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Khorne, Greenskins and Ogre Kingdoms.

https://youtu.be/83chO9NuWAg

This is a picture I took about ten years ago that features three things that you can't get (or get to) any more: the Hyde St Pier (where the tall boats are docked) and the Municipal Pier (where I was crabbing when I snapped this) are both closed now, and Anchor is still in transition so there's no Christmas Ale this year.  All will hopefully return someday.

They did, it just took so long that I thought they'd ghosted me and was expecting to have to line something else up after quitting the current gig.  Instead the timing worked out perfectly. The interview process was weird in general -- no tech screening, just 5 rounds of shooting the shit with 5 different people.  Most of the people I talked to have been at the company for more than 20 years and say it's the best job they've had.  My last few gigs have been kinda miserable and ended with me quitting in frustration after about a year, but based on the extremely positive rep this place has I'm hoping this is the one that I can stay at until I'm ready to retire.

Did they just not interview you?

me, giving notice with nothing else lined up amid a sea of industry layoffs, and getting a job offer from a better company (not another fucking startup, lol) eight days later

Hey, maybe the robot uprising will begin there! We can only hope! 

16 years after this thread began with them, the Secret Service is using Boston Dynamics robot dogs to patrol Mar-A-Lago.

This floated across my feed today: How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis

tl;dr it's about Lucy Calkins, who I'd never heard of, but she's considered to be the main person responsible for schools de-emphasizing phonics over the last couple of decades (which is a thing I was vaguely aware of from talking to friends with school-age children) which in turn is likely a significant contributor to falling literacy rates.  Truly wild how much lasting damage a well-intentioned bad idea can cause. 

Also wild that Why Johnny Can't Read was published in goddamn 1955 and we apparently have to relearn the same exact lessons every couple of generations.   

There's no hyper growth in long-term thinking.

once upon a time the whole purpose of higher level languages was to eliminate boilerplate, and silently "auto-generate" it in lower level machine code.

Yup.  Something I think about a lot: if you have so much boilerplate that you need an AI to help you copy and paste it, you should be thinking about writing better frameworks/languages, not better copy/paste tools.

Unfortunately, designing better frameworks requires high level and long term thinking, and the industry as a whole hates those now.