a bit nitty, but "never get punctures" is just an attribute of the tires, not the bike. if you stick Gatorskins on a Tarmac SL8, you'll also never get punctures. but that's like putting tractor tires on a sports car, and you'll be slower and have a less comfortable ride than you would with GP5Ks.
I think you're more upset about this than the typical Meta employee. Judging by... vibes, the main reason they aren't taking volunteers for these layoffs is that they might get more than 10% champing at the bit to take the severance.
The 2022 RSUs at Meta have more than doubled since the grant price, and are mostly vested out now, ending Feb 2027, after which there will be a steep TC decline for people employed since 2022, especially those on an initial grant or with very good performance for that refresher. There are a good portion of people sitting on either FIRE or at least extended funemployment amounts of money that the severance is looking mighty tempting to.
That might happen for a year or two but it's not like they're getting refreshers priced at 180. After paying all the taxes, and factoring in the HCoL area they probably live in, I doubt many people are retiring early on that. Very few high earning people would quit their high paying job so they could live a "normal" life and worry about bills and expenditures.
What? I never said that. A DAW is not a musical instrument, it does not produce sound. You output an audio file, then it’s played through a speaker. It kills the joy of performing in my opinion. That doesn’t make it not music.
WTF is any of this, is there some ELI5/OOTL explanation?
I work in big tech and have never heard anyone talk about "peptides". Is this a startup scene thing or just an SF thing? (I live in New York)
all of my coworkers are pretty normal, sure there are the stereotypical fitness types that are marathon training, cycling, or have a climbing gym membership but no one is talking about buying weird Chinese drugs
Wegovy/Ozempic (semaglutide), Zepbound/Monjourno (trizepitide), etc are the GPL-1 drugs sold today for diabetes and weight loss. Technically they are peptides. So if people you know have "finally" lost a lot of weight, they are likely on peptides.
Peptide manufacture is not as difficult as other drugs because they are injected.
Because the brand names cost a lot, and their manufacture is not too difficult, obviously lots of people got in on the action. Compounding pharmacies, gray market providers, and lots of cheap chinese copies. For one month cost of the name brand you could get many years worth of chinese copies. That is a pretty good hook.
Now that you are injecting one chinese peptide, and it works amazingly well, it is pretty common to check out some of the others. And it is hard to avoid since by the time you find the gray market / chinese suppliers, it is only one of the things they sell.
There is also the classic network effect of someone saying "Wow you look great, did you lose any weight?" "I lost a lot of weight using this gray market drug that is way cheaper and more effective than the FDA approved stuff."
I'm in western Ohio and had heard about the peptide fervor on podcasts but never IRL. Today, at my daughter's soccer game, I overheard a long conversation between two guys in their mid-40s comparing their peptide regimens (along with just discussing their fitness activities).
I'd never actually heard anybody talk about it before. At first it was the generic CrossFit talk I'm used to hearing, then to diet and recovery / injury stuff, but then it too the peptide turn. It sounded like both of them are injecting themselves from stuff they're buying on the Internet. They both talked about it like it was just the most natural thing.
> It sounded like both of them are injecting themselves from stuff they're buying on the Internet.
lol, wtf. I mean, I am a moderately serious cyclist, I guess (~250 miles/week) and also climb, hike, other outdoors sports etc. So I do care about performance and diet and such. But there is zero chance I am sticking a needle full of something I bought on the internet into myself—what on earth?
GLP-1s are the gateway drug to this whole world. It's not hard to rationalize that they are safe, and approved, but too expensive. If your insurance stops paying, or will never authorize it in the first place, going gray market may be the only choice to stay on a drug that works for you.
Of course, once you are placing an order, it's only one more add-to-cart click to add something completely untested to your order.
Cycling has a pretty rich history of people injecting themselves with things they bought on the internet- EPO, testosterone, etc.
The bodybuilding subculture has been injecting testosterone, about 50 different testosterone-like drugs (Tren, Clen, Deca, etc) for the past 50 years, HGH for the past 30 years and IGF for the past 15 years.
The psychonaut subculture has been buying research chemical derivatives of serotonin and dopamine for decades for their psychedelic effects, and the nootropic community doing similar things for compounds that increased attention, memory or mood.
In prior decades, the transgender community often relied on buying & injecting drugs on the internet for gender affirming care they were unable to get from their healthcare systems.
There are risks, but also, if tens, hundreds or thousands of other customers have purchased and used something from the vendor, that's probably as reliable of a signal as most regulatory regimes are.
It's got to be Dunning-Kruger, and I'm convinced chatbots have made it way worse.
A lot of tech bros seem to be of the opinion that, given their superior intellect (as evidenced by their successful careers), they can master any domain. As great as semaglutide is, surely more is possible for people willing to move fast and break things, right?
All they need to do is apply their superior methodology to "biohacking!"
Of course they run it all by SuperGrok to be sure, and when it tells them yes, they are indeed absolutely right, it's off to the races - to discover that fountain of youth by injecting some sketchy grey market snake oil.
I work in big tech and several of my older colleagues are ALL IN on peptides. Fountain of youth stuff.
Frankly as I am aging myself and noticing a lot of changes to recovery time and overall physically feeling good, I can totally understand getting on testosterone, for example, but random peptides that show up in white bags from random Chinese labs? no.
this was formely the fanbase of the dark enlightenment movement. an avantgarde techno-capitalist alt-right underground culture. Musk, Thiel, a16z, Altman, Srinivasan, many in the Trump administration (including Vance) have acknowledged their involvement with it. the ideological underpinnings are mainly given by two philosophers/bloggers: nick land and curits yarvin. the rest of the people at those parties are like a fanbase to this movement, but it includes podcasters, influencers etc. mostly edgy upper middle-class american kids. the characterization is pretty accurate and nothing new.
but apparently after the catastrophic failure of the MAGA movement they're shifting gears:
> A year ago, when I last wrote about the Bay, I was surprised and dismayed to find that edgy right wing black pilled nonsense was considered ‘cool’. ...... Sometime in the last 6 months, everyone collectively decided that being super right wing is actually really cringe. ...... But regardless of the reason, everyone agreed: “wow, it’s kinda really embarrassing that we spent so much of last year partying with real life eugenicists.”
Edit: New York had pretty much the same thing, called the Dimes Square movement. it was linked to the controversial remilia/milady NFT collection
you're upgrading the repository from language version 1 to 2, version 2 adds new compiler errors that rejects some old code, or the library has removed some old deprecated API the repository was still using in some places—the key here being that it can't be something that needs to be completely atomic.
you have hundreds or thousands of files to fix. that is unreviewable as a single commit, but as a per-file, per-library, per-oncall, etc. commit it is not that bad.
> you have hundreds or thousands of files to fix. that is unreviewable as a single commit, but as a per-file, per-library, per-oncall, etc. commit it is not that bad
Why is it intrinsically unreviewable as a single commit? Why can't the discussion/review system allow scoping discussions to a single folder of the change, or a single library, or a particular code-owner's "slice" of the repo, etc? The answer to this question is always unsatisfactory to me. It always ends up being "because GitHub's UI makes it hard to <foo>" and it's just taken as an immutable law of the universe that we're stuck with that UI's limitations.
If a change is huge, find some basis by which to discuss it in smaller chunks. That basis doesn't have to be the PR itself (such that you have to make smaller PR's to make discussion manageable.) It can be a subdirectory of the diff. A wildcard-match over the source files. Whatever the case needs to be, the idea is still that the discussion UX shouldn't make reviewing large changes painful.
Why do we tolerate the fact that GitHub doesn't let you say "approved for changes in `frontend/*`" or "approved for the changes I'm a code-owner of", and have the PR check system mark the PR as approved once all slices have been approved? Why do we tolerate that a thousand-file change is "unreviewable"? Instead we have to change our unit of integration, allowing partially-complete work to be merged, just because the review UX sucks.
> Why do you insist on a different but functionally equivalent solution to the problem?
Because it’s not functionally equivalent.
Stacked PR’S only facilitate easier reviews by forcing you to make the layers of the stack mergeable in chunks. It forces the “unit of review” to equal the “unit of integration”, which is completely unnecessary. It forces unfinished code into production to accommodate a broken review UX.
Maybe you want to land a subset of a change early, maybe you don’t, but wouldn’t it be nice to make that decision independently of worrying about the faults of your review tool?
in Phabricator you either abandon the original diffs entirely, or you amend them. you don't just stack more commits with meaningless messages like "WIP", "lint fix", etc. on top.
> The time of other devs is quite valuable and I can't imagine wasting it by having them review something that doesn't even make it in.
this is now what stacked diffs are for. stacked diffs doesn't mean putting up code that isn't ready. for example you are updating some library that needs an API migration, or compiler version that adds additional stricter errors. you need to touch hundreds of files around the repository to do this. rather than putting up one big diff (or PR) you stack up hundreds of them that are trivial to review on their own, they land immediately (mitigating the risk of merge conflicts as you keep going) then one final one that completes the migration.
this works much better in Phabricator because commits to diffs are a 1:1 relationship, diffs are updated by amending the commit, etc., the Github implementation does seem a bit like gluing on an additional feature.
I don't use Github but I do work at one of the companies that popularized this workflows and it is extremely not a big deal. Pull, rebase, resolve conflicts if necessary, resubmit.
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