but it would be worth almost any price when the 5/10/20 year anniversaries roll around.

If it were an algorithm, everyone in Twitter would be banned by tomorrow. I hope it works.

Interviewing is a nightmare on both sides of the fence, though. There's a reason why it's a good idea to build up and leverage your network of coworkers.