As an outsider, the thing I've noticed is that it appears the only way to nearly guarantee tenure is to bring in money. The author mentions applying for grants, but does not mention getting any.

Not to say it's fair or anything, but it seems like this is the way it is at least at some institutions.

Bonus: If news reports are to be believed, bringing in money makes some university officials look the other way on a lot of misconduct.

I started managing my dotfiles in git and followed the pattern I found in Anders Knudsen's repository below. The most painful thing has been coming up with config that works across Linux and MacOS, but that's been chosen pain that can easily be avoided.

https://github.com/andersix/dotfiles

This method, using a bare git repo, is really an elegant, efficient, and easy way to manage one's dotfiles.

In the end, how you do it is personal pref. I liken it to editor wars, vim vs emacs, etc. What works for me, may not work for you.

PS: these are my dotfiles (link is my repo), and I've used this method for some 5 plus yrs now and it works well for me. I really like how easy it is to spool up a new linux instance and have my config ready to go in mere seconds.

I've not used branches yet, for different OS'en, so my zshrc and bashrc have conditional checks for OS. I will be looking at using branches in the future since it does sound like it would make shell rc files cleaner.

I have been keeping them in separate branches because I have had macOS with intel and arm because there were differences in the config.

yup, a bare repo. its the easiest way I think.

This sounds like a recipe for getting people to only speak after careful curation.

Which is a good thing as there is no such thing to unsay.

Its a great way to stiffle innovation, though... Lots of ideas start out as dumb, and then get refined... We have also been using AI, meeting recordings, and summarization to some extent, but I dont see it being used "for all meetings", it will just be very counter productive IMO.

By that logic, company cultures that don't punish dumb ideas will remain innovative though.

They shouldn't be allowed to settle without admission of wrongdoing. This should affect them getting future contracts, but now it won't.

It seems to make sense. One is harmful to the game experience and the other is harmful to people.

what happened to "sticks and stones..." ? it seems to me that we've gone from "being lynched randomly is harmful to people" into "someone being a moron calling slurs is harmful".

Imagine how terrible it will be for those who are so shielded in their safespace, the day they meet someone that actually is out to harm them.

Do you truly think someone needs some losers in a video game to toughen them up for losers in the real world? Do you think the groups of people who have slurs said to them don’t already experience it often in their real lives? Do you not think maybe they don’t want to deal with said losers during their recreational time?

The fees vary wildly, from reasonable to outrageous. Some cleaning fees I've seen are as much as $500. At the time I was looking, these were not shown by Airbnb until checkout. It was an awful experience.

The dream of a "car that just drives itself" works for everyone. It serves both goals of letting people such as yourself take your car (optionally paying attention), while also making sure that car doesn't run over pedestrians, cyclists, and the like.

Your geographic region doesn't really matter.

You're talking to someone who thinks PHP is the best.

It's awful. I absolutely hate it. First click: show chat. Second click: record meeting.

I'm glad I'm not alone

I've left negative reviews and they tend to get removed.

I was once even warned by Amazon that my account could be deactivated for violation of the ToS after posting a review that pointed out all of the other fake reviews on a particular product. Apparently the ToS allow fake reviews and disallow shining a light on it.

Yep, same experience here. Everytime I reported, my updated review was deleted.

Amazon Vine is a thing, so of course they encourage fake reviews of free products.

Mine too. I took a pair in that had symptoms exactly as described in the service program description. Both the left and right earbud failed in their test machine, but Apple said my Airpods did not qualify because they were not part of the program (manufactured a few months after the end date).

I suspect the issues weren't actually resolved by the date they claim.

Also, more annoyingly, they offered replacement refurbished left and right pods for $89 each. I can go to Costco and buy a new pair with a new charging case for only $2 more.

Moral of the story: Airpods are unreliable, if you buy them then also buy the extended warranty from Apple.

That was my experience verbatim. The employee even suggested going to Costco specifically, as he thought it was ridiculous that they weren't covering them.