Conceptual deficit is a great failure mode description. The inability to retrieve "meaning" about the clock -- having some understanding about its shape and function but not its intent to convey time to us -- is familiar with a lot of bad LLM output.

I’ve played drums and loud music for a long time. When I pay close enough attention there’s this persistent, aggravating noise — which I sometimes call “silence”, and other times call “tinnitus”.

> which I sometimes call “silence”

I've had mild tinnitus as long as I can remember; my earliest memory of it must have been when I was about four years old. I suspect I've had it my entire life. When I was a child, I thought it was just something normal that everybody had. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence", I thought that was what they were talking about.

Are we talking about that thing you hear when in absolute silence in the dead of night? Is absolute silence even a thing?

I don't know what anybody else hears in absolute silence, but I hear a high pitched ringing. I can hear it any time I think about it. Like the other poster said though, my brain filters it out typically when other noise is around and I'm not paying attention to it.

Same. I guess that’s tinnitus, but I feel lucky that most of the time I seem to filter it out.

I realize just now I hear this as well. Always have. Always thought it was normal. Guess it isn't.

Having tinnitus for a couple decades at this point, I can tell you for a fact "absolute silence" is definitely a very clear memory for me. I would lie in my bed before sleep, and enjoying the experience of complete silence was almost part of my go-to-sleep routine. I'm quite surprised people in this thread seem to assume everyone always has some low-level hiss. I certainly didn't.

I have constant tinnitus and sometimes it just "stops" for a bit (like on the order of a minute or two). When it does, the lack of a background noise is just.. unnerving. It's like something is missing.

That is one of the most beautifully crafted “I did something dumb” emails — and to a CEO no less. I wish all my emails were so clear, direct, and personable.

> What is happening if you can't email your boss/upper on the regular like that ?

In a 40 person startup or small company, sure. In a 400 person company, the guy at the top is a few levels removed from "your boss" to be emailing with "on the regular".

OP had Jobs as his CEO for 20 years (hired in 1991, until Jobs passed in 2011), and says this was the only time Jobs directly emailed with him (of course, 400 people in 1991 was the smallest the company would be during that time, it would only grow from there).

> OP had Jobs as his CEO for 20 years (hired in 1991, until Jobs passed in 2011), and says this was the only time Jobs directly emailed with him (of course, 400 people in 1991 was the smallest the company would be during that time, it would only grow from there).

You're right, I had to dig into OPs history to find that. I take back what I said. He gets every pass he wants, and now it makes sense.

I think it’s less idolizing and more just interesting to have anecdotes about household name celebrities

Are you really unable to see why someone would have trepidation about emailing something silly like that to Steve Jobs? Use your imagination.

Is it possible to launch an offensive against advertising by spoofing humans that consume ads so numbers increase so dramatically they’re meaningless?

I don’t think so. Ads were still common and widespread back in the analog days when there was no such thing as a click through rate to measure.

Check AdNauseam!

Yes this works great. I wonder why chrome disabled it repeatedly?

No. If you know how to make prices move a certain direction, go become a billionaire.

Despite how bad the job market seems at the moment it's things like this make me feel confident for when I have to search again.

This and many other cases are literally burning remote interviewing and offshore candidates. Soon, you will be able to find anything only thru local on-site interview or strong references. I guess this is your point.

>Soon, you will be able to find anything only thru local on-site interview or strong references.

Anyone paying attention has started planning accordingly for this over the last couple years. The remote work revolution has resolutely failed, and it's clear in retrospect it never had a chance.

This is very much not true: there are extremely-well-compensated roles still available in remote companies.

It does require knowing how to collaborate remotely and being an already-skilled developer, but just because the bar is higher (and many people seem uninterested in meeting it) doesn't mean it has "failed".

>there are extremely-well-compensated roles still available in remote companies.

There always have been. Companies have made remote exceptions for decades.

What we lost was the chance to normalize it for everyone. The bosses put that delusion to bed real quick.

How do you make your "real" resume stand out among the thousands of fakes though?

I have a footnote at the end of my resume about my interests -- it's short, authentic, and more of a way to showcase my personality than my actual interests. It's always been a point of contact during the interview process. If an organization thinks that's stupid or a human isn't reading it in the first place it's not somewhere I want to work anyway.

You talk to real humans.

Plenty of candidates are willing to lie and as we see here AI has made lying much cheaper. There is nothing you can put on your resume that AI couldn't have put there for anyone. But AI can't yet fake a network.

Personally, I'll put in second-degree referrals to my company: if someone I have worked with has worked with the person and is willing to personally vouch for them, I'll put their resume in and ping the recruiter (yes, it's gotten so bad even internal referrals don't break through the slush pile without a specific ping.) But I get the recruiter's attention because I only recommend people I have reason to think are actually good.

Or its role is to react toward perceived injustices within a social group in order to strengthen and reinforce cooperation.

> my anger is usually "directed," though more in the sense of furiously/forcefully wanting to correct some perceived wrong, rather than revenge.

This is the exact definition of revenge. While revenge carries connotations that we tend to separate ourselves from today -- sounds too barbaric? -- it's fundamentally about justice, and as such is justified and even noble given the right context and expression.

I suppose I lightly disagree with that. Revenge, to me, holds a significant connotation of "spite." I.e. making someone feel bad/hurt because they made you feel bad/hurt. It's about the hurt, as much as (or more than) correcting the situation.

But words are sloppy, I totally get what you're saying too (:

Interesting, yeah that makes sense to me too.

It’s okay to enjoy work and focus on your craft for two years rather than jump for more money. If you like your employer and colleagues and are growing as an engineer isn’t that better in the long term? I think jumping around can risk creating an engineer who leaves a place worse than when they started.

> If you like your employer and colleagues and are growing as an engineer isn’t that better in the long term?

No, growing as an engineer just means the reality of software development will make you more miserable.

> I think jumping around can risk creating an engineer who leaves a place worse than when they started.

Of course it does, but companies have made the choice to pay more for that than for someone who stays and makes the place better, we should give them what they want.

> It’s okay to enjoy work and focus on your craft for two years rather than jump for more money.

These aren't mutually exclusive.

> If you like your employer and colleagues and are growing as an engineer isn’t that better in the long term?

Better than liking your employer and colleagues and growing as an engineer and also having more money? No.

This isn't a field with low demand for talent. You can have all these things--don't settle for less.

> I think jumping around can risk creating an engineer who leaves a place worse than when they started.

That's a risk that companies should be willing to pay to avoid.

But a lot of companies aren't willing to given their engineers adequate pay increases each year, and it's not engineers' responsibility to accept less money than they are worth. If you want more experienced engineers, you have to pay for more experienced engineers. That's just basic free market economics: if you don't like that you don't like capitalism.

Some companies understand this and do better, but these are the exceptions not the rule. If you find such an exception, stick with them!

I fundamentally disagree with the narrative that engineers are supposed to be passionate about their craft and learning and interest and not care about the money. That's propaganda spread by corporations to get us to accept less pay, and if you believe it you'll be exploited. And as it turns out, the places that pay the best are also usually the best places to be passionate about your craft, so there's no real conflict. The places that pretend to pay you in learning and passion instead of money generally don't deliver on the learning and passion either.

I've always wanted translations of Korean game broadcasts (GSL/ASL). I'm curious what balance their commentators strike between game analysis and entertainment, and whether there's a disparity between Korean and Foreigner game analysis. Do they have a Tastosis?

This is how I feel leaving the house without my phone.